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Some stories don’t end when the lights come back on. True Scary Stories for Adults: Part Two returns with a new collection of unsettling, real-life accounts that linger long after the final page. These are not campfire tales or predictable ghost stories—they are raw experiences told by people who lived through them and still don’t fully understand what happened. Inside this volume, you’ll encounter late-night visitors who never knocked, voices heard where no one should be, places that feel wrong the moment you enter, and moments when reality quietly fractures. These stories unfold ...

Behind the locked doors of medical examiner offices and hospital basements lies a world few people ever see. The autopsy room is where science meets death—where investigators search for answers in silence, steel, and fluorescent light. But sometimes the work takes an unsettling turn. In this chilling collection, 30 true stories from the autopsy room reveal the strange, disturbing, and occasionally inexplicable moments reported by forensic workers, pathologists, morgue technicians, and investigators. These accounts include unusual discoveries during examinations, eerie events that occurred...

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift...

Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-mercenary, and a pig farmer walk into a trap…and what happens is no joke. When Riyria is hired to retrieve a jester’s treasure, Royce and Hadrian must match wits with a dwarf who proves to be anything but a fool. Difficult choices will need to be made, and in the end those who laugh last do so because they are the only ones to survive.

An aging serial killer laments that he’s getting too old to hunt his favorite prey: helpless hitchhikers. A damned soul discovers that Hell isn’t fire and brimstone, but the eternal, mind-numbing bureaucracy of shoveling coal. A lone survivor in a desolate wasteland finds he’s not alone when he keeps meeting—and killing—himself.

In her life, there have only been three lovers. But Leslie doesn’t lament the meager number, she only truly mourns the second one. In her youthful arrogance, she turned him away, thinking there would be many more chances. Now, she lives two lives—one in the present, and another plagued by bittersweet memories of the past. But maybe, even now, it will be possible to reconcile the two.

These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink.

In this collection of horrors, Jason Fischer turns familiar spaces into deadly traps: A dinner with a new “mother” who wasn’t invited. A Halloween visitor offers a treat you must not refuse. A puzzle book that predicts your future—and takes its cut. A cardboard cutout boy that won’t stay where it’s put. A dark carnival ride with no power runs perfectly on what you fear most.

Welcome to Haunted Hollow, where each night a new nightmare unfolds. An obsessed fan traveling back in time to kill John Cleese, tattered VHS tapes scrawled with warnings not to watch, cabbies haunted by their creepiest passengers. An assortment of chilling short stories await—bite-sized horrors told in a gripping, "true story" style that will make you question the quiet towns around you.

Murder Never Tasted So Sweet Ivy Sinclair thought life in Maplewood, Maine, would be quiet—newspaper columns. Dog walks with her beagle, Watson. Friendly neighbors and cozy town traditions. But when the fiftieth annual baking competition begins, celebration turns deadly. Luna, a sharp-tongued judge, collapses—poisoned before dessert was served. The police might ignore Ivy’s instincts, but she trusts her gut—and Watson’s bark. A strange bottle of mead, a cryptic note, and a victim with far too many foes tell her this case is anything but simple. Luna was notorious for feuds and ...

Family and babies abound during this fun-filled weekend of love, laughter, and happily ever afters! Join Josh and Riley on their big day and fall in love all over again with each of the Bradens at Weston, and their children, in this sweet and sexy wedding story.

The inimitable Agatha Christie intrigues, surprises, and delights with The Mysterious Mr. Quin—a riveting collection of short stories centered around the enigmatic Harley Quin, whose unpredictable comings and goings are usually a good indication that something is about to happen…and rarely...

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O’Connor...

The short story involves understanding the spectrum of lesbian identity and its historical context while navigating self-discovery and embracing your true self without fear. Overcoming internalized shame and societal stigma through self-acceptance. Building confidence in your identity through personal empowerment practices and cultivating healthy relationships with family and friends as a woman. Exploring the intersection of sexuality, spirituality, and personal beliefs and creating safe spaces for lesbian women to thrive emotionally and socially. Recognizing the signs of genuine attraction...

Jack Carter didn’t set out to write a book. He just kept moving. From ferry decks and telex rooms to street cafés and border towns, Places follows a journalist who thought he was chasing stories — only to realize he was writing one of his own. Told through quiet moments and sharp observations, these snapshots capture the rhythm of life on the road: arrivals, reveals, shifts, and departures. Set against the backdrop of the early 1980s and a world in transition, Places is a meditation on movement, memory, and what we carry when we stop running. No headlines. No heroes. Just a man and his...

Nuclear Fire is a series of related even connected short stories that leads the reader through some of the most horrendous nuclear events of the past 100 years. From the development of nuclear weapons under The Manhattan Project, through the creation of reactors, to nuclear fires and core meltdowns, it takes you through plausible reasons why they happened and the implications of human greed and errors in the design, construction, and operation of both weapons reactors and commercial power reactors. Yet through it all with only one exception, the Chernobyl disaster, fewer people have died ...

What if the songs you know by heart were never about what you thought? Ghost Frequencies is a collection of ten literary short stories, each one built from the bones of a classic song. Not retellings. Not fan fiction. These are original stories that inhabit the emotional architecture of songs by Bowie, Cohen, The Beatles, The Eagles, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, The Rolling Stones, Queen, and The Animals — and transform them into something that breathes on its own. A bassist plays a flawless ninety-minute set while feeling nothing. A parish priest writes a eulogy for a woman he saw every ...

What if memory did not end with death? What if every life you lived left its ash, glowing beneath the ribs, waiting to flare again? From the first spark lit in a Paleolithic cave to the thundering hooves of the steppe, from ziggurats under Mesopotamian suns to the chants of Buddhist novices and the silence of a Roman road — Ashes of the First Fire follows one soul across the long ages of human becoming. Each chapter is a life reborn: hunter, weaver, priest, scribe, sailor, wanderer. Through eyes that remember too much, we witness the birth of fire and law, of gods and doubts, of alphabets...