Anthologies

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to...

The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing.....

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators....

From New York Times best-selling author Kendall Ryan comes Forbidden Desires: The Complete Series, containing every title in the sexy and intense best-selling series....

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls....

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one...

Authors romance you with stories inspired by some of their best-selling works. While they may be quick pieces, they’re packed with passion. Some of the stories are fun, some of them are naughty, and some of them are just plain filthy....

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

The first three books in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series packaged together. What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation...

Over a million copies sold. “A twisty, roller coaster ride of a debut. Fans of Gone Girl will embrace this equally evocative tale.” —Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I’ve been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she has her...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection. Stories include: Introduction (Stephen King) Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg) Crouch End (Tim Curry) Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)...

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most prolific authors of his time, eventually gaining recognition for his tales of horror and his uncanny ability to paint a macabre picture with words....

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

Featuring a carefully curated selection of classic and influential tales, this collection showcases the very best of detective fiction and science fiction from some of the most celebrated authors of all time.

This is the story of Smoak's first outing as the Nowhere Man, where after completing a mission in Northern California, he happens to spot a young woman at a coffee shop....

From C. J. Box, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well - and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for...

A superstar lineup is included in this urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from New York Times bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Holly Black, Kim Harrison, Faith Hunter, and more … In this short story collection, our heroes get what’s due to them—with a supernatural flair. But...

In this dark and gritty collection—featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman—nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In #1 New York...

An original short story by New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Frank Becker is a highly sought after, expert assassin. When Becker takes a mysterious job, he has no idea that it will force him to delve deeply into his own past. Undeterred by obstacles he is determined to complete...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they...

2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Short Stories/Collection Audiobook Motive. Means. Opportunity. Without proof of all three, the guilty can walk free. But even with an alibi, the innocent can still be condemned. For six award-winning, bestselling authors of psychological suspense, truth and...

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

A definitive new collection featuring all of the previously published Sookie Stackhouse stories, along with a new introduction from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of the series. Return to Bon Temps, Louisiana, with these listener favorites featuring spunky telepathic waitress...

From Julia Quinn, the author of Bridgerton—along with close friends and bestselling authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway—comes a thrilling tale of a snow-bound party in a Scottish castle. And You’re Invited! When Laird Taran Ferguson’s nephews refuse to find brides, he takes matters...

Audie Award, Solo Narration - Male, 2009 Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political...

An epic full-cast play about Robin Hood, plus an episode of In Our Time setting him in his historical context and four dramatic interpretations of his story Robin Hood has captured the English imagination for centuries. His tale has been told in ballads, novels, plays, TV shows and films – and...

A man confesses to a murder on a night train — and argues, with terrifying conviction, that he was right to commit it. The Kreutzer Sonata is Tolstoy's most scandalous work: banned by Russian censors on first publication in 1889, condemned from pulpits, and still, more than a century later, one of the most unsettling accounts of jealousy, marriage, and sexual disgust ever written. Pozdnyshev, acquitted of killing his wife, tells a stranger the entire story in a single unbroken night — and Tolstoy never quite tells us how far to trust him. This edition presents the complete novella in ...

This annotated edition includes: The complete first six volumes of In Search of Lost Time, in C. K. Scott Moncrieff's classic 1922–1930 translation — from Swann's Way through The Sweet Cheat Gone A biographical portrait, honestly framed against what can and cannot be verified about a writer this mythologized An afterword on the argument between Proust and his own translator over the English title — fought out, in Proust's own words, six weeks before his death Full provenance notes and a chronology tracing the novel's translation history to the present day A live table of contents ...

At Moran & Moran, James Moran trades in relics that pulse with the echoes of the past. When the dead refuse to let go, he is the one who must uncover why. Join James as he stumbles into a dying town where the dead still hold the living hostage, contends with a haunted typewriter that turns his shop upside down in ways he never expected, and comes face to face with the ghost of a literary legend whose identity may not be all it seems.

These stories have earned their place in the pantheon of great literature. Their authors, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, and Oscar Wilde, are indisputable masters of the short story. They continue to entertain, thrill, and delight readers across generations because they are so deeply human, so relatable, and so exquisitely recounted. This definitive edition features: New nuanced translations from the original source material, bringing vibrant new life to timeless classics. Brief contextual and critical introductory notes. And beautiful title illustrations.

Welcome to the Broken Brain Mental Institution, where we’ve collected the world's most deranged minds, from the criminally insane to the mentally disturbed and everything in between. You’ll begin your tour with a foreword by Clay McLeod Chapman and continue through fourteen rooms, each containing unimaginable horrors from today’s most talented authors. Inside you’ll find abandoned institutions and haunted sanitariums alongside modern clinics filled with unethical experiments and inhumane treatments that are sure to test the limits of your sanity.

In the blind spots of creation, ancient things stir. They’ve been waiting for you… A sinkhole opened in my basement… and there’s a door inside. I put a camera on my cat. The footage haunts me. The construction workers on my street only come out at night, and they aren’t fixing the roads… My trail cam recorded something impossible. When the bell in this tower rings, the door unlocks. Each time, there is a different, more terrible world waiting on the other side.

My girlfriend went on a hike. Her texts don't sound like her. As a search-and-rescue officer, I went out to find a missing boy. The voice I heard, crying for help... wasn't him. We found a tunnel in the woods. It went deeper than physically possible. If you find a Lost Camper at Camp Golden Oak, you'd better run--and never look back. TERRORS OF THE FOREST brings you 13 tales of horrific camping trips, stalked hikers, dangerous summer camps, and what lurks in the forest. Listen... if you dare.

Eight stories. Eight unforgettable men. Eight chances to discover what happens when love meets the streets. Welcome to STREET LOVE: Vol. 1, a collection of raw, emotional, and steamy urban romance standalones where passion runs deep, secrets have consequences, and falling in love is never as simple as it seems. From second chances and secret babies to forbidden love, revenge, redemption, street kings, bad boys, and men with everything to lose, each story introduces a new couple facing the kind of love that can either change their lives, or turn them upside down. Inside this collection: A ...

Step into the shadows—where fear waits to be found. Midnight Terrors: Dark Tales and Scary Stories from the Shadows is the second chilling installment in the Midnight Terrors anthology series. Within these pages lie five sinister short stories that twist the familiar into the horrifying — where the comfort of home, the safety of friends, and the glow of a screen offer no protection from what lurks unseen.

This annotated edition includes: All two hundred and one stories Constance Garnett translated, her thirteen volumes (1916–1922) printed here entire, in her own order, in a single file for the first time All twelve of Chekhov's surviving plays — four from Marian Fell's 1912 volume, eight from Julius West's 1916 volume — the complete dramatic output between them An afterword tracing the six years of hundred-line comic sketches that this edition cannot include, and arguing that they are where Chekhov's method was actually built A biographical portrait, a corrected chronology, and a Note ...

This annotated edition includes: All twenty-four tales, complete and unabridged — the General Prologue through the Retraction, in David Laing Purves's classic 1870 modernization The Merchant's Tale, missing almost entirely from the digital text nearly every modern edition descends from — 270 words where there should be nearly ten thousand — restored here in full The Tale of Melibœus and The Parson's Tale, both severely abridged by Purves himself for space, freshly restored from Chaucer's Middle English in Purves's own style and glossing convention A critical introduction, a life of ...

Discover bedtime stories for adults that gently quiet the mind, and sleep stories for adults that carry you towards peaceful sleep through beautiful landscapes, timeless places and gentle reflection. Welcome to Gardens Before Dreams, a calming collection of five immersive bedtime stories created for slow evenings and restful nights. Each story invites you to leave behind the demands of the day and wander through peaceful gardens, coastlines, forests and ancient temples where time slows and stillness quietly unfolds. Walk beneath drifting cherry blossoms in Under the Sakura Moon.

This annotated edition includes: Eugene Onéguine, Pushkin's verse novel, in Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Spalding's 1881 rhymed translation, with Spalding's own preface and all eighty-six of his notes Boris Godunov, Alfred Hayes's blank-verse translation of the drama that gave Mussorgsky his opera The complete Tales of Belkin, The Queen of Spades, The Gypsies and three shorter tales, in Mrs. H. Sutherland Edwards's prose The Captain's Daughter, in Mary Pamela Milne-Home's translation — with every one of her cuts and compressions identified and restored to the record A selection of the lyric ...

Three murders. One seaside town. And a one-eyed cat who keeps finding the clues no one else wants Gia Bellanoa to see. Gia Bellanoa came home to Mariner’s Reach hoping to restore her family’s name, reopen Bellanoa’s Kitchen, and prove that a fresh start could be served one plate of pasta at a time. Then murder lands on the menu. A sharp-tongued woman is found dead behind the bookstore with a damning document in her coat. A bitter fisherman vanishes from his boat after hiring Gia for a memorial dedication, leaving behind a tattered prayer card and cut netting. And when a celebrity food...

Sweet treats. Small-town secrets. Three murders no one saw coming. In Seabrook Cove, Nell Carney is better known for saltwater taffy than solving crimes. But behind the counter at Sugar Tide, Nell hears what people say, notices what they don’t, and has an irritating talent for spotting the one detail everyone else overlooks. With her best friend Jenna nearby, Deputy Luke Harper wishing she’d stay out of trouble, Marla Pritchard turning every rumor into news, and Crumbs—the gray-and-white shop cat—sniffing out trouble of his own, Nell is about to discover that this postcard-perfect ...

A chilling assemblage of twenty-five of Madame Gray's darkest and most twisted short stories to stalk your nightmares. Here’s just a taste of what awaits you inside…

Rediscover the Golden Age of Oratory, Wit, and Public Address Modern Eloquence, Volume II continues the celebrated anthology of the finest spoken-word artistry from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Compiled under the guidance of an elite advisory board—including Columbia University’s Brander Matthews and Nicholas Murray Butler, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elihu Root, and former Canadian Prime Minister Sir Robert Laird Borden—this volume captures the lost art of the classic after-dinner speech. Spanning an era when public dining was the premier stage for brilliant ...

Mature listeners seeking an easy-to-listen book with a dignified, respectful design. No patronizing language. No cartoonish clip art. Just a high-quality audiobook that feels good in your hands.

Whispers Beneath the Black Moon A Gothic Sapphic Horror Romance Anthology by C.D. Fairborne Enter a world where moonlit forests whisper forgotten secrets, abandoned mansions remember lost loves, and the boundary between life and death is thinner than anyone imagined. Whispers Beneath the Black Moon is a collection of nine Gothic sapphic romance stories from C.D. Fairborne, blending haunting horror, supernatural mystery, historical romance, and unforgettable love stories centered around women who refuse to let darkness define their destinies. Inspired by the traditions of classic Gothic ...

Genre: Musical Fiction / Short Story Anthology / Arts & Culture / Personal Narratives About the Book Where words end, melody speaks. Stroke and Bowing with Wind: Stories from a Soulful Musical Journey offers an intimate look into the acoustic artist’s world—from midnight practice hours and disciplined breath control to sacred master-disciple lineages and onstage chemistry. Spanning keys, strings, and wind melodies, this collection captures music not just as a craft, but as an enduring way of life. Core Themes The Geometry of Stroke & Bow: Explores the tactile craft of music—the ...

The Thirteen Ghastly Tales in this short story collection represent over a decade of macabre musings by award-winning horror and suspense author, B.D. Prince—many inspired by the imagined terrors of adolescence, some based on real-life horrors, others triggered by story prompts posed by anthology calls.

A ship sails east out of Greece with fifty heroes aboard. Everything after that goes wrong in ways nobody expected — least of all the man in command. Pelias, king of Iolcus, has been warned about a stranger with one sandal. When Jason walks into the city having lost a sandal in a river, Pelias sends him after the golden fleece — an errand meant to kill him. Jason gathers the best men in Greece, builds the Argo, and sails for a kingdom at the far end of the Black Sea. They lose Heracles almost immediately. A boy is pulled under a spring by a nymph who wants him. A king who can see the ...

Some loves are never supposed to happen. One hundred short forbidden romances. Each one complete in a single sitting, each one written for the last quiet hour of the day. The best friend's older brother who was always off-limits. The boss who signs your paychecks. The rival whose family hasn't spoken to yours in thirty years. The younger man in the poetry aisle. The one person you promised yourself you would never want — and cannot stop wanting. Every story is complete. No cliffhangers, no waiting, no series to chase. Beginning, longing, and a satisfying ending, every single time. One ...

Start a bingeable heartwarming cozy mystery series filled with endearing friendships, puzzling small-town murders, coffeehouse charm, and one clue-finding cat. Hattie Calder thought running Brewed Awakening coffee shop meant early mornings, loyal regulars, and the occasional over-caffeinated gossip storm. Then bodies start turning up. With her sarcastic sister Sam, tech-savvy friend Liam, and Beans—the clever cat who keeps batting evidence into plain sight—Hattie gets pulled into three mysteries darker than her strongest roast. A cup of chamomile turns deadly after a gardener changes ...