Dark Comedy Short Stories

Samantha Moon is ready for her first real vacation in nearly a decade. With a little money in her pocket from the sale of a mansion left to her by her vampire sire, Sam sets her sights on a whirlwind European tour... This complete collection includes: Banshee Moon - First stop... Ireland! When a dark shadow races across her hotel suite, followed by something evil watching her son from an ancient suit of armor, Samantha Moon is about to discover that her trip to the Emerald Isle is going to be anything but relaxing. Moon Monster - Sam books a two-hour tour of the infamous Loch with her ...

H.H. Munro (Saki) is one of the undisputed masters of the short story. In this complete compendium, the full gamut of his subjects and themes is experienced. His stories are imbued with humorous satire, biting irony, and often the macabre, all of which have one target: the stupidities and hypocrisies of Edwardian upper-class society.

As the owner of a quirky bakery in the heart of Manhattan, Ella juggles a playful bet with her friends that pushes her to step outside her comfort zone—one wild fling at a time. When a sexy, mysterious plumber shows up to fix her latest disaster, she finds herself caught in a whirlwind of unexpected chemistry, witty banter, and simmering tension. But James isn’t just another notch on her belt. Beneath his rugged charm and magnetic smile lies a tangle of dark secrets that could upend everything Ella thought she knew. As their connection deepens, she must decide if she’s willing to risk...

Swords. Sorcery. Dick Jokes. Truly do the gods smile upon you, dear listener, for the first four books in the hilarious Caverns and Creatures series are now available in one audiobook set. Join Tim, Dave, Julian, and Cooper as they are thrown into a hostile fantasy world filled with magic and monsters, and ruled over by a cruel and sadistic game master who taunts and harasses them while he sits back and eats their fried chicken.

Acclaimed humorist David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is a perennial favorite. This updated edition includes six additional pieces, including a never-before-published story. David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published...

It's 1928 and Bright Young Things are taking London by storm, but Lady Ophelia's life is all mapped out: marriage to a cod-faced aristocrat and a life of dull respectability. Refusing to play along, Ophelia is banished to her ancestral home in the Highlands of Scotland. There, she'll be so bored, she'll come to her senses... won't she? Meeting her eccentric relatives (not to mention ruggedly handsome estate manager Hamish) Ophelia isn't so sure. Let the mayhem begin!

Bubba’s back from Fairyland, and sometimes it feels like they shoulda just stayed there! Man, coming back to the real world sucks. Bubba and his whole team have been fired on account of going MIA for a year and a half (yeah, time moves differently in Fairyland - yay), and now they’ve got to…get jobs? Oh, this is going to go well.

Gus is having computer problems. Luckily for him, nothing takes a sheriff’s mind off an IT problem like an active shooter at the local elementary school. The biggest problem with Gus’s active shooter is the relative inactivity of the shooter when Gus arrives at the scene. It isn’t long before Gus finds his would-be shooter dead on the school grounds with a rather unattractive hole in their head. That will take the activity out of any man. The state police commissioner seems satisfied that the active shooter was killed by an anonymous hero before they could kill anyone. The Governor ...

Eight short stories about art, shadows and self. Creighton's second short story collection introduces us to a gallery owner who worries her husband will leave her for a doppelgänger; an artist whose creativity is blocked by intense fear on a retreat; a would-be writer who opens a PO Box to gather other people's letters to God; two mothers with guilty secrets; a young student contemplating suing a lecturer for boring her into deep slumber; a geologist travelling the earth to find herself; and a woman who flies home to bury her dead uncle, only to end up in a compromising situation. ...

For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a listener as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most yonder dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success.

It’s bad enough that its venom-dripping chelicerae can slice through flesh like warm butter. Worse? It’s right there under the bunk. It’s a fact now. To make it through the night, the children must obey the rules: don’t get out of bed, stay out of the shadows, and don’t wake the beast. But as the threats multiply, so do the rules of survival. And with the safety of dawn still hours away, the fun is just beginning.

Eight stories. Eight jerks. Eight very bad days. In these tales of poetic justice and visceral horror, nasty people get eaten, witches get even, and no one escapes unscathed. A cruel tourist becomes shark bait. Cannibal partners bond over troublemaker stew. Vampire cockroaches inherit the earth. And a very rude moviegoer learns to shut his popcorn-hole the hard way. Blending dark comedy with creature features, body horror with social satire, Tales From the Wrong Side of the Page serves up exactly what everyone deserves: justice with a side of terror. You'll laugh. You'll cringe. You'll ...

Pleasant Dreams (1960), published just a year after his more famous Psycho, finds Robert Bloch leaving behind his earlier Lovecraftian influences to find his own style and voice in this collection of masterful tales, in which the horror is often laced with an undercurrent of pitch-black humor.

This is a collection of six short stories from the Caverns and Creatures series. It includes the following stories: "Slimes and Misty Wieners", "Great Balls on Fire", "Your Anus Is a Gas Giant", "Clear and Present Ranger", "The Mimic's Chest", and "Styxian Stoners May Break My Boners".

This is a collection of the second six short stories in the Caverns and Creatures series.

You learn a lot about people when they’re hungry. Especially the ones who think you don’t count. Welcome to Lark & Ladle, where the checks are real, the lies are casual, and the side eyes could cut glass. Behind every “just one quick question” is a power play. Behind every “we’re in a hurry” is a person who expects the world to bend. And behind every smile a waitress wears is a private ledger of what people do when they think the apron makes you invisible. In Checks, Lies & Side Eyes, a sharp, funny, and quietly fearless waitress takes you table by table through ten darkly ...

What if the world’s not ending, it’s just having an allergic reaction to itself? Step into the wings of the Apollo Theatre with Reggie Porter, the most dangerous man in British comedy (according to Zara, his manager, and possibly MI5). With a biro, a Greggs leaflet, and six pages of forbidden insight, Reggie isn’t just doing a set, he’s detonating sacred cows one punchline at a time. From gay frogs to £6 cheddar, from God to oat milk, The Gig is not a short story, not a manifesto, and definitely not safe for anyone still clinging to certainty. It’s a stand-up sermon. A comic ...

Hot. Sinister. Addictive. The “Stolen Milk Saga” is a darkly erotic ride where boundaries are stripped, everything drips, and no one leaves with a glass half empty. Last summer, Romy, Claire, and Tessa broke into an abandoned dairy factory and left with a shameful secret that should never have been shared. But The Milkman was watching. And now it’s Romy’s turn. For years, Romy’s been living online, chasing likes and comments, carefully curating the perfect life for her followers and partner, Javier. But under The Milkman’s watch, there are no filters. No edits. Just Romy, ...

This is a collection of the third six short stories in the Caverns and Creatures series.

Smart Erotica for Smart Readers🧠 🔥DARA NICHOLS BOX SET FOUR (22 – 24 + Bonus #12 “Back Draft”)🔥 From New York Times, USA TODAY, Amazon Top-15 and #1 Erotica Bestseller Marata Eros 🌴 Paradise isn’t always heaven — sometimes it’s the test. Dara, Zoe and Isabella jet south to Mazatlán for the ultimate girls’ escape — sun, sin and no strings. But paradise plays by its own rules. From a decadent invitation-only masquerade to a cliff-top party where the real prize is temptation itself, each night pushes them further into pleasure … and peril. 💋 Three friends. ...