Short Story Surreal

“One Collection. Many Genres. Endless Surprises.” Curl up and get ready for a wild ride with twelve tantalising tales that will leave you breathless and wanting more. In SHORT STORIES AND STRANGE ENDINGS, master storyteller, RAYMOND M HALL, takes you on a journey through a variety of settings, from the gritty streets of an old Australian gold mining town to the depths of a dreamscape. Each story contains a unique set of characters, from a mysterious old man to a daring feline adventurer, and each one ends with an unexpected twist. This collection will keep you captivated until you reach...

Step beyond the veil of sleep into a kaleidoscope of terror, wonder, and surreal mystery. In Lucid Dreams, author Mark Lime delivers a vivid anthology of mind-bending, spine-chilling short stories that blend science fiction, horror, and the eerie logic of dreams. Each story takes you deeper into a different dimension—where logic unravels, time twists, and reality fractures. Brimming with atmosphere and surrealism, these stories linger like fragments of a forgotten dream. Haunting, violent, and strangely beautiful—Lucid Dreams is for fans of the uncanny and the unknowable. Dare to fall ...

David and Carol go on their new adventure in this sequel to "The Reunion." Carol ends up in a surreal place after going through an avalanche on Interstate 70 in Colorado.

Normal is not what it used to be. This book presents a collection of rules, warnings, instructions, and official notices—each written to help the reader maintain a sense of normality as the world quietly slips out of alignment. There are no monsters in these pages. No chases. No screams. Instead, you’ll find guidelines that contradict themselves, procedures that appear after they are needed, and safety notices written for situations that should not exist. Each short piece reads like an excerpt from a forgotten manual, an internal memo, or a document never meant to be public. As the ...

You wake up in your apartment. But it’s not your apartment. Your name is on the mail. Your favorite snacks are in the fridge. There’s even a note in your handwriting taped to the mirror: “Don’t trust the man in the static.” Every time you fall asleep, you wake up somewhere new — a childhood bedroom, an abandoned hospital, a diner stuck in a loop. And one doorless, buzzing white room keeps showing up. Inside the static… something is watching. And it’s learning how to follow you back. From the author of The 17th Door, this surreal psychological horror will trap you in a ...

The Bachman Files, Book 5 The fifth volume of The Bachman Files delivers pure horror and grotesque imagination with four chilling stories. A sinister scarecrow feeds on secrets and souls (The Scarecrow), a monstrous worm turns a superstore into a nightmare (Clean Up on Aisle 7), a haunted forest becomes a deadly trap (The Dead Forest), and alien abduction takes a terrifying twist of body horror (The Abduction). Perfect for fans of atmospheric, spine-chilling fiction, this collection blends psychological terror, cosmic dread, and visceral thrills that will keep you turning the pages.

Behind locked doors and flickering lights, Ward Nine is where routine swallows reality and the line between patient and staff dissolves. A young man hears his name whispered in the night. A woman refuses her medication and finds herself replaced by a calmer version of herself. A nurse on endless night rounds discovers his name written in a book decades old. Meals never satisfy, visitors never arrive, and the quiet room is never truly quiet. In this chilling collection of interconnected stories, each voice pulls you deeper into a psychiatric ward where time loops, hunger grows, and identity ...

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

Rooms You Don’t Deserve by G.J. Fene is a chilling anthology of modern horror where guilt becomes architecture, and each room knows what you did. In twelve unnerving tales, scientists, priests, doctors, and frauds are lured into surreal punishment chambers that mirror their sins, and refuse to let them go. From a fertility clinic island where all the guests look alike… to a recursive memory trail in a fire-scorched forest… to a nursery where every infant cries with your voice, these are rooms built not for shelter, but for reckoning. Each story is a closed system. A confession box. A ...

The Bachman Files, Book 2 The second volume of The Bachman Files delivers seven haunting and provocative short stories that blur the line between humanity and horror. From the surreal, dream-like mystery of a gun’s violent legacy (Chekhov’s Gun), to a town’s descent into madness as it becomes a feeding ground for unspeakable horrors (The Journal of John Doe), to a tech worker’s terrifying fusion of flesh and machine (Flesh and Silicon), and a factory consumed by an insatiable, otherworldly hunger (The Factory), this collection pushes the boundaries of fear and imagination. Also ...

Step into the eerie and the unexpected with The Bachman Files, Book 1—a spine-tingling collection of short fiction that blends classic horror, speculative twists, and dark satire. From a cursed forest that devours its victims (The Hungry Forest), to a dystopian AI controlling life and death (The Algorithm), and a old Television that unlocks unspeakable terror (Dead Air), these tales will keep you on edge. With five gripping stories, including The Signal and The Gospel According to Dave, this anthology delivers bite-sized doses of fear and intrigue, perfect for fans who enjoy thought-...

A man awakens suspended in a cage—thirty meters above an alien landscape beneath unfamiliar moons. Trapped inside a living prison of flesh and bone, he quickly realizes he is not alone. Hundreds of grotesque beings surround him, each confined to their own biological cells, each screaming in voices no human could comprehend. What follows is a descent—literal and psychological—into a terrifying display of cruelty, science, and something far more disturbing: recognition. As he tries to piece together how he arrived in this nightmare, memories surface, reality bends, and a horrifying ...

The Dragon Street Press Grab Bag Anthology series delivers bold, genre-spanning short fiction designed to grab you by the imagination. Grab Bag #3 features nineteen original stories across science fiction, epic fantasy, dystopian fiction, magical realism, dark fantasy, speculative horror, and surreal fiction. From the bottom of the ocean to the edge of the universe, these tales explore transformation, identity, loss, rebellion, and the uncanny—with plenty of strange stops along the way. Whether you're drawn to monsters and magicians, haunted futures, sentient insects, mythic quests, or ...

Haunting Story of Sigrid's trip down the Darkness River

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of “dazzlingly told” (The New York Times) literary short stories from Don DeLillo, the National Book Award-winning author of Underworld and Falling Man. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a...

A Weird Girl Story Lena has always loved the magic of old films. But when the projector flickers to life in her dimly lit room, the movies start watching back. She and her brother Theo used to watch their grandfather’s strange, silent reels together in his dusty old theater — films full of faces no one could name, stories that never seemed to end. Grandpa always warned them: “Never watch them alone.” Now Theo’s gone to college, and Lena breaks the rule. The films begin to change. Shadows move on their own. People in the frames turn their heads. And shadowy figures start to step ...

This is a work of erotica and contains graphic descriptions of sex acts. This eBook is not suitable for individuals under 18 years of age. Dastardly little invaders, humes run amuck on an alien planet. Their giant natra rulers long regarded them as mere animals. At least Amalie could earn that name by her ferocity, bravery, and utter lack of grace. Yet far from treating them like pests, the giantess on the horizon may be a sizable boon to her tribe. She shows respect and appears to possess all things in abundance, and Amalie is determined to dip her cup. Showing up on Seyel’s doorstep ...

If you’ve ever felt a vague longing for a home you can’t quite remember, you’re not alone. A surreal sense of mystery and a quest for memory and meaning are the common elements of these three stories (~9,400 words total) which all address the voyage home: Going Home — A late-night visitor changes everything. Last Latte — A trip home from the grocery store becomes a surreal quest for memory. The Affair — A dreamlike evening where nothing is quite as it seems.

Learn the truth behind the mask of Hollywood in these 10 bizarre tales of dreams and dream weavers, movies and movie-makers, by some of the most respected fantasy writers of our time.

You’re invited into a world where the boundary between the real and the unreal blurs with quiet wonder and haunting truth. Familiar Shadows of the Strange is a collection of psychologically surreal, numinous, but still deeply human short stories that reveal the uncanny undercurrents of ordinary life. Each tale explores the thresholds between the visible and the unseen, between who we are, who we’ve been, and who we are becoming, and where the everyday becomes extraordinary. This collection is perfect for readers who love The Twilight Zone and other strange, thought-provoking tales, ...