5 Stories

Gwendy's Button Box: Includes Bonus Story "The Music Room"

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
• Narrated By Maggie Siff

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zigzag up the cliffside. At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. One day a stranger calls to Gwendy: "Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me."

Ghost Story

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Peter Straub
• Narrated By Buck Schirner

For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past - and get away with murder. Peter Straub's classic best seller is a work of "superb horror" (Washington Post Book World) that, like any good ghost story, stands the test of time - and conjures our darkest fears and nightmares.

A Long December

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Richard Chizmar
• Narrated By David Stifel
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Chizmar assembles 35 stories, including a previously unpublished novella, and presents us with A Long December. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Chizmar's very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical story notes. Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in A Long December range from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery.

The Elementals

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Michael McDowell
• Narrated By R.C. Bray
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After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty. Inside, something deadly lies in wait.

Skeleton Crew

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King, Matthew Broderick, Michael C. Hall, and others
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The master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy - tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time! Trucks that punish and beautiful teen demons who seduce a young man to massacre; curses whose malevolence grows through the years; obscene presences and angels of grace - here, indeed, is a night-blooming bouquet of chills and thrills.

A Dark Matter

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 32 mins)
• By Peter Straub
• Narrated By Robertson Dean
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The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present.

Hell House

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Richard Matheson
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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For over 20 years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mt. Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of unimaginable horror and depravity. All previous attempts to probe its mysteries have ended in murder, suicide, or insanity.

But now, a new investigation has been launched, bringing four strangers to Belasco House in search of the ultimate secrets of life and death. A wealthy publisher, brooding over his impending death, has paid a physicist and two mediums to establish the facts of life after death once and for all. For one night, they will investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townsfolk refer to it as the Hell House.

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Stephen King, Tim Curry, Rob Lowe, and others

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection.

The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Nine

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Ellen Datlow - editor
• Narrated By Christina Delaine, James Anderson Foster
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For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the ninth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.

Lost Boy, Lost Girl

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Peter Straub
• Narrated By Peter Berkrot
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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son- fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill - vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother's suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge.

13 Nightmares

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Dennis McDonald
• Narrated By Michael Rubino
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Thirteen tales of original terror penned in the dead of the night with only the glow of a computer for light. The collection of short stories runs the gamut of horror. Within its bloody minutes you will find a slasher clown, a blood red church, a little girl locked in a closet, a haunted sex doll, etc. 13 Nightmares is a fine collection of terror for the short story lover, but be warned. Some of these stores are not for the faint of heart. Do you dare enter a world where the supernatural, the macabre, and the horrific collide?

From a Buick 8

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker
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Stephen King's first full-length solo novel since Dreamcatcher, the long-awaited From a Buick 8 is "nearly flawless and one terrific entertainment," says Publishers Weekly. A strange car acts as a conduit between our world and some other...and the boogeyman of this creepy story is our collective fascination with deadly things.

Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Randy Chandler, Cheryl Mullenax, Jeff Strand, and others
• Narrated By Joe Hempel
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Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of extreme stories, the hardcore stuff that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos, the transgressive tales you can't "unread" (as Chuck Palahniuk says). Some of the stories you'll find here are loaded with very graphic descriptions of violence, sex, and depravities, while others may contain only one shocking moment of brutality. In others, the hardcore aspect may be less graphic and subtler than you might expect.

Cold Moon over Babylon: Valancourt 20th Century Classics

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 47 mins)
• By Michael McDowell
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror.

The Dead Zone

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By James Franco
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Johnny Smith awakens from a five-year coma after his car accident and discovers that he can see people's futures and pasts when he touches them. Many consider his talent a gift; Johnny feels cursed. His fiancée married another man during his coma, and people clamor for him to solve their problems. When Johnny has a disturbing vision after he shakes the hand of an ambitious and amoral politician, he must decide if he should take drastic action to change the future.

Cell: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Campbell Scott

The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, and others

The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Stephen King (introduction), Richard Matheson
• Narrated By Julia Campbell, Paul Michael Garcia, Malcolm Hillgartner, and others
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Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: the title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

Earthcore

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Scott Sigler
• Narrated By Ray Porter
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EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources, and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company's driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure. But at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting...and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.

The Scarlet Gospels

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Clive Barker
• Narrated By John Lee
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The Scarlet Gospels takes listeners back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes, faces off against his formidable and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with baited breath for years, and it's everything they've begged for and more.

Great & Secret Show

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Clive Barker
• Narrated By Chet Williamson

In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times best-seller, Barker unveils one of the most ambitious imaginative landscapes in modern fiction, creating a new vocabulary for the age-old battle between good and evil. Carrying its readers from the first stirring of consciousness to a vision of the end of the world, The Great and Secret Show is a breathtaking journey in the company of a master storyteller.

Dandelion Wine: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
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Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semiautobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928.

Revival: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 24 mins)
• By Stephen King
• Narrated By David Morse
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In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs - including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession.

The Illustrated Man

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Ray Bradbury
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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The images, ideas, sounds, and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast, empty space of stars and blackness; the sight of grey dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere; the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.