Unlikely request of the day… Give me your short horror recommendations!
I‘m looking for short stories or novellas that might be available on CD (so we might have more luck with classics, than completely contemporary stuff). The requester is a massive Stephen King fan, but his books are quite unwieldy on CD, so that‘s not working. You all know what an avid horror reader I‘m not…
What would you recommend?
Susanita I have no idea if this is available on CD but here you go. It‘s a mystery anthology and not specifically horror, but a couple of the stories were a bit … harrowing.![[tagged book]](https://image.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writersrockpools @Susanita Interesting- thank you! If I can find a copy, that could work really nicely. Thanks! And harrowing is pretty much the vibe we‘re going for. 2d
BookwormAHN Goddess of Filth is good and only about 150 pages. My library had it on audio so you should be able to find itGoddess of Filth 2d
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CoveredInRust I'd recommendThe Ballad of Black Tom 2d
The Ballad of Black Tomshortsarahrose I really liked this on audio (it was one of those Playaway players from the library; don‘t know if it is on CD). Short, but so creepy!What Moves the Dead 2d
What Moves the Deaddabbe I'd recommend the short stories/poems of EA Poe, especially “The Fall of the House of Usher,“ “The Raven“, “The Black Cat“, “The Cask of Amontillado“; “Berenice“, “Hop-Frog“; “The Imp of the Perverse“, “Ligeia“, “The Masque of the Red Death“, “The Oval Portrait'“, “The Pit and the Pendulum“, “The Tell-Tale Heart“ ... pretty much most of his stuff! 🤩 2d
TracyReadsBooks Stephen Graham Jones, probably my favorite horror writer, has a novella called Night of the Mannequins which I really enjoyed. 2d
LeahBergen What about the weird (adult) short stories of Roald Dahl or maybe Shirley Jackson? I moved on to those from loving Stephen King (and his short tales) in my teens. 1d
BookmarkTavern Seconding @shortsarahrose with the Sworn Soldier series by T Kingfisher! (edited) 22h
Reggie Blue World by Robert McCammon if you can find it. 15h
Teresereading Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill - The Small Hand and The Man in the Picture 7h
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