Horror Stories
Twenty-Six Scary Tales
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MacLeod Andrews
About this listen
This collection features a menagerie of horror stories. Some are scary. Some are disturbing. Some are funny. Meet werewolves, vampires, zombies, psychopaths, aliens, cannibals, ghosts, and various things that go bump in the night.
Previously published in dozens of anthologies and magazines, some of these tales are mild, but some are extreme. Let the reader beware...
The stories include:
Finicky Eater - It's after a nuclear war, and a mother and her son are in a fallout shelter, the food long long...
The Screaming - Van Helsing and vampires, in 1960s England.
Mr. Pull Ups - A body modification tale taken to the extreme.
The Shed - Two burglars find the door to hell.
Them's Good Eats - Rednecks vs. aliens, on a spaceship ride of horrors.
First Time - A coming of age tale where all may not be what it seems.
Forgiveness - A dying serial killer asks for a priest to hear his last confession.
Redux - Ghost story noir, about a private eye and a deadly haunting.
The Bag - What's in the bag? You really don't want to know...
Careful, He Bites - Lycanthrope flash fiction.
Symbios - A sci-fi novella about man's first encounter with alien life, and how things can quickly turn bad.
A Matter of Taste - Zombie flash fiction.
Embrace - A bit of gothic horror.
Trailer Sucks - Some trailer park jerks kidnap a vampire.
Markey - Flash fiction, from a twisted point of view.
Punishment Room - A horrific suspense tale about a not-so-distant future.
The Confession - Terrible crimes, told entirely in dialog.
Basketcase - Hardboiled noir with a horrific twist.
The Agreement - A gambler pays the ultimate price to get out of a debt.
Well Balanced Meal - The worst restaurant you've ever been in.
S.A. - A werewolf novella about a Shapshifters Anonymous group that must battle Santa Claus.
Dear Diary - A very twisted pom pon girl reveals the secret of her inner strength.
Mr. Spaceman - We've come to mate with earth women.
Appalachian Lullaby - What do you do with a radioactive monkey?
©2010 Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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- Debbie
- 14-12-15
Horror
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
was okay , better choices for free on youtube
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some stores were boring and didn't keep track of what was going bored as i lost focus
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Gemma
- 04-02-12
Predictable but Entertaining
I downloaded this after listening to Endurance by the same author and I noticed many common themes running through these stories as well as Endurance. Amputation, limb loss and cannibalism feature in the majority of the stories so it starts to get very predictable after you've heard a few. And just like Endurance I found that none of these stories are actually scary but are more like black comedy, which is not a negative point, but isn't what I expected when I downloaded "Horror Stories".
What is strange about this audiobook is that the author writes little introductions to his stories which often give the main theme of the story away before it's even begun. For example there is one story where a character is revealed to be a vampire mid-way through, but the author has already told us it's a vampire story before it begun. Very bizarre!
Narration is very good and some of the stories are truly funny, especially the one about Santa Claus and the last story which was written with J A Konrath!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Tona
- 09-01-12
26 Tales of Terror
Excellent horror stories. All very original, although a lot of them are quite sick and twisted. The narration was also spot on.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-09-21
horror stories
I've listened to lot's of short horror stories over four years and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book, if you're like me and enjoy short/anthologies of weird and horror I recommend this , this is the first time I've written a review.
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- Ash
- 29-01-15
truely amazing
tw: rape
I have honestly never been so physically disgusted by an author in my life, but this audio book - wow. its so amazingly written! the bag chapter made me stop everything I was doing and turn the light on, I was so terrified! there are a lot of vivid rape scenes so beware.
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- Lee
- 05-08-17
A mixed up bag of horror and comedy.
Boy was I sad when I finished the stories off as I just loved the whole book. Admittedly I found one average but the rest were sheer magic. Yes some are dark and gory but I had some right belly laughs especially at the Santa Clause one.
All are original and okay most aren't for the faint hearted so best not read late at night.
The narration was spot on. Will read more from this author :)
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- Keely
- 22-07-16
AWESOME!!
Some very cool stories! I loved it and would recommend to any fans of horror!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 02-09-11
Enjoyable blend of horror & comedy
A lot of horror likes to call itself "not for the faint hearted" but this really isn't, and the easily squeamish may want to give it a miss as well. A lot of it was also conciously written to be funny rather than serious horror, so if that sort of thing annoys you, again maybe pass. The humour is generally pretty crude, mostly too crude for me to find amusing, but that's just me, and I think the level of humour fits the stories well.
The stories themselves are by & large pretty good. They tend to deliver shocks rather than scares - I don't think I was ever scared, but was shocked constantly. For me it's the difference between something like The Grudge and a slasher flick like Friday the 13th - the gore in the latter is shocking, the more psychological nature of the former is scary, and the stories here all fall very squarely in the shocker category. They are all very original, very rarely predictable, which I prize highly in horror fiction. A lot of cannibalism though.
The narration - generally it's good solid stuff, with well defined character voices etc., but I find it hard to forgive the cockney accent in "The Screaming", which is a bit of a diction nightmare in any case - Konrath claims to have made a great effort to match the langauge for the setting, i.e. 1960s England, but I found it pretty horrendous. Don't get discouraged and stop listenening though, the rest is much better.
All in all, if you like your horror stories to be gory, brutal and nasty, you should enjoy these. If you like something less visceral, I really wouldn't risk it. If you do end up liking these, I'd recommend Haunted by Chuck Palanuik, which is as nasty but a good deal more intelligent, or The Collection, by Bentley Little.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- jennifer
- 06-04-12
Horror Stories
This was brilliant listen,some stories being better than others,some very gory,I loved it but then again i have enjoyed all Jack Kilborn books,it can be disturbing in some stories so not for the faint hearted !!!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Lex
- 26-11-12
Poor
This collection of horror stories is disappointing. For example the story about a vampire in England has been poorly researched (quotes a price as 50p in 1960s
England when decimal currency did not arrive until 1970s) and the 'cor blimey'
accent of the American (trying to be British) reader is very irritating after a while.
There are much better collections out there.
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