Tiny Nightmares
Very Short Stories of Horror
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder
In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches.
But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck.
Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack.
Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more!
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In this masterful anthology, Nieto and Michel bring together 42 chilling works of flash fiction that capture terrors both supernatural and mundane. In Samantha Hunt's "Rearview," a single mother attempts to distance herself from her former drug abuse, even as her past self comes back to haunt her. Hilary Leichter's "Doggy-Dog World" offers an unsettling portrait of a witch working a spell on an unassuming yuppie couple. "Lone" by Jac Jemc is a realistic and hair-raising exploration of a woman's anxieties while camping alone. The choose-your-own-adventure-style "Marriage Variations" by Monique Laban spins scares from marital discontents. Helen McClory's "Gabriel Metsu, Man Writing a Letter c. 1664 66" follows an eerie encounter between an art gallery docent and the "presence" within a 17th-century painting. "Downpour" by Joseph Salvatore is a truly terrifying tale about a rat on the New York City Subway, made all the more disturbing for its very real possibility. In fewer than 1,500 words, each of these vivid, visceral tales engages with horrors with striking immediacy. This carefully crafted and genuinely scary collection is sure to impress.
