2022 SOVAS Award Finalist for Audiobook Narration—Short Story Anthology—Best Voiceover

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.

The Tiger Came to the Mountains by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in a short, emotional story about survival by the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

Wildlife by Jeff VanderMeer

The miniature wilderness of a neighborhood greenbelt offers sanctuary for a woman with a violent past. But anything can happen when borderlands are crossed in a short story about the menace next door by a New York Times bestselling author.

The Backbone of the World by Stephen Graham Jones

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined short story about deep secrets and Lovecraftian horrors by a New York Times bestselling author.

Stag by Karen Russell

Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and resilience in the Mojave Desert by the New York Times bestselling author of Swamplandia!

A Righteous Man by Tochi Onyebuchi

A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about deliverance, friendship, and metamorphosis by the award-winning author of Riot Baby.

Bloody Summer by Carmen Maria Machado

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in this haunting short story by the bestselling author of Her Body and Other Parties.