Length1h 44m
About this audiobook
In the still spaces between dreams and waking, the world turns slightly wrong. Twisted Tales: The Fringe of Reality is a collection of nine gothic stories that peel back the ordinary to expose what waits just beyond it.
From worms with human mouths, to flesh that consumes those who dare eat it.
Vale leads readers down a path where horror is rarely seen but always felt.
His prose is elegant and surgical — restrained, devastating, and impossibly precise.
This isn’t a collection of cheap shocks — it’s a descent into the poetry of unease. Every page hums with tension, every line feels etched in candlelight. These are stories that haunt long after the last page is closed, leaving the reader unsure whether the horror was in the tale… or in themselves.
Daring,
lyrical,
poetic,
and deeply unsettling,
It is an invitation to stand at the edge of the known world and look down
— and to realize, with a shiver,
that the abyss might already be looking back.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, Horror
Length1 hr 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
37Part VI — One 137
2COPYRIGHT 1
38SAINTS 142
3Author’s Reflection 3
39Part I – Paste 144
4— Traditional verse (popularized by Hughes Mearns, 1899) 10
40Part II – Pulp 150
5Dedication: 11
41Part III – Hunger 155
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6Prologue 13
42Part IV – Feast 160
7Archivist 15
43Part V – Rupture 166
8WORMKIN 21
44Part VI – Hollow 170
9Part I —Tremble 23
45[ARCHIVE STATUS: UNSTABLE] 177
10Part II — Molt 29
46[PROCESSING EMOTIONAL RESIDUE...] 177
11Part III — Hive 35
47ZOO 178
12Part IV — Breach 40
48Part I – Weep 180
13Part V — Offering 45
49Part II – Unnamed 184
14Part VI —Gift 50
50Part IV – Unrepentant 188
15MIRROR 59
51Part V – Pilgrimage 192
16Part I — Cxut 61
52Thread 203
17Part II — Skin 64
53Part I: Stitcher 205
18Part III — Recursive 69
54Part II – Pattern 209
19Part IV — Sculptor 74
55Part III – Reseamed 212
20Part V — Slicing 78
56Part IV — Garment 217
21Part VI — Shatter 83
57Part V — Unpatterned 221
22ARCHIVE LOG [0453–Δ]: Harmonic Event Residue 88
58GLITCH 227
23BONE 89
59Part I – Filter 229
24Part I — Hymns 91
60Part II – Override 233
25Part II — Conductor 94
61Part III – Re-skin 237
26Part III — Vibrato 99
62Part IV – Beauticide 240
27Part IV — Dissonance 103
63Part V – Self 244
28Part V — Splinter 107
64Part VI – Ghost 246
29Part VI — Silence 110
65RECURSION 255
30ARCHIVE ENTRY [Δ–0741]: Hive-Mnemonic Chamber Report 114
66Part I — Echo 257
31CHRYSALIS 115
67Day 1 257
32Part I — Unclean 116
68Day 3. 260
33Part II — Exuviae 120
69Day 6 262
34Part III — Nectar 124
70Part II — Archive… 263
35Part IV — Refusal 128
71Day 8 263
36Part V — Gestation 133
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