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
26Part III — Vibrato 99
2COPYRIGHT 1
27Part IV — Dissonance 103
3Author’s Reflection 3
28Part V — Splinter 107
4— Traditional verse (popularized by Hughes Mearns, 1899) 10
29Part VI — Silence 110
5Dedication: 11
30ARCHIVE ENTRY [Δ–0741]: Hive-Mnemonic Chamber Report 114
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6Prologue 13
31CHRYSALIS 115
7Archivist 15
32Part I — Unclean 116
8WORMKIN 21
33Part II — Exuviae 120
9Part I —Tremble 23
34Part III — Nectar 124
10Part II — Molt 29
35Part IV — Refusal 128
11Part III — Hive 35
36Part V — Gestation 133
12Part IV — Breach 40
37Part VI — One 137
13Part V — Offering 45
38SAINTS 142
14Part VI —Gift 50
39Part I – Paste 144
15MIRROR 59
40Part II – Pulp 150
16Part I — Cxut 61
41Part III – Hunger 155
17Part II — Skin 64
42Part IV – Feast 160
18Part III — Recursive 69
43Part V – Rupture 166
19Part IV — Sculptor 74
44Part VI – Hollow 170
20Part V — Slicing 78
45[ARCHIVE STATUS: UNSTABLE] 177
21Part VI — Shatter 83
46[PROCESSING EMOTIONAL RESIDUE...] 177
22ARCHIVE LOG [0453–Δ]: Harmonic Event Residue 88
47ZOO 178
23BONE 89
48Part I – Weep 180
24Part I — Hymns 91
49Part II – Unnamed 184
25Part II — Conductor 94
50Part IV – Unrepentant 188
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