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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…

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1 author picked Tiny Nightmares as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A genre-bending collection of 40 dark microfictions from writers like Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, and Rion Amilcar Scott.

Each story is a flash-sized jolt of horror, dread, or surreal unease—some just a paragraph long. A stunning example of how fear, like fiction, doesn’t need a lot of space to crawl under your skin.

If you like the living daylights scared out of you, you may like this book.

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