Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1,2,3 ~ 60 MP3 AUDIOBOOK COLLECTION
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1,2,3 Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Series – Volume 1 Volume 1 establishes the mission statement of the series: uncompromising, transgressive horror drawn from the furthest edges of the genre. The stories focus on psychological cruelty, moral degradation, and sudden eruptions of brutality rather than traditional monsters or safe narrative structures. Violence, obsession, and human depravity are common themes, but many tales rely on tension, dread, and emotional discomfort rather than constant gore. This volume balances graphic shock with quieter, corrosive storytelling, exploring how ordinary situations spiral into nightmare scenarios. The collection emphasizes discomfort over entertainment, asking readers to confront cruelty, power, control, and emotional collapse. It sets the tone for the series as a curated archive of extreme horror that prioritizes impact, risk, and boundary-breaking over conventional scares. Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Series – Volume 2 Volume 2 broadens the scope of the series by mixing splatterpunk intensity with experimental, literary, and socially transgressive horror. The stories range from grotesque body horror and extreme violence to surreal, symbolic, and emotionally unsettling narratives. While gore is abundant, many entries lean heavily into satire, cultural critique, and deeply personal psychological trauma. This volume showcases the versatility of hardcore horror, blending humor, nostalgia, existential dread, and taboo subject matter. The inclusion of poetry and hybrid forms further pushes the boundaries of what extreme horror can be, reinforcing the idea that transgression isn’t only about explicit content but also about challenging reader expectations and comfort zones. Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Series – Volume 3 Volume 3 represents a mature, confident evolution of the series, combining extreme content with sophisticated storytelling and genre fusion. Dark fantasy, science fiction, cosmic horror, and literary horror sit alongside graphic splatterpunk, creating a varied but consistently unsettling reading experience. The stories frequently explore myth, technology, obsession, and inescapable doom. This volume leans heavily into atmosphere and inevitability, often allowing horror to unfold slowly before delivering devastating conclusions. While still unapologetically brutal, the collection emphasizes craftsmanship, originality, and emotional resonance, proving that hardcore horror can be both savage and artistically ambitious. It stands as a definitive showcase of modern extreme horror at its most refined and relentless.
CONTENT:
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Series, Volume 1
1. Worth the Having by Michael Paul Gonzalez
2. Awakening by Jeff Strand
3. Readings Off The Charts by Adam Cesare
4. Reborn by The Behrg
5. What's Worst by David James Keaton
6. Dead End by Kristopher Triana
7. What You Wish For by Lilith Morgan
8. King Shits by Charles Austin Muir
9. Cleanup On Aisle 3 by Adam Howe
10. Bath Salt Fetus by Jorge Palacios
11. Bored With Brutality by MP Johnson
12. Exposed by Monica J. O'Rourke
13. Eleanor by Jason Parent
14. The Scavengers by Tony Knighton
15. The Most Important Miracle by Scott Emerson
16. Hungry For Control by Clare de Lune
17. Clarissa by Robert Essig & Jack Bantry
18. Where The Sun Don't Shine by Pete Kahle
19. Blackbird Lullaby by George Cotronis
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Series, Volume 2
20. Ways I'd Prefer Not to Die — Michael A. Arnzen
21. Bed of Crimson Joy — Jasper Bark
22. The Girl Who Loved Bruce Campbell — Christa Carmen
23. The Field — Marvin Brown
24. Please Subscribe — Adam Cesare
25. Father of Dread — Matthew Chabin
26. American Gods, American Monsters — Jose Cruz
27. Coming of the Darkula — Andrew Darlington
28. The Contract — Paolo Di Orazio
29. Mother's Nature — Stefanie Elrick
30. Out Hunting for Teeth — William Grabowski
31. Little Sister, Little Brother — Sarah L. Johnson
32. Miss_Vertebrae — Eric LaRocca
33. Kozmic Blues — Alessandro Manzetti
34. Backne — Tim Miller
35. Redux — Alexandra Renwick
36. Implant — Bryan Smith
37. The Hallowfiend Remembers — Jeremy Thompson
38. A Face in the Crowd — Tim Waggoner
39. Ownership — Wrath James White
40. On This Side of Bloodletting (and selected poems from Brothel) — Stephanie M. Wytovich
Year's Best Hardcore Horror Series, Volume 3
41. So Sings The Siren — Annie Neugebauer
42. Junk — Ryan Harding
43. The Cenacle — Robert Levy
44. The Maw — Nathan Ballingrud
45. Burnt — Luciano Marano
46. The Better Part of Drowning — Octavia Cade
47. Til Death — Tim Waggoner
48. Letter From Hell — Matt Shaw
49. Theatrum Mortuum — Dani Brown
50. Break — Glenn Gray
51. Bernadette — Ramiro Perez de Pereda
52. West of Matamoros, North of Hell — Brian Hodge
53. Reprising Her Role — Bracken MacLeod
54. The Watcher — Doug Ford
55. Scratching From The Outer Darkness — Tim Curran
56. Foreign Bodies — Adam Howe
57. Adramelech — Sean Patrick Hazlett
58. ULTRA — Daniel Marc Chant
59. Tree hugger — Nathan Robinson
60. The Dogs — Scott Smith
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- Audiobooks are read by professional narrators.
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Let customers speak for us
This series was discontinued due to issues with the two authors as well as the publishing house. You can't buy the first 4-5 books in the series in print, ebook, or audiobook. An old print copy for one of them can go for like $200 on ebay. So to find the entire audiobook series for such an insanely good price made me take the plunge and buy. I figured even if it didn't work, it was worth the attempt. But the CD came, had everything on it, and I've since converted it to listen to the Books app on my iPhone. Soooooo worth it.
Couldn't believe the great price for this series. CD came in good time, even during the holidays. The audio is slightly lower quality than expected, but once you get into the groove of listening you stop noticing.
arrive in a timely manner and works well
A rare and hard to find series of audiobooks. And a fantastic find in this case. The sound quality varies, but considering the source material, not too bad at all.
Prompt and efficient delivery (to UK).
Certainly good value for money.
