Midnight Caller: A Short Horror Story

Written by Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

"Midnight Caller" is a short horror story by Stephen Graham Jones, one of 35 entries in the audio horror anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

Who will answer a desperate call for help?

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tor Nightfire
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781250625052

Stephen Graham Jones

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES was raised as pretty much the only Blackfeet in West Texas - except for his dad and grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. He now lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, a couple kids, and too many old trucks. Between West Texas and now, he's published more than twenty books, including the novels The Fast Red Road, Ledfeather, and Mongrels, and the short story collections After the People Lights Have Gone Off, States of Grace, and The Ones that Got Away. Stephen’s been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Awards for Multicultural Fiction, three This is Horror awards, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. Stephen teaches in the MFA programs at University of Colorado at Boulder and University of California Riverside-Palm Desert.

Reviews for Midnight Caller

[Kendra Ezell · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Another well written short story with a very interesting plot.

This was seemingly about a home invasion of sorts. Not gonna lie, the receptionist was P. Me off until I found out why...

[Tina Carr · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A short thrilling ride into the darkness of a psychotic mad woman.