The Specialist's Hat: A Short Horror Story

Kelly Link

Mar 2021 · Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2 Book 18 · Nightfire · Narrated by Natalie Naudus

About this audiobook

Winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award for best short story.

Something is creeping up the stairs, something is standing outside the door. Something is sobbing, sobbing in the dark; something is sighing across the floor...

"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link is one of 18 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries like Seanan McGuire, T. Kingfisher, and Caitlín R. Kiernan; it includes stories from Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw (Nothing But Blackened Teeth) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Certain Dark Things); and from rising stars like Nibedita Sen, Matthew Lyons, and Jessica Guess. Plus, it has Nick Antosca’s “The Quiet Boy,” soon to be a major motion picture, Antlers, starring Keri Russell.

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About the author

Kelly Link’s story collection Get in Trouble was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Link is also the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, and Pretty Monsters. The recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, she lives in Northampton, MA, where she and her husband run Small Beer Press. They run the bookstore Book Moon in Easthampton.