Spawning Season: A Short Horror Story

Nicholas Kaufmann

Feb 2020 · Come Join Us By the Fire Book 29 · Nightfire · Narrated by Ramon de Ocampo

About this audiobook

"Spawning Season" is a short horror story by Nicholas Kaufmann, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

Net the fish and trap the prawn.
Blow the sea horn when it's time to spawn.
Sire your sons without any fuss.
One for the ocean and one for us.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Now THIS was a great story. By far the best of all the free horror books I've "read" here. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan, so this one really spoke to me

A very good lovecraftian short.

Wasn't really my thing.

About the author

Nicholas Kaufmann is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, Thriller Award-nominated, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Walk in Shadows: Collected Stories, General Slocum's Gold, Hunt at World's End, Chasing the Dragon, Still Life: Nine Stories, Dying Is My Business, Die and Stay Dead, and In the Shadow of the Axe. He has worked in publishing, owned his own bookstore, managed a video store, and was a development associate for a well-known literary and film agent. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.