57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides: A Short Horror Story

Sam J. Miller

Feb 2020 · Come Join Us By the Fire Book 31 · Nightfire · Narrated by Ramon de Ocampo

About this audiobook

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Story

A young student grapples with his tormentors and a dangerous new power in "57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides", a short horror story by Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller.

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

While I was expecting a description of "The 3rd Anniversary " which was not explained (or I missed it), the story is weird in a good way. It's an action-driven story so mood and atmosphere take a back seat to the storyline. The child's playtime activity is quite disturbing. Definitely worth a listen.

Pretty good story, The boy is counting up the 57 reasons why the "suicides" or deaths happened like they did, there is no counting chapters. Just all of the little peices that fell in place to make the big puzzle...

I really liked this story! it makes you wonder what you would do to people if you had the power to control their free will; especially bullies. Just listening to that story took me back to bad times in high school but made me smile when he was able to control the bullies. Great story!

About the author

Sam J. Miller is the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving (an NPR best of the year) and Blackfish City (a best book of the year for Vulture, The Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, and more – and a “Must Read” in Entertainment Weekly and O: The Oprah Winfrey Magazine). A recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, Sam’s work has been nominated for the World Fantasy, Theodore Sturgeon, John W. Campbell and Locus Awards, and reprinted in dozens of anthologies. A community organizer by day, he lives in New York City.