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A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck
Narrated by: Sergei Burbank
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A man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell - a labrynth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived.

His only way out is to find the single book that tells his own story. But along the seemingly infinite shelves lies every possible combination of letters. Trapped within this maze of meaninglessness, the absurdity of existence becomes impossible to ignore.

A life-changing, existential novella, Steven L. Peck's modern classic explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

© Steven L. Peck 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Genre Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Scary Thought-Provoking
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A Short Stay in Hell is a short stay in literary paradise (Ethan Hawke)
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I hate that it’s not got a happy ending but that’s why I love it.

Good book

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So good. So bleak. I could listen to this forever, and ever. Eons and eons

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Finished this one last week and it’s been on my mind since. It’s a short story, but the impact it has is big.

I don’t know what to do with myself

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audio quality, was rough, constant low hissing that only stops for random sentences that needed re-recorded.

it's a pretty good story though, bleak.

audio quality pretty patchy

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