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A Short Stay in Hell

The life-changing, existential novella readers can’t stop talking about

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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
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