Don't Listen After Midnight
An audiobook horror anthology. Classic scary stories, rebuilt with sound design for late-night listening.
- Audiobook, sound-designed for headphones
- Four language editions: EN, FI, SV, DE
- For teen and young-adult listeners
Independent publisher · Helsinki
Books and audiobooks, made well.
A few a year, by conviction. A full production stack behind every title, in multiple languages.
Founded by Joakim Achrén, co-founder of Next Games. The studio built the official games for The Walking Dead, Stranger Things, and Blade Runner, working directly with AMC and Netflix. Netflix acquired Joakim's company in 2022.
Distribution Spotify · Apple Books · Storytel · BookBeat · Amazon Localization Into any language a product needs Formats Audiobook · ebook · paperback · hardcover
What we produce
Illustration, narration, read-along.
Every title we make is illustrated, narrated, and built as a word-by-word read-along. Here is a finished example, start to finish. Tap to play with sound.
From Don't Listen After Midnight.
The list
Suomalaiset youtubettajat
A Finnish-language audiobook anthology. Twelve creator stories from Finland's biggest YouTubers, made for the whole family.
- Now on Spotify
- Twelve creator stories from Finland
- Audiobook-first
- For the whole family
Sleep Again
A calm, sober book about sleep, written for the person lying awake at three in the morning.
- Ebook + paperback + audiobook
- English original; Finnish edition shipped alongside
- Direct sales, Amazon, audiobook on Spotify and Storytel
Nuku uudelleen
Sleep Again in Finnish. A calm, sober book about sleep, written for the reader lying awake at three in the morning.
- Finnish edition
- Ebook, paperback, audiobook
- Storytel, BookBeat, Spotify, direct sales
The thesis
Books are a high-leverage medium again.
For two decades the economics of publishing rewarded volume and punished the rest. That has flipped. Production cost collapses, and the scarce inputs become taste, structure, and the willingness to say no.
We publish a small number of books each year. Each one gets our full attention and a complete production stack, so the people we publish stay out of the grind and keep the upside.