Playing God and Other Short Stories is the seventh studio album by Israeli death metal band Salem, released on April 3, 2010.
The album features At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg singing lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 2" and co-lead vocals on "The Mark of the Beast Part 1".
The album features an unusual death metal cover to Bob Marley's classic song "Exodus".
Note: The Israeli edition also contains a bonus track, an adaptation to a 12th-century Jewish hymn named "Et Sha'arei Ratzon" ("Time of the Gates of Grace") by rabbi Yehuda Ben Shmuel Abbas, which tells the story of the binding of Isaac.