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Otherworld Nights Kelley Armstrong · 2014 · ★ 4.9 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Rare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling series It's been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons. Many of the novels have become bestselling favorites, but not all of the Otherworld adventures… Shares American Fantasy fiction, Amerikanisches Englisch
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Death has come up into our windows Stant Litore · 2011 · 97p · ≈ 3h · Light Yerusalem City is dying, and the king's fear of invasion renders him blind to the starvation and plague ravaging his people. Only Yirmiyahu the prophet can see the truth only he can hear God weeping behind her veil in the temple. He knows the locked city gates will keep no one out they will only keep the dead in. Fearful that God has abandoned her city, Yirmiyahu wrestles with the hunger of the… Shares Zombies
Duel
Duel Richard Matheson · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares American Horror tales with this book.
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The Walking Dead Robert Kirkman · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Zombies with this book.
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Green Eyes Lucius Shepard · 1984 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Zombies with this book.
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Flu Wayne Simmons · 2010 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "A deadly strain of flu mutates, causing the deaths of millions throughout Ireland and beyond. But the infected don't stay dead for long, rising up to become flesh-eating monsters. Geri McConnell is a survivor. Through the graffiti-stained streets of Belfast she runs, determined to stay one step ahead of the ever-increasing hordes of living dead. In neighboring Finaghy, God-fearing Karen looks to… Shares Zombies
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Plague of the undead Joe McKinney · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 420p · ≈ 14h · Moderate A handful of survivors - for thirty years, they have avoided the outbreak of walking death that has consumed America's heartland. They have secured a small compound near the ruins of Tulsa, Oklahoma, isolated from the world, immune to the horror, blissfully unaware of what lies outside the region know as the Dead Lands. Until now ... Shares Zombies
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Zombiestan Mainak Dhar · 2012 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It began with stories of undead Taliban rampaging through Afghan villages, and faster than anyone could have anticipated, the darkness spreads through the world. In a world laid waste by this new terror, four unlikely companions have been thrown together: a 17-year-old boy dealing with the loss of his family, a US Navy Seal trying to get back home, an aging, lonely writer with nobody to live for,… Shares Zombies
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales Gahan Wilson · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Collection of stories and drawings by Gahan Wilson. Shares American Fantasy fiction, American Horror tales
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The wind in the rose-bush Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman · 1903 · ★ 4.2 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Six ghost stories from small-town 19th century America. Shares American Paranormal fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Short stories
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Unnatural acts Kevin J. Anderson · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Amerikanisches Englisch, Zombies with this book.
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Waifs and Strays O. Henry · 1917 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" from The Essential Bordertown and "There's No Such Thing," which appeared in Yolen and Greenburg's anthology Vampires. In its first appearance, "Sisters," tells of precocious… Shares American Short stories
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Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2004 · ★ 3.7 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Light "Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. It is considered one of Fitzgerald's finest stories and is frequently anthologized. In the Fitzgerald canon, it is considered to be in the "Gatsby-cluster," as many of its themes were later expanded upon in his famous novel The… Shares American Short stories
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South Sea Tales Jack London · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 157p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was… Shares American Short stories
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Conjure Wife Fritz Leiber · 1953 · ★ 4.0 · 190p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Professor Norman Saylor considered magic nothing more than superstition. Then he learned that his wife was a practicing sorceress. But he still refuses to accept the truth: that in the secret occult warfare that governs our lives, magic is a matter of life and death; and that unbeknownst to men, every woman knows it"--Cover p. [4]. Shares American Paranormal fiction, American Horror tales
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Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce · 1909 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Ambrose Bierce’s second major short story collection, Can Such Things Be? collected nearly all of Bierce’s supernatural horror stories. Bierce himself was a skeptic of the supernatural, having once written a satirical essay “The Clothing of Ghosts,” in which he insisted that “The materialized spook appealing to our senses for recognition of his ghostly character must authenticate himself… Shares American Short stories, American Horror tales
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Dead sea Brian Keene · 2007 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate With zombies taking over the cities, a group of humans escapes the carnage by taking a small Coast Guard ship out to sea, but there's no getting away—even in the wide ocean. Shares Zombies
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
After the People Lights Have Gone Off Stephen Graham Jones · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday. Shares American Horror tales

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