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After the People Lights Have Gone Off
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
A collection of stories that tap into the horrors and fears of the supernatural-- as well as the everyday.
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Strange Weather
Strange Weather
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights,…
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999
999
A collection of stories on the supernatural. They range from Thomas Disch's story, The Owl and the Pussycat, which is on the marriage of an owl and a cat, to Kim Newman's Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue, which is about American zombies in Russia.
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The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.
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Werewolves
A collection of fifteen stories by a variety of authors about the, sometime frightening, sometime humorous, phenomena of werewolves.
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Poe's Children
Poe's Children
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The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
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The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
Collection of stories and drawings by Gahan Wilson.
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Snowman
It is impossible to foresee that Bradford's search for the Snowman would terminate in a devastating spectacle. Based on all the sightings and reports Bradford reads about, he hopes to locate a mammal of some kind. From his early student days in anthropology, Bradford theorizes that such a creature could exist in these climatic conditions, even though his colleagues at Harvard scoff at the notion.…
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
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Carrion comfort
See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1963325W
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Roadwork
Roadwork is a thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books.
The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1972–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he…
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At the Mountains of Madness
Introduction by China MievilleLong acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries--and their encounter with…
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Can Such Things Be?
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…
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Continuador de la tradición del cuento de terror, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) innovó el género con aportaciones procedentes de una veta personalísima de temas y obsesiones en la que se dan cita el mundo sobrenatural, el saber esotérico y las ensoñaciones oníricas. Creador de una mitología fantástica y prolífico autor de cuentos y relatos breves, publicó asimismo tres novelas, entre las que…
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In the Shadow of the Master
Few have crafted stories as haunting as those by Edgar Allan Poe. Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he…
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The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Part One: Stories --
Chinua Achebe / Civil Peace --
Sherman Alexie / The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven --
Isabelle Allende / An Act of Vengeance --
Sherwood Anderson / Hands --
Margaret Atwood / Happy Endings --
Isaac Babel / My First Goose --
James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues --Toni Cade Bambara / The Lesson --
Russell Banks / Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Rowboat…
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Cujo
Cujo (/ˈkjuːdʒoʊ/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983.
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