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The Fall of the House of Usher & Other Stories

Edgar Allan Poe · 556 pages

Assignation Balloon Hoax Black Cat Cask of Amontillado Conversation of Eiros and Charmion Descent Into the Maelstrom Devil in the Belfry Domain of Arnheim Eleonora Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Gold-Bug Hop-Frog Imp of the Perverse Island of the Fay Landor's Cottage Ligeia Man of the Crowd Masque of the Red Death Metzenerstein Ms. Found in a Bottle Murders of the Rue Morgue

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Heart-Shaped Box

Joe Hill · 384 pages

Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, an item for sale on the Internet, a thing so terribly strange,

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Strange Highways: A masterful collection of chilling short stories

Dean Koontz · 562 pages

You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations... into subterranean d

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Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror

Douglas E. Winter · 380 pages

[Night flier / Stephen King][1] -- Having a woman at lunch / Paul Hazel -- Blood kiss / Dennis Etchison -- Coming to grief / Clive Barker -- Food / Thomas Tessier -- Great God Pan / M. John Harrison -- Orange is for anguish, blue for insanity / David Morrell -- Juniper tree / Peter Straub -- Spinning tales with the dead / Charles L. Grant -- Alice's last adventure / Thomas Ligott

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker · 164 pages

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Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories

Richard Matheson · 336 pages

This classic horror collection showcases the early career of one of the field's most influential and innovative writers. Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: the title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and horror aficionados reading "Prey" will immediately visualize Trilogy of Terror's Karen Black hunkered down with a butcher knife.

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The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in

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Sour Candy

Kealan Patrick Burke · 82 pages

At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different from any other. They take walks in the park together, visit county fairs, museums, and zoos, and eat overlooking the lake. Some might say the father is a little too accommodating given the lack of discipline when the child loses his temper in public. Some might say he spoils his son by allowing him t

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We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer · 320 pages

"As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve l

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Dark Forces

Dennis Etchison, Theodore Sturgeon, Ramsey Campbell, Clifford D. Simak, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Bloch, Edward Gorey, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Charles L.Grant, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Christian Matheson, Gahan Wilson, Stephen King, Kealan Patrick Burke, Edward · 544 pages

Contains: The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dark Angel by Edward Bryant The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe Vengeance Is. By Theodore Stu

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Creepshow

Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson · 64 pages

**CREEPSHOW - STEPHEN KING EM QUADRINHOS É MUITO DARKSIDE®** Por Stephen King e Bernie Wrightson. Adaptado do filme de George A. Romero. Tudo começou em 1982. King juntou forças com outro gênio das sombras, o diretor George A. Romero (A Noite dos Mortos-Vivos), para realizarem um filme inspirado em quadrinhos clássicos dos anos 1950, como Contos da Cripta, da EC Comics. O longa-metragem m

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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk · 416 pages

Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 142 pages

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

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No One Gets Out Alive

Adam Nevill

"When Stephanie moves to the notoriously cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, she's just happy to find an affordable room for rent that's large enough not to deserve her previous room's nickname, "the cell." The eccentric -- albeit slightly overly-friendly -- landlord seems nice and welcoming enough, the ceilings are high, and all of the other tenants are also girls. Things aren't great, bu

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Songs of a Dead Dreamer

Thomas Ligotti

Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti's first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris's Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the Washington Post, the celebrated science fiction and fantasy author Michael Swanwick extolled: 'Put this volum

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Poe's Children: The New Horror

M. John Harrison, Neil Gaiman, John Crowley, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Evenson, Kelly Link, Jonathan Carroll, M. Rickert, Thomas Tessier, David J. Schow, Thomas Ligotti, Glen Hirshberg, Benjamin Percy, Bradford Morrow, Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ellen Klages, Tia V. Travis, Graham Joyce, Steve Rasnic Tem, · 534 pages

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Six Scary Stories

Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone, Neil Hudson · 162 pages

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999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

Kim Newman, Tim Powers, Nancy A. Collins, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Lee, P.D. Cacek, Thomas Ligotti, Rick Hautala, David Morrell, Peter Schneider, Ed Gorman, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Bryant, Steven Spruill, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, Thomas F. Monteleone, Dennis L. McKie · 688 pages

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 Devil Crept In

Ania Ahlborn · 384 pages

"--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds

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Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

Grant Morrison · 216 pages

Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (often shortened to Batman: Arkham Asylum) is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean. The story follows the vigilante Batman, who is called upon to quell a maddening riot taking place in the infamous Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital housing the most dangerous supervillains in Gotham City. Inside, Batman c

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Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Neil Gaiman · 400 pages

This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.

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Museum of Terror, Vol. 1: Tomie 1

Junji Ito · 376 pages

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House

Frank E. Peretti, Ted Dekker · 400 pages

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman―or worse―could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. *A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker―two of the

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Misery

William Goldman, Stephen King · 368 pages

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