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Teatro Grottesco

Thomas Ligotti · 312 pages

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Burnt Black Suns

Simon Strantzas · 310 pages

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Tales

H.P. Lovecraft · 91 pages

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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1

H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner

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The Doll Collection

Stephen Gallagher, Miranda Siemienowicz, Mary Robinette Kowal, Richard Bowes, Genevieve Valentine, Richard Kadrey, Veronica Schanoes, Jeffrey Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Gemma Files, Pat Cadigan, Lucy Sussex, Tim Lebbon, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan · 352 pages

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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The Book of Cthulhu

Ross E. Lockhart · 529 pages

"The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of

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The Small Hand and Dolly

Susan Hill · 280 pages

Collects two ghost stories, including "The Small Hand," in which a bookseller is plagued by nightmares after stumbling across a derelict Edwardian house; and "Dolly," in which an orphan is haunted by a spiteful cousin's act of rage.

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Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch · 296 pages

H.P. Lovecraft like his creation, Cthulhu never truly died. He and his influence live on, in the work of so many of us who were his friends and acolytes. Today we have reason for rejoycing in the widespread revival of his canon. If a volume such as this has any justification for its existence, it s because Lovecraft s readers continue to search out stories which reflect his contribution to the fie

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The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron · 280 pages

Collects nine interconnected stories of cosmic horror and dark fantasy set in the Pacific Northwest.

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Lovecraft Unbound

Ellen Datlow · 419 pages

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A Collapse of Horses

Brian Evenson · 230 pages

A stuffed bear beats with the rhythm of a dead baby's heart; a crew on a space mission are dying of exposure to alien dust and at the hands of a killer among them; and a town keeps receding to the east as a man travels back to the father who drove him away. In these stories, Brian Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary-the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot

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Cold Print

Ramsey Campbell · 365 pages

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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages

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The Children of Cthulhu

Steve Rasnic Tem, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Weston Ochse, China Mieville, Brian Hodge, Matt Cardin, James Robert Smith, James Van Pelt, L.H. Maynard, M.P.N Sims, Richard Laymon, Mark Chadbourn, Yvonne Navarro, Paul Finch, Alan Dean Foster, J. Michael Reaves, Meredith L. Patterson, Poppy Z. Brite, W.H. Pug · 480 pages

Drawn from H.P. Lovecraft's horrifying and eerily prophetic Cthulhu mythos, an anthology of stories features contributions by Poppy Z. Brite, James S. Dorr, Paul Finch, Yvonne Navarro, James Van Pelt, and Michael Reaves.

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The End of the Story

Clark Ashton Smith · 284 pages

None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contempo

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Cthulhu 2000

Gahan Wilson, Bruce Sterling, T.E.D. Klein, Esther M. Friesner, Thomas Ligotti, James P. Blaylock, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, F. Paul Wilson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, Michael Shea, Kim Newman, Joanna Russ · 416 pages

In Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.- The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson: In a tangled wilderness, unearthly lights lead the way to a world no human was meant to see.- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite: Two dabb

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New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird

Caitlin R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Sarah Monette, Cherie Priest, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles Stross, David Barr Kirtley, Dale Bailey, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Steve Duffy, Cody Goodfellow, Marc Laidlaw, Paul McAuley, Nick Mamatas, Tim Pratt, Norman Partridge, Holly Phill · 528 pages

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The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · 304 pages

**When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . .** When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants rese

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House of Small Shadows

Adam Nevill

"Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top antiques publication saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and a few therapists later, things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself: to catalogue the late M.H. Mason's wildly eccentric cache of antique dolls and [preserved animals] ... Ca

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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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How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix · 413 pages

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and love

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