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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson · 304 pages
A haunting and powerful collection of stories from one of America's finest writers, with a new Introduction by Patrick McGrath. Eerie, unforgettable, and by turns terrifying and hilarious, Shirley Jackson's collection of stories plunges us into a unique, brilliantly etched world where the uncanny lurks in the everyday and where nothing is quite what it seems. In "The Lottery," Jackson's most famo
The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe · 30 pages
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's
The Complete Short Stories
Ambrose Bierce · 496 pages
Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American litera
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Neil Gaiman · 352 pages
"En las manos maestras de Neil Gaiman, la magia es mucho más que un mero juego de engaños. La destreza y el poder de invención de este gran fabulador transforman el entorno cotidiano en un mundo hechizado por sucesos sombríos y extraños, en el que una anciana puede comprar el Santo Grial en una tienda de segunda mano, unos asesinos se anuncian en los clasificados de un periódico bajo la rúbrica ±C
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
More Horowitz Horror
Anthony Horowitz · 210 pages
Ever pictured your own funeral? You won't be able to help it when you read some of the stories in this nightmarish collection, where things are never what they appear. Funerals are just the beginning. How about a day at the beach that ends in a mischievous murder? Or a cell phone that has a direct dial to . . . the dead?From the creator of the blockbuster Alex Rider Adventures and The Diamond Brot
The Grownup
Gillian Flynn · 71 pages
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories
Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
Rampo Edogawa · 232 pages
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1
H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 241 pages
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," wh
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages
This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.
American Supernatural Tales
Thomas Ligotti, Fritz Leiber, Fitz-James O'Brien, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, August Deleth, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Norman Partridge, David J. Schow, Stephen Ki · 494 pages