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Burnt Tongues

Amanda Gowin, Matt Egan, Fred Venturini, Brandon Tietz, Adam Skorupskas, Bryan Howie, Brien Piechos, Jason M. Fylan, Terence James Eeles, Keith Buie, Gus Moreno, Daniel W. Broallt, Neil Krolicki, Chris Lewis Carter, Tony Liebhard, Michael De Vito, Jr., Phil Jourdan, Richard Lemmer, Tyler Jones, Gayl · back to the book

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Чак Паланик, Крис Картер, Деннис Уидмайер, Ричард Томас, Нил Кролики, Гейл Тауэлл, Тони Либхард, Майкл де Вито-мл., Тайлер Джонс, Фил Джордан, Ричард Леммер, Аманда Гауин, Мэтт Иган, Фред Вентурини, Брендон Тиц, Адам Скорупскас, Брайан Хоуи, Брайан Пиекос, Джейсон Файлан, Теренс Илс, Кит Бьюи, Гас М · 294 pages

Кто может написать так же, как Чак Паланик?А может, эти начинающие литераторы пишут даже лучше Паланика?Мастер лично отметил достижения молодых талантов, предоставив им место на своем фанатском веб-сайте в качестве дискуссионной площадки, и затем, отобрав лучших из лучших, смешал в палитре этого дебюта сатиру и хоррор, лирику и шок, курьез и мечту.Рассказы, представленные в этом сборнике, получили

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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Love in Vein: Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica

Kathe Koja, Barry N. Malzberg, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melaine Tem, Norman Partridge, W.H. Pugmire, Brian Hodge, Mike Baker, A.R. Morlan, Danielle Willis, Robert Devereaux, Thomas F. Monteleone, Wayne Allen Sallee, Gene Wolfe · 405 pages

Twenty stories of vampiric erotica, or more precisely depravity with sex prominently featured. People are skinned alive and a pair of women make love to a man until he dies. Edited by the author of Drawing Blood.

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The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka · 316 pages

"Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories is widely recognized as the preeminent English-language anthology of Kafka's stories. These translations illuminate one of this century's most controversial writers and have made Kafka's work accessible to a whole new generation. This classic collection of forty-one great short works - including such tim

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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

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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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Book of the Dead

Glen Vasey, Les Daniels, Douglas E. Winter, Steven R. Boyett, Nicholas Royle, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Hodge, David J. Schow, Robert R. McCammon, Chan McConnell, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Philip Nutman, Edward Bryant · 362 pages

Blossom / Chan McConnell -- Mess hall / Richard Laymon -- It helps if you sing / Ramsey Campbell -- [Home delivery / Stephen King][1] -- Wet work / Philip Nutman -- A sad last love at the diner of the damned / Edward Bryant -- Bodies and heads / Steve Rasnic Tem -- Choices / Glen vasey -- The good parts / Les Daniels -- Less than zombie / Douglas E. Winter -- Like Pavlov's dogs

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Dark Love

John Lutz, David J. Schow, Robert E. Weinberg, Richard Laymon, Bob Burden, George C. Chesbro, John Peyton, Kathryn Ptacek, John Shirley, Michael Blumlein, Ed Gorman, Lucy Taylor, Karl Edward Wagner, Douglas E. Winter, Michael O'Donoghue, Kathe Koja, Basil Copper · 408 pages

Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19781075W/Lunch_at_the_Gotham_Cafe) / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bright blades gleaming / Basil Copper -- Hanson's radio / John Lutz -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- Ro Erg / Robert Weinberg -- Going under / Ramsey Campbell -- Hidden / Stuart Kamins

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The 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

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Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead

Stephen King, Poppy Z. Brite, David J. Schow, Jack Ketchum, Neil Gaiman, Max Brooks, S.G. Browne, Ray Bradbury, Robert R. McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Carlton Mellick III, Cody Goodfellow · 699 pages

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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The Living Dead 2

Robert Kirkman, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, Paula R. Stiles, Adam-Troy Castro, Karina Sumner-Smith, Matt London, Marc Paoletti, Molly Brown, Seth Lindberg, Walter Greatshell, Jamie Lackey, David J. Schow, David Wellington, Brian Keene, Amelia Beamer, Steven Popkes, David Barr Kirtley, Brenna Yova · 518 pages

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Elric: Tales of the White Wolf

Michael Moorcock · 469 pages

Anthology of stories that Elric of Melniboné edited by Edward E. Kramer and Richard Gilliam.

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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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Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories

Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Kevin Lucia, Mercedes M. Yardley, Paul Tremblay, Damien Angelica Walters, Richard Thomas, Clive Barker, Lisa Mannetti · 380 pages

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Night Terrors Vol. 23: Short Horror Stories Anthology

Scare Street, Justin Moritz, Dennis K. Crosby, Jim Nemeth, Peter J. Larrivee, Gina Easton, Rachael Boucker, E. E. King, Richard Lau, Adam Newnham, Mark Towse, Thomas Nicholson, MJ Gardner, Morgan Quaid, Ron Ripley, Nick Efstathiou · 212 pages

Terror comes in many forms and faces... A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight…

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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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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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Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery

Jonathan Strahan, Lou Anders · 533 pages

Seventeen original tales of sword and sorcery penned by masters old and new Elric . . . the Black Company . . . Majipoor. For years, these have been some of the names that have captured the hearts of generations of readers and embodied the sword and sorcery genre. And now some of the most beloved and bestselling fantasy writers working today deliver stunning all-new sword and sorcery stories in

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Batman: Black and White

Ted McKeever, Bruce Timm, Joe Kubert, Howard Chaykin, Archie Goodwin, Walter Simonson, Jan Strnad, Kent Williams, Chuck Dixon, Neil Gaiman, Klaus Janson, Andrew Helfer, Matt Wagner, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dennis O'Neil, Brian Bolland, Katsuhiro Otomo

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The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural

Herbie Brennan, Nancy Etchemendy, Chris Wooding, Marcus Sedgwick, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Annette Curtis Klause · 262 pages

Companion volume to Gothic! ten original dark tales.

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Predators

Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg · 384 pages

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Night Visions 5

Stephen King, Dan Simmons, George R.R. Martin · 274 pages

Contains: The reploids / Stephen King -- [Sneakers](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650831W/Sneakers) / Stephen King -- [Dedication](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650711W/Dedication) / Stephen King -- Metastasis / Dan Simmons -- Vanni Fucci is alive and well and living in hell / Dan Simmons -- Iverson's Pits / Dan Simmons -- The skin trade / George R.R. Martin.

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