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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 · back to the book

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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 · 329 pages

A collection of short stories from the transgressive fiction genre feature tales about taboo subjects from the horrific to the humorous with shocking imagery not soon forgotten.

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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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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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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

William L. Hedges · 358 pages

Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display Irving's ability to depict American landscapes and culture. This volume also contains a number of gently ironic

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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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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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Dark Duets

Christopher Golden · 421 pages

Presents a collection of seventeen tales from the horror, thriller, and dark fantasy genres composed by two, and in one case three, acclaimed writers who have never previously collaborated.

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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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Hellboy: Weird Tales, Vol. 2

Scott Allie · 144 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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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 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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Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Celia Rees, Barry Yourgrau, Janni Lee Simner, Vivian Vande Velde, Joan Aiken, M.T. Anderson, Neil Gaiman, Caitlin R. Kiernan · 241 pages

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Sympathy for the Devil

Michael Chabon, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Stephen King, China Mieville, Neil Gaiman, Kage Baker, Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, David Palumbo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, John Kessel, Elizabeth M. Glover, Theodore Sturgeon, John Collier, Charles de Lint, Scott · 519 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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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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From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness

Thomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth E. Monteleone · 448 pages

Editors Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Monteleone have reapeatedly transformed teh landscape of the modern horror story with their acclaimed Borderlands anthologies. Now in an indispensable new collection, they present twenty-five all-original tales of terror by today's acclaimed masters and the best new voices in horror fiction, including: Stephen King Whitley Strieber John Farris Tom Piccirilli Dav

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The Best Horror of the Year Volume One

Ellen Datlow · 321 pages

What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. The twenty-one stories and poems included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror o

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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four

Stephen King, Livia Llewellyn, Simon Bestwick, Alison J. Littlewood, Chet Williamson, Terry Lamsley, Glen Hirshberg, Anna Taborska, Peter Straub, Leah Bobet, Laird Barron, David Nickle, Priya Sharma, Margo Lanagan, Brian Hodge, A.C. Wise, John Langan · 387 pages

Presents a collection of twenty-one horror stories published in 2011, along with an essay that summarizes the achievements in the horror genre for novels, anthologies, magazines, and webzines. "A paraplegic millionaire hires a priest to exorcise his pain; a failing marriage is put to the ultimate test; hunters become the hunted as a small group of men ventures deep into a forest; a psychic strugg

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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