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Half-Minute Horrors
Neil Gaiman, Lesley Livingston, R.L. Stine, Margaret Atwood, Holly Black, James Patterson, Adele Griffin, Melissa Marr, Nadia Aguiar, Katherine Applegate, Avi, Pseudonymous Bosch, Libba Bray, Lisa Brown, Michael Connelly, Joseph Delaney, Dan Gutman, Erin Hunter, Angela Johnson, Jonathan Lethem, Gail · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorFear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror
R.L. Stine, James Rollins, Heather Graham, Walter Sorrells, Tim Maleeny, Suzanne Weyn, Jennifer Allison, Heather Brewer, Peg Kehret, Alane Ferguson, Ryan Brown, F. Paul Wilson, Meg Cabot · 313 pages
A collection of thirteen scary stories by bestselling and award-winning authors, including Ryan Brown's "Jeepers Peepers," Meg Cabot's "The Night Hunter," and others. In this thrilling collection of heart-stopping original stories from thirteen masters of adult and young adult thriller writing, anyone can be a villain, and no one is who or what he or she seems. The plots contain sexual references
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz · 111 pages
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends. Folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.
Terrifying Tales
Jon Scieszka, Adam Gidwitz, R.L. Stine, Dav Pilkey, Michael Buckley, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Adele Griffin, Kelly Barnhill, Lisa Brown, Daniel Jose Older · 288 pages
Eleven masters of suspense Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel Jose Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly, perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flash
The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief
Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, Emma Trevayne · 501 pages
More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World
Arielle North Olson, Howard Schwartz · 162 pages
This is a great scary book that ive been looking for in libraries ever since 3rd grade and now it's on here and im in 6th grade.
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
Charles Dickens, Steve Rasnic Tem, Donald A. Wolheim, Henry Slesar, Richard T. Chizmar, Avram Davidson, Gary Raisor, E.F. Benson, Saki, Frances Garfield, Rudyard Kipling, Phyllis Eisenstein, William F. Nolan, Ed Gorman, Eric Frank Russell, Melissa Mia Hall, Ruth Berman, Edward D. Hoch, James Gunn, R · 496 pages
Contains: Adventure of my grandfather / Washington Irving Adventure of my aunt / Washington Irving Adventure of the German student / Washington Irving Ants / Chet Williamson Assembly of the dead / Chet Williamson At the bureau / Steve Rasnic Tem Babylon : 70 M. / Donald A. Wollheim [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) / Edgar Allan Poe Beyond the wall / Ambrose Bi
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
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
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
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
Six Scary Stories
Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone, Neil Hudson · 162 pages
The Dark Descent
Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates · 1,011 pages
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4555
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.
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories
H.P. Lovecraft, John Glasby, T.E.D. Klein, Robert E. Howard, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Darrell Schweitzer, Michael R. Collings, Brian McNaughton, Robert Bloch, Stephen Mark Rainey, Jason Van Hollander, Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Robert M. Price, Adrian Cole, John P
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Phyllis Cerf · 1,056 pages
Classic Tales of Horror
Rudyard Kipling, William Edmondstoune Aytoun, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins · 240 pages
Contains: [Assignation](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645797W) [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Hop-Frog [Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W) King Pest Lig
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
Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Lafcadio Hearn, Joyce Carol Oates, C.L. Moore, Richard Matheson, Leslie Roy Carter, Suzy McKee Charnas, Susan Caspar, Hanns Heinz Ewers, E.F. Benson, Roger Zelazny, Tanith Lee, M.R. James, Charles Beaumont, Woody Allen, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Anne Rice, Edward Bryant, Laura Anne Gilman, Francis Mario · 384 pages
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
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1
H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner
October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween
Richard T. Chizmar, Robert Morrish · 660 pages
A collection of horror and Halloween-themed fiction and non-fiction by prominent authors.
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others
Hugh Lamb, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert W. Chambers, Bernard Capes, J.E. Preston Muddock, Isabella Varley Banks, Charles J. Mansford · 256 pages
Includes : Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks - The Pride of the Corbyns (1882) ; Charles J. Mansford - Maw-Sayah (1894) ; Mrs. L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace - The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel (1897) ; Bernard Capes - The Black Reaper (1899) ; S. Levett-Yeats - The Devil's Manuscript (1899) ; Dick Donovan - The Mystic Spell (1899) ; Lafcadio Hearn - Nightmare-Touch (1900) ; Robert W. Chambers - Un Peu d'Amour
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