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The Dark Descent

Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, John Collier, Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates · back to the book

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Six Scary Stories

Elodie Harper, Manuela Saragosa, Paul Bassett Davies, Michael Button, Stuart Johnstone, Neil Hudson · 162 pages

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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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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

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Phyllis Cerf · 1,056 pages

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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

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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

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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

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The Winter Spirits

Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman · 464 pages

THE DAZZLING SECOND GHOST STORY COLLECTION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON, NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.'Terrific - every bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANFeaturing new and original stories from:Bridget Collins Imogen Hermes Gowar Kiran Millwood Hargrave Andrew Michael Hurley Jess Kidd Natasha PulleyElizabeth Macneal Laura Purcell Susan Stokes-Ch

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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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Great Horror Stories

H.G. Wells, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Walter de la Mare, Daniel Defoe · 638 pages

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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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999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

Kim Newman, Tim Powers, Nancy A. Collins, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Lee, P.D. Cacek, Thomas Ligotti, Rick Hautala, David Morrell, Peter Schneider, Ed Gorman, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Bryant, Steven Spruill, Michael Marshall Smith, Joe R. Lansdale, Bentley Little, Thomas F. Monteleone, Dennis L. McKie · 688 pages

A collection of stories on the supernatural. They range from Thomas Disch's story, The Owl and the Pussycat, which is on the marriage of an owl and a cat, to Kim Newman's Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue, which is about American zombies in Russia.

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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

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Essential Tales and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe · 642 pages

Creator of the modern detective story, innovative architect of the horror genre, and a poet of extraordinary musicality, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of America's most popular and influential writers. His tales and poems brim with psychological depth, almost painful intensity, and unexpected—and surprisingly modern—flashes of dark humor and irony. This anthology offers an exceptionally generous se

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories

Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, John William Polidori, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, August Derleth, James Malcolm Rymer, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charles L. Grant, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Aickman, Bram Stoker, Carl Jacobi, Steve Rasnic Tem, M.R. James, Charles Beaumont · 640 pages

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee. Contents: "Fragment of a Novel" by George Gordon, Lord Byron "The Vampyre" by John Polidori "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood" [excerpt] by James Malcolm Rymer "The Myst

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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

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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

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The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories

Elizabeth Albright, Thorp McClusky, Basil Copper, Ray Bradbury, Fay Weldon, Richard Dehand, Herbert de Hamel, A.E. Coppard, Norah Lofts, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Ralph Adams Carm, M.R. James, Ellen Glasgow, Hugh Walpole, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Nigel Kneale, Penelope Lively, Arthur Conan Doyle, · 576 pages

Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead -- from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, incl

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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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Lovecraft Unbound

Ellen Datlow · 419 pages

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages

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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories

Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages

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