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Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones

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Haunted Legends

Ellen Datlow, Nick Mamatas · 349 pages

A volume of 20 original short works presented in the style of traditional ghost stories includes contributions by such writers as Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford and Caitlin R. Kiernan, in an anthology co-edited by a Bram Stoker Award, Hugo Award and eight-time World Fantasy Award winner.

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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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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

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Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King · 698 pages

From the Flap: A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back wi

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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.

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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories

Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving · 49 pages

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Say Her Name

James Dawson, Juno Dawson · 284 pages

Roberta 'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary ghost of 'Bloody Mary': say her name five times in front of a candlelit mirror, and she shall appear ... But, surprise surprise

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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

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The Dark: New Ghost Stories

Jeffrey Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, Mike O'Driscoll, Terry Dowling, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Cady, Tanith Lee, Gahan Wilson, Sharyn McCrumb, Kathe Koja, Lucius Shepard, Kelly Link, Glen Hirshberg, Charles L. Grant · 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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MARY: Unleashed

Hillary Monahan · 256 pages

Jess McAllister's summoning obsession has turned into a deadly haunting since the ghost of Mary Worth will not rest until Jess has come undone, so now it is up to Jess and her reluctant friends, Shauna and Kitty, to stop Mary for good.

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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 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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Six Scary Stories

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

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The Fearsome Foursome

Amicus Arcane · 255 pages

Welcome, foolish mortals, to Disney Press' spookiest chapter book series yet: Tales from the Haunted Mansion! Based on the attractions from the Disney Parks, each new book tells the story of one of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts. With two-color illustrations throughout and a beautiful three-piece cloth cover, the books are designed to look like they came straight from the library in the Haunted

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Ghosts by Gaslight

Peter S. Beagle, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix, Gene Wolfe, Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Robert Silverberg, John Harwood, Richard Harland, Marly Youmans, Theodora Goss, Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Paul Park, Jeffrey Ford, James K. Morrow, John Langan · 389 pages

A collection of steampunk and supernatural tales that breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages

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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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The Haunting of Room 904

Erika T. Wurth · 306 pages

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl · 235 pages

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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Phyllis Cerf · 1,056 pages

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