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Blood Lite III: Aftertaste

Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, J.G. Faherty, Stephen Dorato, Jeff Ryan, Mike Resnick, Lezli Robyn, Will Ludwigsen, Heather Graham, Daniel Pyle, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, L.A. Banks, John Alfred Taylor, David Sakmyster, Norman Prentiss, Don D'Ammassa, Adrian Ludens, Chris Abbey, D.L. Snell, Ken Lillie-Pa · 456 pages

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Closure, Limited

Max Brooks · 128 pages

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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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By Bizarre Hands

Joe R. Lansdale · 244 pages

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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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Blood Lite II: Overbite

Kevin J. Anderson · 467 pages

Presents a collection of short horror fiction by such authors as L.A. Banks, Heather Graham, and Kelley Armstrong.

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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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The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe · 30 pages

"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado" [a.mon.ti.ˈʝa.ðo]) is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's

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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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Brain Cheese Buffet

Edward Lee · 179 pages

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The Landlady

Roald Dahl

The Landlady is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. In The Landlady, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a young man in need of room meets a most accommodating landlady . . . The Landlady is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other

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ZOO

Otsuichi

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Hi I'm a Social Disease: Horror Stories

Andersen Prunty · 110 pages

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The Complete Short Stories

Ambrose Bierce · 496 pages

Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American litera

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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 · 141 pages

How scared can you get in just thirty seconds? Dive into the shortest, scariest stories ever created, with more than seventy instant thrills from the likes of Lemony Snicket, James Patterson, Neil Gaiman, R.L. Stine, Holly Black, Brett Helquist, and Margaret Atwood.

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Thirteen Chairs

Dave Shelton · 256 pages

A spine-tingling collection of ghost stories. When a boy finds himself drawn into an empty house one cold night, he enters a room in which twelve unusual-looking people sit around a table. And the thirteenth chair is pulled out for him. One by one, each of those assembled tells their own ghost story: tales of doom and death; of ghostly creatures and malevolent spirits; of revenge and reward. It is

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Scary Stories Treasury

Alvin Schwartz · 368 pages

Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.

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Books of Blood: Volume One

Clive Barker · 462 pages

With the publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. His tour de force collection of brilliantly disturbing tales demonstrated a genius for dark invention that rivaled Poe and Sade. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror", and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Clive Barker's Books of Blood marked the beginning of a career that wo

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Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others

Mike Mignola · 168 pages

This Hellboy short-story collection includes the following stories with the author’s notes preceding each tale: “Wolves of Saint August”; “The Corpse and the Iron Shoes”; “A Christmas Underground”; “The Chained Coffin”; and “Almost Colossus.”

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Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror

Chris Priestley · 238 pages

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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Stephen King · 525 pages

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Fancies and Goodnights

John Collier · 418 pages

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Jigs & Reels

Joanne Harris · 304 pages

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