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More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World

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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.

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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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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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Fear: 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

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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe · 628 pages

The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.

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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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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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The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief

Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, Emma Trevayne · 501 pages

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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories

Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages

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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 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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Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

Chris Priestley · 288 pages

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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages

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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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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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Hellboy: Weird Tales, Vol. 2

Scott Allie · 144 pages

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Short & Shivery: Forty-Five Chilling Tales

Robert D. San Souci · 192 pages

Thirty hair-raising tales, selected from international ghostlore, have been skillfully retold especially for young people. Eerie black-and-white illustrations, ghastly details, and strong, shuddery endings make these the kind of stories young readers crave. Famous stories like "The Robber Bridegroom" by the Brothers Grimm, "Tailypo," and "The Golem" are included, as well as retellings of stories b

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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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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl · 235 pages

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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.

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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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