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Include books by the same authorEssential 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
Nightmare At 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories
Richard Matheson · 336 pages
This classic horror collection showcases the early career of one of the field's most influential and innovative writers. Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: the title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and horror aficionados reading "Prey" will immediately visualize Trilogy of Terror's Karen Black hunkered down with a butcher knife.
20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill · 336 pages
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945...Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town...Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, bu
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
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
Clive Barker · 152 pages
Great Tales of Horror
H.P. Lovecraft · 600 pages
Beginning with The Call of the Cthulhu, the first story of the Cthulhu Mythos, and demonstrating the highly original combination of the supernatural, horror and science fiction that was to influence generations of fantasy writers, this collection of 20 short stories by HP Lovecraft (1890-1937) presents his best-known tales, including The Dunwich Horror, The Rats in the Walls and the novella set in
The White People and Other Weird Stories
Arthur Machen · 377 pages
"Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES, THE WHITE PEOPLE AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From the first page, Machen t
Occultation and Other Stories
Laird Barron · 245 pages
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Gui
Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Thomas Ligotti
Songs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti's first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris's Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters. Writing in the Washington Post, the celebrated science fiction and fantasy author Michael Swanwick extolled: 'Put this volum
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers · 204 pages
An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi. [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, to read which brings doom. A discovery that changes living flesh to stone. The mad adherents of a cult of evil powers from beyond. A lost traveler is suddenly 400 years in the past. Great writing; powerful emotions. Chambers wrote mainly conventional stuff, but not here.
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James · 142 pages
The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
Strange Highways: A masterful collection of chilling short stories
Dean Koontz · 562 pages
You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations... into subterranean d
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
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton · 280 pages
The lady's maid's bell. -- The eyes. -- Afterward. -- Kerfol. -- The triumph of night. -- Miss Mary Pask. -- Bewitched. -- Mr. Jones. -- Pomegranate seed. -- The looking glass. -- All Souls'. --
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
Stephen Graham Jones · 260 pages
**From the award-winning author, “the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream” (Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence).** This is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevered imagination and crafted them into pieces of literary genius. If the absolute fear doesn’t sweep you away, his
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 Monkey's Paw
W.W. Jacobs · 66 pages
A mummified monkey's paw carrying a spell receives three wishes from a family and proceeds to fulfill them in unexpected and horrible ways.
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
Ghost and Horror Stories
Ambrose Bierce · 199 pages
Ambrose Bierce was one of the strangest phenomena of American letters, The adjectives used to describe his writing--and character--tend to have a rather uncomplimentary ring: "venomous,""vindictive," "paranoid," "rancorous," "malevolent," yet few would deny his brilliance of intellect and style. About half of his fiction output consisted of stories of horror and the supernatural, a genre which app
The Birds and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier · 237 pages
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn · 101 pages