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Tales To Keep You Up At Night

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House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People

Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, Bernie Wrightson, Kyle Baker

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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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The Three Impostors and Other Stories

Arthur Machen · 234 pages

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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

H.P. Lovecraft · 406 pages

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must read: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions ...

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In a Glass Darkly

J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 339 pages

In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu. The book, published in 1872 a year before Le Fanu's death, is named from a passage in Corinthians which speaks of humankind perceiving the world "through a glass darkly." The stories are told from the posthumous writings of an occult detective named Dr Martin Hesselius. In Green Tea a cle

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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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Alvin Schwartz · 111 pages

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which 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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The Jaunt

Stephen King · 25 pages

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Dream Country

Neil Gaiman · 160 pages

Presents four Sandman stories, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Shakespeare's company, at the instigation of the Lord of Dreams, gives an open-air performance of the play to an audience of fairies.

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The Complete Horowitz Horror

Anthony Horowitz · 440 pages

Welcome to a world where everything seems normal. At least, at first. But the sinister and truly terrifying lurk just beneath the surface. Like a bathtub with a history so haunted, no one dares get in it...or an ordinary-looking camera that does unspeakable things to its subjects...or an elevator filled with cannibals just waiting for their next victim to walk in. This wicked collection of eightee

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House of Mystery, Volume 4: The Beauty of Decay

Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, Richard Corben, Michael Wm. Kaluta · 160 pages

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson · 303 pages

Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.

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House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom

Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham · 122 pages

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Clockwork

Philip Pullman · 96 pages

Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.

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Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 507 pages

In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.

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House of Mystery, Volume 3: The Space Between

Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, Neal Adams, Gilbert Hernandez · 121 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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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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The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury · 222 pages

The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952.

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From a Buick 8

Stephen King · 480 pages

The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanis

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The Oval Portrait

Edgar Allan Poe

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Creepy Creatures

R.L. Stine · 139 pages

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Dolly

Susan Hill · 172 pages

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