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Short & Shivery: Forty-Five Chilling Tales

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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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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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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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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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The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories

Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert · 504 pages

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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

William Hope Hodgson · 134 pages

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Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories

Audrey Niffenegger · 464 pages

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Three Ghost Stories

Charles Dickens · 62 pages

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The Face in the Glass and Other Gothic Tales

Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 256 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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Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu

J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 467 pages

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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 Travelling Bag

Susan Hill · 290 pages

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Tales of Moonlight and Rain

Ueda Akinari · 248 pages

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The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales

Kate Mosse · 289 pages

A wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories from one of our most captivating writers, inspired by ghost stories, traditional folk tales and country legends from England and France. These tales are richly populated by spirits and ghosts seeking revenge; by grief-stricken women and haunted men coming to terms with their destiny - all rooted deep in the elemental landscapes of Sussex, Brittany an

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Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Roald Dahl · 235 pages

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The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth

Sarah Monette · 253 pages

An unwilling foray into necromancy makes Booth attractive to the creates who roam the darkness of the world. Ghouls, ghosts, and incubi single him out as one of their own in these ten stories.

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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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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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Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce · 180 pages

Ambrose Bierce’s second major short story collection, Can Such Things Be? collected nearly all of Bierce’s supernatural horror stories. Bierce himself was a skeptic of the supernatural, having once written a satirical essay “The Clothing of Ghosts,” in which he insisted that “The materialized spook appealing to our senses for recognition of his ghostly character must authenticate himself otherwise

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The Haunted Dolls' House

M.R. James · 208 pages

Evil comes with many different faces.A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly...M. R. James's chilling ghost stories reveal a world where the familiar becomes diaboli

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The Grownup

Gillian Flynn · 71 pages

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t

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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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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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