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1) Nocturnes
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In "The New Daughter, " a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in "The Underbury Witches, " a pair of London detectives find themselves battling...
3) Cabal
Author
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories.
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten." -- book jacket.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Collects fourteen horror tales, including the story of a teen gang leader taken for a ride by a deadly car with a mind of its own, a boy haunted by a phantom cobra, and a reality television show pitting teenagers against adults.
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Readers are well aware that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein: few know how many other tales of terror she created. In addition to Uncle Toms Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote some surprisingly effective horror stories. The year after Little Women appeared, Louisa May Alcott published one of the first mummy tales. These ladies werent alone. From the earliest days of Gothic and horror fiction, women were exploring the frontiers of fear, dreaming dark...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
From a power-invested ancient Roman statue that steals souls to long-dead movie stars resurrected to serve the forces of evil, these three collections of short stories combine the extraordinary with the ordinary, to create a nightmarish world of terror and the macabre.
Publisher
Doubleday & Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The bees / Dan Chaon -- Cleopatra Brimstone / Elizabeth Hand -- The man on the ceiling / Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem -- The great god Pan / M. John Harrison -- The voice on the beach / Ramsey Campbell -- Body / Brian Evenson -- Louise's ghost / Kelly Link -- The sadness of detail / Jonathan Carroll -- Leda / M. Rickert -- In praise of folly / Thomas Tessier -- Plot twist / David J. Schow -- The two Sams / Glen Hirshberg -- Notes on the writing...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Thirteen tales blending the commonplace and the bizarre focus on the encounters of young people with the supernatural as in the tale of an unpopular student who masters the powers of a ghostly artifact to seek refuge in a happier time.
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories. His most work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe.
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