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2) The Outsider
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After spending more time than he can remember on his own inside a castle, an enigmatic man resolves to finally escape and seek human contact and daylight, both of which he has never experienced before. However, dissatisfied with what he finds on the outside, he hastens back to his old world inside his castle-to which he is now barred entry. First published in 1926, "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft that explores...
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The Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Age of Innocence explores the supernatural and other unknowns in six short stories.
The acclaimed Gilded Age author travels around the world and into the unknown with these six tales.
After recovering from a bad fever in a Swiss sanitorium, an American pays a social call to a friend's lonely sister on the coast of Brittany, but his journey takes a terrifying turn in "Miss Mary Pask."
A wealthy resident of...
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This vintage book contains Montague Rhodes James's chilling supernatural short story "An Episode of Cathedral History". First published as part of "The collected ghost stories of M.R. James" (1931), it is a hair-raising ghost story highly recommended for all lovers of the genre. Montague Rhodes James (1862–1936) was an English author who often published under the name M. R. James. He was a seminal medievalist scholar, but today is most famous for...
5) Kerfol
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What begins as an ordinary event quickly shifts into the bizarre after the narrator, a wealthy bachelor, meets their friend, Lanvivain, at an old mansion. Thinking about purchasing the property, the narrator and Lanvivain explore the mansion at Kerfol, attracted to the vast and ordinate property. Lanvivain enthusiastically urges the bachelor to buy the property, declaring that it matches his personality exactly. The narrator, however, is unconvinced,...
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A collection of dark, atmospheric stories sure to please lovers of haunting tales. In The Inheritance, a young man is heir to an English Manor. Its furnishings include a curio cabinet, where a sinister object awaits the arrival of the new master, who will soon discover its appalling purpose. Other tales include The Keeper, where a leisurely afternoon drive spells doom for a group of young scholars after their auto stalls near an isolated house inhabited...
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Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on forever Fedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora's perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told-a shocking revelation that...
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2014
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The Mystery of the Sea (1902) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Combining occult elements with historical events involving the Spanish-American War and the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada, The Mystery of the Sea is an informed mystery and political thriller that helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century.
On his first trip to Cruden Bay, a seaside village near Aberdeen,...
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"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." - Winnipeg Free Press
"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format... a highly recommended pick." - Midwest Book Review
Homebodies is an uncanny and ghostly debut with stories that provoke dread, abjection, and horror. The tales are intertwined and linked...
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's classic book of 8 short stories shows life in Germany during the French Revolution, and in Manchester during the Industrial Revolution. Lightly edited for modern readers, this Inwood Commons Modern Edition includes translations from French and standardized spelling. The bones of the stories are just as she told them with no changes to plot or settings. Best of all the book includes the original unedited versions in appendices.
The...
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Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school. He was an excellent student excelling in math and with a keen interest in Theatre. He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favorable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving. They became great friends. After marriage...
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In this collection of strange Malaysian stories, a man expecting to have died wakes up still living and meets the entity responsible; a neighbor more than minds a child; Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband spells more than loss; a father confronts foreign invaders; a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive; train passengers witness an accident; ghosts cross-dress, and others at a church get nostalgic....
15) Voices
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VOICES
Everything that dies comes back… someday.
While reconnecting with old friends, a mysterious voice and chilling song force a woman to confront her tragic past.
DEWEY DECIMALS
Tick, tick, tick. The red hand tiptoes round the face. Six o'clock. Time to begin.
A man with sinister intentions watches a librarian go about her tasks.
RABBIT SKIN
If you can't see them, they can't see you…
A young girl tries to make sense of her grandmother's...
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Eleven celebrated short stories-from the darkly criminal to the twisted depths of the supernatural-by the writer whose work USA Today Bestselling writer Alison Gaylin called "Absorbing, addictive, and chilling."
A Paler Shade of Death-Tragedy has destroyed Becca's marriage and driven her to live among strangers. Her unraveling sanity exposes the truth of her past and deadly state of mind. (Edgar Short Story Award nomination)
Witches, All – A has-been...
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Theodore Turner led a vibrant life: dreams, ambitions, hobbies, friends, a career and a sprawling plantation estate. Since the war (and the tragedy soon after), the old Theodore was dead and gone.
Perhaps he was the true ghost of Turner Manor? No! He was living in some kind of purgatory, a strange parallel universe where none of what used to be was still allowed to exist.
He simply floated and flickered through his days: life becoming just a series...
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From poet George Looney comes a new short story collection that explores the essential nature of faith while plumbing the gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival tents, faith healers, sex, death, guilt, sin and snakes, Looney leads us through a dark landscape brimming with the miraculous and the peculiar alike. A man from a fire shows up on someone's doorstep, covered in ash and barely alive. One man's actions make an entire...
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Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school. He was an excellent student excelling in math and with a keen interest in Theatre. He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favorable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving. They became great friends. After marriage...
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