"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...

A Collection of the most notorious works of H.P. Lovecraft.includeTHE CALL OF CTHULHU (1926)I. The Horror in ClayII. The Tale of Inspector LegrasseIII. The Madness from the SeaHERBERT WEST - REANIMATOR (1922)I. From the DarkII. The Plague-DaemonIII. Six Shots by MidnightIV. The Scream of the DeadV. The Horror from the ShadowsVI. The Tomb-LegionsTHE LURKING FEAR (1922)I. The Shadow on the ChimneyII. A Passer in the StormIII. What the Red Glare MeantIV....

Penny cannot tell her father about the horrible things under her bed. One night she poked under her bed with a baseball bat and it was yanked out of her hand.Her father doesn't notice because he is embroiled in a series of mystifying murder cases. the corpses punctured with dozens of tiny wounds, the bodies found in locked rooms with no way in or out.

Adam and his friends are delighted when they discover a crystalline cube-shaped stone that grants the wishes of anyone who holds it, until they realize that a heavy price is attached to every granted wish.

It appears that everyone in Skary, Indiana, is having an identity crisis of epic proportions--including the town itself.

Cooper Klavan and his sister, Anna, are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna. Soon, she is behaving very strangely: perching high up in trees and gathering sticks to hide in her room. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the...

A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre includes "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.

Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. Now Maylene is dead and Bek must go back to the place--and the man--she left a decade ago. But what she soon discovers is that Maylene was murdered. It turns out that in placid Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected.

"Inspired by classic tales and films, a collection of fourteen short stories ranging from bloody horror, to psychological thrillers, to supernatural creatures, to unsettling, all-too-possible realism, by acclaimed YA authors of every genre"--