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The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (V. 5) by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork... -
![Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell]()
Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBooks 4-6 in the Chaos series (including bonus novella, Kings). Usurper It’s been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire... -
![The Dresden Files Collection 13-15 by Jim Butcher]()
The Dresden Files Collection 13-15 by Jim Butcher
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWizard for hire Harry Dresden has become a legend amongst the paranormal population of Chicago...Categorized as:
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![Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter]()
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other... -
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![Selections from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, Dana Ivey]()
Selections from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, Dana Ivey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFour selections from the 1985 bestseller feature four of Stephen King's most gruesome and diabolical stories including "The Raft... -
![Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker]()
Academic Exercises by K.J. Parker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAcademic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-Winner, “Let Maps to Others”... -
![The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe]()
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom The Washington Post said, “Of all SF writers currently active none is held in higher esteem,” has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume... -
![The Kite of Stars and Other Stories by Dean Francis Alfar]()
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories by Dean Francis Alfar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book collects sixteen wondrous stories of fantasy, science fiction, horror and things in between from the imagination of award-winning fictionist Dean Francis Alfar... -
![Born In Twilight by Maggie Shayne]()
Born In Twilight by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey Said It Couldn't Happen, but They Were Wrong.Jameson Bryant found her in an abandoned building, half-starved, her face chalk-white yet strikingly beautiful. He knew what she was, but he couldn't resist the power of her violet eyes. Even her warning to stay away only served to draw him closer.But it was too late and had been from the first moment he saw her... -
![Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal]()
Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation... -
![Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti]()
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales... -
![Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth]()
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Robert Browning's poetry, and Sergio Leone's Westerns, this is the tale that Stephen King has never abandoned... -
![Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones]()
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with a new book of stories.An aspiring actress goes to an audition with a mysterious director. An editor receives the last manuscript of his murdered friend. A young lawyer learns the terrible connection between her grandfather and an ancient race of creatures... -
![Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Bleeding Shadows by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBleeding Shadows is Joe R. Lansdale's largest, most varied collection to date. Weighing in at 488 pages and 150,000 words, these stories, poems, and novellas--supplemented by the author's introduction and by an invaluable set of story notes--move effortlessly from horror, adventure, and suspense to literary pastiche. It is, by any measure, a major addition to an already impressive body of work...Categorized as:
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![Twisted Little Things and Other Stories by Amy Cross]()
Twisted Little Things and Other Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man accidentally receives two dangerous wooden figures in the mail... A woman is preparing breakfast for her children when she hears a dangerous voice in her head... Late one night, an old man meets a strange girl on a canal towpath... Twisted Little Things and Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories... -
![The Long Way Home by Richard Chizmar]()
The Long Way Home by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGathered here for the first time ever are seventeen short stories, two essays, and a short script by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, Richard Chizmar. Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in The Long Way Home run the gamut from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery... -
![Rod Serling's Twilight Zone by Walter B. Gibson]()
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone by Walter B. Gibson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Twilight Zone was a television series produced in the 1960s that presented unforgettable tales of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Rod Serling, an award-winning writer of television dramas, was the creator and host--and wrote more than 90 of the 156 episodes. The series has since been shown around the world and the title is now a part of pop culture lore... -
![Still Bleeding by Stephen Leather]()
Still Bleeding by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story by the bestselling author of the Jack Nightingale series. Supernatural detective Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the girl is in mortal danger... -
![Borderlands 2 by Thomas F. Monteleone]()
Borderlands 2 by Thomas F. Monteleone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies... -
![We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke]()
We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the ruins of an old parking garage, there is an effigy lashed to a pillar. To anyone else, the remains of the woman with the goat skull head is a warning. To a lonely young boy looking for escape, it is a god of salvation. At its feet lay tattered old notebooks, scattered stories, tales of strange encounters, of broken people and monstrous things, and of corrupt hearts and evil minds... -
![In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner]()
In a Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:In the PinesWhere the Summer EndsSticksThe Fourth Seal... -
![She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin, Paul Tremblay]()
She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin, Paul Tremblay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWord Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Dreamlike, poignant, and unabashedly socio-political, She Said Destroy includes three stories nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, four included in Year’s Best anthologies, and one original tale... -
![Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu]()
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw...Categorized as:
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![Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley]()
Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The world is a stage, life is a play, and we are the puppets. It’s better not to ask who pulls the strings... -
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![The Complete Dreamsongs by George R.R. Martin]()
The Complete Dreamsongs by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven before A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin had already established himself as a giant in the field of fantasy literature. Now in one exclusive eBook edition are both volumes of Dreamsongs, featuring the very best of Martin’s early works...Categorized as:
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![Silver Scream by David J. Schow]()
Silver Scream by David J. Schow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, Silver Scream presents the best that terror has to offer. Includes works from Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and more. Original... -
![Target Rich Environment, Volume 2 by Larry Correia]()
Target Rich Environment, Volume 2 by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNATIONAL BEST SELLER. Hard-Hitting Stories from the Creator of Monster Hunter International. The second volume of short stories from New York Times best-selling author Larry Correia.MONSTERS—AND THE CHAMPIONS WHO SLAY THEM! More stories from the creator of Monster Hunter International, The Grimnoir Chronicles, and the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior... -
![Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsGOTG Registry Rob DelgadoMaster #: 1212 CEO, son to the Vice-PresidentSlave N/ARecruiter #: 21293721Beginner ⌧IntermediateExperiencedMain Master Rob Delgado grew up in the public eye. From being the root of sympathy for his politically driven father, to getting abused for never being good enough... -
![The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by Thomas Ligotti]()
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing his best and most characteristic works... -
![The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson]()
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it... -
![The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont]()
The Howling Man by Charles Beaumont
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRemember that Twilight Zone episode? The one that gave you nightmares? Chances are it was written by Charles Beaumont. Beaumont's talents also helped bring to life such cinematic terrors as 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Masque of the Red Death'. As a writer of short stories, his contribution to the landscape of our nightmares is unequalled... -
![Dancers in the Dark & Layla Steps Up: The Layla Collection by Charlaine Harris]()
Dancers in the Dark & Layla Steps Up: The Layla Collection by Charlaine Harris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"In this pair of stories set in the Sookie Stackhouse universe, novella "Dancers in the Dark" and short story "Layla Steps Up," #1 New York Times' bestselling author Charlaine Harris chronicles the tumultuous beginning of the love story between an unlikely couple. In "Dancers in the Dark," Rue LeMay is desperate to leave the past behind... -
![SHIVER: 13 Sexy Tales of Humor and Horror by Belle Aurora, Liv Morris]()
SHIVER: 13 Sexy Tales of Humor and Horror by Belle Aurora, Liv Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sassy ladies of sexy Romantic Comedy serve up some spooky and spicy Halloween fun Bewitched by Daisy Prescott A crush. A love spell. What could go wrong? Better The Devil You Know by Belle Aurora When you know, you know. Mystery, Mazto Balls, and Moxie by Z.B. Heller A mystery weekend gets steamy and stuffed... with food... -
![Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury]()
Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOver 50 years out of print the October release of DARK CARNIVAL by RAY BRADBURY will be the literary event of the year for Bradbury fans. After many years Ray Bradbury has agreed to allow this classic to be published in a LIMITED edition, with bonus material, edited by his long-time bibliographer Donn Albright... -
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![The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin]()
The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on anelaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world... -
![The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm]()
The Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales (Word Cloud Classics) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey are the stories of characters we’ve known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions told before bedtime. They’re darker and often don’t end very happily--but they're often far more interesting... -
![The Yellow Sign and Other Stories by Robert W. Chambers]()
The Yellow Sign and Other Stories by Robert W. Chambers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis massive collection brings together the entire body of Robert W. Chambers' weird fiction works including material unprinted since the 1890's. Chambers is a landmark author in the field of horror literature because of his King in Yellow collection... -
![Hellbound Hearts by Paul Kane, Jeffrey J. Mariotte]()
Hellbound Hearts by Paul Kane, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world - the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites - in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart... -
![Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti]()
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSongs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters... -
![Dreamsongs, Volume II by George R.R. Martin, Leslie Kay Swigart]()
Dreamsongs, Volume II by George R.R. Martin, Leslie Kay Swigart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDubbed the American Tolkien by Time magazine, #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin is a giant in the field of fantasy literature and one of the most exciting storytellers of our time... -
![Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva]()
Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorderlands is a horror anthology series not concerned with traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlands is about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the 90s, Borderlands will remind you that horror can indeed be horrific. Read about a farmer who disdains his wife for a giant potato.. -
![Windeye by Brian Evenson]()
Windeye by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA woman falling out of sync with the world; a king's servant hypnotized by his murderous horse; a transplanted ear with a mind of its own. The characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined... -
![Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi by Brian Lumley]()
Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon't look for commonplace nightmares in these stories. Brian Lumley's monsters are never commonplace! In the award-winning 'Fruiting Bodies', for example, the terror doesn't stalk the night but moves almost imperceptibly underfoot, or through the woodwork.. -
![Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan, Paul Tremblay]()
Sefira and Other Betrayals by John Langan, Paul Tremblay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the award-winning writer of The Fisherman comes a new collection of stories. A pair of disgraced soldiers seek revenge on the man who taught them how to torture. A young lawyer learns the history of the secret that warped her parents’ marriage. A writer arrives at a mansion overlooking the Hudson River to write about the strange paper balloons floating through its grounds... -
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![The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by James D. Jenkins, Pilar Pedraza]()
The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1 by James D. Jenkins, Pilar Pedraza
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that?For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt... -
![Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch]()
Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA compilation of short science fiction and fantasy from Elizabeth Bear—tales of myth and mythic resonance, fantasies both subtle and epic in tone; hard science fiction and speculations about an unknowable universe... -
![Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities by F. Paul Wilson]()
Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAftershock & Others is the third collection of short fiction by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, hailed by the Rocky Mountain News as "among the finest storytellers of our times... -
![In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser]()
In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a...Categorized as:
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![Hasty for the Dark by Adam Nevill]()
Hasty for the Dark by Adam Nevill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThese selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell.Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely appreciated British writer of horror fiction, Adam L. G. Nevill... -
![Unpossible and Other Stories by Daryl Gregory, Nancy Kress]()
Unpossible and Other Stories by Daryl Gregory, Nancy Kress
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe short stories in this first collection by Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fanatics spreading a virus-borne religion, but they are all convincingly human...
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