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Art Heist, Baby! by otrtbs
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen James Potter answers a mysterious ad in his local coffee shop, the last thing he expects is to be thrown into a world of white collar crime, but how can he resist when the mastermind behind the operation has dark hair and brooding eyes and promises wealth beyond James' wildest imagination? He would do anything for that boy named after a star, including stealing millions of dollars of fine... -
![Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime... -
![The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart]()
The Phantom of the Opera: Piano/Vocal by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis souvenir folio features full-color photos from the stunning production as well as piano/vocal arrangements of 9 songs, including: All I Ask of You * Angel of Music * Masquerade * The Music of the Night * The Phantom of the Opera * The Point of No Return * Prima Donna * Think of Me * Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again... -
![The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (V. 5) by Edgar Allan Poe]()
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... -
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![The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHarlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies... -
![The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm]()
The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsMaria Tatar's The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the powerful cultural legacy of the stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm —tales that have enchanted children and adults alike for generations... -
![Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Poetry and Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRead throughout the world, admired by Dostoyevsky and translated by Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe has become a legendary figure, representing the artist as obsessed outcast and romantic failure. His nightmarish visions, shaped by cool artistic calculation, reveal some of the dark possibilities of human experience... -
![Bane County: Hungry Moon by J.R. Rice]()
Bane County: Hungry Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBane County is an Ongoing Saga . . .Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror Series with 100s of 5-Star Reviews... -
![Bane County: First Moon by J.R. Rice]()
Bane County: First Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBane County is an Ongoing Saga . . .Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 100s of 5-Star Reviews. Autumn had been a very troubling time for the residents of Bane County, and the arrival of winter and the holiday season was a welcome diversion... -
![Moran and Moran by Ron Ripley]()
Moran and Moran by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Shane Ryan, ghost hunting isn’t just a job. It’s war…Still recovering from his recent tragedy, retired marine Shane Ryan receives a call from James Moran, a well-known dealer of haunted items in New England. A robbery gone wrong has left Moran with a trail of dead bodies, and a missing box of items from his inventory. And he wants Shane to track down the thief... -
![Silent Death by Ron Ripley]()
Silent Death by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Subject B, death is only one scream away… As war veteran Marcus Holt and the others struggle to escape Worthe’s haunted village, they find themselves stalked by a new enemy. A paranoid psychotic, this demented soul hears voices in her head and is convinced that people are talking about her. Armed with her hatchet, she is determined to murder everyone in the village to silence them all... -
![Bloody Anger by Ron Ripley]()
Bloody Anger by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDan thought his nightmares were over. He was dead wrong… With new friends and a feeling of solace while repairing the local schoolhouse, things are finally looking up for Dan Tate. His therapy has finally quelled the PTSD and nightmares. He’s even developed romantic feelings for a special friend... -
![The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury]()
The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrated Man," The Veldt, "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," and twenty other classics... -
![Mihai Eminescu - The Legend of the Evening Star: Legenda Luceafarului by Mihai Eminescu]()
Mihai Eminescu - The Legend of the Evening Star: Legenda Luceafarului by Mihai Eminescu
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe 98-stanza-meter-and-rhyme translation of 'Legenda Luceafarului' - an entrancing masterpiece by Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889), the Romanian national poet - captures the essence of the original work's musicality and poetic nuance. It is the story of a young princess’s longing and impossible love for the immortal star who, sharing her love, takes human form and tries to become mortal... -
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![Dark Vacancy by Michael Robertson Jr.]()
Dark Vacancy by Michael Robertson Jr.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe latest spine-tingling mystery in the bestselling Lance Brody series!A freak blizzard. A roadside motel. A past that refuses to die.When the snowstorm arrives-the one that no weatherman had forecast-Lance Brody is walking along a desolate road in the middle of nowhere. On the brink of freezing, he finally stumbles across the small roadside motel... -
![Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl, Carolyn Forché]()
Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl, Carolyn Forché
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeorg Trakl's poems are considered some of the most difficult for any translator to tackle; his German is dense and sometimes almost impenetrable. Daniel Simko's collection Autumn Sonata, has been lauded for the "simplicity and directness" of its translations, accomplished with out sacrificing the drama of Trakl's rich imagery... -
![Scary Stories: A Tribute to Terror by Curt Tuckfield]()
Scary Stories: A Tribute to Terror by Curt Tuckfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn all new collection of original stories and art that pays tribute to the work of Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell... -
![Feast of Fear by Ron Ripley]()
Feast of Fear by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil prepares to feast. And Dan Tate is the main course… Dan Tate has finally recovered from his recent ordeal. His work repairing the local schoolhouse has become a kind of therapy, and his anger and guilt have started to melt away... -
![The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid... -
![The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev]()
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible... -
![Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Gone Daddy Gone by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA single moment is about to change Sloane Monroe's life forever. On an early winter morning, college student Shelby McCoy walks the quiet, snowy path back home. A tree branch snaps in the distance. Then another. A man is there with her, following close behind, whispering her name. She looks back, sees him gaining on her, and runs... -
![The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson]()
The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work.This collection consists of three complete books:The Bird's NestLife Among the SavagesRaising Demonsand eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery... -
![Lost Tales by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Lost Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHere are treasures! This is no ordinary anthology of Poe items but a unique collection of tales that in most cases have not appeared in print for well over a century and that will be completely new to all but a few Poe specialists... -
![Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDa Robert Bloch a Fritz Leiber, Henry Kittner e, indirettamente, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft ha esercitato un influsso determinante su gran parte della narrativa fantastica del dopoguerra... -
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![Poe: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Poe: Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoe's poems have been memorized and recited by millions. Among his best-loved works are "The Raven" with its hypnotic chant of "nevermore, " and the sensuous and lyrical "Annabel Lee." This collection includes all of Poe's most popular rhymes... -
![Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume.Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill... -
![A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe]()
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Dream Within a Dream is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849... -
![Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare by Joe Oliveto]()
Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare by Joe Oliveto
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDid you always wish there was another book like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark? Then this book is for you. In this tribute to the creepiest kids books ever, you'll find 25 more tales from folklore, each with its own eerie illustration. TWENTY-FIVE TALES OF TERROR Followed Home - A young woman's long, lonely walk home is interrupted by a silent, menacing presence... -
![The Killing Snows by Charles Egan]()
The Killing Snows by Charles Egan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and of courage. In 1846, a young couple met during the worst days of the Great Irish Famine... -
![Shatterday by Harlan Ellison]()
Shatterday by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShatterday is a revolutionary classic from Harlan Ellison, science fiction’s most controversial author. This collection of sixteen visionary stories remains as scathing and influential today as when it was initially published... -
![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... -
![The Diary of a Space Traveller and other Stories: Puffin Classics by Satyajit Ray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]()
The Diary of a Space Traveller and other Stories: Puffin Classics by Satyajit Ray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all began with the fall of a meteorite and the crater it made. In its centre was a red notebook, sticking out of the ground—the first (or was it really the last?) of Professor Shonku’s diaries... -
![Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl]()
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContentsDisappearing Act • short story by Alfred BesterIt's a Good Life • short story by Jerome BixbyThe Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore SturgeonThe Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • short story by Jack WilliamsonThe Odor of Thought • short story by Robert SheckleyF Y I • short story by James BlishCritical Factor • short story by Hal ClementThe Remorseful • short story by C.M... -
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![Complete Poems by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Complete Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is internationally renowned as a pioneering master of the macabre. He is regarded as one of the world's great short story writers as well as a great lyric poet, and is credited with inventing the detective story and the modern gothic horror tale... -
![1999 by Borislav Pekić]()
1999 by Borislav Pekić
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoman 1999. je treći i poslednji deo Pekićeve poznate antropološke trilogije Besnilo – Atlantida – 1999. To je kentaurski hibrid zbirke pripovedaka i romana, u kome se kroz neizračunjivo vreme spajaju rađanje, lutanje i smrt jedne komete. Slutnja propasti civilizacije na pragu samouništenja njenim tragičnim junacima daje simboličke obrise poslednjih bića na opustošenoj planeti... -
![New Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling]()
New Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRod Serling became a cultural icon of the 20th Century with his creation 'The Twilight Zone,' which more than 50 years later was nominated by the Writers Guild of America as the third best written television series of the past seventy years. Of the 156 Twilight Zone episodes, Serling wrote 92... -
![The Philip K. Dick Anthology by Philip K. Dick]()
The Philip K. Dick Anthology by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDid you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for a brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect... -
![Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber]()
Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew Introduction (Dangerous Visions 2) • (1969) • essay by Harlan EllisonDangerous Visions 2 • (1974) • interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo DillonEutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul AndersonFaith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. DickGonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz LeiberIncident in Moderan • (1967) • short story by David R... -
![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... -
![Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed by Ray Bradbury]()
Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShort story about a colonizing family on Mars... -
![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... -
![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... -
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![Slečna Kristýna / Had by Mircea Eliade]()
Slečna Kristýna / Had by Mircea Eliade
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDvě fantastické novely významného a originálního spisovatele obsahují prvky německého romantismu a rumunské folklórní tradice.Slečna Kristýna je hrůzostrašným příběhem z rumunského venkova, kde se traduje pověst o původní majitelce bohatého sídla, která se po své smrti stala upírem. Skupina náhodně pozvaných osob má za dramatických okolností možnost přesvědčit se, že lidová pověst nelhala... -
![The Complete Short Stories: Volume One 1944-1953 by Roald Dahl]()
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One 1944-1953 by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Complete Short Stories of Roald Dahl in the first of two unsettling and sinister volumes.'They are brutal, these stories, and yet you finish reading each one with a smile, or maybe even a hollow laugh, certainly a shiver of gratification, because the conclusion always seems so right' Charlie Higson, from his introduction... -
![Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition by Charles Baudelaire]()
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition by Charles Baudelaire
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a masterly translation by Norman Shapiro, this selection of poems from Les Fleurs du mal demonstrates the magnificent range of Baudelaire's gift, from the exquisite quatrains to the formal challenges of his famous sonnets. The poems are presented in both French and English, complemented by the work of illustrator David Schorr... -
![Complete Tales and Poems with Selected Essays by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Complete Tales and Poems with Selected Essays by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis beautiful volume showcases the full range of Poe's genius--from "The Raven" and terrifying tales like "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Masque of the Red Death," to humorous sketches, the very first detective stories, early works of science fiction, and literary criticism... -
![From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown]()
From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of all 118 short science fiction and fantasy stories of one of the masters of the vignette, all his short works except two which were rewritten into parts of a novel. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Dustjacket art by Bob Eggleton... -
![Dantescas: Cuentos de mujeres que descendieron a los infiernos by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Amparo Dávila]()
Dantescas: Cuentos de mujeres que descendieron a los infiernos by Emilia Pardo Bazán, Amparo Dávila
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“En esta antología hay mujeres voladoras, mujeres lobas, mujeres serpientes, brujas, vírgenes, mártires, víctimas y victimarias, extranjeras en su propia ciudad, prisioneras, videntes, asesinas”.Doce mujeres. Doce cuentos. Distintas épocas y lugares del mundo occidental. Terror...
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