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Poe's children

Tony Magistrale

1999

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales (Balloon Hoax / Descent Into the Maelstrom / How to Write a Blackwood Article / Loss of Breath / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Mystification / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial)

Edgar Allan Poe

1994

The opener of the way

Robert Bloch

1974

Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales

Stephen King

2002 ★ 3.9

The king in yellow, and other horror stories

Robert W. Chambers

1970 ★ 3.3

Poe's fiction, romantic irony in the Gothic tales

Gary Richard Thompson

1973

Alfred Hitchcock presents: stories to be read with the lights on

Alfred Hitchcock

1973

Three Complete Novels

Robert Bloch

1993

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

H.P. Lovecraft

1989

Scary stories for sleepovers

C. B. Colby

2006

The philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft

Airaksinen, Timo

1999

When Nobody's Home

Judith Gorog

1998

At the mountains of madness, and other novels

H.P. Lovecraft

1985

Nightwaves

Collin McDonald

1990

Prism of the night

Katherine M. Ramsland

1991

The haunted playground and other stories

Jim Razzi

1990

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

Neil Gaiman, Christopher Kenworthy, Gary A. Braunbeck et al.

1996

In the Midst of Life. Tales of Civilians

Ambrose Bierce, A Bierce

1891

Prom Nights from Hell

Lauren Myracle, Alexandre Casal Vázquez, Stephenie Meyer et al.

2007

The mask of Cthulhu

August Derleth

1971

The Stephen King story

George W. Beahm

1991

Scary stories for stormy nights

R. C. Welch

1995

More stories from the twilight zone

Rod Serling

1961

Scare Care

Graham Masterton, Kit Reed, Roald Dahl

1989

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock

1971

The Lurker at the Threshold

August Derleth, H.P. Lovecraft

1945

Nightmares in Dixie

Frank D. McSherry, Charles G. Waugh

1987

The selected stories of Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch

1987

Anne Rice

Smith, Jennifer

1996

Nightmare on Main Street

Mark Edmundson

1997

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