Tales to be Told in the Dark
By: Basil Davenport
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On Telling Stories • (1953) • Basil Davenport The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • William Fryer…
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1. Blaze
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.76
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the Flap: The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the … read more
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"Blaze himself was pretty sure he himself was going to hell, as were most other people. It was a dirty world, and the longer you lived, the dirtier you got."-Stephen King, Blaze
"Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be …"-Stephen King, Blaze
2. Fancies and Goodnights
By: Ray Bradbury , John Collier
4.05
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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"Poets can dodge. ("Evening Primrose")"-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
"I am never repelled or chilled, as many people are, by the cheerless self-centeredness of the nervous or the unhappy."-Ray Bradbury, Fancies and Goodnights
3. Collected Ghost Stories
By: M.R. James
4.14
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
M. R. James is widely regarded as the father of the modern ghost story, and his tales have influenc… read more
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"The door was opening again. The seer does not like to dwell upon what he saw entering the room: he says it might be described as a frog - the size of a man - but it had scanty white hair about its he…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not pa…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
"But it was in the life-saving competition that Stanley Judkins's conduct was most blameable and had the most far-reaching effects. The practice, as you know, was to throw a selected lower boy, of sui…"-M.R. James, Collected Ghost Stories
4. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
5. Tomie
By: Junji Ito , Naomi Kokubo
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. Sh… read more
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6. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
7. The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco , Seán Barrett , William Weaver
4.14
Format: 552 pages, Paperback
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother Willi… read more
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"الكتب ليست مجعولة كي نؤمن بما تقوله ولكن لكي نتحرّى فيها."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
"How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull."-Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
8. The Regulators
By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman
3.72
Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback
There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more
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"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."-Stephen King, The Regulators
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes
By: Ray Bradbury
None
Format: None pages, None
One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more
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10. Swan Song
By: Robert McCammon
4.10
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more
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11. Journey to the Center of the Earth
By: Jules Verne , Kim Stanley Robinson , Lowell Bair
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback
An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims … read more
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"Axel,"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"Then don’t you despair?"-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"I dream with my eyes open."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
12. From a Buick 8
By: Stephen King
4.19
Format: 168 pages,
The Barnes & Noble Review At first glance, Stephen King's latest bears a familial resemblance to ,… read more
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13. Cell
By: Stephen King
3.96
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Witness Stephen King's triumphant, blood-spattered return to the genre that made him famous. Cell, … read more
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14. Cujo
By: Stephen King
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more
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"The monster nevers dies."-Stephen King, Cujo
"There is no bad time for good news."-Stephen King, Cujo
"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."-Stephen King, Cujo
"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."-Stephen King, Cujo
15. Tales to be Told in the Dark
By: Basil Davenport
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
On Telling Stories • (1953) • Basil Davenport The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • William Fryer… read more
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