Horror

It by Stephen King

Horror

Greetings from Derry, Maine. It's a tiny city, one that feels eerily similar to your own hometown. The haunting only happens in Derry. When they ...

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories by Michael Cox

Horror

33 of the greatest and most terrifying ghost stories from our time are collected in The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories. This book ...

The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories by Michael Cox

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby

Horror

This compilation of fabulously spooky stories includes works by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Charlotte Bronte, Antonia Fraser, Penelope Lively, Ruth ...

The Virago Book of Ghost Stories by Richard Dalby

You Should Come With Me Now by M. John Harrison

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M. John Harrison is a liminal cartographer. His writing blurs the lines between genres, including travel writing, science fiction, and horror, and ...

You Should Come With Me Now by M. John Harrison

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson's short tale "The Lottery," which appeared in the New Yorker in 1948 and attracted an unusual amount of attention, cemented her ...

Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman

Horror

Eight of the stories in Aickman's best collection, Cold Hand in Mine, which is more ambiguous than typical ghost stories and features some of his ...

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson was a master of the macabre as well as a superb observer of typical family life. She deals with rats in the cellar, misbehaving ...

Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson

The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson

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One of the most significant American novelists of the past 100 years and one of our best female experience chroniclers is Shirley Jackson. This ...

The Letters of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," one of the scariest tales of the twentieth century, made a splash when it was originally printed in The New Yorker ...

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

Horror

Natalie Waite, who is seventeen years old, is eager to leave for college. Natalie and her patient mother are under strict control from Natalie's ...

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Horror

Carmen Maria Machado carelessly destroys the artificial barriers between psychological realism and science fiction, humour and horror, and fantasy ...

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy

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Fleur Jaeggy is known for writing in a concise and telegraphic manner, but despite this, her stories is somehow and immensely affecting. This ...