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1) Night shift
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English
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"Nineteen of [King's] most unsettling short pieces: bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms, where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl"--Dust flap.
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English
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This collection brings to the modern reader six of the most famous tales by the incomparable Edgar Allan Poe. Dark, brooding, heart-stopping chillers, these are tales of death and murder, revenge and guilt. Some tales are touched with the supernatural; others are psychological thrillers, exposing the tormented mind of the narrator.
Dramatic, unabridged readings of four of these classics-"The Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale...
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English
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A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched and is part of a darker, deadlier conspiracy.
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English
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"One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, this lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery--and the monstrous desires it awakens--endures as an essential classic of American fiction. The Lottery and Other Stories unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four wonderfully strange and equally terrifying...
10) Strange highways
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
561 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) Tales
Author
Series
Library of America volume 155
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
838 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
13) Little sister
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
Book Club ed.
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beth has the perfect life. She's the one who escaped her bleak hometown, and now she's got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream home. Then one phone call changes everything. Her father is dead, and Beth must go home to Maine to take care of the fourteen-year-old little sister she hasn't seen in eight years. Her little sister is dating a dangerous man. He's too old for her, obsessive, controlling. And he'll do anything to keep...
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic...
15) Poetry and tales
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
1408 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxv, 523 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
Robert E. Howard, renowned creator of Conan the barbarian, was also a master at conjuring tales of hair-raising horror. In a career spanning only twelve years, Howard wrote more than a hundred stories, with his most celebrated work appearing in Weird Tales, the preeminent pulp magazine of the era.In this collection of Howard's greatest horror tales, some of the author's best-known characters-Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among...
18) Reborn: a novel
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Publisher
Dark Harvest
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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