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Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show, the greatest menance exists within themselves.

Fifty-three-year-old Shori wakes up in a cave amnesiac and seriously wounded, and later learns that she is a vampire genetically modified to walk in the daylight.

Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling yet again collect the best fantasy and horror short stories of the year, as well as a comprehensive summary of the year in horror and fantasy publishing and comics.

In the Georgia wilderness, four men go on a canoe trip that turns exhilarating to horrible in the blink of an eye. This classic tale shocked the nation when it was published in the 1970s.

This collection offers monster tales by a range of authors, such as Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, and Ambrose Bierce.

Jules Duchon, an obese, century-old New Orleans vampire, brings in help to fight his new competition: an arrogant young African-American vampire who wants Jules to feed only on whites.

This collection charts the evolution of horror in literature through an anthology of short fiction, organized within the three principle modes of moral allegorical, psychological metaphor, and fantastic, and featuring the work of a wide variety of authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Stephen King, and Clive Barker.

These aren't your average ghost stories. This collection of fifteen original ghost stories runs the gamut from scary to suspenseful to strange. They can also be quite moving and subtle, as well.

Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to Earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--The Pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived.

Relates the adventures of two creatures which have escaped from a secret, sinister government laboratory where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted.

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

After losing his mother at a young age, Michen O'Kane's life takes a downward spiral into theft, violence, and imprisonment, a cycle that soon leads him on a killing spree that terrorizes western Ireland.

This is a collection of 18 horror and dark fantasy short stories by women authors such as Tanith Lee, Melanie Tem, and Kiel Stuart.

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