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Ballantine's Chamber of Horrors
THE GRAVEYARD READER
by Groff Conklin, Ray Bradbury
Stories to chill the blood and set the nerve-endings screaming!Charles BeaumontAmbrose BierceRay BradburyJohn CollierMary Elizabeth CounselmanRoald DahlRichard HughesHenry KuttnerH. P. LovecraftFitz-James O'BrienTheodore SturgeonWallace West
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Berkley Science Fiction
The Ruins of earth
by Thomas M. Disch
An anthology of stories of the immediate future. In an overcrowded America, a man learns that 3 million square miles of uninhabited land exist somewhere ... He finds it not far from home. The last man alive writes his autobiography on the page of an old calendar. Men find the place where the world turns over when it tires of the way things are ... and decide to hurry the world's decision. PLUS ... Brand new tales... (more)
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Nine Horrors and a Dream
by Joseph Payne Brennan
Proceed with caution ...Mr. Brennan is a sometime poet, and he brings to the weird tale the poet's incisive sensibility, the magic that provokes chills down the spine, the web of words that weaves the reader into a quivering trap of fear.From the oozing terror of "Slime" to the nightmare of "Canavan's Back Yard," these are tales that offer the best of Joseph Payne Brennan's early work in the... (more)
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Natives of Space
by Hal Clement
HAL CLEMENTWell known as the author of MISSION OF GRAVITY, CYCLE OF FIRE, CLOSE TO CRITICAL and for his many other extraordinarily realistic creations of extraterrestrials, it is remarkable that Hal Clement's novelettes have never appeared in book form before.Here are three of the best -- each dealing with a different aspect of communication with creatures so alien to mankind that the first thing to do... (more)
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The Fiend In You
by Charles Beaumont
THE ORIGINS OF HORROR ...In the lonely darkness of your bed, have you ever started up trembling, sweating -- knowing you have been wakened by something, unable to discover what?This is outside horror -- terror you can dispel with a light.But in the long reaches of the night, have you ever cringed in a knot, curdled with terror at something remembered, something you nearly did, or wanted to... (more)
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Night's Black Agents
by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
WORLDS OF FANTASY -- AND ADVENTURE!Here are Leiber masterpieces that have become classics in their own time: epic adventures of the era beyond memory when men raised swords against the Eyeless Face, featuring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and nightmare stories of the oily-clawed beings that lurk in the coal-sack shadows of the city!
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Zacherley's Vulture Stew
by Zacherley
Once again, Zacherley brings you a selection of stories to chill, edify, delight and paralyze -- spicing his hellbroth with the ghoulish humor which makes Zacherley unique.
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Br-r-r-!
Ten Tales to Chill You to the Bone!
by Groff Conklin
B R R R R !-- you'll shudder when you meet:-- THE MONSTER WORM that took 200 years to come up from the depths of the damned -- it hated mankind!-- THE BEETLE FROM HELL whose stinger brought slow, excruciating death -- its evil eyes held the promise of something even worse!-- THE LIVING CORPSE that commanded a graveyard. It sentenced a mortician to the bubbling bowels of... (more)
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Not Long for This World
by August Derleth
Horror stories to chill the grisly in heart. Turn up the lights and lock the windows ... These stories are of all kinds -- there are tales of psychic residue and ghostly vengeance, of witchcraft and ancient sorcery, of poetic justice and pure horror, of black magic and things that go bump in the night. August Derleth, that extraordinarily prolific writer (these stories are from his 55th book!) is a master of the... (more)
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Shadows with Eyes
Six Tales of Crawling Horror
by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
Horror comes in many guises ... not all of them easily recognizable -- at least not as easily as the conventional ghoul, or witch, or ghost. Fritz Leiber is a past master of terrifyingly unrecognizable phantoms -- unrecognizable, that is, until too late ...
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On an Odd Note
by Gerald Kersh
GERALD KERSH is many things to many people. His writing has been described as "provocative," "brilliant," "triumphantly irritating," "sinister," "wildly funny," "vigorous," "titillating," "enthralling" -- the list is endless.This requires something more than the gifts of imagination, humor and a good mind. It requires mastery.And Mr. Kersh is a master of words.He has that priceless... (more)
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The Other Passenger
by John Keir Cross
Terror in needlepoint ...It is not often that one encounters a talent like that of John Keir Cross. He has that special quality which creates a sober, real, proper world -- an old-fashioned world if you will -- in which terror lurks among the aspidistras, poison is served in delicate bone-china tea cups, and the antimacassars form a lacy veil concealing bloody horror. He pinpoints the macabre so deftly, so... (more)
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The Frankenstein Reader
by Calvin Beck
HORROR IN THE CLASSIC TRADITIONTales of werewolves, gothic ghosts, savage elementals, spectral revenge, mysterious voices, deadly regions, and even a ghostly rattlesnake.Tales to make you shiver and quiver.Tales that will make you glance uneasily over your shoulder for many a long, dark night to come ...
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Stories from the Clock Strikes 12
Macabre Tales of the Supernatural
by H.R. Wakefield
DWELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD"That there are many things in Heaven and on Earth for which we have no explanation, and for which, in all probability, we shall never have an explanation is certainly part of my philosophy; and I have never written a tale in which are recorded happenings that I do not believe could occur."Thus writes H. Russell Wakefield in his Introduction to this book; and his... (more)
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Alone By Night
by Don Congdon, Michael Congdon
Enter the world of the supernatural, teeming with very special denizens of its own, so rich in gory variety that the heart thuds loud, sweat breaks, the cringing mind searches shudderingly for the next ghastly manifestation in this terrifying tome of horror -- including stories by: Henry Kuttner, Richard Matheson, Saki, Logan Swanson, Ben Hecht, Frank Belknap Long, August Derleth, F. Marion Crawford, Elizabeth... (more)
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A Cupful of Space
A Heady Brew of Science-Fiction Stories
by Mildred Clingerman
RECIPE: RecommendedIngredients:- A few well-chosen characters -- human or otherwise- A sprinkle of suspense- A dash of danger- A pinch of peculiarity- One tablespoon of terrorBlend the above with the bygone and beyond, sifting in the supernatural. Mix at the high speed of magic, then season to the taste of science-fiction lovers.Now, cook over a low flame of fantasy and... (more)