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For lovers of gothic American literature, horror, mystery, or suspense, consider the nine gripping stories contained within the Edgar Allen Poe collection "The Gold-Bug and Other Tales." Two mysteries and seven murders, all coming from various points in Poe's writing career, make this anthology a valuable addition to any literature collection. "The Gold-Bug" is set in South Carolina and follows the tale of a man and his servant as they embark on a...
10) Tales of terror
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IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Nineteenth-century American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. Four narrators collaborate here on a collection of some of Poe's best known stories, including “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “Hop Frog,” “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Fall of the House of Usher,”...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft ha ejercido una influencia inconmensurable sobre el género de terror del siglo XX, convirtiéndose en un autor de culto. ¿Quién no ha oído hablar de Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep o el infame Necronomicón? Los Mitos de Cthulhu, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico, a medio camino entre lo mítico, lo literario y lo religioso, la imaginería desatada y desasosegante de Lovecraft son pródigos en criaturas primigenias que aguardan...
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Novelist, poet, dramatist and author of many of the best American short stories of our time, Joyce Carol Oates shows yet another aspect of her unbounded creativity in these tales of the grotesque. Haunted, a collection of sixteen tales that range from classic ghost stories to portrayals of chilling psychological terror, raises the genre to the level of fine literature - complex, multi-layered, and gripping fiction that is very scary indeed.
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Weenies short story collections volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirty-three stories about clothes-eating bacteria, a zombie apocalypse, a monstrous butcher shop, and other frightening things. Includes notes on how the author got his ideas for these stories.
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"Here are Howard's greatest horror tales, all in thier original, definitive versions. Some of Howard's best-known characters--Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and sailor Steve Costigan among them--roam the forbidding locales of the author's fevered imagination, from the swamps and bayous of the Deep South to the fiend-haunted woods outside Paris to remote jungles in Africa"--P. [4] of cover.
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