668 books tagged "Horror"
The Shivering Ground & Other Stories is a National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, a collection of weird fiction with a steampunk aesthetic.
In "The Door at the End of the Path" a young girl discovers her parents' secret in their gothic house with a garden behind it... in "Conditions" a man with Frankenstein-ian aspirations gets a visit from his twin sister, who tells him about the disappearance of her ex-lover.
"The Eternal In-Between" details a narrator's dream during the plague, while "The Mannequin" explains a medical procedure that involves taking out one's heart. "Brianna" retells Sleeping Beauty with a dark twist, and "Noticing" is post-apocalyptic fiction about a man and an alien creature obsessed with extinct birds, stuck on earth during the end of it all.
"Entanglement" tells the story of love between two soldiers, and "The Day Before Tomorrow" tells the story of friendship between two young girls in an ordinary suburb, that is being slowly eaten away by a vastness of char and bones.
"It's Already Too Late" is a fatalistic group of people's response to the changes in their world, and "The Shivering Ground" creates a narrative between a guard and their winged captive in a post-war city, intertwined with music.
"A Universe Akilter," the collection's only novella, a love story in epistolary format, tells of the meetings, through dreams, between a failed playwright and a young painter who live in different dimensions.
Mike Enslin, bestselling author of "true" ghost stories, decides to spend the night in New York City's most haunted hotel room. But he must live to write about it without the help of his ex best-friends, his trusty smokes.
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Contained in:
- [Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales][2]
- [Stephen King Goes to the Movies](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917553W/Stephen_King_Goes_to_the_Movies)
[1]: https://stephenking.com/library/short_story/1408.html
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81584W
Steve Davis is suffering through intense withdrawal--from both nicotine and his wife. His desperation for a cigarette and for his ex are almost too much to bear, but that's nothing compared to the horrors that await him at a trendy Manhattan restaurant.
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Also contained in:
- [Dark Love](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916874W/Dark_Love)
- [Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales][2]
- [The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - Ninth Annual Collection](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17745046W)
[1]: https://stephenking.com/library/short_story/lunch_at_the_gotham_cafe.html
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81584W/Everything's_Eventual
Howard Mitla is stunned at the sudden appearance of a solitary human finger poking out of the drain in his apartment’s bathroom sink. Afraid that the finger may attack him, Howard tries everything imaginable to get rid of it, from heavy-duty drain-cleaner to chopping it off. But what plagues Howard most is the thought of what, or whom, that finger is attached to.
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Also contained in:
- [The End of the Whole Mess and other stories][2]
- [Nightmares & Dreamscapes][3]
- [Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Volume I][4]
- [Rêves et cauchemars-1](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16803219W)
[1]: https://stephenking.com/library/short_story/moving_finger_the.html
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17524021W/The_End_of_the_Whole_Mess_and_other_stories
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81604W/Nightmares_Dreamscapes
[4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9365928W/
[Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W)
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
Hop-Frog
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Morella
Oblong Box
Oval Portrait
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
Balloon Hoax
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W)
Duc de l'omelette
[Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)
Gold Bug
How to write a Blackwood article
[Imp of the Perverse](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15481077W)
MS Found in a Bottle
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Oblong Box
[Pit and the Pendulum](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL273550W)
[Purloined Letter](https://openlibraryorg/works/OL41065W)
Raven
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W)
[Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15646039W)
Three Sundays in a Week
[William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W)
"Nona" is a short horror story by Stephen King, first published in the 1978 anthology Shadows and later collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.
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Contained in:
- [Skeleton Crew](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149161W/Skeleton_Crew)
In this 297-page collection of published and previously unpublished stories of horror, Phil Slattery offers a look into the minds of people who perpetrate horrors, from acts of stupidity with unintended results to cold-hearted revenge to pure enjoyment to complete indifference. Settings range from 17th-century France in the heart of the werewolf trials to the resurrection of the Aztec black arts to a medicine man's revenge in the Old West to the depths of Hell to mob vengeance and modern day necromancy to sociopathic serial killers and on to alien worlds in the distant future.
After uncovering Harrow County's twisted history and her bizarre connection to the populace, Emmy forges a new and profound connection to the land and its monsters—but a familiar and sinister presence lurks just over the county lines...
Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing--and nobody--can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear.
[Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W)
[Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W)
[Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W)
Raven
System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
The more the crew finds out about the woods, the deeper the mystery gets. With Clay and the Duke teaming up to try and force the school into servitude for the New London army, the kids need to think up a plan to save their peers, and fast. And with Adrian uncontrollable and on the loose, no one knows what his next move will be.
