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• Murder for Halloween Michele Slung, Michelle Slung, Ed Mcbain, Steven Saylor, Ellery Queen, Peter Lovesey, Edward D. Hoch, August Derleth, Marcia Muller, Edgar Allan Poe, James Grady, Robert Bloch, Michael Z. Lewin, Gahan Wilson, Bram Stoker, Judith Garner, Dorothy Cannell, Talmage Powell, Anthony Boucher, Peter Straub 6.6 h
• Ghostly Audrey Niffenegger, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Onions, M. R. James, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred McLelland Burrage, A. S. Byatt, Saki, Kelly Link, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Rebecca Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton 8.4 h
• Purr-Fect Crime Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, John D. MacDonald, Allen Kim Lang, Ellery Queen, Randall Garrett, Betty Ren Wright, L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Edward D. Hoch, William Brittain, Dorothy L. Sayers, Clark Howard, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Janwillem van de Wetering 5.1 h
• Mystery Cats Lilian Jackson Braun, Roy Vickers, Fred Hamlin, Mary Reed, Theodore Sturgeon, Patricia Moyes, Hugh B. Cave, Gary Erickson, Margaret Maron, Edward D. Hoch, Joyce Harrington, Lillian De La Torre, Edgar Allan Poe, James Holding, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell 4.7 h
• Best Short Stories Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck 10.2 h
• Scary Stories Barry Moser, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce 3.4 h
• Midnight Erin Hunter 5.6 h
• 21 Great Stories Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman, abraham h.Lass, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, James Joyce, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck 6.5 h
• The Best Horror Stories Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher 7.3 h
• In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories Alvin Schwartz, Victor Rivas, Dirk Zimmer 1.2 h
• Cry of the Cat R. L. Stine 2.2 h
• Catwings Ursula K. Le Guin 46 min

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Murder for Halloween Michele Slung, Michelle Slung, Ed Mcbain, Steven Saylor, Ellery Queen, Peter Lovesey, Edward D. Hoch, August Derleth, Marcia Muller, Edgar Allan Poe, James Grady, Robert Bloch, Michael Z. Lewin, Gahan Wilson, Bram Stoker, Judith Garner, Dorothy Cannell, Talmage Powell, Anthony Boucher, Peter Straub 6.6 h Ghostly Audrey Niffenegger, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Oliver Onions, M. R. James, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred McLelland Burrage, A. S. Byatt, Saki, Kelly Link, Anna Giacalone Ramat, Rebecca Curtis, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton 8.4 h Purr-Fect Crime Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, John D. MacDonald, Allen Kim Lang, Ellery Queen, Randall Garrett, Betty Ren Wright, L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Edward D. Hoch, William Brittain, Dorothy L. Sayers, Clark Howard, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Janwillem van de Wetering 5.1 h Mystery Cats Lilian Jackson Braun, Roy Vickers, Fred Hamlin, Mary Reed, Theodore Sturgeon, Patricia Moyes, Hugh B. Cave, Gary Erickson, Margaret Maron, Edward D. Hoch, Joyce Harrington, Lillian De La Torre, Edgar Allan Poe, James Holding, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell 4.7 h Best Short Stories Raymond Harris, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Frank O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shirley Jackson, John Steinbeck 10.2 h Scary Stories Barry Moser, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl, Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce 3.4 h Midnight Erin Hunter 5.6 h 21 Great Stories Abraham Harold Lass, Norma L. Tasman, abraham h.Lass, Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, James Joyce, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck 6.5 h The Best Horror Stories Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, John Keir Cross, Edgar Allan Poe, Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Burke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, A. E. Coppard, Dorothy L. Sayers, Cornell Woolrich, Geoffrey Household, Graham Greene, Cyril M. Kornbluth, John Collier, Robert Silverberg, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Roald Dahl, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, Daphne du Maurier, David Fletcher 7.3 h In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories Alvin Schwartz, Victor Rivas, Dirk Zimmer 1.2 h Cry of the Cat R. L. Stine 2.2 h Catwings Ursula K. Le Guin 46 min

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