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• Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, G. K. Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, M. R. James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H. P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke 11.7 h
• Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h
• The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h
• Fragile Things Neil Gaiman 7.3 h
• Cabal Clive Barker 5.4 h
• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood 4.2 h
• Darkness Ellen Datlow, Clive Barker, Edward Bryant, Thomas Ligotti, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, Pat Cadigan, Joe R. Lansdale, Kathe Koja, Stephen King, Lucius Shepard, Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Etchison, Michael Marshall, David J. Schow, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ramsey Campbell, Terry Dowling, Glen Hirshberg, Joe Hill 8.6 h
• His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 4.3 h
• Ghost Story Peter Straub 9.3 h
• 65 Great Spine Chillers Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe 12.3 h
• The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h
• Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 19.8 h

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Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, G. K. Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, M. R. James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H. P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Ross Macdonald, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki, Arthur C. Clarke 11.7 h Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h Fragile Things Neil Gaiman 7.3 h Cabal Clive Barker 5.4 h The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood 4.2 h Darkness Ellen Datlow, Clive Barker, Edward Bryant, Thomas Ligotti, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, Pat Cadigan, Joe R. Lansdale, Kathe Koja, Stephen King, Lucius Shepard, Poppy Z. Brite, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Etchison, Michael Marshall, David J. Schow, Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ramsey Campbell, Terry Dowling, Glen Hirshberg, Joe Hill 8.6 h His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle 4.3 h Ghost Story Peter Straub 9.3 h 65 Great Spine Chillers Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe 12.3 h The Penguin Book of Horror Stories J. A. Cuddon, Anonymous, James Hogg, Prosper Mérimée, Edgar Allan Poe, Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Émile Zola, Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Perceval Landon, John Russell, Franz Kafka, Alfred McLelland Burrage, E. F. Benson, Augustus Muir, John Metcalfe, William Fryer Harvey, William Faulkner, D. K. Broster, Lord Dunsany, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Household, L. P. Hartley, Gerald Kersh, Carl Stephenson, Yvor Winters, Monica Dickens, Robert Graves, Ray Bradbury, Muriel Spark, John Lennon, Dawn Muscillo, Dorothy K. Haynes, Patricia Highsmith, Roald Dahl, Will F. Jenkins, J. N. Allan, Vilas Sarang 11.1 h Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural Herbert A. Wise 19.8 h

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