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Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

10 best books like Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories (Daphne du Maurier): Cutting Edge, Verland: The Transformation, Shadows, Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories, The Dark Domain, English Country House Murders, The Random House Book of Ghost Stories, The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories, The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith, The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One

Cutting Edge
AuthorDennis Etchison
ISBN0312907729
This anthology contains:

Blue Rose by Peter Straub
The Monster by Joe Haldeman
Lacunae by Karl Edward Wagner
Pale Trembling Youth by W.H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Muzak for Torso Murders by Marc Laidlaw
Goodbye, Dark Love by Roberta Lannes
Out There...
Verland: The Transformation
AuthorB.E. Scully
ISBN1460907000
True crime writer Elle Bramasol is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman's murder conviction, she discovers that he possesses a centuries old diary written by an elusive vampire named...
Shadows
AuthorCharles L. Grant
ISBN0872167518
Winner of the World Fantasy Award. An anthology including the short story Nona by Stephen King.

CONTENTS
"Naples" Avram Davidson (Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction)
"The Little Voice" Ramsey Campbell
"Butcher's Thumb" William Jon Watkins
"Where...
Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN0553378333
Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death...
The Dark Domain
AuthorStefan Grabiński
ISBN1873982259
Poland's strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match Grabinski's depiction of seething...
English Country House Murders
AuthorThomas Godfrey
ISBN0892963557
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...
The Random House Book of Ghost Stories
AuthorSusan Hill
ISBN0679812342
Illustrated in full color. "Who's that tapping at my window?"  This classy collection and gorgeous gift volume of seventeen modern ghost stories is a refreshing antidote to all the gross and gory books presently on the market. Discriminating horror fans won't be able to put down these spooky tales...
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories
AuthorPeter Haining
ISBN1854875361
An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.
Contents:
The third person...
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
AuthorPatricia Highsmith
ISBN0393327728
Best known for her novels (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, A Suspension of Mercy, and others) Highsmith is an all-too-frequently forgotten master of the short story. These stories in this volume examine the dark soul of humanity in a deceptively simple voice that draws you in and won't...
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One
AuthorJames D. Jenkins
ISBN1943910510
Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted.

Table of Contents

Foreword by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle
Aunty Green by John Blackburn
Miss...
Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
AuthorPeter Giglio
ISBN0615536352
This was a good collection of short stories involving the work place. The stand-outs for me were as follows:


Unrest by Stephen Volk-4*. A unique vampire story.
This was my first Stephen Volk story and I will be looking for more.

Another Shift Change by David Dunwoody. A story...
Nightmares And Geezenstacks
AuthorFredric Brown
ISBN0553124560
47 short and short-short stories by a master of the humorously macabre.

Contents:

1 · Nasty
2 · Abominable
5 · Rebound [“The Power”]
7 · Nightmare in Gray
8 · Nightmare in Green
9 · Nightmare in White
10 · Nightmare in Blue
12 · Nightmare in...
Dare to Be Scared: Thirteen Stories to Chill and Thrill
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0812626885
This illustrated collection by the author of Short and Shivery: Thirty Chilling Tales includes ghost tales, “jump” stories, dark fantasy, and science fiction, all set in contemporary situations that will seem hauntingly familiar to young readers. Several of the stories draw on the rich heritage...
No One To Hear You Scream
AuthorJulia Madeleine
ISBN0980887429
In upstate New York, Brett and Pamela Jameson find the house of their dreams on twenty acres of land. Bucolic and serene, it is the answer to all of their prayers. But their dream soon turns into a nightmare when violent ex-gang member Rory Madden, the property's former owner returns, and will stop at nothing...
The Draycott Legacy: Bridge of Dreams & Enchantment
AuthorChristina Skye
ISBN0373772629
Behind the walls of the fabled abbey, Cathlin O'Neill is forced to confront deepest sorrow and boundless love as she and Dominic Montserrat, haunted by his own shadowed past, race against time to solve a centuries-old mystery...and free the ancient fire that burns anew between them.

The search...
Winter Kill
AuthorMike Oliveri
ISBN0984880046
When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series,...
The Panic Hand: Stories
AuthorJonathan Carroll
ISBN0312146981
In questo post booksblog.it ci rimanda all’articolo di Stephen King pubblicato dal New York Times, What Ails the Short Story. King, curatore della raccolta Best American Short Stories 2007, ci parla dello status del racconto negli Stati Uniti e di cosa lui cerca in un racconto, in qualità di lettore.

King...
Best New Horror 16
AuthorStephen Jones
ISBN0786716002
This is the latest edition of the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of horror fiction—including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Paul McAuley, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith...
Johnny Gruesome
AuthorGregory Lamberson
ISBN1934755451
Johnny Grissom—nicknamed "Johnny Gruesome" by his high school classmates—is a heavy metal hellion who loves to party, watch horror movies, and get into fights. One winter night, Johnny's car, The Death Mobile, is discovered submerged beneath the icy surface of Willow Creek, with Johnny's waterlogged...
The Brains of Rats
AuthorMichael Blumlein
ISBN0910489289
In these twelve stories we enter the darkest corridors of America's hospitals. Meet a scientist who discovers how to predetermine and alter the sex of a pregnant woman's fetus, and proceeds to contemplate his own gender...and a surgeon whose primary practice is removing organs and limbs from unwilling...
The M.D.: A Horror Story
AuthorThomas M. Disch
ISBN0425132617
Newsweek called him our “most formidably gifted unfamous American writer.” Talk about damning praise. When Thom Disch shot himself in 2008, I felt the loss deeply, though I'd only met the man once and could hardly have called him a friend. But then I imagine that many of his readers reacted this way.

Disch...
The Mammoth Book of Regency Romance
AuthorTrisha Telep
ISBN1849014434
From some of the biggest names in Regency historical romance, 23 wickedly witty, lusciously romantic and sublimely sensual short stories. Stories replete with oversexed aristocrats, posturing courtesans and feuding dukes and duchesses tell of a beautiful lady awakened by a passion more powerful...
Bad Brains
AuthorKathe Koja
How is it Kathe Koja can take something as simple as an artist slipping and busting his head (or a strange couple of friends finding an even stranger hole in their apartment building . . . .) and turn it into an entertaining — and edgy — grand statement? She makes it seem so easy. The paranoia drips off...
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