Shock Totem 1: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted
8 best books like Shock Totem 1: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted (K. Allen Wood): The Machine Stops, Nihal della terra del vento, The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, Fai bei sogni, Summer Frost, The Last Conversation, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, Halloween Fiend
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
After being voted one of the best novellas...
Nihal della terra del vento
| Author | Licia Troisi |
| ISBN | 8804528850 |
Nihal è davvero strana, nel Mondo Emerso sembra non esserci nessuno come lei: grandi occhi viola, orecchie appuntite, capelli blu. È stata cresciuta da un armaiolo e vive in una delle tante città-torri della Terra del Vento, giocando a combattere insieme a un gruppo di amici che l'ha eletta capo...
| Author | Robert Westall |
| ISBN | 0374471193 |
4.5 stars!
Originally published back in 1991, the title novella is one creepy story about a steeplejack working on the towers and steeple of Muncaster Cathedral. This edition also contains the story "Brangwyn Gardens", which is entirely new to American audiences.
Joe Clarke wondered...
| Author | Massimo Gramellini |
| ISBN | 8830429155 |
Fai bei sogni è la storia di un segreto celato in una busta per quarant'anni. La storia di un bambino, e poi di un adulto, che imparerà ad affrontare il dolore più grande, la perdita della mamma, e il mostro più insidioso: il timore di vivere. Fai bei sogni è dedicato a quelli che nella vita hanno perso...
A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.
Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley...
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.
Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...
You Have Arrived at Your Destination
Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.
When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next...
| Author | C.V. Hunt |
| ISBN | 1941918433 |
Strang isn’t the small, quaint town it appears to be. It’s haunted every night by a creature the townsfolk refer to as Halloween. Once the sun sets each day, Halloween emerges to collect its treats: a small, live offering from each household. The residents comply because no one wants to be the target...
