The Dark: New Ghost Stories
8 best books like The Dark: New Ghost Stories (Ellen Datlow): The Long Walk, Burnt Offerings, Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood, Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991, Poe's Children: The New Horror, Ghosts by Gaslight, Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, The Bird's Nest
| Author | Richard Bachman |
| ISBN | 0451196716 |
If this book does not make you feel physical pain, I don't know what will.
This isn't a book about killer clowns or haunted hotels. It's not a Hunger Games type of book, despite the "game show" element of the Long Walk, nor is it a world attached to any tower, Dark or not. This book is in-your-face...
| Author | Robert Marasco |
| ISBN | 0440009286 |
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0486229777 |
A woman of snow ... a midnight caller keeping his promise ... forests where Nature is deliberate and malefic ... enchanted houses ... these are the beings and ideas that flood through this collection of ghost stories by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951). Altogether 13 stories, gathered from the entire...
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765307677 |
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Three decades into his career, Campbell paused...
Poe's Children: The New Horror
| Author | Peter Straub |
| ISBN | 0385522835 |
From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.
Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New...
| Author | Jack Dann |
| ISBN | 0061999717 |
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!
Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching across the centuries, ghosts...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607013541 |
The spirits of the dead have walked among our legends, myths, and stories since before recorded history. Ghostly visitations, hauntings, unquiet souls seeking the living, vengeful wraiths, the possibility of life beyond the grave that can somehow reach out and touch us…these are some of literature’s...
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 1567230644 |
Elizabeth is a demure twenty-three-year-old wiling her life away at a dull museum job, living with her neurotic aunt, and subsisting off her dead mother’s inheritance. When Elizabeth begins to suffer terrible migraines and backaches, her aunt takes her to the doctor, then to a psychiatrist. But...
