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A short list of spooky stories. This list was added in January 2009.

• The Terror: a Novel by Dan Simmons
• Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories by Roald Dahl (editor)
• Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
• I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• The Ruins by Scott Smith
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• The Complete Ghost Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Haining
• Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Poe's Children: the New Horror by Peter Straub (editor)
• Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi
• Dark Love by Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer, and Martin H. Greenberg (editors)
• The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
• A Night in the Cemetery: and other stories of crime & suspense by Anton Chekhov; translated by Peter Sekirin
• Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Italo Calvin (editor)
• Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass: Ghost Stories by Edward Gorey

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