Scary Stories
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Scary Stories

2006
American Horror talesAmerican literatureChildren's fictionClassic LiteratureCrimeCrime fictionDetective and mystery storiesFictionfirst-person narrativeGothic fictionHomicideHorror

Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Genesis and catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W) (a true story) / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- Man overboard! / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.

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