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Haunted Legends
| Author: | Ellen Datlow Nick Mamatas |
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Tor, 2010 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
Winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology!
Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over.
Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Tales to make readers shiver with fear, jump at noises in the night, keep the lights on.
These twenty nightmares, brought together by two renowned editors of the dark fantastic, are delightful visions sure to send shivers down the spines of horror readers.
Table of Contents:
- Saying Boo: Why We Like Ghost Stories - essay by Nick Mamatas
- Knickerbocker Holiday - shortstory by Richard Bowes
- That Girl - shortfiction by Kaaron Warren
- Akbar - shortstory by Kit Reed
- The Spring Heel - shortfiction by Steven Pirie
- As Red as Red - shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Tin Cans - shortstory by Ekaterina Sedia
- Shoebox Train Wreck - shortfiction by John Mantooth
- Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai - shortfiction by Catherynne M. Valente
- La Llorona - shortfiction by Carolyn Turgeon
- Face Like a Monkey - shortfiction by Carrie Laben
- Down Atsion Road - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
- Return to Mariabronn - shortfiction by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Following Double-Face Woman - shortfiction by Erzebet YellowBoy
- Oaks Park - shortfiction by M. K. Hobson
- For Those in Peril on the Sea - shortfiction by Stephen Dedman
- The Foxes - shortfiction by Lily Hoang
- The Redfield Girls - shortfiction by Laird Barron
- Between Heaven and Hull - shortfiction by Pat Cadigan
- Chucky Comes to Liverpool - shortfiction by Ramsey Campbell
- The Folding Man - shortfiction by Joe R. Lansdale
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