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More deadly than the male: masterpieces from the queens of horror
By Graeme Davis. 2020
A Christmas to remember: an anthology (Avon romance)
By Lisa Kleypas, Lorraine Heath, Vivienne Lorret, Megan Frampton. 2017
Four holiday short stories from popular historical romance writers, originally written between 2001 and 2015. Includes "I Will" by Lisa…
Kleypas, about a man who blackmails a spinster into a pretend courtship. Other authors include Lorraine Heath, Megan Frampton, and Vivienne Lorret. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2017Galway Bay
By Mary Pat Kelly. 2011
1839. Soon after Honora Keeley is accepted to the convent, she meets Michael Kelly and they fall in love. As…
the Great Starvation sweeps across Ireland, they struggle to feed their growing family. Then, an opportunity to immigrate to America is offered to them. Conflict follows the family. Some violence. 2009Collection of five novels from African American writers during the black cultural mecca in 1920s Harlem, New York. Includes Cane…
by Jean Toomer, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, Quicksand by Nella Larsen, Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset, and The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman. Some strong language. 2011Toil and trouble: 15 tales of women & witchcraft
By Nova Ren Suma, Brenna Yovanoff, Elizabeth May, Andrea Cremer, Zoraida Córdova, Jessica Spotswood, Brandy Colbert, Robin Talley, Lindsay Smith, Emery Lord, Tess Sharpe, Shveta Thakrar, Anna-Marie McLemore, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Kate Hart. 2018
Compilation of fifteen feminist tales of women embracing their magical powers and witchcraft. In Tehlor Kay Mejia's "Starsong," sixteen-year-old Esperanza,…
a bruja, surprises herself when she connects on social media with a skeptic, a NASA-loving girl. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018Editor Datlow has selected twenty-eight standout stories from ten years' worth of her "best of the year" horror anthologies. Authors…
in the collection include Suzy McKee Charnas, Peter Straub, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, Brian Evenson, and Neil Gaiman. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2018More deadly than the male: masterpieces from the queens of horror
By Graeme Davis. 2019
This collection of twenty-six stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries showcases the prominent role of women in the…
formation of the horror genre. Includes stories from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and more. Some violence. 2019Echoes: the Saga anthology of ghost stories
By Alice Hoffman, Ford Madox Ford, Ellen Datlow, Pat Cadigan, F. Marion Crawford, Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Nix, John Langan, Jeffrey Ford, Richard Kadrey, Dale Bailey, Nick Mamatas, Terry Dowling, Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, Alison Littlewood, Nathan Ballingrud, Paul Tremblay, Lee Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, Siobhan Carroll, Aliette De Bodard, Richard Bowes, Indrapramit Das, Carole Johnstone, Bracken Macleod, Vincent J. Masterson, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz, A. C. Wise. 2019
A collection of contemporary short stories about ghosts which range from eerie to terrifying, most original to this anthology. Authors…
include Seanan McGuire, Richard Kadrey, Gemma Files, Garth Nix, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, and Paul Tremblay. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019Poetry and tales (Library of America Edgar Allan Poe Edition #1)
By Edgar Allan Poe, Patrick F. Quinn. 1984
Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry and tales presented chronologically to showcase his development as a writer. Includes the five…
scenes from "Politian," his one attempt at drama. Edited by Patrick F. Quinn. 1984The mammoth book of best new horror: v. 24 (Mammoth Books)
By Stephen Jones. 2013
Twenty-two horror stories selected as the best of 2012, with an overview of the year in horror publishing and media…
and a necrology of those who died that year. Authors include Ramsey Campbell, Alison Littlewood, Gemma Files, Neil Gaiman, and more. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2013Four weddings and a sixpence: an anthology
By Elizabeth Boyle, Julia Quinn, Laura Lee Guhrke, Stefanie Sloane. 2017
A collection of novellas from popular historical romance authors. Four friends at boarding school find an old sixpence coin in…
a mattress. They decide that it will be their lucky charm, helping each find true love and the perfect husband. Some descriptions of sex. 2017Mash up: stories inspired by famous first lines
By Gardner Dozois, Tad Williams, John Scalzi. 2016
In this anthology, authors take inspiration for their stories from the first lines of famous works of literature. Includes stories…
by John Scalzi, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Bear, Nancy Kress, Robert Charles Wilson, Lavie Tidhar, Mary Robinette Kowal, and many others. Some violence and some strong language. 2016Fall of poppies: stories of love and the Great War
By Lauren Willig, Kate Kerrigan, Heather Webb, Jessica Brockmole, Jennifer Robson, Hazel Gaynor, Beatriz Williams, Marci Jefferson, Evangeline Holland. 2016
Nine stories exploring the lives of people in the last days of World War I and the years after. Includes…
stories by Lauren Willig, author of The Ashford Affair (DB 76719), and Beatriz Williams, author of Along the Infinite Sea (DB 82897). Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2016Flame tree road
By Shona Patel. 2015
When Biren Roy's father dies at the age of thirty-four, young Biren decides to study to become a lawyer to…
advocate for and protect the interests of his now-widowed mother. He grows up and must navigate the divergent cultures of Britain and Bengal. 2015African stories
By Doris Lessing. 2014
Nobel Prize winner Lessing spent twenty-five years in Africa, writing about the land and people she loved. This collection, originally…
published in 1964 and long out of print, gathers all of her short stories set on the continent and includes four stories never before anthologized. 1964Dead man's hand: an anthology of the weird west
By Orson Scott Card, Kelley Armstrong, John Joseph Adams. 2014
Twenty-three weird wild-west tales, featuring an American frontier populated by gunslingers, rattlesnakes, outlaws, zombies, aliens, time-travelers, and a steampunk bordello.…
Includes works by Orson Scott Card, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, Beth Revis, Walter Jon Williams, and more. Some violence and some strong language. 2014The farmer's bride collection: 6 Romances Spring from Hearts, Home, and Harvest
By Kimberley Comeaux, Debby Mayne, Susan Downs, Susan K. Downs, DiAnn Mills, JoAnn A. Grote, Ellen Edwards Kennedy. 2013
Novellas from six authors explore romance on the homestead. In Grote's A Homesteader, a Bride, and a Baby, set in…
1878 Minnesota, Lorette arrives for a visit with her sister's family only to find that they have all recently died from diphtheria--except for the baby. 2000Teatime for the firefly
By Shona Patel. 2013
India, 1943. Seventeen-year-old Layla Roy has been taught the value of education and independence by her grandfather Dadamoshai. She falls…
in love, marries, and learns to navigate life as the effects of World War II reverberate through the country. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2013The big book of ghost stories (Vintage crime/Black Lizard original)
By Otto Penzler. 2012
Seventy-nine ghost stories--written over a span of more than a century--organized around themes such as haunted houses, trains, and seances.…
Includes tales by Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, H.P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Chet Williamson, and others. With brief biographical sketches of the authors. Some violence and some strong language. 2012New Cthulhu: the recent weird
By Neil Gaiman, Charles Stross, Cherie Priest, Caitlin R. Kiernan, China Miéville, Michael Marshall Smith, Kim Newman, Sarah Monette, Paula Guran, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Rafael Tavares. 2011
Twenty-seven previously published short stories in the tradition of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Contributing authors include Neil Gaiman, Caitl�in Kiernan,…
and China Mi�eville. In Laird Barron's "Old Virginia" a Cold War-era CIA agent on a secret assignment doesn't realize he's fighting supernatural forces, not communists. Some violence. 2011