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- "A Very Tight Place" / Stephen King
- "Becoming One with the Ghosts" / Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Captain's Lament" / Stephen Graham Jones
- "Circling" / Tom Piccirilli
- "Footsteps" / Marie Brennan
- "Hearing Aid" / Rick Hautala
- "Names for Water" / Kij Johnson
- "Pumpkin Night" / Gary McMahon
- "Secretario" / Catherynne M. Valente
- "The Target Audience" / Cherie Priest
- "The Wheel" and "We" / Bentley Little
- "Waiting For Dawn" / Mikal Trimm
- 20th Century Ghosts / Joe Hill
- 30 Days of Night / Tim Lebbon
- A Demon Inside / Rick R. Reed
- A Fair Maiden / Joyce Carol Oates
- A Head Full of Ghosts / Paul Tremblay
- A Soundless Dawn / Dustin LaValley
- A Twisted Ladder / Rhodi Hawk
- Afraid / Jack Kilborn
- Afterlife / Naomi Clark
- Alive on the Inside / Angelia Sparrow and Naomi Brooks
- All the Pretty Dead Girls / John Manning
- Amorous Things / Kody Boye
- An Embarrassment of Riches / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- An Unwanted Guest / Shari Lapena
- Angel Land / Victor J. Banis
- Animythical Tales / Sarah Totton
- As Fate Would Have It / Michael Louis Calvillo
- Asylum / Mark Allan Gunnells
- At The City's Edge / Marcus Sakey
- Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster / Mark McLaughlin & Michael McCarty
- Audrey's Door / Sarah Langan
- Audrey's Door / Sarah Langan
- Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror (2007 Edition) / Edited by Angela Challis
- Australian Dark Fantasy & Horror Volume Three / Edited by Angela Challis
- Bashed: A Love Story / Rick R. Reed
- Before the Fall / Noah Hawley
- Bird Box / Josh Malerman
- Black & Orange / Benjamin Kane Ethridge
- Black Cathedral / L. H. Maynard & M. P. N. Sims
- Black Creek / Gregory Lamberson
- Black Jack Derringer Book 1: The Ace of Spades / K. H. Koehler
- Black Mad Wheel / Josh Malerman
- Blankety Blank: A Memoir of Vulgaria / D. Harlan Wilson
- Blind Fall / Christopher Rice
- Blockade Billy / Stephen King
- Blood Sins / Kay Hooper
- Blood Splattered and Politically Incorrect / Del James, Brian Keene, Thomas F. Monteleone and Lee Thomas
- Bloodletting / Michael McBride
- Bone Soup / T.M. Wright
- Brains: A Zombie Memoir / Robin Becker
- Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament / S.G. Browne
- Brimstone Turnpike / Edited by Kealan Patrick Burke
- Calumet City / Charlie Newton
- Castaways / Brian Keene
- Catching Hell / Greg F. Gifune
- Children of the New Disorder / Tim Lebbon and Lindy Moore
- Chimeric Machines / Lucy A. Snyder
- Closing Time and Other Stories / Jack Ketchum
- Coffin County / Gary Braunbeck
- Corpses So Lively / William A. Veselik
- Covenant / John Everson
- Cover / Jack Ketchum
- Crimson / Gord Rollo
- Curse of the Full Moon / Edited by James Lowder
- Damnable / Hank Schwaeble
- Dark Entities / David Dunwoody
- Dark Faith / Edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon
- Dark Harvest / Norman Partridge
- Dark Hollow / Brian Keene
- Dark Places / Gillian Flynn
- Dark Resurrection / John A. Karr
- Dark Tales: Volume 12 / Edited by Sean Jeffery
- Darkness on the Edge of Town / Brian Keene
- Dead End Street / Rick R. Reed
- Dead Sea / Brian Keene
- Deadfall / Shaun Jeffrey
- Deadly Vision / Rick R. Reed
- Deeper / James A. Moore
- Depraved / Bryan Smith
- Disposal / Jeff Strand
- Dogs / Nancy Kress
- Dominion / Greg F. Gifune
- Draculas / Jack Kilborn, F. Paul Wilson, Blake Crouch, and Jeff Strand
- Dreams in Black and White / John R. Little
- Duma Key / Stephen King
- Dweller / Jeff Strand
- Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes from the End of the World / Brian Keene
- Edgewise / Graham Masterton
- Elegy for the Undead / Matthew Vesely
- Elsewhere / William Peter Blatty
- Enter Death, Stage Right / William A. Veselik
- Everdead / Rio Youers
- Evil At Heart / Chelsea Cain
- Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead / Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
- Experiments in Human Nature / Monica O'Rourke
- Faithful Place / Tana French
- Feminine Wiles / John Grover
- Fiends By Torchlight / Wayne Allen Sallee
- Final Girls / Riley Sager
- Five Strokes to Midnight / Edited by Gary A. Braunbeck and Hank Schwaeble
- Fives Deaths for Seven Songbirds / John Everson
- Flesh Is Fleeting...Art Is Forever / Gary A. Braunbeck; Thin Them Out / Kim Paffenroth, R.J. Sevin and Julia Sevin
- Flesh Welder / Ronald Kelly
- Frozen Blood / Joel A. Sutherland
- Full Dark, No Stars / Stephen King
- Futile Efforts / Tom Piccirilli
- Fuzzy Navel / J.A. Konrath
- Garbage Man / Joseph D'Lacey
- Generation Dead / Daniel Waters
- Ghost Music / Graham Masterton
- Ghost Walk / Brian Keene
- Ghosts of Manhattan / George Mann
- Ghostwriter / Travis Thrasher
- Gleefully Macabre Tales / Jeff Strand
- Goblin / Josh Malerman
- Good Neighbors / Sarah Langan
- Good People / Marcus Sakey
- Gratia Placenti / Edited by Jason Sizemore and Gil Ainsworth
- Gunpowder / Joe Hill
- HAWG / Steven Shrewsbury
- Halloween: New Poems / Edited by Al Sarrantonio
- Hard Roads / Steve Vernon
- Hater / David Moody
- Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King / Lisa Rogak
- Haunted Legends / Edited by Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas
- Haunted Nights / Edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton
- He Stepped Through / Nate Southard
- Heart of Ice / Gregg Olsen
- Heart-Shaped Box / Joe Hill
- Heartsick / Chelsea Cain
- Hell Hollow / Ronald Kelly
- Hellfire and Damnation / Connie Corcoran-Wilson
- Hero / Wrath James White and J.F. Gonzalez
- History Is Dead: A Zombie Anthology / Edited by Kim Paffenroth
- Horror Isn't a Four-Letter Word / Matthew Warner
- Horror Library: Volume 3 / Edited by R.J. Cavender
- Hungarian Rhapsody / Sephera Giron
- Inhospitable / Marshall Moore
- Internecine / David J. Schow
- Invisible Fences / Norman Prentiss
- Isabel Burning / Donna Lynch
- Jack Haringa Must Die! / Edited by Nicholas Kaufmann
- Jake’s Wake / John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow
- Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter / Guido Henkel
- John Dies at the End / David Wong
- Johnny Gruesome / Gregory Lamberson
- Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season / Norman Partridge
- Joyride / Jack Ketchum
- Judas Horse / April Smith
- Kelland / Paul G. Bens Jr.
- Killing Red / Henry Perez
- Last Days / Brian Evenson
- Last Exit for the Lost / Tim Lebbon
- Legends of the Mountain State / Edited by Michael Knost
- Legends of the Mountain State 2: More Ghostly Tales from the State of West Virginia / Edited by Michael Knost
- Lesser Demons / Norman Partridge
- Like a Chinese Tattoo / Cullen Bunn, Rick R. Reed, David Thomas Lord, and JA Konrath
- Lily / Michael Thomas Ford
- Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories / Edited by David T. Wilbanks and Craig Clarke
- Losing Latitude / Cory Cramer
- Lovecraft Unbound / Edited by Ellen Datlow
- Mad Dogs / Brian Hodge
- Mama Fish / Rio Youers
- Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales / Fran Friel
- Martyrs & Monsters / Robert Dunbar
- Matheson Uncollected / Richard Matheson
- Me2 / M. Christian
- Memory of Darkness / P.A. Brown
- Midlisters / Kealan Patrick Burke
- Midnight Grinding / Ronald Kelly
- Midnight Revelations / Karen M. Bence
- Midnight Walk / Edited by Lisa Morton
- Miranda / John R. Little
- Monkey Love / John Paul Allen
- Morbid Curiosity / Deborah LeBlanc
- Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues / Edited By Loren Rhoads
- Mother Puncher / Gina Ranalli
- Mozart’s Blood / Louise Marley
- Mr. Hands / Gary Braunbeck
- Mute Witness / Rick R. Reed
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw / Stephen Graham Jones
- Necropolis / John Urbancik
- Necrotic Tissue (Issue 7) / Edited by R. Scott McCoy
- Netherworld / Lisa Morton
- Neverland / Douglas Clegg
- Night of Demons / Tony Richards
- Occasional Demons / Rick Hautala
- Offspring / Jack Ketchum
- Old Flames / Jack Ketchum
- Orgy of Souls / Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus
- Orientation / Rick R. Reed
- Out of the Darkness / Lesli Richardson
- Personal Demons (The Jake Helman Files) / Gregory Lamberson
- Phoenix and the Darkness of Wolves / Shane Jiraiya Cummings
- Piecemeal June / Jordan Krall
- Prime / Nate Kenyon
- Red Sails / Edward M. Erdelac
- Reunion / Rick Hautala
- Rot / Michele Lee
- Saying Uncle / Greg F. Gifune
- Scissors / Ray Garton
- Season of Rot / Eric S. Brown
- Seeders / A.J. Colucci
- Seldom Seen In August / Kealan Patrick Burke
- Serial / J.A. Konrath and Blake Crouch
- Shades of Blood and Shadow / Angeline Hawkes
- Shadow of the Dark Angel / Gene O'Neill
- Shatter / Michael Robotham
- Sha’Daa: Tales of the Apocalypse / Created by Michael H. Hanson and Edited by Edward F. McKeown
- She Lies In Wait / Gytha Lodge
- Shivers VI / Edited by Richard Chizmar
- Sins of the Sirens / Edited by John Everson
- Skull Full of Kisses / Michael West
- Slaughter / Marcus F. Griffin
- Snow / Ronald Malfi
- Snuff / Chuck Palahniuk
- Sparrow Rock / Nate Kenyon
- Splattered Beauty / Brandon Ford
- Starkweather Dreams / Christopher Conlon
- Stranded / Bracken MacLeod
- Strange Magic / Gord Rollo
- Suckers / J.A. Konrath and Jeff Strand
- Suffer the Children / Sara Jayne Townsend
- Summer Sons / Lee Mandelo
- Sweetheart / Chelsea Cain
- The 13th / John Everson
- The Absence / Bill Hussey
- The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His Travelling Circus / Clive Barker
- The Amateurs / Marcus Sakey
- The Birthing House / Christopher Ransom
- The Bitchfight / Michael A. Arnzen
- The Black Act / Louise Bohmer
- The Blue Moon Café / Rick R. Reed
- The Bone Factory / Nate Kenyon
- The Book of Lists: Horror / Edited by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, & Scott Bradley
- The Bridge / John Skipp and Craig Spector
- The Bright Lands / John Fram
- The Castle of Los Angeles / Lisa Morton
- The Chosen / C.A. Milson
- The Condemned / David Jack Bell
- The Damned / William Ollie
- The Darkly Splendid Realm / Richard Gavin
- The Darkness / Jason Pinter
- The Day Before / John Skipp and Cody Goodfellow
- The Desert / Bryon Morrigan
- The Devil Crept In / Ania Ahlborn
- The Devil's Footprints / Amanda Stevens
- The Disappearance / Bentley Little
- The Doll Collection / Edited by Ellen Datlow
- The Dollmaker / Amanda Stevens
- The Dust of Wonderland / Lee Thomas
- The Estuary / Derek Gunn
- The First Law of Motion / K.R. Moorhead
- The Frenzy Way / Gregory Lamberson
- The Fury / Jason Pinter
- The Gentling Box / Lisa Mannetti
- The Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
- The Girl in the Woods / David Jack Bell
- The Gray Zone / John R. Little
- The Hammer Story / Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes
- The Harlequin & the Train / Paul G. Tremblay
- The Haunted Forest Tour / James A. Moore & Jeff Strand
- The Haunted Heart and Other Tales / Jameson Currier
- The Hollows / Ben Larken
- The Infected / Michael McBride
- The Kult / Shaun Jeffrey
- The Long Last Call / John Skipp
- The Lucid Dreaming / Lisa Morton
- The Man from Milwaukee / Rick R. Reed
- The Midnight Tour / Richard Laymon
- The Minotauress / Edward Lee
- The Missing / Sarah Langan
- The Monster in the Box / Ruth Rendell
- The Moonlit Earth / Christopher Rice
- The Nightmare Collection / Bruce Boston
- The Ones That Got Away / Stephen Graham Jones
- The Painted Darkness / Brian James Freeman
- The Passage / Justin Cronin
- The Pilo Family Circus / Will Elliot
- The Price / Alexandra Sokoloff
- The Reach / Nate Kenyon
- The Resurrectionist / Wrath James White
- The Richard Matheson Companion / Edited by Stanley Wiater, Matthew R. Bradley, & Paul Stuve
- The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World / Brian Keene
- The River at Night / Erica Ferencik
- The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders / Anthony Flacco with Jerry Clark
- The Ruins / Scott Smith
- The Scrubs / Simon Janus
- The Shallow End of the Pool / Adam-Troy Castro
- The Shimmer / David Morrell
- The Shore / Robert Dunbar
- The Shotgun Rule / Charlie Huston
- The Skin Gods / Richard Montanari
- The Story of Noichi the Blind / Chet Williamson
- The Suicide Collectors / David Oppegaard
- The Taken / Sarah Pinborough
- The Unseen / Alexandra Sokoloff
- The Vanishing / Bentley Little
- The Vines / Christopher Rice
- The Watching / Paul Melniczek
- The Wolf at the Door / Jameson Currier
- The Woods Are Dark / Richard Laymon
- They Hunger / Scott Nicholson
- They That Dwell in Dark Places / Daniel McGachey
- Thirteen Specimens / Jeffrey Thomas
- This Ghosting Tide / Simon Clark
- Thrillers: 100 Must Reads / Edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner
- To Each Their Darkness / Gary A. Braunbeck
- Tower Hill / Sarah Pinborough
- Triage / Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, and Jack Ketchum
- Trigger City / Sean Chercover
- Twilight / William Gay
- Under / Bradd Quinn
- Under the Dome / Stephen King
- Urban Gothic / Brian Keene
- Urge to Kill / John Lutz
- Vacation / Jeremy C. Shipp
- Valley of the Dead / Kim Paffenroth
- Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder / Derek Gunn
- Vampire Apocalypse: Descent into Chaos / Derek Gunn
- Viator Plus / Lucius Shepard
- Vicious / Kevin O'Brien
- Victim Six / Gregg Olsen
- Voyeurs of Death / Shaun Jeffrey
- Waiting For October / Edited by Bill Breedlove
- When It Rains / Mark Allen Gunnells
- When Things Get Dark / Edited by Ellen Datlow
- When the Night Comes Down / Edited by Bill Breedlove
- Willy / Robert Dunbar
- Wolf's Bluff / W.D. Gagliani
- Wolf’s Gambit / W.D. Gagliani
- Writers Workshop of Horror / Edited by Michael Knost
- Yaccub's Curse / Wrath James White
- Yuppieville / Tony Richards
- “Ambient Morgue Music” / Richard Howard
- “For Her” / Michael West
- “Teddy Bears and Tea Parties” / S. Boyd Taylor
- “The Buzzard” / Eric Red
- “The Devil Came to Mamie’s on Hallowe’en” / Lisa Morton
- “The Things” / Peter Watts
- “The Woman in the Club Car” / Thomas Tessier