Matheson, Richard
Summary: "The first career retrospective of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury), edited by award-winning author Victor LaValle. Among the greats of 20th-century horror and fantasy, few names stand above Richard Matheson. Though known by many for novels like I Am Legend and his sixteen Twilight Zone episodes, Matheson truly shines in his chilling,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Summary: "In If It Bleeds, King gives listeners four brilliant new stories sure to prove as iconic as their predecessors. Once again, King's remarkable range is on full display. In the title story, fan favorite Holly Gibney (from the Bill Hodges Trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider -- this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KINKing, Stephen
Summary: "The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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Summary: "The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction King 2020King, Stephen
Summary: Since his first collection "Nightshift" published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first time, recent stories that have never been published in a book. He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINSummary: Twenty-nine new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction.The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: "26 new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction, selected by Lavie Tidhar. The Best of World SF draws together stories from across the spectrum of science fiction - expect robots, spaceships and time travel, as well as some really weird stuff - representing twenty-one countries and five continents."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Head of Zeus 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESKing, Laurie R.
Summary: "A dynamic short story collection that illuminates many hidden corners of the beloved, best-selling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. Since the first book-length "memoir" appeared in 1994, famous partner, Sherlock Holmes, has excited a community of readers, young and old. With this collection, nine previously published short stories and one never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINKey, Justin C.
Summary: Justin C. Key has long been obsessed with monsters. Reading R.L. Stine's Goosebumps as a kid, he imagined himself battling monsters and mayhem to a triumphant end. But when watching Scream 2, in which the movie's only Black couple is promptly killed off, he realized that the Black and Brown characters in his favorite genre were almost always the victim or villain--if they were portrayed at all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEYKing, Stephen
Summary: "You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life--both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Contents: I. Favela chic -- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google -- Kiosk -- The hypersurface of this decade -- White fungus -- The exterminator's want ad -- II. Dark euphoria. -- Esoteric city -- The parthenopean scalpel -- The lustration -- III. Gothic high-tech. -- Windsor exectutive solutions / by Chris Nakashima-Brown and Bruce Sterling -- A plain tale from our hills -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STERiordan, Rick
Summary: Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and imaginative new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD RIOWeinstein, Alexander
Summary: Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIRiordan, Rick
Summary: "Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and inventive new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIOShearer, Wendy
Summary: "This spook-tactular collection features more than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe. Retold with ghoulish relish by professional storyteller Wendy Shearer and beautifully illustrated by Teo Georgiev, these hair-raising tales are sure to send shivers down your spine."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Summary: The inhabitants of Grantville, a modern-day West Virginia town hurtled back in time to Germany during the Thirty Years War, battle the tyrants of seventeenth-century Europe, in a second collection of alternate history tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIBlack, Robin.
Contents: The guide -- If I loved you -- Immortalizing John Parker -- Harriet Elliot -- Gaining ground -- Tableau vivant -- Pine -- A country where you once lived -- Divorced, beheaded, survived -- The history of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAKennedy, Louise
Summary: "Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women's lives are etched by deprivation-material, emotional, sexual-but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt. A wife is abandoned by her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie six stories of the distant past, lost adventures, forgotten songs, and heartbreaking histories."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: WaterBrook 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PETBausch, Richard
Summary: "In these thirteen indelible stories, Richard Bausch once again proves himself a modern master. From the prize-winning novelist and universally acclaimed short story writer ("Richard Bausch is a master of the short story"--The New York Times Book Review), thirteen unforgettable tales that showcase his electrifying artistry. Bausch plumbs the depths of familial and marital estrangement, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAUMcCall Smith, Alexander
Summary: "In Pianos and Flowers we are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these stories, inspired by long-lost photographs, the lives of the people in the frame are imagined and then explored, layer by layer. What must have it been like to be them? We hold our breath for them. Our heart beats faster for them. We look again at the photograph in a new light,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCAlarcón, Daniel
Summary: "A slyly political collection of stories about immigration, broken dreams, Los Angeles gang members, Latin American families, and other tales of high stakes journeys, from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcon's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017