Settle into the impending gloom of winter weather by reading a few stories in these collections. Although not all of these stories are wintry in atmosphere, the suspense and strange phenomena they contain will be sure to send chills down your spine.
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Authored by a local Pittsburgh writer, this short and whimsically unsettling collection includes a variety of stories. Some are family-centric, focusing on camping trips gone wrong and a father injured working in a steel mill, and other larger-than-life topics like loneliness and the loss of faith.
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From parasitic life forms, apocalypses, and encounters with God, this lesser-known short story collection by acclaimed sci-fi writer Octavia Butler has plenty of horrors that will make your blood run cold. This collection also includes a few newer releases from the author, plus her own personal explanations for each story.
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This collection offers banger after banger of seductively dangerous stories, featuring Ouija board encounters, unexplainable cult followings and curses, and ghosts that have come back wrong.
This new release features 26 stories entirely written by Indigenous North American authors. Spanning from the horrors of family legacies and revenge to the paranormal hauntings of monsters and ghosts, there’s a scary story here for everyone.
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Speculative fiction writer Ted Chiang introduces us to mystical towers, superhuman intelligence, and the wrath of God in this short collection. If you liked the 2016 movie Arrival, it was based off of a story in this collection – “Story of Your Life.”
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The 14 stories in this collection weave between pandemics, future civilizations, and the mysteries of a place called Gracetown, Florida.
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