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2) The lottery
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The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.
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"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
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"Read, watch, and listen to each chilling story in 15 minutes or less? 3:15 means several things. It's a time when things go bump in the night. A place where spooky stories find a home. A feeling . . . that chill running down your spine. It means 10 terrifying tales that you'll experience in 3 parts: A frightful audio introduction. Several spooky pages of text. And a creepy video conclusion you can watch online. All in 15 minutes or less. Step into...
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"Twenty-six terrifying tales set on the scariest night of the year! Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Halloween . . . All Hallows' Eve . . . Samhain . . . Día de los Muertos . . . the Day the Dead Come Back . . . When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest--when ghosts, goblins, and grisly things can cross over into our dimension--then for a single night each year the natural becomes the supernatural, the normal becomes the...
7) Pan's realm
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One moment in Spooksville, Adam and his friends would have quickly said that fairies, gnomes, leprechauns, and elves are just make-believe. Next moment, a horde of such magical creatures invade the town. What begin as childish pranks, which Adam, Sally, Watch, and Cindy love to see happen, quickly turn more serious, and the four friends find themselves fighting for their lives against the mischievous creatures, hoping to find a way to send the mythical...
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"The highly original and truly terrifying folk horror of Italy's Luigi Musolino was introduced to an international audience in the acclaimed The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, and now at last an entire volume of the author's best work - eight stories and three novellas - is available in English for the first time. In 'Lactic Acid', a jogger takes an unfamiliar shortcut and quickly finds himself trapped in a nightmare from which there may...