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**The #1 *New York Times *bestselling author of* Ghost Story **—*** and 8-time Bram Stoker Award winner—gathers 24 bone-chilling, nail-biting, frightfully imaginative stories that represent the best of contemporary horror writing.
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“Revelatory…. A remarkably consistent, frequently unsettling book.” — *The Washington Post*
“[Straub] collects the best scary short stories out there.” — *Time*
Dan Chaon **“The Bees”**
Elizabeth Hand **“Cleopatra Brimstone”**
Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem **“The Man on the Ceiling”**
M. John Harrison **“The Great God Plan”**
Ramsey Campbell **“The Voice of the Beach”**
Brian Evenson **“Body”**
Kelly Link **“Louise’s Ghost”**
Jonathan Carroll **“The Sadness of Detail”**
M. Rickert **“Leda”**
Thomas Tessier **“In Praise of Folly”
** David J. Schow **“Plot Twist”**
Glen Hirshberg **“The Two Sams”**
Thomas Ligotti **“Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story”**
Benjamin Percy **“Unearthed”**
Bradford Morrow **Gardener of Heart”**
Peter Straub **“Little Red’s Tango”**
Stephen King **“The Ballad of a Flexible Bullet”**
Joe Hill **“20th Century Ghost”**
Ellen Klages **“The Green Glass Sea”**
Tia V. Travis **“The Kiss”**
Graham Joyce **“Black Dust”**
John Crowley **“Missolonghi 1824”**
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson **“Insect Dreams”**