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Near + Far
Cat Rambo
Amigurumi Knits: Patterns for 20 Cute Mini Knits
Hansi Singh
Metro 2033
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Southern Gods
John Hornor Jacobs
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
Robert Louis Stevenson, Orson Scott Card, Jack London, Tanith Lee, Walt Whitman, Guy de Maupassant, Isaac Asimov, Ivan Turgenev, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Marvin Kaye, John Dickson Carr, Bram Stoker, Tennessee Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Matheson, Johann Wolfgang
Howdunit Forensics
Garnethill
Denise Mina
The Autopsy and Other Tales
Michael Shea, Laird Barron
Alice Hearts Welsh Zombies
Victoria Dunn
Blood & Water
Hayden Trenholm, Camille Alexa, Claude Lalumière, Derryl Murphy, M.L.D. Curelas, Kevin Cockle, Douglas Smith, Jean-Louis Trudel, Julie E. Czerneda
The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time - Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Algernon Blackwood, Oliver Onions, W.W. Jacobs, Leslie Pockell, H.P. Lovecraft A lovely collection. I'd read most of them--the only new one was "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions--but it was nice to sit down and curl up with them. (Would have been slightly better if the M.R. James one was "Lost Hearts", but I realize I am partisan. :) )

The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is because five stars means I recommend books to people regardless of their interest in the genre, and this is not a book I would do that with.

...put like that, I am considering revising my starring policy.

For the record, the table of contents runs:

* The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
* Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
* The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
* The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
* The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
* Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
* The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
* Oh, Whistle And I'll Come To You, My Lad by M.R. James
* The Country Of The Blind by H.G. Wells
* The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
* The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions
* The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
* The Lottery by Shirley Jackson