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dark imagination

Books about dark imagination for readers of all ages.

Cover of Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)

Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Tell-Tale Heart)

Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Waldman

Ages 12–18suspensepsychological terror

Tales of Horror and Mystery

Roald Dahl, Walter De la Mare, W. W. Jacobs, Ruth Ainsworth, Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe, Helen Cresswell, Gene Kemp, Herbert Russell Wakefield, Robert Arthur, Ambrose Bierce, Michael Joseph, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Joan Aiken, Montague Rhodes James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte, Honoré de Balzac, Nicholas Fisk, Wilkie Collins, Isak Dinesen, Guy de Maupassant, Théophile Gautier

Ages 10–16mysterysuspense

18 Best Stories

Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price, Chandler Brossard

Ages 12–18mysterysuspense

65 Great Spine Chillers

Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe

Ages 12–18mysterysuspense

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

Tom Baker

Ages 10–15consequences of crueltytransformation