Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

The horror short-short isn't easy to master, but more than 100 of the genre's critically acclaimed authors & hottest up-&-comers have taken a stab at it in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, an anthology that contains a short tale for every day of the year. Steve Rasnic Tem, Wm F. Nolan, Tom Piccirilli, Yvonne Navarro, Peter Atkins, Brian Hodge, Martin Mundt & 166 others give you short, sharp shocks. Who got the most slots? The final scorecard: 13: Brian McNaughton 9: Tim Waggoner 8: Benjamin Adams, Wm Marden 7: David Niall Wilson, DonD'Ammassa, Linda J. Dunn, Steve Rasnic Tem 6: Adam-Troy Castro, Del Stone Jr, John Gregory Betancourt, Phyllis Eisenstein, Tom Piccirilli 5: Adam Niswander, Brian Hodge, Hugh B. Cave, John B. Rosenmann, Peter Atkins, Terry Campbell 4: Don Webb, Gary Jonas, Lawrence Schimel, Lisa Lepovetsky, Lisa Morton, Wayne Allen Sallee, Yvonne Navarro, Scott M. Brents 3: Martin Mundt, David Annandale, Donald R. Burleson, Greg McElhatton, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Joe Meno, Judith Post, Juleen Brantingham, Lawrence C. Connolly, Michael Mardis, Michael Scott Bricker, Nancy Kilpatrick, Richard Gilliam, S. May Amarinth, Scott David Aniolowski, Stephen Dedman, Tina L. Jens 2: Andrew Sands, Blythe Ayne, Brian A. Hopkins, Brian Craig, Brian Stableford, Dawn Dunn, Francis Amery, Gordon Linzner, Greg van Eekhout, James Robert Smith, Joel S. Ross, John Maclay, Kay Reynolds, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Lillian Csernica, Kevin Shadle, Larry Segriff, Lawrence Greenberg, Lisa John Bothell, Lisa S. Silverthorne, Lois H. Gresh, Mark Hannah, Michael Gillis, Michael Grisi, Randy Miller, Robert Devereaux, Scott Edelman, Steve Eller, Thomas M. Sipos

Urban legends like these are the stuff of nightmares. This is a connoisseur's collection of thirty-five creepy contemporary tall tales. Drawing on our eeriest modern myths, author Dziemianowicz crafts horror stories that will leave even skeptical readers listening for footsteps behind them and fearful of walking into darkened rooms.

[Descent into the Maelstrom]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- The captain of the Pole-Star / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The upper berth / F. Marion Crawford -- The brute / Joseph Conrad -- The boats of the Glen Carrig / William Hope Hodgson -- The song of the sirens / Edward Lucas White -- The ship of silent men / Philip M. Fisher -- The temple / H.P. Lovecraft -- Bells of Oceana / Arthur J. Burks -- Second night out / Frank Belknap Long -- The black kiss / Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner -- The sea thing / A.E. van Vogt -- Sea curce / Robert E. Howard -- A vintage from Atlantis / Clark Ashton Smith -- Derelict / Hugh B. Cave -- Sea-Tiger / Henry S. Whitehead -- The women / Ray Bradbury -- The doors of his face, the lamps of his mouth / Roger Zelazny -- The wine-dark sea / Robert Aickman -- The ferries / Ramsey Campbell -- The night Sea-Maid went down / Brian Lumley -- Down by the sea near the great big rock / Joe R. Lansdale -- Message found in a bottle II, or, An invitation from your captain / Nancy Holder -- A sailor's pay / Jack Cady -- Deep sleep / Matthew J. Costello -- Scape-goats / Clive Barker -- Between the windows of the sea / Jack Dann -- [Dip in the pool]( / Roald Dahl -- The night ocean / Robert H. Barlow -- Spawn of the sea / Donald Wandrei.

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