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  <default-description>A moron turns genius - and foresees his own doom.&lt;BR&gt;
Thousands of deadly birds stalk men - then attack with suicidal fury.&lt;BR&gt;
A lonely man wins a chance for new happiness - and loses it through split-second doubt.
&lt;P&gt;
None great stories by masters of the macabre. Tales of shock and suspense, of strange twists hidden in a shadow world of fear.
&lt;P&gt;
&lt;u&gt;Contents:&lt;/u&gt;
The Birds - Daphne du Maurier
Of Missing Persons - Jack Finney
Midnight Blue - John Collier
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Taste - Roald Dahl
Two Bottles of Relish - Lord Dunsany
Charles - Shirley Jackson
Contents of a Dead Man's Pockets - Jack Finney
The Perfectionist 0 Margaret St. Clair</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1963</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Back growing up, I remember the tv shows 'Circle of Fear' and wasn't the other one called 'Sixth Sense'? Good, spooky stuff - and it was in the spirit of that sort of suspenseful interesting fun that I picked this up long ago. They are suspenseful, but endings are often more curdling than I would ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46523237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suspense stories, including &quot;The Birds&quot; by Daphne DuMaurier, which I expected not to like and instead found extremely compelling.  This is also one of the collections that contains &quot;Two bottles of Relish,&quot; &quot;Flowers for Algernon,&quot; and &quot;Contents of the Dead Man's Poc...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't usually enjoy short stories, but I was trying to complete a task on the Next Best Book Club seasonal challenge and stumbled across this little collection. Fantastic! Of them all, my absolute favorite was &quot;Taste&quot; by Roald Dahl. I did not even come close to guessing the ending, what ...]]></body>
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