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36. Elizabeth Bowen - Hand in Glove, 3 stars. Nasty grasping girls mistreat their ailing aunt and plunder her things.
37. V.S. Pritchett - A Story of Don Juan, 4 stars. Widower tricks man into sleeping with his wife's ghost.
38. Christopher Woodforde - Cushi, 4 stars. Old village sexton and new priest clash.
39. Walter de la Mare - Bad Company, 3 stars. Man follows an an evil looking passenger home from the train.

33. Charles Williams - Et in Sempiternum Pereant, 1 star. Impatient old man has a vision of hell while walking.
34. 34. L.T.C. Rolt - Bosworth Summit Pound, 3 stars. Man Investigates what in a canal gave his brave boating friend the shock that eventually killed him.
35. 35. A.N.L. Munby - An Encounter in the Mist, 3 stars. Lost traveler is nearly led off a cliff by a well intentioned good samaritan.

30. Hugh Walpole - The Little Ghost, 3 stars. Grieving man holidays in a noisy house, feels a presence in his room.
31. A.E. Coppard - Ahoy, Sailor Boy!, 2 stars. Sailor spends the day in a small village, hits on a well dressed lady.
32. Thomas Burke - The Hollow Man, 2 stars. Another murdered friend comes back to visit, this time ruining a diner by creeping out the customers.

Word: "If Nameless had not been the man he was — thick, bovine and costive — he would have flung up his arms and screamed."

2. fig. Slow or reluctant in action; esp.
a. in speech or utterance: Close, reticent, uncommunicative;
b. Reluctant to give, niggardly, stingy.
c. Given with reluctance or sparingly.

3. Hard and impervious.

27. H. Russell Wakefield - Old Man's Beard, 3 stars. Otherwise healthy and physically blessed young woman has nightmares about a man with a long gray beard.
28. Edith Wharton - Mr. Jones, 4 stars. Woman inherits a lovely run down house, but finds her household efforts blocked by an old servant she's never met.
29. A.M. Burrage - Smee, 3 stars. Hide and seek style game seems to have one silent player too many.

Wiki: "You know what a viperfish looks like?"

24. L.P. Hartley - A Visitor from Down Under, 3 stars. Rich man returns to old familiar places, but an unwanted visitor follows him all the way from Australia.
25. John Buchan - Fullcircle, 4 stars. Friend introduces man to a couple who recently bought a beautiful old home, is surprised by the swift changes in their personalities.
26. William Fryer Harvey - The Clock, 3 stars. [2020]

Wiki: "It was beside a groyne about half a mile from the house."

21. Arthur Gray - The True History of Anthony Ffryar, 2 stars. Alchemist tries to make a universal cure-all during a pandemic, but gets too sleepy.
22. W. Somerset Maugham - The Taipan, 3 stars. Successful man gloats over the graves of the colleagues he outlived.
23. May Sinclair - The Victim, 3 stars. Jealous lover throttles a friend for joking about his girl, thinks his boss is trying to drive them apart.

17. Barry Pain - Rose Rose, 3 stars. Painter worries his model won't return the next day, but she comes back regularly.
18. E.F. Benson - The Confession of Charles Linkworth, 2 stars. Prison doctor gets a call from recently executed prisoner.
19. Richard Middleton - On the Brighton Road, 2 stars. [2018]
20. E.G. Swain - Bone to His Bone, 3 stars. Vicar leaves his library to his successors, has a small request.

13. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Lost Ghost, 4 stars. Ghost of a tiny child tries to do housework, can't find her mother.
14. M.R. James - "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad", 4 stars. [2016]
15. Algernon Blackwood - The Empty House, 4 stars. Nosey old woman gets her nephew to accompany her on a midnight snoop through a haunted house.
16. Oliver Onions - The Cigarette Case, 2 stars. [2020]

10. Henry James - The Friends of the Friends, 4 stars. Woman tries unsuccessfully to introduce two of her friends for many years, changes her mind when the time finally comes.
11. H.G. Wells - The Red Room, 2 stars. Guy wants to spend the night in a haunted room, panics when the candles blow out.
12. W.W. Jacobs - The Monkey's Paw, 4 stars. [2018]

07. Bram Stoker - The Judge's House, 2 stars. Student rents a dilapidated house for the peace and quiet, angers a judge's ghost rat?
08. E. Nesbit - Man-Size in Marble, 3 stars. Artistic types move into a cute cottage, disregard a local's warning about living statues.
09. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - The Roll-Call of the Reef, 3 stars. Survivors of separate shipwrecks lock their instruments together in solidarity.

04. Mary Elizabeth Braddon - The Shadow in the Corner, 3 stars. Innocent girl is hired as a servant, gets scolded for seeing a ghost.
05. F. Marion Crawford - The Upper Berth, 3 stars. Man stays in a cabin with a reputation for suicides, refuses to budge.
06. Vernon Lee - A Wicked Voice, 2 stars. Music snob is haunted by the ghost voice of a singer he disparaged.

Wiki: "It is still possible that the day may come when all these things shall seem but an incredible nightmare; the day when Ogier the Dane shall be completed..."

Word: "... and cellars in which a company of soldiers might have lain perdu ."

3.
a. In military usage: Placed as an outpost, sentinel, guard, scout, etc., in an exposed, hazardous position; hidden and on the watch; (lying) in ambush, in wait, in order to surprise or attack.

b. Hidden away; concealed; out of sight, withdrawn from sight.

01. Sir Walter Scott - The Tapestried Chamber, 3 stars. Military man spends the night at an old friend's estate, sees a creepy old lady ghost.
02. Amelia B. Edwards - The Phantom Coach, 3 stars. Hunter gets lost on the moors, forces his way into shelter with a grumpy recluse for a bit.
03. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Squire Toby's Will, 3 stars. [2020]

26. Brian Evenson - No Matter Which Way We Turned, 3 stars. Lights abduct the front half of a girl, leaving her with two backs.
27. Siobhan Carroll - Nesters, 3 stars. Family struggles to survive in a permanent drought hellscape, little girl looks for her missing father.
28. Carole Johnstone - Better You Believe, 3 stars. Extreme mountain climbers die off in a storm, the survivors plow on in panic and denial.

23. Jane Jakeman - Majorlena, 4 stars. American troops in Iraq get attacked, the survivors gather together looking for food and water.
24. Adam L.G. Nevill - The Days of Our Lives, 4 stars. Subservient husband sticks up for himself after his domineering wife flaunts her affair with another man.
25. Mira Grant - You Can Stay All Day, 4 stars. Zookeeper does the best she can for her big cats during a zombie outbreak.

21. Gemma Files - Grave Goods, 5 stars. Archaeologists argue about the classification of remains they find on long abandoned tribal land, dismissed local mythology becoming suddenly relevant.
22. Peter Straub - The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine, 2 stars. Dirty old man and his much younger lover engage in extreme BDSM on an Amazon pleasure cruise with a fluctuating timeline?

18. Nathan Ballingrud - Wild Acre, 3 stars. [2019]
19. Ramsey Campbell - The Callers, 5 stars. Young man always seems to be in the wrong while visiting grandparents, interrupts bingo game to the delight of the other old women.
20. Brian Hodge - This Stagnant Breath of Change, 3 stars. Town's forefathers made a deal with an Old God to freeze the town in time, holding the residents and their descendants hostage.

15. Cody Goodfellow - At the Riding School, 3 stars. Vet does dirty work for a sham school, is called to an emergency in the middle of the night.
16. E. Michael Lewis - Cargo, 3 stars. People on plane hear spooky noises coming from a load of coffins.
17. Stephanie Crawford & Duane Swierczynski - Tender as Teeth, 4 stars. Reporter lucks into a shot of the worst moment of a ex-zombie's life, comes back for seconds.

Wiki: "Like her, it came from the Cyclades Islands, and was a forgotten relic before Athens had erected its first temple."

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12. Adam Golaski - The Man from the Peak, 3 stars. Adulterer attends a going away party, no one knows who the ugly guy wandering around is.
13. John Langan - In Paris, In the Mouth of Kronos, 3 stars. Ex-army torturers take a suspiciously simple job with an old colleague who might be out for revenge.
14. Simon Bestwick - The Moraine, 4 stars. Married couple get lost in a fog while hiking, hear noises in the distance.

09. Livia Llewellyn - Allochthon, 3 stars. Unhappy housewife is stuck in a time loop, never quite able to get a look at the Lovecraftian cave system of her dreams.
10. Stephen Gallagher - Shepherds' Business, 5 stars. Island's replacement doctor settles into practice, does his best to help a grieving couple whose baby was stillborn.
11. Neil Gaiman - Down to a Sunless Sea, 3 stars. [2016]

06. Steve Rasnic Tem - The Monster Makers, 2 stars. Grandfather is blamed by son and daughter in law for their children's wild behavior.
07. Stephen Graham Jones - Chapter Six, 4 stars. Teacher and student become carrion scavengers to survive the zombie apocalypse.
08. Laird Barron - In a Cavern, in a Canyon, 4 stars. Tough lady searches for a beastie that may have been responsible for her father's disappearance.

03. Glen Hirshberg - The Nimble Men, 3 stars. Pilots land at a dark airport in the winter, can't seem to get the de-icer guy to notice them with the northern lights show going crazy.
04. Dan Chaon - Little America, 3 stars. Delusional man and unwilling passenger take a road trip, children have evolved into a hardier form more suitable for predators.
05. Tanith Lee - Black and White Sky, 4 stars. [2021]

01. Suzy McKee Charnas - Lowland Sea, 4 stars. Pandemic wipes out the world outside rich guy's well-stocked private villa, hangers on reap the rewards for as long as they can.
02. Lucy Taylor - Wingless Beasts, 5 stars. Friendly local tow truck driver urges foolhardy tourists to stay out of the Mojave desert, knowing he'll have to go hunting for the stubborn ones later.

10. Last Night, 4 stars. Terminally ill older woman plans an assisted suicide with her husband, invites a younger lady friend to be the third wheel at her fairwell dinner.

07. Palm Court, 2 stars. Cowardly man pines after the girl he secretly loved for 20 years, immediately loses interest once he sees she got fat.
08. Bangkok, 2 stars. Extremely bitter old girlfriend tries to hurt/tempt her ex, taunting him about his lovely wife and child.
09. Arlington, 2 stars. Weak man remembers the times his dead friend helped him with his terrible one-sided marriage and the legal fallout.