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Short stories by three of the world's leading writers of horror fiction. Subjects range from hauntings and witchcraft to werewolves and alternative universes.

Leigh, a sixth grade boy, writes letters to Mr. Henshaw, his favourite author. He begins writing because of a school assignment. Mr.

Decade : a selection of contemporary Western Australian short fiction. Twenty one writers.

Saffron's holiday in Italy with her father turns into a nightmare when she is kidnapped.

Dr. Grimsdyke lands a job as ship's doctor on a passenger liner on which his current beloved is also travelling.

In 1982, British spymaster Ferguson learns from a Soviet defector that there is a special KGB agent at work in Ireland.

Jack and his sisters go to the beach with the Ferguson family.

Marion is determinedly ordinary. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and sober fiance Peter. But she reckons without an inner self that wants something more.

In the cold white land at the top of the world there lived an enchanter and his daughter.

Mary-Anna Clutterworth and Sandra Sutton are bitter enemies, until they have to spend an afternoon in town together and get lost.

In the terrible days that follow the Assyrian attack on the Jewish people, Benjamin, grandson of the prophet Isaiah, sets off with other refugees including Adad, a young blind soldier.

An innocent girl comes to stay at Jamaica Inn and is caught up in the nightmare world of cutthroats, smugglers and the misty moors at night.

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Something terrible has happened at the Soviet nuclear plant at Sokolskoye. To avoid absolute catastrophe, Western technology is needed, but not sanctioned.

Kieran borrows his Gran's anti-boredom machine. All of a sudden he can "fast forward" his own life when he gets impatient.