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Shadows

by · 1980

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Winner of the World Fantasy Award. An anthology including the short story Nona by Stephen King.

CONTENTS

"Naples" Avram Davidson (Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction)

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"The Little Voice" Ramsey Campbell

"Butcher's Thumb" William Jon Watkins

"Where All the Songs Are Sad" Thomas F. Monteleone

"Splinters" R. A. Lafferty

"Picture" Robert Bloch

"The Nighthawk" Dennis Etchison

"Dead Letters" Ramsey Campbell

"A Certain Slant of Light" Raylyn Moore

"Deathlove" Bill Pronzini

"Mory" Michael Bishop

"Where Spirits Gat Them Home" John Crowley

"Nona" Stephen King

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Audience
adult
Length
medium · 223 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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