| 2022-01-01 |
POEM |
English |
Rhe Deathbird |
K. S. Hardy |
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horror (1), death (1), dark fantasy (1)
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| 2021-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Analogue |
Rob Osler |
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horror (1), madness (1), death (1), computers (1)
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| 2021-01-02 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
Smart Death |
Arne Kilian |
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artificial intelligence (1), precognition (1), death (1)
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| 2021-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Shattered Hourglass |
K. S. Hardy |
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fantasy (1), death (1)
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| 2020-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Recognition |
Victor LaValle |
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ghost (1), apartment building (1), first person point of view (1), Covid-19 (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), death (1)
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| 2020-11-18 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Faulty Scythe |
Bryce Ingman |
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death (1), grim reaper (1)
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| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muzik di Zumbi |
Akwaeke Emezi |
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music (1), freedom (1), price (1), memory (1), fantasy (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), death (1), Curacao (1), second person point of view (1), contemporary (1), dead protagonist (1)
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| 2018-11-11 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Three Women, the Bear and the Fox |
Peter Rock |
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traveler (1), death (1), memory (1), senile dementia (1), bear (1), fox (1), telephone (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Montana (1)
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| 2017-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Joy of Baking |
Holly Lyn Walrath |
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afterlife (1), female main character (1), death (1), speculative fiction (1), baking (1), fantasy (1)
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| 2015-11-03 |
NOVEL |
English |
My Diary from the Edge of the World |
Jodi Lynn Anderson |
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juvenile fantasy (1), family life (1), Automobile travel (1), mythical animals (1), supernatural (1), death (1), diaries (1)
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| 2015-04-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Special Collections |
Norman Partridge |
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Libraries (1), death (1)
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| 2015-01-06 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Many Lives of Hadley Monroe |
Bec McMaster |
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paranormal romance (1), death (1)
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| 2014-09-09 |
NOVEL |
English |
Station Eleven |
Emily St. John Mandel |
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near future (1), post apocalypse (1), cosy catastrophe (1), tattoos (1), Shakespeare (1), music (1), Michigan (1), Beethoven (1), pandemic (1), Toronto (1), Los Angeles (1), British Columbia (1), Malaysia (1), Virginia (1), education (1), surgery (1), set in 21st century (1), museum (1), nonsequential text (1), actors (1), theater (1), disability (1), death (1), suicide (1), religion (1), graphic novels (1), correspondence (1), journalists (1), scavenging (1), loss (1)
|
| 2013-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Monster Makers |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
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horror (2), death (1), parents (1), grandfather (1), children (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
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| 2013-10-29 |
NOVEL |
English |
Two Serpents Rise |
Max Gladstone |
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fantasy (2), Alternate World (1), Aztec Mythology (1), death (1), demons (1), gods (1), magic (1), mystery (1), occult (1), Priests (1), religion (1), resurrection (1), speculative fiction (1), supernatural (1), technology (1), thriller (1)
|
| 2011-10-04 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Son of Neptune |
Rick Riordan |
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juvenile fantasy (1), demigods (1), quest (1), Thanatos (1), Juno (1), Hera (1), military camps (1), prophecies (1), monsters (1), greek mythology (1), roman mythology (1), death (1), Gaea (1), giants (1), Gorgons (1), mars (1), amnesia (1)
|
| 2010-03-00 |
POEM |
English |
Tommy |
Stephen King |
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1969 (1), hippies (1), death (1), homosexuality (1), funeral (1)
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| 2009-11-09 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Premium Harmony |
Stephen King |
|
|
Convenience store (1), Jack Russell terrier (1), contemporary (1), marital strife (1), death (1), marriage (1), Maine (1)
|
| 2009-11-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Bone Church |
Stephen King |
|
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Elephant graveyard (1), Safari (1), death (1), Sole survivor (1), Mystical vision (1)
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| 2009-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Endangered Camp |
Ann Leckie |
|
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alternate reality (1), death (1), dinosaurs (1), family (1), science fiction (1), space (1)
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| 2008-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
A Race of Giants |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
death (1), fantasy (1), humor (1)
|
| 2008-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Judgement Bell |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
| 2004-00-00 |
NOVEL |
Hebrew |
|
|
|
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afterlife (2), fantasy (1), death (1), grief (1), interpersonal relations (1), marriage (1), quest (1)
|
| 2001-04-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Passage |
Connie Willis |
|
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science fiction (1), near-death experience (1), out of body experience (1), Denver (1), Alzheimer’s disease (1), disasters (1), death (1), titanic (1), hospital (1), afterlife (1), strong female character (1)
|
| 2001-12-24 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Death of Jack Hamilton |
Stephen King |
|
|
visceral horror (1), first person (1), john dillinger (1), depression era (1), cops and robbers (1), bullet wound (1), death (1), gangrene (1)
|
| 2001-06-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Origin of Ghosts |
K. S. Hardy |
|
|
fantasy (1), ghosts (1), death (1)
|
| 1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Bile |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
|
horror poetry (1), death (1), Fear (1)
|
| 1999-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Everywhere |
Geoff Ryman |
|
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science fiction (2), near future (2), england (1), northern England (1), northeast England (1), grandfather (1), death (1), dolphin (1), dolphins (1), first person (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Returnto Love |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
|
surrealism (1), nightmare (1), death (1), horror poetry (1)
|
| 1999-10-00 |
POEM |
English |
Still, Again |
Scott C. Holstad |
|
|
horror poetry (1), dreams (1), monsters (1), ultraviolence (1), death (1)
|
| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Perchance to Dream |
Marti McKenna |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), suspended animation (1), female protagonist (1), near future (1), illness (1), love (1), death (1), motherhood (1), birthday (1)
|
| 1998-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Toxin (Condensed) |
Robin Cook and Editors of Reader's Digest |
|
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United States (1), contemporary (1), Slaughterhouse (1), Regulatory violation (1), death (1), FDA (1), Food poisoning (1), Investigation (1), Surgeon (1), hospital (1), daughter (1), murder (1)
|
| 1997-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Murmurous Haunt of Flies |
Bentley Little |
|
|
horror (1), death (1)
|
| 1995-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Real World |
Brooks Caruthers |
|
|
loss (1), friends (1), death (1), undead (1), dead people (1), partying (1), friendship (1), parties (1), living dead (1), Little Rock (1), Arkansas (1)
|
| 1994-01-00 |
NOVEL |
French |
Les thanatonautes |
Bernard Werber |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
| 1993-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death, She Said |
Edward Lee |
|
|
suicide (1), nihilism (1), horror (1), death (1)
|
| 1993-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Parable of the Sower |
Octavia E. Butler |
|
|
science fiction (2), community (1), spirituality (1), change (1), god (1), philosophy (1), slavery (1), loss (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), societal collapse (1), Southern California (1), 2020s (1), empath (1), migrants (1), black protagonist (1), climate change (1), Capitalism (1), california (1), Abuse (1), African American (1), apocalyptic (1), dystopian (1), Fundamentalism (1), post-apocalyptic (1), racism (1), women (1)
|
| 1992-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Murder Mysteries |
Neil Gaiman |
|
|
angels (2), into-comics (1), creation (1), jealousy (1), detective (1), murder mystery (1), murder (1), mystery (1), heaven (1), Los Angeles (1), justice (1), death (1), love (1), god (1), memory (1)
|
| 1992-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Old Man and the Dead |
Mort Castle |
|
|
zombies (1), suicide (1), Ernest Hemingway (1), war (1), death (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Carnal House |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
|
|
death (1)
|
| 1988-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Death Dances |
Tanith Lee |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1), changing roles (1)
|
| 1988-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Thing Itself |
Michael Blumlein |
|
|
illness (1), death (1), love (1)
|
| 1985-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Life of Death |
Clive Barker |
|
|
death (1), disease (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Vampire Lestat |
Anne Rice |
|
|
vampires (3), horror (1), story within a story (1), suicide (1), Venice (1), Rome (1), loneliness (1), alcohol (1), quest (1), theater (1), aristocrats (1), hunting (1), wolves (1), France (1), humanism (1), philosophy (1), telepathy (1), San Francisco (1), egypt (1), new orleans (1), Paris (1), first person point of view (1), unreliable narrator (1), longevity (1), homoeroticism (1), tuberculosis (1), depression (1), music (1), telekinesis (1), pyrokenesis (1), enhanced sensation (1), death (1), religion (1), Roman Empire (1), set in 1700s (1), set in 1800s (1), set in 1900s (1), smell (1), horses (1), Alexandria (1)
|
| 1983-10-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
On a Pale Horse |
Piers Anthony |
|
|
parallel earth (1), fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), fate (1), love (1), Satan (1), death (1), Purgatory (1), social satire (1), magical gems (1)
|
| 1983-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Pet Sematary |
Stephen King |
|
|
horror (2), into-movie (2), Creepy Child (1), Horror: Another 100 Best Books (1), zombies (1), cats (1), ghosts (1), supernatural (1), death (1)
|
| 1982-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Threshold |
Sharon Webb |
|
|
death (1), communication (1), language (1), apes (1), science fiction (1), consciousness (1)
|
| 1980-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Sky Trapeze |
Claude Nunes |
|
|
levitation (1), death (1)
|
| 1974-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Day Before the Revolution |
Ursula K. Le Guin |
|
|
revolution (1), science fiction (1), anarchism (1), old age (1), death (1), grief (1), sexuality (1)
|
| 1973-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Swedish |
|
Astrid Lindgren |
|
|
juvenile fantasy (1), war (1), love (1), death (1), good and evil (1), Platonic love (1), brothers (1), afterlife (1), courage (1)
|
| 1970-07-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
A Maze of Death |
Philip K. Dick |
|
|
science fiction (2), death (1), murder (1), interstellar travel (1), alien artifacts (1), suicide (1), colonization (1), insanity (1), human experiment (1), tattoos (1), virtual reality (1)
|
| 1969-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Phoenix |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
only humans (1), only Earth (1), first person point of view (1), desert (1), twist ending (1), Atlantis (1), New York City (1), expedition (1), lost continent (1), death (1), physical mass of time (1)
|
| 1968-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Worm That Flies |
Brian W. Aldiss |
|
|
far future (1), human evolution (1), immortality (1), life's work (1), family (1), death (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1967-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Why Call Them Back from Heaven? |
Clifford D. Simak |
|
|
religion (2), eternal life (1), time travel (1), Wisconsin (1), eternal youth (1), rejuvenation (1), peace (1), poverty (1), ostracism (1), overpopulation (1), set in 2100s (1), New York City (1), longevity (1), mathematics (1), alien artefacts (1), interstellar travel (1), euthanasia (1), cryogenics (1), court trial (1), death (1), drugs (1), depopulation (1)
|
| 1963-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pleiades |
Otis Kidwell Burger |
|
|
Merril09 (1), female protagonists (1), aging (1), death (1), carnival midway show (1), eternal youth (1), irony (1), immortality (1), circus (1)
|
| 1958-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Casey Agonistes |
Richard McKenna |
|
|
disease (1), fantasy (1), hallucination (1), perception of reality (1), death (1)
|
| 1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Appointment at Noon |
Eric Frank Russell |
|
|
fantasy (1), death (1)
|
| 1954-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Messiah |
Gore Vidal |
|
|
religion (1), mob psychology (1), egypt (1), United States (1), television (1), death (1), near future (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1949-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kaleidoscope |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
Dimension X (1), Suspense (1), near future (1), space travel (1), only humans (1), death (1), camaraderie (1), regret (1), science fiction (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Was an Old Woman |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), fantasy (1), death (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
|
|
london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (1)
|
| 1934-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pale Man |
Julius Long |
|
|
first person point of view (1), hotel (1), death (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), supernatural (1)
|
| 1927-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Soul-Catcher |
Robert S. Carr |
|
|
hospital (1), souls (1), doctor (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), astral travel (1), contemporary (1), irony (1)
|
| 1906-03-25 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
La nuit et le silence |
Maurice Level |
|
|
blindness (1), deaf-mutism (1), terror (1), contemporary (1), death (1), brothers (1), sister (1), premature burial (1)
|
| 1882-07-15 |
SHORTFICTION |
Portuguese |
O imortal |
Machado de Assis |
|
|
immortality (1), invulnerable (1), indigenous (1), Brazil (1), death (1)
|
| 1881-00-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Demon of the Gibbet |
Fitz-James O'Brien |
|
|
death (1), horse riding (1), fleeing (1)
|
| 1782-00-00 |
POEM |
German |
Der Erlkönig |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
|
|
death (1), son (1), father (1), into-movie (1)
|
| date unknown |
COVERART |
English |
VALIS |
Heidi North |
|
|
time transcendence (1), saviors (1), aliens living among us (1), ancient aliens (1), death (1), first person point of view (1), Gnosticism (1), Theology (1), autobiographical (1), multiple personality (1), schizophrenia (1), insanity (1), unreliable narrator (1), contemporary (1), psychotropic drugs (1), Richard Nixon (1)
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