| 2020-07-12 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Impatient Griselda |
Margaret Atwood |
|
|
first person point of view (1), alien narrator (1), Folk Tale (1), quarantine (1), twin sisters (1), Duke (1), vengeance (1), marriage (1), storytelling (1), humor (1)
|
| 2015-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Bad Little Kid |
Stephen King |
|
|
story within a story (1), Death row (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), evil spirit (1), vengeance (1), ofearna-2024 (1)
|
| 2013-09-24 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Fall of the Governor: Part One |
Jay Bonansinga and Robert Kirkman |
|
|
horror (1), zombies (1), Walking Dead (1), torture (1), psychopath (1), romance (1), postapocalyptic (1), United States (1), strong female characters (1), despotism (1), vengeance (1), gladiatorial combat (1), escape (1)
|
| 2013-05-26 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tin House |
Simon Clark |
|
|
vengeance (1), Slave trade (1), contemporary (1), inherited guilt (1)
|
| 2011-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Bronze Summer |
Stephen Baxter |
|
|
levees (1), eunuchs (1), torture (1), mexico (1), volcano (1), Iceland (1), sociopaths (1), North Sea (1), Turkey (1), alternate history (1), iron (1), potatoes (1), slavery (1), peace (1), Troy (1), vengeance (1), climate change (1)
|
| 2010-05-25 |
NOVEL |
English |
Stone Spring |
Stephen Baxter |
|
|
prehistoric (1), levees (1), Shamans (1), trading (1), North America (1), exploration (1), fishing (1), mining (1), hunting (1), alternate history (1), Jericho (1), North Sea (1), england (1), strong female characters (1), LGBTQ+ (1), vengeance (1), slavery (1)
|
| 2007-05-04 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Admiral's House |
Marc Lecard |
|
|
manslaughter (1), romance (1), fate (1), sibling rivalry (1), vengeance (1), ghost (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1998-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Scipio |
Daniel Hood |
|
|
slavery (1), reincarnation (1), vengeance (1), memories of past lives (1), rape (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1)
|
| 1997-01-01 |
NOVEL |
English |
Storm Front |
Jim Butcher |
|
|
dark fantasy (1), mystery (1), urban fantasy (1), into-tv (1), strong female character (1), contemporary (1), Chicago (1), private eye (1), first person point of view (1), mystical Underworld (1), illegal drugs (1), murder (1), vengeance (1), sorcery (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1996-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9 |
Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Judith Reeves-Stevens |
|
|
female robot (1), robot protagonist (1), Lando Calrissian (1), malfunctioning droid (1), Jabba the Hutt (1), star wars (1), sadism (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1994-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At Diamond Lake |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
long forgotten crime (1), ghost (1), lake (1), cabin (1), married couple (1), contemporary (1), rape (1), murder (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1993-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Roadside Scalpel |
Thomas F. Monteleone |
|
|
vengeance (1), suit (1), malpractice (1), Good Samaritan (1), doctor (1), contemporary (1), rough justice (1), awake during surgery (1)
|
| 1989-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Slasher |
F. Paul Wilson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1), child murder (1), twist ending (1), Suspense (1)
|
| 1986-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Arcevoalo |
Lucius Shepard |
|
|
Brazil (1), fantasy (1), postapocalyptic (1), Nature vs Civilization (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1985-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boys' Toilets |
Robert Westall |
|
|
horror (1), ghosts (1), england (1), boarding school (1), adolescent protagonists (1), female protagonists (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1984-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
Heretics of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
weather control (1), longevity (1), lasers (1), assassination (1), surveillance (1), diplomacy (1), pheromones (1), sadomasochism (1), prostitution (1), torture (1), psychic probe (1), desert (1), smell (1), loyalty (1), honor (1), computers (1), distant future (1), arcology (1), antigravity (1), diaspora (1), education (1), space opera (1), interstellar travel (1), sex (1), love (1), politics (1), Clones (1), drugs (1), punishment (1), eugenics (1), science fiction (1), Secrecy (1), art (1), precognition (1), genetic engineering (1), indeterminacy (1), strong female characters (1), vengeance (1), memory (1), religion (1)
|
| 1982-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Zroya's Trizub |
Gordon Derevanchuk |
|
|
slavic (1), witch (1), zingari (1), steppes (1), vodyanyk (1), female protagonist (1), lisovyki (1), baba yaga (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1981-01-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Book of Dreams |
Jack Vance |
|
|
multiple personalities (1), reunion (1), fantasy (1), crime (1), science fiction (1), vengeance (1), poison (1), journalism (1), genetic engineering (1), religion (1), nature reserves (1), fruit (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Morrien's Bitch |
Janet Fox |
|
|
female protagonist (1), fantasy (1), Warfare (1), subterranean (1), vengeance (1), romance (1), swords, no sorcery (1)
|
| 1979-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Sentences of Death |
John Brunner |
|
|
palace intrigue (1), vengeance (1), wizard (1), strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), sword and sorcery (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
POEM |
English |
The Death of Augusta |
Emily Brontë and Joanna Russ |
|
|
vengeance (1), murder (1), regicide (1), female protasgonists (1), poem (1), epic (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dreamstone |
C. J. Cherryh |
|
|
dreams (1), sword and sorcery (1), forest (1), love (1), music (1), barbarism (1), high fantasy (1), vengeance (1), supernatural female (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rape Patrol |
Michele Belling |
|
|
female protagonists (1), contemporary (1), voodoo (1), rape (1), vengeance (1), vigilantes (1)
|
| 1979-03-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination, Volume One: The Graphic Story Adaptation |
Alfred Bester and Howard Chaykin |
|
|
tattoos (1), kidnapping (1), fashion (1), science fiction (1), teleportation (1), vengeance (1), prison (1)
|
| 1979-11-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Whirligig of Time |
Lloyd Biggle, Jr. |
|
|
science fiction (1), mystery (1), aliens (1), interstellar travel (1), peace (1), religion (1), teleportation (1), matter transmission (1), subway (1), fungi (1), food (1), vengeance (1), strong female character (1), immigration (1), Refugees (1)
|
| 1979-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Woman of the White Waste |
T. J. Morgan |
|
|
rape (1), sacred bear (1), arctic (1), magic sword (1), sword and sorcery (1), high fantasy (1), female protagonist (1), vengeance (1), misfit (1)
|
| 1977-09-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Dosadi Experiment |
Frank Herbert |
|
|
transhuman (1), vengeance (1), human experiment (1), ubermensch (1), science fiction (1), distant future (1), aliens (1), matter transmission (1), telepathy (1), interstellar travel (1), body swap (1), drugs (1)
|
| 1972-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Kiss of Fire |
Harlan Ellison |
|
|
far future (1), aliens (1), vengeance (1), rejuvenation (1), loneliness (1), weariness (1), spectacle (1), romance (1)
|
| 1970-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Girl Who Knew What They Meant |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), Afghan hound (1), love (1), motel (1), vengeance (1), cynical (1)
|
| 1968-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
He Kilt It with a Stick |
William F. Nolan |
|
|
cats (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1968-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Right Hand of Doom |
Robert E. Howard |
|
|
black magic (1), wizard (1), vengeance (1), treason (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), into-comics (1)
|
| 1963-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Faceless Thing |
Edward D. Hoch |
|
|
compassion (1), vengeance (1), brother and sister (1), old age (1), horror (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1960-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Graveyard Shift |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), rural America (1), epistolary format (1), mother (1), child (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1956-00-00 |
NOVEL |
English |
The Stars My Destination |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
science fiction (2), bodily augmentation (1), Aldebaran (1), synesthesia (1), shipwreck (1), caves (1), torture (1), love (1), tattoos (1), corporate fiefdoms (1), telepathy (1), interplanetary war (1), prison (1), only humans (1), space opera (1), SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 (1), The 5-Parsec Shelf (1), Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), vengeance (1), teleportation (1)
|
| 1955-07-00 |
POEM |
English |
A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor |
Ogden Nash |
|
|
Times Square (1), hotel (1), elevator boy (1), vengeance (1), thirteenth floor (1), Walpurgis Night (1)
|
| 1952-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Japanese Tea Set |
Francis J. O'Neil |
|
|
vengeance (1), blindness (1), twist ending (1), jilting (1), psychiatrist (1), Japan (1), tea set (1), haunting (1), American (1), japanese (1), Korean War (1), fantasy (1), suicide (1)
|
| 1943-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Statue |
James Causey |
|
|
unfinished statue (1), sculptor (1), suicide (1), greed (1), loan (1), hands (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1939-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fifth Candle |
George R. Hahn and Richard Levin |
|
|
vengeance (1), murder (1), contemporary (1), candelabrum (1), father and sons (1), first person point of view (1), Kirghiz (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), fate (1)
|
| 1936-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Dream of Death |
Andrew Daw |
|
|
contemporary (1), vengeance (1), murder (1), orphan (1), recurring dream (1), uncle (1)
|
| 1936-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Visitor from Far Away |
Loretta Burrough |
|
|
wife (1), ghost (1), solitude (1), vengeance (1), infidelity (1), murder (1), blizzard (1), fantasy (1), connecticut (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1934-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Doorbell |
David H. Keller, M.D. |
|
|
vengeance (1), horror (1)
|
| 1929-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead |
Robert Peery |
|
|
first person point of view (1), sailor (1), Carolina (1), ghosts (1), shipwreck (1), fantasy (1), finger ring (1), woman (1), grave desecration (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1928-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Vengeance of Nitocris |
Tennessee Williams |
|
|
mummies (1), suicide (1), mass murder (1), vengeance (1), pharaoh (1), ancient egypt (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1926-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mrs. Lunt |
Hugh Walpole |
|
|
first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), author (1), literary critic (1), Cornwall (1), Uxoricide (1), vengeance (1), ghosts (1), horror (1)
|
| 1923-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
At the Farmhouse |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
ipulpfiction (1), fire (1), murder (1), vengeance (1), marriage (1)
|
| 1923-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Naboth's Vineyard |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
england (1), horror (1), Lawyers (1), blackmail (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1920-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Doom That Came to Sarnath |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
genocide (2), horror (2), fantasy (2), Librivox (1), retribution (1), idol (1), primordial monsters (1), ancient civilizations (1), vengeance (1), Cthulhu Mythos (1), weird (1), Dream Cycle (1)
|
| 1915-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
|
|
|
|
suicide (1), irony (1), Yom Kippur (1), Satan (1), cantor (1), vengeance (1), Hell (1), Judaism (1), fantasy (1), 19th century (1), Poland (1)
|
| 1911-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew |
Damon Runyon |
|
|
vengeance (1), criminals (1), riding the rails (1), depression era (1), United States (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1893-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
|
|
|
|
horror (1), into-movie (1), fantasy (1), Judaism (1), Prague (1), 16th century (1), animation of the inanimate (1), vengeance (1), miracle (1), rabbi (1), into-tv (1)
|
| 1844-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Artist of the Beautiful |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
|
|
Anatomy of Wonder 1 Core Collection (1), maker (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1830-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Transformation |
Mary Shelley |
|
|
Librivox (1), first person point of view (1), Genoa (1), 1800s (1), childhood sweethearts (1), delinquent (1), Hatred (1), dwarf (1), vengeance (1), body-switching (1), penitence (1), body swap (1)
|
| 1822-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
German |
|
Ernst Raupach |
|
|
Librivox (1), wife (1), widower (1), obsession (1), Burgundy (1), remarriage (1), sorcerer (1), resurrection (1), vengeance (1)
|
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