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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
2018-11-11 SHORTFICTION English Alma and Esperanza's Tragic Quest: A Story in 10 Parts Diana Abu-Jaber and Jaquira Diaz and Sarah Gerhard and Lauren Groff and Andres Holleran and Lindsay Hunter and Alissa Nutting and Karen Russell and Laura van den Berg and Jeff VanderMeer     Florida (1), female protagonists (1), twins (1), Disney World (1), manatees (1), palmetto bug (1), mall (1), sinkhole (1), dead mother (1), quest (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), curse (1), blessing (1), future (1), dolphins (1)
2018-03-10 NOVEL English The Curse of the Rose Marilee Brothers     curse (1), romance (1)
2016-04-05 NOVEL English Gladly Beyond Nichole Van     fantasy (1), romance (1), curse (1)
2013-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dog's Paw
Derek Künsken?Derek Kunsken
Derek Kuensken
    third world (1), diplomatic service (1), horror (1), curse (1), honor killings (1), contemporary (1), moral compromise (1)
2010-11-09 SHORTFICTION English Fair Extension Stephen King     contemporary (1), curse (1), miraculous cure (1), terminal cancer (1), fantasy (1), envy (1), schadenfreude (1), bargain with the devil (1), deals with the devil (1)
2007-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Suits at Auderlene Terry Dowling     supernatural (1), Australia (1), first person (1), curse (1), contemporary (1)
2003-09-00 NOVEL English East Edith Pattou     young-adult fantasy (1), juvenile fantasy (1), Cupid and Psyche (1), retold fairy tales (1), East of the Sun, West of the Moon (1), trolls (1), curse (1), quest (1), bear (1)
1997-00-00 NOVEL English Guests Bentley Little     horror (1), grandmother (1), banya (1), household deity (1), Molokans (1), Arizona (1), Preteen protagonist (1), family (1), incest (1), demonic possession (1), Russian folklore (1), murder (1), native americans (1), curse (1), contemporary (1), cursed house (1)
1995-09-00 SHORTFICTION English A Spell of Research Brad Strickland     Shakespeare (1), curse (1), Macbeth (1)
1991-08-02 SHORTFICTION English Such Things Happen Alvin Schwartz     folklore (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), witch (1), curse (1)
1990-05-00 NOVEL English Night, Winter, and Death Marc Eliot     horror (1), werewolf (1), curse (1)
1990-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Pronounced Effect John Brunner     contemporary (1), academia (1), Miskatonic University (1), academic dispute (1), insecure protagonist (1), curse (1), romantic hero (1)
1989-06-00 NOVEL English The Mummy Anne Rice     historical fantasy (1), horror (1), mummies (1), egypt (1), Archaeologists (1), curse (1), alcohol (1), london (1), poison (1), murder (1), enhanced intelligence (1), longevity (1), Cleopatra (1), tobacco (1), homoeroticism (1)
1988-10-00 OMNIBUS English Cabal Clive Barker     secret lair (1), hidden society (1), into-movie (1), horror (1), psychopathy (1), monsters (1), murder (1), disease (1), curse (1), lycanthropy (1), Alberta (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Magician in the Dark Robert Sampson     sword and sorcery (1), debunking of sorcery (1), curse (1), rational explanation of curse (1), first person point of view (1), twist ending (1)
1985-07-00 SHORTFICTION English How Spoilers Bleed Clive Barker     curse (1), disease (1), horror (1)
1984-05-21 NOVEL English The Witches of Eastwick John Updike     into-movie (2), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1), witches (1), Rhode Island (1), seduction (1), cancer (1), curse (1), into-tv (1), into-play (1), into-music (1)
1984-00-00 NOVEL English Thinner Stephen King     horror (1), into-movie (1), gypsies (1), curse (1)
1981-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands Stephen King     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), story within a story (1), curse (1), private club (1), india (1)
1979-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Northern Chess Tanith Lee     magic (1), haunted castle (1), medieval (1), army (1), wandering adventurer (1), female protagonist (1), curse (1)
1978-10-00 SHORTFICTION English A Malady of Magicks Craig Shaw Gardner     magicians’ competition (1), farmer’s daughter (1), plan backfires (1), romantic scheming (1), demon (1), magician’s apprentice (1), first person point of view (1), curse (1)
1978-11-00 COLLECTION English Infinite Dreams Joe Haldeman     curse (1), alien world (1), puppeteer (1), alien (1), moonshine (1), alternate history (1), blackmail (1), time travel (1), far future (1), life cycle (1), revolution (1), behavior change (1), war (1), delusions of grandeur (1), jealousy (1), mutandis (1), sub-light speed (1), colony (1)
1976-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Armaja Das Joe Haldeman     curse (1)
1971-08-00 NOVEL English Barnabas, Quentin and the Sea Ghost Marilyn Ross     vampire (1), ghost (1), curse (1), novelization (1)
1971-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Eyes of Mme. Dupree P. H. Booth     evil eye (1), theft (1), witch (1), curse (1)
1968-11-00 NOVEL English Barnabas Collins Marilyn Ross     vampire (1), novelization (1), curse (1), historical (1)
1960-10-00 SHORTFICTION English From Shadowed Places Richard Matheson     fantasy (1), juju (1), curse (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), africa (1), USA (1), Ngombo (witch doctor) (1)
1939-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Kaapi Marian Stearns Curry     action-adventure (1), drugs (1), female main character (1), curse (1)
1939-02-00 SHORTFICTION English The Frog Henry Kuttner     horror (1), curse (1)
1938-03-00 SHORTFICTION English The Teakwood Box Johns Harrington     fantasy (1), magical box (1), Shanghai (1), thief (1), contemporary (1), Los Angeles (1), widow (1), curse (1)
1932-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Ring J. M. Fry     first person point of view (1), Egyptian sarcophagus (1), ring (1), curse (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
1932-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Shadow on the Sky August Derleth     fantasy (2), horror (2), curse (1)
1931-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Kill Peter Fleming     fantasy (2), horror (1), werewolf (1), curse (1)
1931-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Sweeper A. M. Burrage     beggar (1), england (1), curse (1), spinster (1)
1926-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Step E. F. Benson     twist ending (1), horror (1), Arabs (1), curse (1), eviction (1), colonialism (1), egypt (1)
1925-00-00 SHORTFICTION French Le tableau Jean Ray     fantasy (2), horror (2), revenge (1), curse (1), painting (1), moneylender (1), greed (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
1925-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Lukundoo Edward Lucas White     horror (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), africa (1), British (1), explorers (1), curse (1), shaman (1)
1923-09-26 SHORTFICTION English The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb Agatha Christie     curse (1), egypt (1), mystery (1)
1921-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Running Wolf Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson     fantasy (1), horror (1), werewolf (1), Canadian wilderness (1), contemporary (1), native americans (1), curse (1), redemption (1)
1895-05-23 SHORTFICTION English Pollock and the Porroh Man H. G. Wells     horror (2), Google Books (1), magic (1), noir (1), Escape (Radio) (1), secret societies (1), witchcraft (1), madness (1), insanity (1), decapitation (1), curse (1), West Africa, suicide (1)
1890-07-12 SHORTFICTION English The Mark of the Beast Rudyard Kipling     Librivox (1), fantasy (1), werewolves (1), vampires (1), first person point of view (1), india (1), the British Raj (1), Hanuman (1), leper (1), offending a god (1), torture (1), curse (1), New Year's Eve (1), corruption of soul (1), horror (1), tibet (1)
1888-01-00 SHORTFICTION English The Withered Arm Thomas Hardy     Librivox (1), fantasy (1), curse (1), witchcraft (1), horror (1)
1887-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Goophered Grapevine Charles W. Chesnutt     sharp business dealings (1), dialect (1), magic (1), vineyard (1), slavery (1), african-american protagonist (1), story within a story (1), post-Civil War (1), North Carolina (1), curse (1)
date unknown SHORTFICTION Yiddish Di shvarts-khasene Isaac Bashevis Singer     horror (1), marriage (1), demon (1), curse (1), Hasidism (1), Judaism (1), demonic pregnancy (1)
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