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I’m looking for a short story in the horror/thriller genre from an anthology, and it may or may not have been included in a sci-fi anthology as well. The story has haunted me since my teens, but I can’t seem to find it. It may have been from the 80’s.
The general story is that a woman (I believe) has killed her male lover out of some sort of rage or calculated manner, and is preparing him for consumption in a way that resembles a highbrow cookbook recipe. In fact, the language used in the short story is of such an elevated and pretentious character that it stands out like a sore thumb.
I think the story is narrated, but I could be wrong.
I do remember that at the conclusion of the story, as this man has been dismembered, marinated, cooked, etc. the murderous cook (chef?) has taken a spoon and collected just a drop of liquid from the man’s penis and thus reflects sadly on the whole affair. Not very appetizing if you ask me, but again, the writing is of such an elevated nature that it doesn’t come across as salacious, just horrifying.
Those are my recollections of the story, there may be some differences.
Any help with the title and author would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.

buttonsbeadslace

Google has failed me, so I'm turning to you guys :) I first read this story a few years ago, online. I thought it was in Strange Horizons but maybe not? It's about a research facility where some sort of experimentation with space and time causes a certain hallway in the facility to fill up with mud and gore at regular intervals. It's told from the point of view of the woman hired to clean the hallway. She has an advanced degree and could get a job doing something more glamorous, but they pay her a lot because she's the only person they trust to go in that hallway and not mess with any Things Humankind Was Not Meant To Understand that she might see there.

iodama

I think I read this short story before 1989 in Asimov's SF Magazine (which started publication in 1971 and I was reading back through old ones in a collection, so it could be any time in the 70s or 80s). It concerned a young adult male protagonist (on Earth, who thinks he's human) who meets an "uncle" who looks a lot like him, from whom he learns that he is not human, but an alien passing among humans, who goes through a maturational process whereby two genetically related individuals fuse into one, and his "uncle" who is looking younger by the day and he are fated to merge into one person.

( Key scene description )

Anybody recognize this story?

euphorikitty

There is this one book that I've been looking for for years, my intermediate school teacher would read us a new short story when we had enough time. I know it's an old sci-fi book, it could have been published any where between 1950's to 1990's. It's a book full of short stories, but I only remember one small scene of a story. It's set in a diner, a human man is looking at human-looking alien strangers that just walked in the diner. The strangers sat down, but the strange man didn't pull his pants at the knee to sit, and the human man watching that thought that was odd, because every male knows to do that, so their slacks don't bunch and tighten.

That's the only part of the whole book I can clearly remember, though I think there was another story about robots being used in homes. Sorry this is all super vague. I hope someone, somewhere can help me

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booksandhooks

In pure desperation of finding a book I read some years ago I stumbled over this community and I thought I'd give it a try.

For about three years ago I found a book (or really a paperback if my memory is to trust) with three short "books" or "stories". From what I remember, the cover was light blue and I am sure that it was a little old. -Old in the sense of being bought (and written) around 1980, 1990 maybe earlier. The thing that makes this book so hard to find is just because it was three, three different stories, written by different authors, and it's quite possible that it was just one publisher that decided to publish those together and that they dont "exist together".

All these three stories fits into the category for sex or/and erotic reading (I don't remember how far it went).

And I don't seem to remember any thing more about two of the stories more then the fact that they were included. However the third story (not necessarily the order represented in the book) is what gives me hope on maybe finding it.

In this story we meet a young woman who is really good at scuba diving and takes a job on a boat (maybe a smaller boat), and that leads too a hot romance between her and the owner, captain, someone(?). At one time she falls asleep in the stem (the front of the boat) and when he finds her he gets angry and take her to his cabin. She got a horrible sunburn and after he screamed(?) at her and explained what a wasted thing she's done, he tells her to sit (lay?) down on the bed. Then he takes some sort of aloe vera/ cooling creme/ healing creme and begins to lubricate(?) her. I remember the description of the burning feeling she felt and that he wander up along her thigh and then very smooth slided his hand under her shorts. His fingers brushed her skin and he reached the bush between her legs...

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The question marks -(?)- are little wonders of mine that means that I'm either unsure about the grammar or I just don't remember the part so well.
As for the words in Bold, thoose are certain things that I am completely sure about.

If someone recognize any of this please comment and help me find this book!

Thank You!

cjmcnally

I’m searching for a novella/short story I last read in primary school (late 1990s/early 2000s). It was one of a series of short spooky stories by the same publisher - another was about teen vampires, I think there may have been an alien one too.

This book was from the perspective of a teen girl whose best friend has recently died (I think from suicide), and is now haunting her. The friend (I think her name is Fern) taps on the girl’s window and shows her a pendant or necklace, which I think is a fish or fish tail. The girl works out that Fern has left her letters or a journal inside an old tree that they used to hide letters to each in as young children. These tell the story of why Fern died.

Fern became obsessed with a new, young teacher who started at the girl’s school, to the point where she would start predicting the colour of his ties or clothes. I don’t remember if the teacher might have an interest in Fern too, but I think she gets rebuffed. Either as a result of this, or for some other reason, when she sees the teacher get into trouble in the ocean, she doesn’t do anything to help and he drowns. She then kills herself a short time later.

I think this fish or fish tail necklace or pendant also plays a role (maybe given to Fern by the teacher?) and might feature on the book cover art, or be in the title in some way.

I might have a few details slightly off, but if this storyline sounds familiar or you can help identify the series of short scary stories it could be part of, it would be so appreciated!

indefinite_forest97

I have been looking for this short story for years and still haven't had much luck. It was part of an anthology of other horror stories that I think came out in the 80's, but I am by no means sure of that.

It stars off with the main character (don't remember if it was a man or woman) being rudely awakened by a call in the early hours of the morning. They are asked to investigate a crime scene in the woods where a woman had been brutally attacked by what they assume was a pack of wolves. The main character goes to the scene and pokes around the woods for a bit before somehow stumbling across a cabin and a man who seems not quite right mentally but clearly knows more about the woman's death than he's letting on. The main character follows him into the cabin and begins to ask questions. This is where my memory goes fuzzy on me. At some point, the man ends up showing the main character several magical (or maybe alien?) artifacts. Main character, very weirded out by this point, tries to leave but the man won't let them. I think a fight/ chase scene occurs as main character tries to force their way out of this mess, although ultimately they are killed by the man, and it is heavily implies that he was the one that killed the woman. The story ends with the main character waking up in their bed, phone ringing, and being asked to investigate a possible murder scene in the woods.

It was an amazing story but I was too young when I read it to fully appreciate it, and I would love to read it again to pick up on things I probably missed! Please, PLEASE help if you can.

aly_ram_98

Im looking for a book that has a bunch of short stories. I sadly only remember one short story in it. It was a supernatural type of short story book. I read it in the YA section about 6 years ago. The short story I remember I believe was one of the first stories in it. I don't remember much, but i remember for sure that it was about a vampire who owned an old movie theater. He would microwave his blood in the office and he would walk around the theater. I believe there was a girl in the theater who wirked there, and I'm pretty sure there was some romance in it as well. I can't remember that much about it, but I know the movie theater thing was for sure, which I hope narrows it down since there's not many like that. It was a short story that was one of the first stories in the book. I hope I can find it. :)

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