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Original title: Come to the Party
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Ghosts

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Year's Best Horror Stories, the: Series XII (1984) [Anthology]
      Authors: Stephen King , Tanith Lee , Ramsey Campbell , David Drake , Jane Yolen , Al Sarrantonio , Juleen Brantingham , Dennis Etchison , David J. Schow , David Langford , Roger Johnson , Susan Casper , Billy Wolfenbarger , Jon Wynne-Tyson , Vincent McHardy , Lawrence C. Connolly , Malcolm Edwards , Frances Garfield , Scott Bradfield
     Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , Edgar Allan Poe , H. P. Lovecraft , Isaac Asimov , Ambrose Bierce , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Henry James , Mark Twain , Edith Wharton , Willa Cather , Barry N. Malzberg , Algernon Blackwood , August Derleth , William F. Nolan , Robert E. Howard , Fritz Leiber , Henry Kuttner , Frank Belknap Long , Robert Bloch , Richard Matheson , Bernhardt J. Hurwood , Henry Slesar , Darrell Schweitzer , Manly Wade Wellman , Washington Irving , Donald A. Wollheim , Edward D. Hoch , Anthony Boucher , James Thurber , Ogden Nash , Carole Buggé , Marvin Kaye , Edward Lucas White , Don Marquis , Mary E. Wilkins Freeman , Jessica Amanda Salmonson , Carl Jacobi , Mary Elizabeth Counselman , Frances Garfield , Bertha Runkle , Arnold M. Anderson , Helen Eustis , C.H. Sherman , Henderson Starke , Mark Schorer , Larry Siegel
     100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) [Anthology]
      Authors: Edgar Allan Poe , Rudyard Kipling , Charles Dickens , H. P. Lovecraft , Ambrose Bierce , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Mark Twain , Barry N. Malzberg , F. Paul Wilson , Joe R. Lansdale , Ramsey Campbell , David Drake , William F. Nolan , Stephen Crane , Charles L. Grant , William Hope Hodgson , Fritz Leiber , Eric Frank Russell , Robert Sheckley , Avram Davidson , Henry Slesar , Bill Pronzini , Steve Rasnic Tem , Richard Laymon , Ed Gorman , Nancy Holder , Chet Williamson , Manly Wade Wellman , Washington Irving , Mort Castle , Al Sarrantonio , Thomas F. Monteleone , Jack Dann , Donald A. Wollheim , Edward D. Hoch , Saki , James E. Gunn , Daniel Ransom , Richard T. Chizmar , Norman Partridge , Phyllis Eisenstein , Ruth Berman , Juleen Brantingham , Dennis Etchison , Robert Barr , Barry Pain , Melissa Mia Hall , James H. Schmitz , Susan Casper , Gary L. Raisor , E. G. Swain , Sharon Webb , Frances Garfield , Jerome K. Jerome , E. F. Benson , Frank A. Javor , Robert Fox , Bernard Capes