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Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
Blackout by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039... -
The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge...Categorized as:
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The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSet in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882... -
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The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary... -
I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsRobert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn...Categorized as:
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A Darkness Strange and Lovely by Susan Dennard
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series, this spellbinding sequel to Something Strange and Deadly delivers a mix of supernatural forces and intense romance, set against the enchanting backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris.With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone...Categorized as:
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Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun... -
The Rift Walker by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsPrincess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide...Categorized as:
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The Pit and the Box by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn an isolated mountain, a stone labyrinth provides rough shelter for a band of mercenaries. At its core lies a centuries-old mystery. But in part two of The Boy in the Iron Box, no secret is safe.A concealed pit; an iron box, wrapped in chains; a statue of a boy. What unknowns await the anxious, disoriented team in this strange ruin? Night will tell... -
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsFrom the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool... -
The Eye in the Pyramid by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective...Categorized as:
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One Past Midnight: The Langoliers by Stephen King, Willem Dafoe
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsThe first of a four-part audio series from Stephen King's best-selling book, Four Past Midnight. On a redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, only 11 passengers survive—but landing in a dead world makes them wish they hadn't...Categorized as:
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Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht, Bowie V. Ibarra
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth...Categorized as:
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The Hollows by Daniel Church
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die... -
The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, one living—hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder.Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries—one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living... -
The Final Winter by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsCritically acclaimed début novel of bestselling author, Iain Rob Wright.What would you do if it started snowing in every country in the world? Would you panic? For a ragtag group of strangers gathered at a dilapidated English pub, the best solution is a pint of beer with a hearty shot of denial...Categorized as:
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Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia’s elite Saturn Club—with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends and her chance to climb the social ladder... -
Wicked as They Come by Delilah S. Dawson
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen nurse Tish Everett forced open the pesky but lovely locket she found at an estate sale, she had no idea she was answering the call of Criminy Stain, from the far off land of Sang. He’d cast a spell for her, but when she’s transported right to him, she’s not so sure she’s ready to be under the spell of another man. (It didn’t go so well last time with controlling, abusive, domineering Jeff... -
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsEverything is in ruins.A devastating plague has decimated the population, and those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles around them.So what does Araby Worth have to live for?Nights in the Debauchery Club, beautiful dresses, glittery makeup . . . and tantalizing ways to forget it all...Categorized as:
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The Shadow Revolution by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThey are the realm’s last, best defense against supernatural evil. But they’re going to need a lot more silver.As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts... -
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 64 ratingsIn Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her...Categorized as:
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스위트 홈 12 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“우리가 여기 살아있다는 걸 꼭 기억해주세요.”마침내, 그린 홈에서의 마지막 싸움이 펼쳐진다!옥상에 도착한 생존자들은 작전대로 로프를 이용해 뒷산으로 대피하려고 하지만 아래층에서 올라오는 괴물들과 날아다니는 괴물 탓에 이마저도 쉽지 않다. 한편 현수는 위험에 처한 지수를 구하기 위해 육체의 괴물화를 용인해 괴물을 무찌르고 지수와 함께 옥상에 도착한다. 하지만 엄청난 괴물이 되어 나타난 절대 악 신중섭의 등장으로 현수와 은혁은 외롭고도 고독한 마지막 싸움을 시작한다... -
Parasyte, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsSILENT INVASIONThey arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive...Categorized as:
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Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5 by James Tynion IV, Miquel Muerto
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsErica Slaughter strikes out on her own in the bestselling, award-winning series!After a year since we last saw her in Archer’s Peak, Erica Slaughter resurfaces to take on the case of a girl who’s seen a new kind of monster, one with terrifying implications. But Erica’s broken ties with the House of Slaughter and that can have deadly consequences. The Order of St... -
스위트 홈 5 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“녀석은 우리의 강력한 무기가 될 수 있어요.”하나둘씩 괴물화 증상을 보이는 생존자들!촉수 괴물과 싸우다가 극적으로 1층 생존자들과 만나게 된 현수. 그런데 괴물이 되어가는 것은 현수 한 명만이 아니었다. 증상을 숨기는 생존자들로 인해 공동체에는 의심이 싹트기 시작한다. 이런 와중에 현수의 비정상적인 힘을 눈치챈 이은혁은 현수를 이용해 괴물과 싸우려는 작전을 짠다... -
Sweet Home T03 by Youngchan Hwang, Carnby Kim
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSans famille, sans amis, sans espoir... un reclus peut-il survivre à l'apocalypse ? Depuis son écran, Hyeon-Su assiste à l'effondrement de la civilisation et à l'avènement des monstres jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères de l'Etat ! Mais pour lui, au fond, c?a ne change rien... Le monde est tout aussi effrayant qu'avant et le mieux est encore de rester cloîtré... -
스위트 홈 10 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“1층 바리케이드가 무너지고 있어!”그린 홈이 뚫리면서 진짜 모험이 시작되다!위험을 무릅쓰고 밖으로 나가 신중섭 일당의 버스를 탐색하던 편상욱과 이은혁은 버스 안에서 토막 난 시체들을 발견하고 이들이 그린 홈까지 온 경위를 파악하게 된다. 두 사람의 움직임에 괴물들이 그린 홈으로 몰려오게 되고, 편상욱은 이들을 유인하기 위해 그린 홈 반대편으로 이동하지만 결국 엄청난 수에 1층 바리케이드가 뚫리고 마는데…... -
스위트 홈 11 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“내가 대체 뭘 본 거지?”괴물에서 태어난 새로운 인간,과연 희망인가? 절망인가?생존자들은 뒷산 나무에 로프를 고정해 그린 홈을 빠져나가기 위해 옥상으로 향하는데, 현수는 한두식을 구하기 위해 무리에서 나와 지하 주차장으로 발길을 옮긴다. 하지만 한두식은 이미 목숨을 잃은 후고, 현수는 그곳에서 지금껏 보지 못했던 초인을 만나게 된다. 한편 지수는 자신을 희생해 다른 사람들을 살리기 위해 엄청난 볼륨으로 베이스를 연주하기 시작하는데…... -
Sweet Home T09 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEp 94 - 105After an unexpected family tragedy, a reclusive high school student is forced to leave his home -- only to face something much scarier: a reality where monsters are trying to wipe out humanity. Now he must fight alongside a handful of reluctant heroes to try and save the world before it’s too late...
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