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The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end... -
The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings48 Classic Horror Books in One Volume! NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader. ----- From the mind of pulp great, H.P. Lovecraft...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... -
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...Categorized as:
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14 by Peter Clines
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsPadlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches.There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment.Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable...Categorized as:
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In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1939. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science... -
Overtime by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIntroduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race... -
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed...Categorized as:
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Terminus by Peter Clines, Ray Porter
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMurdoch's past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He's been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he's been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things. Chase has spent the past year just trying to get away...Categorized as:
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The Fold by Peter Clines
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsSTEP INTO THE FOLD. IT’S PERFECTLY SAFE. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence...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... -
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubterranean Press is thrilled to announce the novel-length prequel to the classic story, "Bubba Ho-Tep."Before Bubba Ho-Tep, there was Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers... -
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The Nightmare Garden by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEverything Aoife thought she knew about the world was a lie. Her brother isn't at Ravenhouse. Her best friend isn't who she thought he was. And there's no such thing as the Necrovirus. Her mother didn't go mad from a dormant strain, she's simply allergic to iron. As is Aoife. Because Aoife is no ordinary girl. Like her brother, Conrad, she is half human and half Fae, from the land of Thorn...Categorized as:
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Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman... -
The Mirrored Shard by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Dean was shot and killed in the Arctic north, he was ripped not only from the Iron Lands but from Aoife Grayson's life. Aoife has sworn to bring her love back, even if she must face death to do it. But she can't get to the Deadlands on her own... -
The House that Fell from the Sky by Patrick R. Delaney
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen twenty-nine-year-old Scarlett Vantassel comes to the conclusion that her life doesn't resemble any of the things she actually wanted for herself, she drops out of school and moves back home, attempting to reconnect with the people she left behind... -
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft... -
Ghosts of Manhattan by George Mann
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107...Categorized as:
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