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Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems... -
![Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia]()
Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 32 ratings#5 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself... -
![The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross]()
The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSomeone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross’ Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic,... -
![The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross]()
The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown... -
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![The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross]()
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats... -
![The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross]()
The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires... -
![The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron]()
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Proboscis" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story...Categorized as:
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![The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross]()
The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry - the British secret agency that fights supernatural threats - must team up with the police force, with one unfortunate secret agent caught in the middle.PLAYING WITH DANGERDr. Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'...Categorized as:
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![Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez]()
Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnspeakable horrors threaten the earth in this fantastic new comic fantasy from the author of Divine Misfortune.Diana's life was in a rut -- she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true -- because it was.The apartment was already inhabited -- by monsters... -
![Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard]()
Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him...Categorized as:
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![American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett]()
American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSome places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico...Categorized as:
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![Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory]()
Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom award winning author Daryl Gregory comes a thrilling and colorful Lovecraftian adventure of a teenage boy searching for his mother, and the macabre creatures he encounters. Harrison Harrison—H2 to his mom—is a lonely teenager who’s been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished...Categorized as:
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No Hero by Jonathan Wood
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"What would Kurt Russell do?" Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because Arthur is no hero. He's a good cop, but prefers that action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals... -
![Poseidon’s Children by Michael West]()
Poseidon’s Children by Michael West
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMan no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change... -
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![Kraken by M. Caspian]()
Kraken by M. Caspian
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKraken: A gothic erotic horror with tentacle non-con.When boyfriend Parker gives him an ultimatum Will never dreams his heart is about to be ripped out: move to a remote off-shore island with him, or call it quits. But Will picks wrong, and now he’s heading into the unknown to fix his mistake... -
![Kraken by China Miéville]()
Kraken by China Miéville
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWith this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things... -
![Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero]()
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 40 ratings1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 9: The Wild Hunt by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen ancient giants begin to reawaken in the British Isles, Hellboy is invited to join an ancient band of fellow monster hunters called the Wild Hunt and help bring them down. But an unexpected betrayal sends Hellboy after a quarry far more deadly: the Queen of Blood, first seen in 2007's best-selling Hellboy: Darkness Calls... -
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Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 12: The Storm and the Fury by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 12: The Storm and the Fury by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsMike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo conclude their epic collaboration that began in 2007''s Darkness Calls - a saga that changes everything for Hellboy In The Storm and the Fury, Hellboy cuts a deal with the devious Baba Yaga that may secure the survival of mankind in this follow-up to 2009''s lauded Hellboy: The Wild Hunt...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHellboy has finally returned from his adventures at sea, but no sooner has he settled on land than a conclave of witches drags him from his respite and into the heart of Russian folklore, where he becomes the quarry of the powerful and bloodthirsty witch Baba Yaga...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the nobleman vampire, Vladimir Guirescu. Nazi scientists, revived in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, prepare for the return of Rasputin and the end of the world, and Hellboy confronts his purpose on Earth...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis Hellboy short-story collection includes the following stories with the author’s notes preceding each tale: “Wolves of Saint August”; “The Corpse and the Iron Shoes”; “A Christmas Underground”; “The Chained Coffin”; and “Almost Colossus...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean...Categorized as:
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![B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 2 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi]()
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 2 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn 2001, Hellboy quit the B.P.R.D., leaving Abe Sapien to lead Liz Sherman and a bizarre roster of special agents, defending the world from occult threats, including the growing menace of the frog army, first spotted in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. Mike Mignola and Dark Horse present the complete Plague of Frogs saga, from Hollow Earth to The King of Fear... -
![B.P.R.D., Vol. 5: The Black Flame by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi]()
B.P.R.D., Vol. 5: The Black Flame by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense faces its worst tragedy ever as the war against the plague of frogs reaches a devastating new level. Heralded by a bizarre villain from the B.P.R.D.'s past, an ancient monster-god marches across the American heartland portending an end to the reign of men, and leaving a permanent mark on the Bureau...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart]()
Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Eisner Award-winning mini-series The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D...Categorized as:
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![Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola]()
Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe world's greatest paranormal investigator takes on a carnivorous house, space aliens, a vampire luchador, a vengeful lion demon, and more in this collection featuring the work of comic greats Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Kevin Nowlan, and Scott Hampton... -
![Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne]()
Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster films. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...
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