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Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAfter thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream for humanity nearly accomplished, the emperor hands over the reins of power to his warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra... -
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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way... -
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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... -
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Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment... -
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![Leviathan by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson]()
Leviathan by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. - Hagbard Celine, LeviathanIlluminatus! Part III cheerfully ushers in the apocalyptic high-camp conclusion of the Illuminatus! Trilogy...Categorized as:
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![The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft]()
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]()
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... -
![SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror by Geoff Brown, Amanda J. Spedding]()
SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror by Geoff Brown, Amanda J. Spedding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWar is hell . . . Soldiers fight to survive. They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside. Sometimes, they fight real monsters. This book collects stories of ancient myths, time travelers, horrors in the old west . . . and the soldiers who fight them... -
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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... -
![Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLESCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN AWAKING NIGHTMARE...Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders...Categorized as:
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The Thing by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.Soon it will be free...TWELVE MENTrapped in the Antarctic.ELEVENDiscover the intruder.TENBattle the alien force.NINEAgonise for the answer.EIGHTDesperate to be spared.SEVENConsumed one by one.SIX...FIVE...FOUR...THREE...They will all die.Unless something, anything stops.. -
![The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin]()
The Country Under Heaven by Frederic S. Durbin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLouis L’Amour meets H.P. Lovecraft in this thrilling western epic about a former Civil War soldier following enigmatic visions that started coming to him after he survived one of the war's bloodiest battles . . .Set in the 1880s, the story follows Ovid Vesper, a former Union soldier who has been having enigmatic visions after an explosion at the Battle of Antietam...Categorized as:
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Blindsight by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us... -
![The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch]()
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
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![Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall]()
Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bizarro tribute to Spaghetti westerns, H.P. Lovecraft, and foot fetish enthusiasts.Screwhorse, Nevada is legendary for its violent and unusual pleasures, but when a mysterious gunslinger drags a wooden donkey into the desert town, the stage is set for a bloodbath unlike anything the west has ever seen. His name is Calamaro, and he's from New Jersey...Categorized as:
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![Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane]()
Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.’England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson... -
![City of the Dead by Brian Keene]()
City of the Dead by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs the world succumbs to a devastating plague that brings its victims back from the dead, eager to destroy all that is living, a group of survivors, trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, must fight for their survival against an indestructible enemy that keeps coming back... -
![In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss by H.P. Lovecraft]()
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... -
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The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Signalman returns in The Tindalos Asset.A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling... -
![Overtime by Charles Stross]()
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... -
![Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds]()
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsNine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity... -
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Dead Sea by Tim Curran
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the crew of a lost freighter finds themselves trapped in a gruesome dimension—of sea monsters, ghost ships, and the undead—it is up to them to locate the U.S.S. Lancet and convince a nearly insane physicist to help them return home... -
![The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross]()
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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![Ice Rift by Ben Hammott]()
Ice Rift by Ben Hammott
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAction adventure sci-fi horror set in Antarctica. Humans have always looked to the stars for signs of Extraterrestrials. They have been looking in the wrong place. They are already here, entombed in a spaceship beneath Antarctic ice for thousands of years. The ice is melting and they will soon be free... -
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Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPunktown - a crime ridden-metropolis on the colony world of Oasis - is home to the scum of countless alien races. Stalking the mean streets is private detective Jeremy Stake, whose destiny is set on a collision course with Fukuda and a one-of-a-kind living doll... -
![Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.]()
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Who Goes There?" The novella that formed the basis of "The Thing" is the John W. Campbell classic about an antarctic research camp that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien. The creature revives with terrifying results, shape-shifting to assume the exact form of animal and man, alike... -
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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... -
![World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories by Brian M. Sammons, John Shirley]()
World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories by Brian M. Sammons, John Shirley
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terrors battled it out across this planet and this known universe in ways unimaginable. It has always been a losing battle for our side since time began...Categorized as:
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![The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins]()
The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"One of the most intriguing post-apocalyptic novels I've read in a long time," - David Moody, author of Autumn and Hater. A PLAGUE HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE LAND. SLAUGHTER FILLS THE STREETS. ALL SEEMS LOST. After Great Britain is hit by a devastating epidemic, four old friends must cross the war-torn country to get home to their families... -
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Kaiju Winter by Jake Bible
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Yellowstone super volcano has begun to erupt, sending North America into chaos and the rest of the world into panic. People are dangerous and desperate to escape the oncoming mega-eruption, knowing it will plunge the continent, and the world, into a perpetual ashen winter... -
![The Fold by Peter Clines]()
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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![Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson]()
Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first novel in the multi-million dollar video game franchise Dead SpaceWhen geophysicist Michael Altman hears of the mysterious signal emitted from deep within the Chicxulub crater, he can not resist the lure of an undiscovered artifact. With his girlfriend Ada, he joins a team excavating the underwater crater, determined to find the source of the baffling message... -
![Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr.]()
Frozen Hell by John W. Campbell Jr.
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn 1938, acclaimed science fiction author John W. Campbell published the novella Who Goes There?, about a team of scientists in Antarctica who discover and are terrorized by a monstrous, shape-shifting alien entity. The story would later be adapted into John Carpenter's iconic movie The Thing (following an earlier film adaptation in 1951)... -
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A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations... -
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![The Specimen by Pete Kahle]()
The Specimen by Pete Kahle
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a crater lake on an island off the coast of Bronze Age Estonia…To a crippled Viking warrior’s conquest of England …To the bloody temple of an Aztec god of death and resurrection…Their presence has shaped our world. They are the Riders.One month ago, an urban explorer was drawn to an abandoned asylum in the mountains of northern Massachusetts...Categorized as:
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![Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale]()
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... -
![Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl by Terrance Dicks]()
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl by Terrance Dicks
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings`The Fendahl is death,' said the Doctor. `How do you kill death itself?'The ultra-modern technology of the Time Scanner combines with the ancient evil of Fetch Wood, and brings to life a terror that has lain hidden for twelve million years.The Doctor and Leela fight to destroy the Fendahl, a recreated menace that threatens to devour all life in the galaxy...Categorized as:
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![Lacuna's Point by Tim Meyer]()
Lacuna's Point by Tim Meyer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree years ago, Ellie Brower’s daughter went missing somewhere in the heart of Virginia. Today, Ellie receives a mysterious text message that leads her to believe her daughter might still be alive. She follows this rabbit hole to the coastal town of Lacuna’s Point. But there’s something wrong with this place. The town’s only constable is zero help and downright hostile... -
![The Rising by Brian Keene]()
The Rising by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsSince it's 2003 debut, Brian Keene's THE RISING is one of the best-selling zombie novels of all-time. It has been translated into over a dozen languages, inspired the works of other authors and filmmakers, and has become a cultural touchstone for an entire generation of horror fans... -
![Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon]()
Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsAs a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.When a shuttle crashed into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns... -
![Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsChilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian TchaikovskyMy name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut... -
![Ghosts of War by George Mann]()
Ghosts of War by George Mann
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGhosts of War picks up the story a month after the end of Ghosts of Manhattan. New York City is being plagued by a pack of ferocious brass raptors – strange, skeleton-like creations with bat-like wings that swoop out of the sky, attacking people and carrying them away into the night... -
![Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene]()
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out...Categorized as:
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![The Mirrored Shard by Caitlin Kittredge]()
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... -
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![Nightflyers and Other Stories by George R.R. Martin]()
Nightflyers and Other Stories by George R.R. Martin
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFrom #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones: Nightflyers, coming to television on SyFy, is an epic story of space exploration and cosmic horror, plus five George R. R. Martin classic science fiction tales.On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race...Categorized as:
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![Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
Black Helicopters by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Black Helicopters is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated original.Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency’s world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable...Categorized as:
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![Gears of a Mad God: A Steampunk Lovecraft Adventure by Brent Nichols]()
Gears of a Mad God: A Steampunk Lovecraft Adventure by Brent Nichols
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsProper young ladies in the 1920s don't get dirty, and they don't get into fights. But Colleen's uncle is killed, and she wants answers. When a sinister cult targets her, she pushes back - hard. Now she's running for her life. It will take all her courage, all her strength, and every steam-powered weapon she can devise to keep her alive long enough to unravel the mystery of her uncle's death...Categorized as:
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![Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer]()
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another... -
![The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge]()
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... -
![Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer]()
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsIt is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion...
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