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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... -
![Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright]()
Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright's brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land... -
![A Song for the Void by Andrew C. Piazza]()
A Song for the Void by Andrew C. Piazza
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Mind Imprisoned Is The Greatest Of Hells.1853. South China Sea. While on patrol between the Opium Wars, the crew of the steam frigate HMS Charger pursues a fleet of pirates that have been terrorizing the waters surrounding Hong Kong.But now the hunters have become the hunted. Something else has come to the South China Sea, something ancient and powerful and malevolent... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![The Dry Salvages by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
The Dry Salvages by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author Caitlmn R. Kiernan, best known for her contemporary settings, "gothnoir" tales of pain and wonder, and atmospheric stories of Lovecraftian terror, was first published as an author of dark science fiction. Now she returns to sf with a masterful thirty-thousand word novella, The Dry Salvages... -
![Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first horrible incident of our acquaintance was the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in the medical school1 where West had already made himself notorious through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially... -
![Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud]()
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCrypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe... -
![No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed]()
No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the World Fantasy Award, and the Alberta Literary AwardFinalist for the Locus, Aurora, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and British Science Fiction AwardsHere there be gods and monsters - forged from flesh and stone and vengeance - emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and... -
![The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
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... -
![The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane, Stephen King]()
The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane, Stephen King
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy... -
![A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather]()
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence."An entrancing and transformative queer tale of cosmic horror."―Caitlin Starling" A blood sacrifice of a novel... -
![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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![Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media... -
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![The Hollows by Daniel Church]()
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... -
![Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
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... -
![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... -
![H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1 by Gou Tanabe]()
H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 1 by Gou Tanabe
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFROM THE ARTIST OF THE EISNER-NOMINATED H.P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES!January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica...to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead. Some are hideously mangled, as if in rage--some have been dissected in a curious and cold-blooded manner. Some are missing... -
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H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Volume 2 by Gou Tanabe, 田辺 剛
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFROM THE ARTIST OF THE EISNER-NOMINATED H.P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES!Dyer and Danforth from the Miskatonic University research team take their small plane through the unknown Antarctic mountain range--and land to explore the vast, cyclopean alien city that lies beyond it. Here at last they will discover the hideous secret of all life on Earth . . -
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Necronomicon by H.R. Giger, Clive Barker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"H.R. GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: A startling milestone on the darkly lit road once traveled by the likes of Bosch, Brueghel, Lovecraft, Poe and Kafka. Giger's remarkable book of the dead gives us some of the most powerful images ever an artist drew from the well of the imagination... -
![Outer Darkness, Vol. 1: Each Other's Throats by John Layman, Afu Chan]()
Outer Darkness, Vol. 1: Each Other's Throats by John Layman, Afu Chan
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSci-fi and horror collide in this new series from the creator of CHEW!Mankind has colonized the galaxy, but during our interstellar travels, we've discovered a terrifying secret out in the Outer Darkness of space... -
![The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsVoted one of the top ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2001 by Cinescape Magazine."The Shadow out of Time" is H. P. Lovecraft's last major story. It was first published in Astounding Stories for June 1936. And yet, this text has never been published as Lovecraft wrote it--until now... -
![The Shambler from the Stars by Robert Bloch]()
The Shambler from the Stars by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Shambler from the Stars is a horror short story written by Robert Bloch and first published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales. It was later included as part of his first published book, The Opener of the Way (1945), and his 1994 collection The Early Fears... -
![At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville]()
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLong acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness... -
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