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Good Omens by Dirk Maggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman’s celebrated apocalyptic comic novel, with bonus length episodes and outtakes.According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday in fact. Just after Any Answers on Radio 4….Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days... -
![The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis]()
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 78 ratingsThe story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior "tempter" named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of a British man, known only as "the Patient".Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter... -
![Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman]()
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 95 ratings‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don’t let you go around again until you get it right.’People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day... -
![Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore]()
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsThe birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday...Categorized as:
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![Merciful Secrets: A Whispering Pines Mystery, Book 8 by Shawn McGuire]()
Merciful Secrets: A Whispering Pines Mystery, Book 8 by Shawn McGuire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCelebrate the season in Whispering Pines with snow, mistletoe, and murder.Preparations for the Yuletide festival are in full swing, and so is the gossip about a blackmailing villager. Sheriff Jayne O’Shea doesn’t have time or patience for small-town rumors. After two long years overseas, her father is coming for a visit and everything has to be perfect... -
![Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay]()
Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe tree is trimmed. The mistletoe is hung. The eggnog is spiked. It’s time to celebrate the merriest, most heart-warming Christmas ever! Or not? No. Definitely, absolutely not. This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like Ash vs Evil Dead meets National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Because the Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails... -
![Beelzebelle by Heide Goody]()
Beelzebelle by Heide Goody
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo the devil a daughter! Parenthood can come as a shock to some. It’s especially shocking if you are Satan, the Prince of Hell, and are trying to live a quiet life of semi-retirement in suburban England under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof... -
![The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies]()
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth Business Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and...Categorized as:
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![Midlife Magic & Medusa by Meredith Carlisle]()
Midlife Magic & Medusa by Meredith Carlisle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlex has barely strapped on her magical training wheels when a gorgon slithers into town! Medusa isn’t just seeking asylum, either. She expects Alex’s help in breaking her own family’s infamous curse.Old hatred runs deep in creatures with such long memories, and keeping the entire town from going after Medusa with their own torches and pitchforks may prove impossible... -
![The Devil's Pawn by Oliver Pötzsch]()
The Devil's Pawn by Oliver Pötzsch
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA showman’s fate is in the hands of the devil in an enthralling novel inspired by the Faust legend from the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daughter series.Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse—before the devil gets his due... -
![Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart]()
Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory.”What if you could travel inside another person’s soul?To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds... -
![Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Pigeonwings by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs punishment for his part in an attempted coup in Heaven, the Archangel Michael is banished to Earth. The holiest of the angelic host has to learn to live as a mortal, not an easy job when you’ve got Satan as a next-door neighbour.Michael soon finds that being a good person involves more than helping out at Sunday school and attending church coffee mornings... -
![Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart]()
Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaven is the second book in The Balance series - a collection of paranormal thrillers dealing with the unseen world of balancing powers.Too often life is viewed in terms of good and evil, black or white, and the balance point tipping in either direction is ignored... -
![Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin]()
Beyond by Catina Haverlock, Angela Larkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Sequel out 2018***“Dangerous. Wrong. She could be so close to finding out who I really am, and I don’t want to think about how badly that could damage her. If I have any conscience,I’ll turn and run. But I can’t let her go.” Presley Hale has no idea the guy she just told off in the school parking lot died in a drowning accident four months ago... -
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![The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent]()
The Dark Tower Companion by Bev Vincent
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAN ALL-NEW COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY CONSTRUCTED WORLDS IN ALL OF FICTION Stephen King’s bestselling multi-volume Dark Tower series is the author’s most inspired and imaginative creation... -
![Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay]()
Critters from the Poo Lagoon : A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature (24/7 Demon Mart Stories Book 2) by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and the creatures who just crawled out of the toilet at Jennifer Wallace's charity luau. Wait, what? Back up.It's Friday night, and the Wallace family is hosting a charity pool party at Caroline Ford Vanderbilt's super snooty Country Club... -
![Vampire in Conflict by Dale Mayer]()
Vampire in Conflict by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe blood farm is gone. Those behind it have either died, been caught, or are on the run. Time to return to the real world.Only normal life isn't quite what Tessa expected. Good thing, because there is no 'normal' anymore. She's different. Her family is different. Her friends are different. The world around her is different. Trying to find her place is not easy... -
![Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight]()
Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst published in 1938 and 1956, neither Sea Priestess nor Moon Magic have been out of print and are enduring favorites among readers of esoteric fiction. New packages will update these classic novels and introduce them to a new generation of readers... -
![The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown]()
The Unhappy Medium 2: Tom Fool: A Supernatural Comedy by T.J. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDr Newton Barlow and the Purgatorians are back. Now that the fight between good and evil has become routine, one-time sceptical physicist and unhappy medium, Dr Newton Barlow, is badly in need of a challenge. It arrives in the shape of a crime so cunning in its planning, so dastardly in its execution, that even the hyper-logical Dr Barlow will struggle to prevent it... -
![Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Team:Joan of Arc, the armour-plated teen saint of Orleans.Francis of Assisi, friend to all the animals whether they like it or not.St Christopher, the patron saint of travel who by papal decree has never existed – no matter how much he argues otherwise.The Mission: An impossible prayer has been received by Heaven and it’s a prayer that only Mary, Mother of God, can answer... -
![Gus Was A Friendly Ghost by Jane Thayer]()
Gus Was A Friendly Ghost by Jane Thayer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBack in print from Purple House Press!There was once a friendly ghost, by the name of Gus, who lived in an old house in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their twins, Susie and Sammy, lived there too during the summer. Then autumn came and the Scott family left. Which meant Gus had nothing to do but sit around. One day, during a walk, he met Mouse, who was cold and hungry... -
![The Reluctant Demon by Mark Cain]()
The Reluctant Demon by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSatan has made a new demon, and he’s a doozy, maybe the most powerful ever created. There’s just one problem … this freshly-minted hellion isn’t sure he wants the job. In the wacky final volume of the Circles in Hell series, Steve Minion attends Beast Barracks, where he learns both the arcane and mundane arts of being a servant of the Devil... -
![Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife at St Cadfan’s is never dull. There’s the cellar full of unexplained corpses. There’s the struggle to find food when the island is placed under quarantine. And there’s that peculiar staircase in the cellar… Being a demon in Hell has its own problems. There’s the increasingly impossible torture quotas to meet. There’s the entire horde of Hell waiting for you to slip up and make a mistake... -
![A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman]()
A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a derelict country church is bought by a pagan couple, the local evangelical minister reacts with fury. A modern witch hunt begins, and Merrily Watkins is expected to keep a lid on the cauldron. Meanwhile, there is the problem of the man who won’t be parted from his dead wife, the ancient mystery of the five local churches dedicated to St. Michael, and a killer with an old tradition to guard... -
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![Between by Mary Ting]()
Between by Mary Ting
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAs the alkins head back to Crossroads, Claudia leads her normal life; but not for long. Having a special soul, Claudia attracts danger, and she soon finds out who Gamma asked to watch over her. The Twelve, known as Divine Elders on Earth, are very much involved when they find out that Aliah, one of the God's first angels, escaped from the Abyss when the gates were opened by Aden... -
![The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain]()
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsrelates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the year 1702. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. "Eseldorf" is German for "Assville" or "Donkeytown"... -
![Grey: The Balance: Book One by Nick Shamhart]()
Grey: The Balance: Book One by Nick Shamhart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrey is a paranormal thriller dealing with the unseen world of balancing powers. Too often life is viewed in terms of good and evil, black or white, and the balance point tipping in either direction is ignored... -
![To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin, Mark McLaughlin]()
To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin, Mark McLaughlin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSince the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird fiction with a distinctively cosmic and spiritual focus. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti, Cardin explores the convergence of religion, horror, and art in a cosmos that may be actively hostile to our species. In this substantial volume, Cardin gathers the totality of his short fiction...Categorized as:
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![ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family by Carlton Mellick, III]()
ClownFellas: Tales of the Bozo Family by Carlton Mellick, III
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Carlton Mellick III goes past silly, through weird, detours around dumb, blasts through bizarre, and gets to a place where the normal physics of narrative no longer apply. You will never be the same... -
![Nature's God by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Nature's God by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhile Sigismundo prepares to contest the most powerful of the Indian medicine men, Moon, Washington, and the troops are waging an equally desperate battle for survival. These are the events which will soon reshape the world... -
![The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune]()
The Sea Priestess by Dion Fortune
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path... -
![Deal With The Devil by Mark Cain]()
Deal With The Devil by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA kidnapping, a dangerous new devil: Steve and Orson confront another mystery, involving their closest friends, while Satan tries to recruit Steve to the Demon Corps... -
![Merciless by Robin Parrish]()
Merciless by Robin Parrish
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvil has infiltrated our world. His name is Oblivion and his touch is death. He devastates the planet, turning it into a twisted, barren world. A dark world. And Grant Borrows, the one man powerful enough to oppose him, is dead.As Grant's remaining friends learn the ultimate truth behind the events that shaped their lives, they secretly gather for one last battle... -
![It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God... -
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![The Ishbane Conspiracy by Angela Alcorn, Karina Alcorn]()
The Ishbane Conspiracy by Angela Alcorn, Karina Alcorn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJillian is picture-perfect on the outside, but terrified of getting hurt on the inside. Brittany is a tough girl who trusts almost no one. Ian is a successful athlete who dabbles in the occult. And Rob is a former gang-banger who struggles with guilt, pain, and a newfound faith in God. These four college students will face the ultimate battle between good and evil in a single year... -
![The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt]()
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere are more ways than one to view the Devil and his works. In this collection of ten original stories, Natalie Babbitt offers us a middle-aged Old Scratch with a tender ego, proud of Hell and anxious for his reputation; a plotter at once pompous and naive who has a way of losing as often as he wins. Nothing metaphysical here--this devil, rather, has an all-too-human nature... -
![Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook]()
Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The sensation of falling was terrifying…we tumbled out of the realm of the heavenly light into perpetual darkness. We had not seen darkness before--not like this anyway... A strange man shows up at the office of language expert Samantha Yale with a mysterious scroll written in an even more mysterious language... -
![Dark Faith by Maurice Broaddus, Jerry Gordon]()
Dark Faith by Maurice Broaddus, Jerry Gordon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's Damnation... -
![The Scream by Bill Myers, James Riordan]()
The Scream by Bill Myers, James Riordan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“He has no concept of the danger he’s in.”Rebecca Williams is about to learn this firsthand. She and her brother, Scott, are going to L.A. to the hottest concert in the country. What could be better than that?Rebecca knows she should be excited but since she read Z’s e-mail all she feels is apprehension. They’ve been asked to help the drummer for The Scream, the nation’s top rock band...Categorized as:
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![I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III]()
I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJonathan Vandervoo lives a carefree life in a house made of legos, spending his days building lego sculptures and his nights getting drunk with his only friend-an alcoholic sumo wrestler named Shoji. It's a pleasant life with no responsibility, until the day he meets Lici. She's a soul-sucking demon from hell with red skin, glowing eyes, a forked tongue, and pointy red devil horns.. -
![Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within by John Skipp, George R.R. Martin]()
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within by John Skipp, George R.R. Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWerewolves and shapeshifters have morphed into the latest pop culture stars. This mind-bending collection includes thirty-two new and classic stories from the best writers in the genreWerewolves and shapeshifters are the latest literary craze following vampires and zombies... -
![The Cards by Bill Myers, James Riordan]()
The Cards by Bill Myers, James Riordan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPhilip pulled his car to the curb, turned off the engine, and then sat for a long minute…Was he really going to do this? What were the odds that a little stack of cards could give him the answers and the hope he craved?Philip’s world spins out of control as questions loom about his future...Categorized as:
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![Grey Magic by JT Lawrence]()
Grey Magic by JT Lawrence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn eccentric modern-day witch, accused of murder, must explore her past lives in order to keep her freedom -- and find her way back to magic. No one appreciates the irony of her situation more than Raven Kane: she's a burnt-out witch. Raven is a hip, hexing-and-texting sorceress - or at least, she used to be... -
![Inferno by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle]()
Inferno by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the 6th Pocket printing.Cover Artist: Harry BennettAn unearthly voice hisses unholy welcome. And the late, great Allen Carpentier begins his one-way journey into the dim nether regions where flame-colored demons wield diabolically sharp pitchforks and tormented vixens reign forever in a pond of sheer ice... -
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![Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready]()
Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in modern-day Washington, D.C., Requiem for the Devil depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation... -
![Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia... -
![When the Day of Evil Comes by Melanie Wells]()
When the Day of Evil Comes by Melanie Wells
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBizarre Encounter Initiates Extreme Spiritual BattleDylan Foster’s carefully constructed, orderly world begins to fray, thread by thread, the day the eyes of hell turn upon her. After a chance encounter with a creepy, sickly looking stranger, her days become punctuated with disturbing, inexplicable events... -
![The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining, Elizabeth Albright]()
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining, Elizabeth Albright
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead--from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side... -
![The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach]()
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis... -
![Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy by Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman]()
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy by Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom ghost stories to psychological suspense, the complete horror and dark fantasy stories of Rudyard Kipling.Rudyard Kipling, a major figure of English literature, used the full power and intensity of his imagination and his writing ability in his excursions into fantasy. Kipling is considered one of England's greatest writers, but was born in Bombay...
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