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  • The Hunted by Charlie Higson

    The Hunted by Charlie Higson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...
  • Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children...
  • Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck

    Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Escape from the Center of the Earth is the final edition of the blockbusting Center Earth trilogy, closing with a mind-bending climax.'Help me, it’s Ally. Please help me.'A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole – 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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  • Fractured by D.J. Molles

    Fractured by D.J. Molles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    This is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought...
  • Rage by Jonathan Maberry

    Rage by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rage is the first title in Jonathan Maberry's brand new Joe Ledger spin-off series of international weird science thrillers.A small island off the coast of Japan is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and children—insane with murderous rage. The people behind that attack want Korea united or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy...
  • Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...
  • Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Betrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team...
  • Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace...
  • Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Furnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking...
  • Chupacabra by Roland Smith

    Chupacabra by Roland Smith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Monsters of legend come to life! The third thrilling title in Roland Smith's popular Cryptid Hunters series.A mysterious creature, a missing girl, and danger at every turn . . .CHUPACABRA, the riveting sequel to TENTACLES and CRYPTID HUNTERS, reunites Marty and his unusual uncle, cryptozoologist Travis Wolfe, as they search the world for Wolfe's daughter, Grace...
  • The Night Crossing by Robert Masello

    The Night Crossing by Robert Masello

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city...
  • Pandemic by Scott Sigler

    Pandemic by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race...
  • The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the twisted imagination of New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, comes a horrifying revelation about the centuries old Three Days of Darkness prophecy, during which the legions of Hell will be unleashed on the Earth. The Dark is a mind-bending and character driven sci-fi-infused horror novel like no other...
  • Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...
  • Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future...
  • The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals...
  • Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer

    Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BOSTON IS IN RUINSJon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal division, is haunted by Boston’s destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a three-hundred-foot tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell and Nemesis retreated to the ocean’s depths, Hudson has helped prepare the United States against future attacks...
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . .
  • The Forsaken by Erica Stevens

    The Forsaken by Erica Stevens

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    ***Note*** This book is the third compilation of a serial story and therefore does not have a conclusion. This is not a survivalist story.New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas...
  • Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of "Infected" comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda...
  • Alien by Alan Dean Foster

    Alien by Alan Dean Foster

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin...
  • Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries...
  • Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Wayward by Blake Crouch

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Welcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...
  • Lost Valley by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Lost Valley by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    War has a way of following some people...     John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the forty acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.Now, they have to survive a worldwide pandemic...
  • The Divide by Jeremy Robinson

    The Divide by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A wildly exciting journey through a world remade, THE DIVIDE combines real characters with horrifically realized creations, pitting the worst of human nature against the strength of family. Equal parts action, horror, and moving drama that only Jeremy Robinson can pull off.WHEN THE DIVIDE IS CROSSED...No one remembers how the Divide was created...
  • Operation: Siberia by William Meikle

    Operation: Siberia by William Meikle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven't walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have been cloned, revived, and set loose to roam free. And some of them are very hungry...
  • Helicoprion by Michael Cole

    Helicoprion by Michael Cole

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature...
  • The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere

    The Hunted by A.J. Scudiere

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    First they noticed the pets were missing, then the neighborhood of Rowena Heights started losing…people. It was only later that they actually saw the packs of creatures stalking the streets at night. As the Mazurs get close to the truth about the night hunters, they discover the hunters aren’t what they thought at all...
  • Abominable by Alan Nayes

    Abominable by Alan Nayes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A mysterious unidentifiable object is discovered buried deep in an isolated glacier in Alaska’s rugged Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is composed of materials unknown to science and the mystery only deepens when the large unidentified object is determined to be twenty-eight thousand years old. Who left it there so many thousands of years ago? Why? Dr...
  • Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole

    Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter...
  • Blood is Red by Scott Sigler

    Blood is Red by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning "Red Man," plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons...
  • Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Here is another highly entertaining short story featuring Jonathan Maberry's compelling hero, Joe Ledger.This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry's chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems...
  • The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath

    The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge...
  • The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters...
  • Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Held in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet...
  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

    The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen...
  • Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them...
  • Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There is no cure for being stung.Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn’t remember getting…but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided...
  • Earthcore by Scott Sigler

    Earthcore by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode...
  • Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan

    Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ben Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author, Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908...
  • Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist

    Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life out here is hard. So you have to be harder.Willie has always survived. No matter what life in Glory, Texas, has thrown at her. The sickness that swept through the state and turned most living creatures into terrifying shakes. Her own mother succumbing to the disease. Her father disappearing into saloons and gambling and liquor. Willie survives...
  • Fail State by John Birmingham

    Fail State by John Birmingham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    On Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed and cities began to starve. Ten days later millions have died from thirst and starvation, from violence and from the simple failure of the world’s machines to keep them alive...
  • Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This sequel to Patient Zero brings Joe Ledger back into action.Zero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of Maberry’s action-thriller Patient Zero. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally see the tying up of a few loose ends...
  • All These Monsters by Amy Tintera

    All These Monsters by Amy Tintera

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera, a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home—even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back...
  • Leviathan by James Byron Huggins

    Leviathan by James Byron Huggins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not long ago, Jackson Connor was an honest, hardworking electrician. Then came the opportunity of a lifetime--financial security for life in exchange for three years work at a top secret research facility deep beneath desolate Grimwald Island. The reality is more awful than Connor's wildest imaginations. It is Leviathan, a deadly beast--and it's loose...
  • Forsaken by Michael McBride

    Forsaken by Michael McBride

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    IT HAS SURVIVED At a research station in Antarctica, scientists discovered a strange and ancient organism. They thought they could study it, classify it, control it. They couldn't.IT HAS THRIVED Six months ago, a secret paramilitary team called Unit 51 was sent to the station. They thought the creature was dead, the nightmare was over. It wasn't...
  • The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

    The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Bob 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...
  • Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper

    Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more...
  • Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson

    Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    ACE for 9781301779628Jon Hudson, lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center-P, thinks his job is a joke. While other Fusion Centers focus on thwarting terrorist activity, Hudson's division is tasked with handling paranormal threats to national security, of which there have been zero during his years at the DHS...
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