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The Green Mile: The Screenplay by Frank Darabont
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the guards and prisoners around him reexamine their... -
![Hollywood Dead by Richard Kadrey]()
Hollywood Dead by Richard Kadrey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLife and death takes on an entirely new meaning for half-angel, half-human hero James Stark, aka, Sandman Slim, in this insanely inventive, high-intensity tenth supernatural noir thriller in the New York Times bestselling series.James Stark is back from Hell, trailing more trouble in his wake. To return to L.A... -
![Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant]()
Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhy sell your soul when you can rent it? Mark Vedis is an average cop. Average for a mage in the Paranormal Police Department (PPD), anyway. After years of doing the jobs nobody else wanted, his career, and life, seemed to be on hold... -
![A Drink Before We Die by Daniel Polansky]()
A Drink Before We Die by Daniel Polansky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA thrilling introduction to the world of the widely acclaimed Low Town trilogy.Rigus is the greatest city in the Thirteen Lands, a glittering metropolis of towering citadels and sumptuous manors, where bored nobles settle affairs of honor with cold steel, and sorcerers craft enchantments of wonder and majesty... -
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![Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen]()
Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"You know, we've never really talked about what it means that you've claimed me."Newbie vamp Anja Evans is eager to find out what it means to be claimed by sexy, vampire cop, Bishop. Unfortunately, he's been transferred by the Order and she's left to fend for herself... -
![Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias]()
Zero Saints by Gabino Iglesias
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now.But Fernando isn't put down that easily... -
![The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly]()
The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn't believe in ghosts, until she met the ghost of hard-boiled 1940s private investigator Jack Shepard. And when Pen's friend and mailman, Seymour Tarnish, gets into deep trouble, Pen not only believes in her ghost, she also thinks he can help.. -
![Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust]()
Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA truck full of illegal Mexican immigrants slaughtered with supernatural force is found by the side of a road. Trying to find answers, Sam and Dean are plunged into the dangerous world that exists along the Mexican border. They encounter a tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle who seems be everywhere they go before they get there... -
![Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane]()
Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3... -
![الجزار by حسن الجندي]()
الجزار by حسن الجندي
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsاعذرنى وددت لو تشاركنى فى تذوق ذلك اللحم ولكن اعرف ان ستمانع قليلا لاسباب شخصيةقال الرجل العبارة السابقة ثم اشار بإحدى يديه اتجاه معين فى جسد الرجل الاخر فما كان من الرجل الاخر الا انه حاول بشئ من الجهد ان يحرك رقبته لينظر للموضع الذى اشار له الرجل الذى ياكل اللحم بعد مجهود استطاع تحريك رقبته لاسفل قليلا ليجد انه نام لون احمر يقابل عينيه اثناء نزولها لاسفل فجأة شاهد الرجل شئ ما عند قدمه فاتسعت... -
![Swift to Chase by Laird Barron, Paul Tremblay]()
Swift to Chase by Laird Barron, Paul Tremblay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLaird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas... -
![Lady Crymsyn by P.N. Elrod]()
Lady Crymsyn by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVampire detective Jack Fleming made a good bit of money cleaning up the streets of post-prohibition Chicago--enough to realize his dream of owning a nightclub. During renovations, workmen discover the remains of a woman, clad in a distinctive red dress... -
![The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford]()
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can't guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, who gives Danny a job, a home, and a new identity.The City is a different world from the one Danny — now called Doc — knew, and literally so... -
![Titanshade by Dan Stout]()
Titanshade by Dan Stout
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis noir fantasy thriller from a debut author introduces the gritty town of Titanshade, where danger lurks around every corner. "Take a little Mickey Spillane, some Dashiell Hammet, a bit of Raymond Chandler, and mix it with Phillip K. Dick's Blade Runner; add a taste of CJ Box, and Craig Johnson, and you've got a masterpiece of a first novel." --W... -
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![The City by S.C. Mendes]()
The City by S.C. Mendes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChinatown, 1910. Violence is nothing new to these streets, but the discovery of three bodies—little more than piles of flesh and organs, the bones stolen—have proven to be the most bizarre murders to date. The police turn to Max Elliot, an unstable homicide detective, who six months earlier lost his wife and daughter under similar circumstances... -
![The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson]()
The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories represent the future of genre-bending fiction from some of our brightest and most original voices... -
![La octava plaga (Saga Casasola) by Bernardo Esquinca]()
La octava plaga (Saga Casasola) by Bernardo Esquinca
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCasasola debe investigar una serie de asesinatos para conservar ese empleo que no lo satisface, ante la mirada escrutadora y los consejos inútiles de Rivas-Souza, el soberbio jefe de redacción... -
![Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal]()
Torture, luxure et lecture by Patrick Senécal
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCroyez-le ou non, malgré les terribles événements qui ont perturbé la première semaine de cours, la session d’automne s’est poursuivie comme si de rien n’était au cégep de Malphas. On a même eu droit, au département de littérature, à un nouveau collègue, Michel Condé, qui a décidé de fonder un club de lecture... -
![Art in the Blood by P.N. Elrod]()
Art in the Blood by P.N. Elrod
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm a vampire, not an artist, but I know what I like.And I don't like murder:So when the career of a talented young artist is fatally cut short, I know I won't sleep easy in my coffin until I find the killer: But the world of high art--with its big money, bigger egos, and expensive forgeries--makes even bloodsucking seem simple. And safer... -
![The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs]()
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing... -
![The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell]()
The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect .1927: Mary Rourke—a Hollywood studio fixer—is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film... -
![City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore]()
City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturning as a zombie after being bumped off by a rival crime boss, Joe Sunday tries to locate a talisman that can grant immortality before every other thug in Los Angeles can find it... -
!["Diane..." - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost, Kyle MacLachlan]()
"Diane..." - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost, Kyle MacLachlan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on the television series Twin Peaks. Here are the actual dictation tapes of FBI Agent Cooper, Chief Investigator of the Laura Palmer murder, plus never-before-heard tapes... -
![The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes]()
The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends.Most ideas fade away when we're done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from? Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world... -
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![Umney's Last Case by Stephen King]()
Umney's Last Case by Stephen King
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStephen King's brilliant homage to Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald's noir classics--complete with a hard-bitten private eye who has bitten off a bit more than he can chew... -
![Premonitions by Jude Watson]()
Premonitions by Jude Watson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears... -
![Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict]()
Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSylvie Lightner is a P.I. specializing in the unusual—in a world where magic is real, and Hell is just around the corner. After escaping secret government cells and destroying a Miami landmark, Sylvie’s trying to lay low—something that gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But these magical attacks are a risk to bystanders, and Sylvie can’t let that slide... -
![Supernatural Noir by Ellen Datlow, Gregory Frost]()
Supernatural Noir by Ellen Datlow, Gregory Frost
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret . . .Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within... -
![Love is the Law by Nick Mamatas]()
Love is the Law by Nick Mamatas
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1989, punk-rock girl "Golden" Dawn has crafted an outsider's life combining the philosophies of Communism and Aleister Crowley's black magic. One fateful day she finds the dead body of her mentor in both politics and magick shot in the head, seemingly a suicide. But Dawn knows there's more going on than the cops could ever hope to find... -
![Le cas des casiers carnassiers by Patrick Senécal]()
Le cas des casiers carnassiers by Patrick Senécal
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUn professeur nommé Julien Sarkozy est obligé d'aller enseigner à Malphas, collège d'une petite ville perdue dans le fin fond du Québec. Croyant avoir trouvé un endroit plutôt tranquille, il se rend vite compte qu'il se passe des choses étranges... Je m'appelle Julien Sarkozy... -
![Man with No Name by Laird Barron, Feodor Chin]()
Man with No Name by Laird Barron, Feodor Chin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA violent tale of horror from award-winning author Laird Barron, the heir apparent to H. P. Lovecraft's throne.Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks to become a dreaded enforcer... -
![Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives, Volume 1 by Otto Penzler]()
Bloodsuckers: The Vampire Archives, Volume 1 by Otto Penzler
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you’re in its clutches there's no escape. From the first to last bite, it's a bloody good read... -
![The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams]()
The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsBobby Dollar is an angel -- a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby's wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own -- pride, anger, even lust.But his problems aren't all his fault... -
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![Djävulens märke by Magnus Nordin]()
Djävulens märke by Magnus Nordin
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHäxor och ond bråd död!"Djävulens Märke" är en suggestiv spänningsberättelse om en vikarie som under den välordnade ytan döljer en ondska hennes elever aldrig kan ana. Värstingklassen 9c i Katarinaskolan får en dag en ny vikarie. Malin, som hon heter, är ung, snygg och trevlig, och på något sätt lyckas hon få de allra stökigaste eleverna att lugna sig... -
![Something More Than Night by Kim Newman]()
Something More Than Night by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDulwich College, England 1904. A young Raymond Chandler meets an enthusiastic cricketer named Billy Pratt (later Boris Karloff). Sharing a sense of being outsiders at school, the two young men become friends and Chandler encourages Pratt to help him uncover the mystery of the housemaster's strange wife and various disappearing objects. What the boys uncover will haunt them their whole lives.. -
![Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis]()
Hard Spell by Justin Gustainis
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsStan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit.Like the rest of America, Scranton's got an uneasy 'live and let unlive' relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that's when they call Markowski. He carries a badge... -
![Premonitions by Jamie Schultz]()
Premonitions by Jamie Schultz
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTWO MILLION DOLLARS... It’s the kind of score Karyn Ames has always dreamed of—enough to set her crew up pretty well and, more important, enough to keep her safely stocked on a very rare, very expensive black market drug... -
![Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon]()
Pretty Little Dead Things by Gary McMahon
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThomas Usher has a terrible gift. Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight.When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn apart once more. For the barriers between this world and the next are not as immutable as once he believed... -
![Stalking the Unicorn by Mike Resnick]()
Stalking the Unicorn by Mike Resnick
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJohn Just Mallory, a down-on-his-luck private eye, is hired by an elf to find a missing unicorn in that Manhattan you can only see out of the corner of your eye, but which vanishes when you turn to face it. Mallory has one night to solve the crime and save his own life in almost-familiar world filled with goblins, leprechauns, elves, and the most powerful demon on the East Coast... -
![Yo no la maté by Fernando Trujillo Sanz]()
Yo no la maté by Fernando Trujillo Sanz
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRelato corto. Perfecto para un viaje en transporte público... -
![A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities by Ray Bradbury]()
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsHalloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall... -
![Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury]()
Let's All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.03 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOn a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life...
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