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Saints by Larry Correia, John Ringo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe No-Holds-Barred Final Entry in the Monster Hunter Memoirs Series from New York Times ?best-selling authors Larry Correia and John Ringo."This is New Orleans." That mantra had rung in Chad Gadenier's ears since his first day working in the Big Easy. Everything was different in New Orleans. The food. The climate. The monsters. Even the shadowy and reprehensible MCB was different...Categorized as:
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Monster Hunter Nemesis by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 32 ratings#5 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series. Agent Franks of the U.S. Monster Control Bureau is a man of many parts—parts from other people, that is. Franks is nearly seven feet tall and all muscle. He's nearly indestructible. Plus he’s animated by a powerful alchemical substance and inhabited by a super-intelligent spirit more ancient than humanity itself... -
The Brothers Cabal by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsHorst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan: to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone...Categorized as:
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Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsMonster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert...Categorized as:
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Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 29 ratings#6 in multiple New York Times bestseller Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter series.GO BIG OR GO HOME When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in MHI's history...Categorized as:
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Sinners by Larry Correia, John Ringo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNIGHTMARE IN THE BIG EASYWith New Orleans out of control, Chad Oliver Gardenier, one of Monster Hunter International’s premier hunters, has been dispatched from Seattle to reinforce the beleaguered members of MHI'S Hoodoo Squad in their fight against the darkness. Chad had once taken a werewolf while wearing only jogging gear...Categorized as:
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Monster Hunter Alpha by Larry Correia
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 37 ratings#3 in the break-out, best-selling Monster Hunter series. Earl Harbinger, head of Monster Hunter International, faces down an old nemesis -- a very nasty former KGB werewolf who is working to create a new, unstoppable breed. Dirty Harry meets Twilight. #3 in the break-out series and a follow-up to Monster Hunter International and Monster Hunter Vendetta...Categorized as:
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The Source by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampire-beasts.Russia's Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires...Categorized as:
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Kill Baxter by Charlie Human
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith echoes of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville and Terry Pratchett, this is a rip-roaring entertainment from one of the brightest stars in the South African literary scene.Charlie Human is part of the South African writing scene, whose fans include Lauren Beukes and SJ Hall...Categorized as:
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The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this this science fiction spy thriller by Hugo Award winning writer Charles Stross, the Laundry - the British secret agency that fights supernatural threats - must team up with the police force, with one unfortunate secret agent caught in the middle.PLAYING WITH DANGERDr. Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'...Categorized as:
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The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men by Stephen Jones, Clive Barker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis collection of 23 dark stories of the supernatural creature, half-man, half-wolf, and entirely unpredictable, is being re-released to coincide with the much-anticipated Wolf Man, starring Anthony Hopkins and Benicio del Toro. Top contributors include Clive Barker, Michael Marshall Smith, Graham Masterton, and Mark Morris...Categorized as:
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Dead Man's Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West by John Joseph Adams, Orson Scott Card
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD! From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to an encounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town... -
Poseidon’s Children by Michael West
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMan no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change...Categorized as:
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Kraken by M. Caspian
Rated: 3.29 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKraken: A gothic erotic horror with tentacle non-con.When boyfriend Parker gives him an ultimatum Will never dreams his heart is about to be ripped out: move to a remote off-shore island with him, or call it quits. But Will picks wrong, and now he’s heading into the unknown to fix his mistake... -
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Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding... -
Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...Categorized as:
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Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe story jumps from Hellboy's mysterious World War II origin to his 1994 confrontation with the man who summoned him to earth, and the earliest signs of the plague of frogs...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Volume 1: Seed of Destruction and Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSince Mike Mignola’s Hellboy first hit the stands in 1993, it has become a cultural sensation, racking up a dozen Eisner Awards and inspiring numerous spinoffs, from a novel line, to video games, to feature films. Now, Dark Horse is pleased to present the comics that started it all, collected in deluxe hardcover editions... -
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 1 by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ultimate introduction to this supernatural hero features 16 standalone stories with Mignola’s greatest collaborators—stories that can be read in any order.In 1994, Mike Mignola released the first Hellboy series, Seed of Destruction, as Hellboy faced his supposed destiny as Beast of the Apocalypse...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA murder in a New York wax museum and a missing corpse lead Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense into ancient Romanian castles on the trail of a sleeping legend: the nobleman vampire, Vladimir Guirescu. Nazi scientists, revived in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, prepare for the return of Rasputin and the end of the world, and Hellboy confronts his purpose on Earth...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Vol. 3: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis Hellboy short-story collection includes the following stories with the author’s notes preceding each tale: “Wolves of Saint August”; “The Corpse and the Iron Shoes”; “A Christmas Underground”; “The Chained Coffin”; and “Almost Colossus...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsMike Mignola returns with his first new Hellboy collection since 2002's Conqueror Worm. After leaving the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, Hellboy's travels take him briefly to Africa, then for a two-year stint at the bottom of the ocean...Categorized as:
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B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 2 by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn 2001, Hellboy quit the B.P.R.D., leaving Abe Sapien to lead Liz Sherman and a bizarre roster of special agents, defending the world from occult threats, including the growing menace of the frog army, first spotted in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. Mike Mignola and Dark Horse present the complete Plague of Frogs saga, from Hollow Earth to The King of Fear... -
Hellboy: The Complete Short Stories Volume 2 by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis 368-page volume covers Hellboy's adventures from 1961 to 1993, leading up to Seed of Destruction...Categorized as:
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B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 1 by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 2001, Hellboy quit the B.P.R.D., leaving Abe Sapien to lead Liz Sherman and a bizarre roster of special agents, defending the world from occult threats, including the growing menace of the frog army, first spotted in Hellboy: Seed of Destruction. Mike Mignola and Dark Horse present the complete Plague of Frogs saga, from Hollow Earth to The King of Fear... -
Hellboy, Vol. 10: The Crooked Man and Others by Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Eisner Award-winning mini-series The Crooked Man, by Mignola and Richard Corben, teams Hellboy with a wandering hillman in a devilish tale of Appalachian witchcraft. This volume also includes the rare "They Who Go Down to the Sea in Ships" by Mignola, Josh Dysart (B.P.R.D...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Vol. 11: The Bride of Hell and Others by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe world's greatest paranormal investigator takes on a carnivorous house, space aliens, a vampire luchador, a vengeful lion demon, and more in this collection featuring the work of comic greats Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Kevin Nowlan, and Scott Hampton... -
Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola, John Byrne
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsDark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's blockbuster films. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...Categorized as:
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Hellboy, Vol. 7: The Troll Witch and Others by Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWith a new Hellboy series on the stands, fans of the world's greatest paranormal detective can find older favorites collected for the first time in the seventh volume of the Hellboy Saga...Categorized as:
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Hellboy in Hell, Vol. 1: The Descent by Mike Mignola
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter saving the world in The Storm and the Fury but sacrificing himself and Great Britain, Hellboy is dead, cast into Hell, where he finds many familiar faces and a throne that awaits him.Mike Mignola returns to draw Hellboy’s ongoing story for the first time since Conqueror Worm...Categorized as:
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