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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsNo longer need the Edgar Allen Poe enthusiast search through scattered volumes in order to enjoy his tales and poetry. The Modern Library Giant series provides the ideal solution for the problem of gathering every story and poem written by Poe between the covers of a single book... -
![Zero In by Dean Koontz]()
Zero In by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution... -
![Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey]()
Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series... -
![Bleed by Bobby Adair]()
Bleed by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSurvive the infection! Survive the Infected! Zed and Murphy are trying to find their surviving friends to finally get out of Austin and head west to safety, away from the zombie hordes. But trouble, their perpetual companion, dogs them at every turn as they discover that infected humans aren’t the only source of mortal danger... -
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![The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury]()
The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsDrunk, and in charge of a bicycle / introduction by Ray Bradbury--The night --Homecoming--Uncle Einar --The traveler --The lake --The coffin --The crowd --The scythe --There was an old woman --There will come soft rains --Mars is heaven --The silent towns --The earth men --The off season --The million-year picnic --The fox and the forest --Kaleidoscope --The rocket man --Marionettes, inc... -
![The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsHarlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies... -
![We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Second Season by K.C. Wayland, Shane Salk]()
We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Second Season by K.C. Wayland, Shane Salk
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeason two of this action-packed audio drama plunges listeners back into a ravaged world of violence and terror. The hope of a better life forces the survivors of the Tower out into the dissolving world around them. The consequences of past battles leave them struggling not only with each other but the remaining fragments of humanity... -
![Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury]()
Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFor more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas... -
![Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess]()
Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971... -
![A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp]()
A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new time-travel thriller from Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible best-selling author R. R. Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time-travel series Extracted and the UK's number one horror series The Undead. A man falls from the sky. He has no memory. He has no sense of self... -
![Corkscrew by Dean Koontz]()
Corkscrew by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number... -
![The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid... -
![The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz]()
The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence... -
![Commune: Book Four by Joshua Gayou]()
Commune: Book Four by Joshua Gayou
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe philosopher asks: faced with the mutually exclusive choice between moral principle and the survival of your family, which is the correct path?Philosophers love to pose such questions, and in the day-to-day struggle, such thinkers rarely attain to a level of relevance rivaling that of the simple hunger pang. Their careful considerations dissipate under the leveled gun... -
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![The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson]()
The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAs the planetoid Thanatos Minor explodes into atoms, a specially-fitted cruiser escapes the mass destruction and hurtles into space only a step ahead of hostile pursuit. On board Trumpet are a handful of bedraggled fugitives from an outlaw world, old enemies suddenly and violently thrown together in a desperate bid for survival... -
![Eve of Destruction by Sherrilyn Kenyon]()
Eve of Destruction by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEve Erixour is a mercenary with a past no one would envy and more enemies than anyone should have. Death stalks her relentlessly. So when she gains the attention of a League assassin, she considers it par for the course.But Jinx Shadowbourne isn’t after Eve. Someone has it in for him and his brethren. High-ranking assassins are falling, and Jinx is convinced one of their own is selling them out... -
![The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson]()
The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work.This collection consists of three complete books:The Bird's NestLife Among the SavagesRaising Demonsand eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery... -
![A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly]()
A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn overzealous vigilante, who sees her victims' auras, finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation. A young woman, injected with a microchip in a futuristic America, develops unusual and grisly cravings. Four high school graduates end up on the menu of a giant, mutant sea creature. Diary entries share shocking and disturbing confessions.. -
![The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda]()
The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEight 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... -
![Storm by John O'Brien]()
Storm by John O'Brien
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA vengeful darkness… Gathers in the night… One threat has been destroyed - another grows stronger. Even though Jack and the teams have won a major confrontation, their lives still hang by a thread. There are decisions to be made, and ones that have never been more critical. Leonard continues to try to keep his crew together after being hit by another soul-shattering blow... -
![The Divide by Erica Stevens]()
The Divide by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIn less than a day everything they've ever known has vanished and the world is in chaos. Uncertain where to turn and who to trust in this strange new world, they must band together in an attempt to survive. However, they slowly begin to realize it’s not only the crumbling earth, and treacherous people around them that are a threat, but also something unseen and even more lethal... -
![1984: An Audible Original adaptation by Joe White, George Orwell]()
1984: An Audible Original adaptation by Joe White, George Orwell
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the age of uniformity.From the age of solitude and doublethink.From the age of Big Brother.From me, Winston Smith.Greetings.It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith... -
![Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl]()
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLamb to the Slaughter is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police.. -
![Infected by Bobby Adair]()
Infected by Bobby Adair
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSlow Burn: Infected picks up the story of Zed, Murphy, and Jerome where Slow Burn: Zero Day ended.All three have all been infected but have not succumbed to the most pernicious symptoms of the virus. They’re not the mindless cannibals that most infected are. Nevertheless, their band of survivors, fearful about the trio’s infections, have ostracized them... -
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![More Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling]()
More Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Twilight Zone means many things to the hugely imaginative and talented Rod Serling. It can mean a time-space "warp," a state of mind, a day somebody wishes never, never happened. But whatever twist Mr. Serling's fancy takes, his story is colored with a weird, dreamy quality that will change your pulse beat - and perhaps your feeling about life... -
![The Diary of a Space Traveller and other Stories: Puffin Classics by Satyajit Ray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]()
The Diary of a Space Traveller and other Stories: Puffin Classics by Satyajit Ray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt all began with the fall of a meteorite and the crater it made. In its centre was a red notebook, sticking out of the ground—the first (or was it really the last?) of Professor Shonku’s diaries... -
![Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl]()
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContentsDisappearing Act • short story by Alfred BesterIt's a Good Life • short story by Jerome BixbyThe Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore SturgeonThe Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • short story by Jack WilliamsonThe Odor of Thought • short story by Robert SheckleyF Y I • short story by James BlishCritical Factor • short story by Hal ClementThe Remorseful • short story by C.M... -
![New Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling]()
New Stories From the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRod Serling became a cultural icon of the 20th Century with his creation 'The Twilight Zone,' which more than 50 years later was nominated by the Writers Guild of America as the third best written television series of the past seventy years. Of the 156 Twilight Zone episodes, Serling wrote 92... -
![Red Eye: Season One, Episode One by Claire C. Riley, Eli Constant]()
Red Eye: Season One, Episode One by Claire C. Riley, Eli Constant
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbout the episode: This is the worst flight ever! ** Rose is excited for her new adventure, but as her guilt grows, so does the tension on the plane. Sam thinks the worst thing about her week was her doomed wedding, she was wrong... -
![The Philip K. Dick Anthology by Philip K. Dick]()
The Philip K. Dick Anthology by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDid you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead—that it might possibly love and hate just as easily as a real animal of flesh and blood? Philip Dick used that idea for a brief fantasy tale. We're sure that after reading it you'll give cuckoo clocks more respect... -
![Colter's Journey by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
Colter's Journey by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In this thrilling epic of the American West, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone capture the human side of the frontier experience in all its glory, grit, and grandeur—through the eyes of one remarkable teenage boy .. -
![Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber]()
Dangerous Visions 2 by Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew Introduction (Dangerous Visions 2) • (1969) • essay by Harlan EllisonDangerous Visions 2 • (1974) • interior artwork by Diane Dillon and Leo DillonEutopia • (1967) • novelette by Poul AndersonFaith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. DickGonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz LeiberIncident in Moderan • (1967) • short story by David R... -
![Outage Super Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Plus Epilogue by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Outage Super Boxed Set: Books 1-5 Plus Epilogue by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFOR A LIMITED TIME, SAVE 50% OFF BUYING THE BOOKS INDIVIDUALLY! OVER 500 5-STAR REVIEWS ACROSS THE SERIES! ____________________________________________ Contains: *Outage *Outage 2: The Awakening *Outage 3: Vengeance *Outage 4: The Reckoning *Outage 5: The Change *EPILOGUE STORY Control ABOUT OUTAGE:When an early snow ravages the small town of Plainfield, the residents are stripped of heat,... -
![Dark Game by Michael Robertson Jr.]()
Dark Game by Michael Robertson Jr.
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLess than twenty-four hours after the horrific events that forced him to flee his hometown, Lance Brody steps off a bus into a whole different nightmare.The small town of Westhaven seems ordinary on the surface, but Lance can feel the evil lurking in the air … and it knows Lance has arrived... -
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![Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison]()
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful... -
![Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King]()
Under the Dome: Part Two by Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAll hell has broken loose in Chester's Mill after an invisible force field suddenly and inexplicably descends on the small Maine town, isolating all within it from the outside world. As the grim reality of the situation dawns and panic sets in, each other town's denizens reveals their true nature in the face of shortages, rationing, lawlessness, and uncertainty... -
![Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belyaev]()
Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belyaev
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe entire scientific world mourned the loss of Professor Dowell. It was said that just before his death he was on the verge of a breakthrough in the transplantation of human organs.Marie Laurent felt privileged to work for the professor’s brilliant associate, Professor Kern... -
![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
![The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron]()
The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here.From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds... -
![Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison]()
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear... -
![Skeleton Crew: The Jaunt. Travel by Stephen King, Allen Hoaglund]()
Skeleton Crew: The Jaunt. Travel by Stephen King, Allen Hoaglund
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"The Jaunt" is a science fiction horror short story by Stephen King first published in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew... -
![From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown]()
From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of all 118 short science fiction and fantasy stories of one of the masters of the vignette, all his short works except two which were rewritten into parts of a novel. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Dustjacket art by Bob Eggleton... -
![The Age of Hysteria by Ryan Schow]()
The Age of Hysteria by Ryan Schow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you’re between a rock and a hard place, choose the rock…Pinned down in a hot zone with a woman he’s not even sure he likes, Roque “Rock” Dimas is herded into the fiery center of an extinction-level event where only two choices exist: run for your life, or burrow in to the last place anyone sane would go and confront the enemy directly... -
![Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid]()
Unholy by Kinsley Kincaid
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings𝐻𝑒 is the devil reincarnated.𝐻𝑒 is everything I hate.𝐻𝑒 needs to die.The Ranch, a brothel Greta owns, who also happens to be my grandmother, is all I’ve ever known.It’s all I’ve ever needed.It nurtures the side of me that society typically frowns upon, when it comes to women.Because I play differently... -
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![The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown]()
The Best of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Wit and Whimsy of Fredric BrownTwenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics call the O. Henry of science fiction… stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable... -
![Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling]()
Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsYou are traveling into another dimension... A dimension of splendor, terror and wonder—a shadow land that lies just between the limits of the imagination. Your host and guide is one of the world's best-known storytellers—a modern master of the fantastic... Rod Serling.Here, together for the first time, are nineteen of Serling's most memorable tales from the legendary series. So sit back and enjoy... -
![I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories by Ray Bradbury]()
I Sing the Body Electric! & Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe mind of Ray Bradbury is a wonder-filled carnival of delight and terror that stretches from the verdant Irish countryside to the coldest reaches of outer space. Yet all his work is united by one common thread: a vivid and profound understanding of the vast set of emotions that bring strength and mythic resonance to our frail species... -
![The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury]()
The Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Machineries of Joy • (1962)The One Who Waits • (1949) Tyrannosaurus Rex • (1962) The Vacation • (1963)The Drummer Boy of Shiloh • (1960)Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! • (1962)Almost the End of the World • (1957)Perhaps We Are Going Away • (1962) And the Sailor, Home from the Sea • (1960) El Dia de Muerte • (1947)The Illustrated Woman • (1961)Some Live Like Lazarus • (1960) A... -
![Choice of the Cat by E.E. Knight]()
Choice of the Cat by E.E. Knight
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control... -
![One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith]()
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair...
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