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Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems... -
![Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three by Jack Townsend]()
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn army of monsters walks among us, hidden in plain sight. They’re fast. They’re strong. They’re unrelenting. And they only want one thing: the sh*tty gas station at the edge of town.Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Jack—night-shift clerk and local crazy person—has found himself neck-deep in the middle of yet another world-ending terror. And this time around, nobody can be trusted... -
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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 Delirium Brief by Charles Stross]()
The Delirium Brief by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSomeone is dead set to air the spy agency’s dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross’ Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard’s career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic,... -
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![Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia]()
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... -
![Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia]()
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... -
![The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer]()
The Killing Floor Blues by Craig Schaefer
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNobody has ever escaped from the Iceberg. It's a privately-owned prison deep in the Mojave Desert, staffed by brutal guards and surrounded by desolate wasteland. Inside the walls, gangs and predators are constant threats; outside the walls, there's nothing but a sniper's bullet or a slow death in the desert heat... -
![Sinners by Larry Correia, John Ringo]()
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... -
![The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross]()
The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlex Schwartz had a promising future - until he contracted an unfortunate bout of vampirism, and agreed (on pain of death) to join the Laundry, Britain's only counter-occult secret agency.His first assignment is in Leeds - his old hometown... -
![Monster Hunter Alpha by Larry Correia]()
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... -
![This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsOriginally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the End has been described as a"Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional60,000 copies in all formats... -
![The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross]()
The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFor outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats... -
![The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross]()
The Rhesus Chart by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsLONDON CAN DRAIN THE LIFE OUT OF YOU . . .Bob Howard is an intelligence agent working his way through the ranks of the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess - and deal with the witnesses.There's one kind of threat that the Laundry has never come across in its many decades, and that's vampires... -
![The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross]()
The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsComputational demonologist Bob Howard catches up on filing in the Laundry archives when the top secret Fuller Memorandum vanishes - and his boss, suspected of stealing the file. Bob faces Russian agents, ancient demons, a maniacal death cult, and finding the missing memorandum before the world disappears next... -
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![What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of SpidersDave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear... -
![The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross]()
The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister...Categorized as:
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![The Source by Brian Lumley]()
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... -
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Vamphyri! by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNot the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil of vampires. — In a secluded English village, Yulian Bodescu plots his takeover of the world. Imbued with a vampire's powers before his birth, Bodescu rules men's minds and bodies with supernatural ease... -
![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... -
![The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth]()
The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. Nathaniel Cade returns. For 140 years, Nathaniel Cade has been the President's Vampire, sworn to protect and serve his country. Cade's existence is the most closely guarded of White House secrets: a superhuman covert agent who is the last line of defense against nightmare scenarios that ordinary citizens only dream of... -
![The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron]()
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Proboscis" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story...Categorized as:
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![Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly]()
Circle of Enemies by Harry Connolly
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFormer car thief Ray Lilly is now the expendable grunt of a sorcerer responsible for destroying extradimensional predators summoned to our world by power-hungry magicians. Luckily, Ray has some magic of his own, and so far it's kept him alive. But when a friend from his former gang calls him back to his old stomping grounds in Los Angeles, Ray may have to face a threat even he can't handle... -
![Necroscope by Brian Lumley]()
Necroscope by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsDEAD MEN TELL NO TALES...Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge... -
![Down on the Farm by Charles Stross]()
Down on the Farm by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Charles Stross’s novel The Atrocity Archive and its sequels, the “Laundry” is a secret British agency responsible for keeping dark interdimensional entitities from destroying the cosmos and, not incidentally, the human race. The battles with creatures from beyond time are dangerous; however, it’s the subsequent bureaucratic paperwork that actually breaks men’s souls... -
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![Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeveral years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They're looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her..Categorized as:
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![Managing Death by Trent Jamieson]()
Managing Death by Trent Jamieson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's not easy being Death. For starters, people keep dying. And then, they keep getting up again.Steven de Selby got promoted. This makes the increasing number of stirrers (and the disturbing rumors of a zombie god rising sometime soon) his problem... -
![The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross]()
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'... -
![Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw]()
Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret... -
![The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin]()
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsFive New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five.But every city also has a dark side... -
![The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross]()
The Concrete Jungle by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBob gets called out on account of a monster program called SATAN STARE, that ties back into some past work for the Laundry and others.He has to recruit, quickly, a pretty with it cop, and she helps him combat the beast, and the odd zombie... -
![John Dies at the End by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
John Dies at the End by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsSTOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late... -
![Game of Cages by Harry Connolly]()
Game of Cages by Harry Connolly
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsA SECRET HIGH-STAKES AUCTION As a wealthy few gather to bid on a predator capable of destroying all life on earth, the sorcerers of the Twenty Palace Society mobilize to stop them. Caught up in the scramble is Ray Lilly, the lowest of the low in the society—an ex–car thief and the expendable assistant of a powerful sorcerer... -
![Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez]()
Chasing the Moon by A. Lee Martinez
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnspeakable horrors threaten the earth in this fantastic new comic fantasy from the author of Divine Misfortune.Diana's life was in a rut -- she hated her job, she was perpetually single, and she needed a place to live. But then the perfect apartment came along. It seemed too good to be true -- because it was.The apartment was already inhabited -- by monsters... -
![Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard]()
Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV.Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case-the hunt for a serial killer-went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Strangeness, however, has not finished with him... -
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![American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett]()
American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSome places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico... -
![Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory]()
Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom award winning author Daryl Gregory comes a thrilling and colorful Lovecraftian adventure of a teenage boy searching for his mother, and the macabre creatures he encounters. Harrison Harrison—H2 to his mom—is a lonely teenager who’s been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished... -
![Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves--now available as a paperback.Welcome to Night Vale ... a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest... -
![Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsFrom the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves...no matter where we live... -
![Professor Gargoyle by Charles Gilman]()
Professor Gargoyle by Charles Gilman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEvery volume in the Lovecraft Middle School series is fully illustrated and features an original lenticular portrait on the cover. Display them on bookshelves—and then watch the cover characters morph into monsters as you pass by!Strange things are happening at Lovecraft Middle School. Rats are leaping from lockers. Students are disappearing. The school library is a labyrinth of secret corridors... -
![Child of Fire by Harry Connolly]()
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsRay Lilly is living on borrowed time. He's the driver for Annalise Powliss, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palace Society, a group of sorcerers devoted to hunting down and executing rogue magicians. But because Ray betrayed her once, Annalise is looking for an excuse to kill him - or let someone else do the job... -
![The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher]()
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel. Pray they are hungry.Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house...Categorized as:
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![The Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper]()
The Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus Cooper
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of the Omega Alpha sorority house, spurred into heroic action by fate itself, inexorably intertwining his and Laura's destinies... -
![Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville]()
Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLondon awakes one morning to find itself besieged by a sky full of floating icebergs. Destroyed oil rigs, mysteriously reborn, clamber from the sea and onto the land, driven by an obscure but violent purpose. An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse's bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . .Categorized as:
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![No Hero by Jonathan Wood]()
No Hero by Jonathan Wood
Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"What would Kurt Russell do?" Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because Arthur is no hero. He's a good cop, but prefers that action and heroics remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals... -
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![Poseidon’s Children by Michael West]()
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... -
![Kraken by M. Caspian]()
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... -
![Kraken by China Miéville]()
Kraken by China Miéville
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsWith this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or prevent—the End of All Things... -
![Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero]()
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 40 ratings1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon) are all grown up and haven't seen each other since their fateful, final case in 1977. Andy, the tomboy, is twenty-five and on the run, wanted in at least two states...
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