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The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDa Robert Bloch a Fritz Leiber, Henry Kittner e, indirettamente, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft ha esercitato un influsso determinante su gran parte della narrativa fantastica del dopoguerra... -
Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright's brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land... -
The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings48 Classic Horror Books in One Volume! NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader. ----- From the mind of pulp great, H.P. Lovecraft... -
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I'll Bring You the Birds From out of the Sky by Brian Hodge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Nona Conklin brings him a painting by the great-grandfather she never knew, gallery owner Timothy Randolph knows he's found the project of a lifetime: curating a spectacular cache of folk art hidden for decades in the mountains of her home. "God never made a lazier man than Cecil Conklin. Never put a more slothful soul in a fella big enough to wrestle an ox to the ground... -
Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife as a corporate drone was killing S.P. Doyle, so he decided to bring down the whole corrupt system from the inside. But after discovering something monstrous in the bank's files, he was framed for murder and trapped inside a conspiracy beyond reason... -
The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh...'H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable... -
The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsSet in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882... -
The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFirst published in 1927, "The Colour Out of Space" is H. P. Lovecraft's signature science-fiction horror story, finely presented here in a single volume with Lovecraft's landmark essay on "weird" fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" - a must-read for all students and lovers of horror. Quixotic Books are reprints of important classic and historic texts, handsomely formatted and presented... -
Los mitos de Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnticipada por notables precedentes (Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen, Algernon Blackwood) y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto... -
Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world of monsters and mystery, Joe R. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment... -
The Best of Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:xi · Robert Bloch: The Man Who Wrote Psycho · Lester del Rey · in 1 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · ss Weird Tales Jul ’43 21 · Enoch · ss Weird Tales Sep ’46 39 · Catnip · ss Weird Tales Mar ’48 55 · The Hungry House · ss Imagination Apr ’51 79 · The Man Who Collected Poe · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries Oct ’51 97 · Mr... -
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBob 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... -
Shadows of Death by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDescend into the nerve-shattering realm of America’s master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft–to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance. . . . All you can lose is your sanity... -
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Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first horrible incident of our acquaintance was the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in the medical school1 where West had already made himself notorious through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially... -
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLESCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN AWAKING NIGHTMARE...Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders... -
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCrypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe... -
Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, Cathedral of the Drowned is a dripping, squirming, scuttling tale of altered bodies and minds.There are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiter’s jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home... -
Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 40 ratings'What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...'Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story... -
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind..Categorized as:
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The Classic Horror Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsH. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction... -
Monstrocity by Jeffrey Thomas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are haunted places. Haunted houses. The metropolis of Punktown, on the planet Oasis, is a haunted city. An unassuming and aimless young man has begun to perceive the city's dark tentacles in the lay of the streets. Its roots in the labyrinth of the subways. Its polluted taint in the eyes of the people he knows, and even loves... -
In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1939. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science... -
The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJerry Campbell just wants to be left alone. Grief-stricken over the death of his wife Abigail, the elderly widower and recent retiree is desperate for a change of scenery. When his realtor suggests a new home in Fairview Acres, a retirement community in the Poconos, Jerry figures it will be a nice place to spend the rest of his days in solitude.Until he moves in.Weird neighbors... -
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The Whisperer in the Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a short novel by Lovecraft mixing horror and science fiction. The story introduces the Mi-Go, an extraterrestrial race of strange fungoid beings and makes many references to the Cthulhu Mythos... -
The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by William Sloane, Stephen King
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy... -
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed... -
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNotice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org... -
Deadstock by Jeffrey Thomas
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPunktown - a crime ridden-metropolis on the colony world of Oasis - is home to the scum of countless alien races. Stalking the mean streets is private detective Jeremy Stake, whose destiny is set on a collision course with Fukuda and a one-of-a-kind living doll... -
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, and the rending of the world, for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Death of Jane Lawrence."An entrancing and transformative queer tale of cosmic horror."―Caitlin Starling" A blood sacrifice of a novel... -
Eye of the Ouroboros by Megan Bontrager
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen guilt-stricken park ranger Theodora Buchanan gets too close to the truth of her sister Flora’s strange disappearance, the Federal Bureau of Reality intervenes to ensure that the otherworldly answers she finds never see the light of day… The National Parks Service Search and Rescue Team knows better than anyone that the woods surrounding the insular town of Mill Creek, West Virginia have a... -
Strange Eons by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat men know is called science; what they have not yet learned they call magic. But both are real.... — In the world of today and the near future, three people inexorably linked by a common interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, discover: — that the legendary creatures he created in his fantasies have hideous counterparts in reality... that his fiction is incredible fact.. -
Shudder Again: 22 Tales of Sex and Horror by Michele Slung, Harlan Ellison
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe follow-up to the nationwide bestseller I Shudder at Your Touch. Here are 22 sensually scary stories from authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more. Follow their unflinching imaginations deep into the heart of darkness . . . if you dare.1 • Aphra • (1993) • short story by Nancy A...Categorized as:
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To Walk the Night by William Sloane
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo Walk the Night unfolds like a mystery novel. Bark Jones has gone home to visit Dr. Lister, the father of his friend Jerry, and together they hope to lay the mystery that revolves around the deaths of Jerry, and before him Jerry’s mentor astronomer Professor LeNormand. The one key to both men’s deaths is LeNormand’s, and now Jerry’s widow, Selena... -
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Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media... -
The Hollows by Daniel Church
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die... -
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations... -
Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSubterranean Press is thrilled to announce the novel-length prequel to the classic story, "Bubba Ho-Tep."Before Bubba Ho-Tep, there was Bubba and the Cosmic Blood-Suckers... -
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I... -
From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10).The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast... -
The Challenge From Beyond by Stanley G. Weinbaum, Donald Wandrei
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo collaborative novels, one by fantasy, one by science fiction greats... -
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 3.68 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman... -
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft...Categorized as:
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Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 49 ratingsIt is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it—the Southern Reach—has collapsed on itself in confusion... -
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