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The Hunted by Charlie Higson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong...Categorized as:
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Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children... -
![Mist by 微风几许]()
Mist by 微风几许
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius... -
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Fractured by D.J. Molles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is the destiny of those who stand for others. Their honor will be bought in blood and pain. The Camp Ryder Hub is broken. Lee is nowhere to be found, and his allies are scattered across the state, each of them learning that their missions will not be as easy as they thought... -
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![Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Ghosts by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetrayal and sacrifice in the skies …Ten years ago, Hell Diver Xavier “X” Rodriguez fell to Earth. Those he left behind went on without him aboard the airship he once called home. Michael Everhart—the boy once known as Tin—has grown into a man and the commander of Hell Diver Raptor Team... -
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Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAlex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace... -
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Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
![Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck]()
Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMike Monroe and Jane Baxter barely survived their terrifying journey to the center of the Earth... -
![Chupacabra by Roland Smith]()
Chupacabra by Roland Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMonsters of legend come to life! The third thrilling title in Roland Smith's popular Cryptid Hunters series.A mysterious creature, a missing girl, and danger at every turn . . .CHUPACABRA, the riveting sequel to TENTACLES and CRYPTID HUNTERS, reunites Marty and his unusual uncle, cryptozoologist Travis Wolfe, as they search the world for Wolfe's daughter, Grace...Categorized as:
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![The Night Crossing by Robert Masello]()
The Night Crossing by Robert Masello
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city... -
![Pandemic by Scott Sigler]()
Pandemic by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious.The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload-a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs engineered to wreak new forms of havoc on the human race... -
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The Dark by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the twisted imagination of New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, comes a horrifying revelation about the centuries old Three Days of Darkness prophecy, during which the legions of Hell will be unleashed on the Earth. The Dark is a mind-bending and character driven sci-fi-infused horror novel like no other... -
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Forever Between by Ann Christy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFour year ago the world was destroyed by medical nanites gone awry, leaving humanity divided into three groups: the living, deaders, and the horrific in-betweeners. Two years ago, Emily braved that dangerous world to try and save a group of children trapped downtown. Now, it’s Veronica’s turn to try and save Emily in return... -
![Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes]()
Three Days in Undead Shoes by Dee J. Holmes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne woman. One Great Dane. A whole lot of zombies.Jane Finch wishes her problems ended with a bad commute and no coffee. Instead, she and Schrodinger, the Great Dane she’s supposed to be training, emerge from a locked room to discover a city changed for the dead...Categorized as:
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![Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson]()
Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWASHINGTON D.C. HAS BEEN DESTROYED In the wake of a Kaiju assault that left the nation’s capital in ruins, Jon Hudson, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal, is preparing his team for an uncertain future... -
![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... -
![Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer]()
Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBOSTON IS IN RUINSJon Hudson, head of the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center – Paranormal division, is haunted by Boston’s destruction at the hands of Nemesis, a three-hundred-foot tall monster with the heart of a murdered little girl, Maigo. In the time since Boston fell and Nemesis retreated to the ocean’s depths, Hudson has helped prepare the United States against future attacks... -
![Escape by T.W. Piperbrook]()
Escape by T.W. Piperbrook
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDan and Quinn Lowery may have escaped the initial infection, but their journey is far from over.Their once-safe location has been compromised, overrun by the agents and the infected.Now, in order to survive, they must first escape.. -
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Countdown by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe year is 2014, the year everything changed. We cured cancer. We cured the common cold. We died.This is the story of how we rose.When will you rise?Countdown is a novella set in the world of Feed...Categorized as:
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![The Forsaken by Erica Stevens]()
The Forsaken by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 13 ratings***Note*** This book is the third compilation of a serial story and therefore does not have a conclusion. This is not a survivalist story.New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas...Categorized as:
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Contagious by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of "Infected" comes an epic and exhilarating story of humanity's secret battle against a horrific enemy. Across America, a mysterious pathogen transforms ordinary people into raging killers, psychopaths driven by a terrifying, alien agenda... -
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Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFurnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries... -
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Wayward by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry... -
![Lost Valley by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Lost Valley by Walt Browning, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWar has a way of following some people... John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the forty acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.Now, they have to survive a worldwide pandemic... -
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![The Divide by Jeremy Robinson]()
The Divide by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA wildly exciting journey through a world remade, THE DIVIDE combines real characters with horrifically realized creations, pitting the worst of human nature against the strength of family. Equal parts action, horror, and moving drama that only Jeremy Robinson can pull off.WHEN THE DIVIDE IS CROSSED...No one remembers how the Divide was created... -
![Operation: Siberia by William Meikle]()
Operation: Siberia by William Meikle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Captain John Banks and his squad are sent to investigate a zoo in Siberia, he expects to find tigers, bears, maybe elk But there is something there that is new, yet very, very old. Beasts that haven't walked the Earth since the last Ice Age have been cloned, revived, and set loose to roam free. And some of them are very hungry...Categorized as:
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![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![Away From The Sun by Jason D. Morrow]()
Away From The Sun by Jason D. Morrow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWaverly holds the vial of red liquid in her hands. She doesn’t know what it is, or why it’s important. But she knows that the mysterious Shadowface wants it, and is willing to do anything to get it.Waverly hides in the settlement of Elkhorn with Ethan, but it seems that Shadowface has eyes everywhere... -
![Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole]()
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter...Categorized as:
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![Blood is Red by Scott Sigler]()
Blood is Red by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA collection of eight horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of Infected, Contagious and Ancestor. This eBook-only title features seven tales from Scott's six years of free audiobook podcasts, including the Parsec Award-winning "Red Man," plus the brand-new novella "Hunter Hunterson & Sons... -
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Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHere is another highly entertaining short story featuring Jonathan Maberry's compelling hero, Joe Ledger.This short thriller takes Joe Ledger into the mysterious, troubled town of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania, the setting for Maberry's chilling Pine Deep Trilogy. In Pine Deep, nothing is what it seems... -
![The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath]()
The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge... -
![The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan]()
The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThere are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters... -
![Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic]()
Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeld in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet... -
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![The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham]()
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsIn 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen... -
![Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne]()
Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn ongoing journal depicting one man's personal struggle for survival, dealing with the trials of an undead world unfolding around him. An unknown plague sweeps the planet. The dead rise to claim the Earth as the new dominant species. Trapped in the midst of a global tragedy, he must make decisions...choices that that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse to walk as one of them...Categorized as:
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![Stung by Bethany Wiggins]()
Stung by Bethany Wiggins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is no cure for being stung.Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn’t remember getting…but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided... -
![Earthcore by Scott Sigler]()
Earthcore by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDeep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode... -
![Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan]()
Primordia: In Search of the Lost World by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBen Cartwright, former soldier, home to mourn the loss of his father stumbles upon cryptic letters from the past between author, Arthur Conan Doyle and his great, great grandfather who vanished while exploring the Amazon jungle in 1908... -
![Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist]()
Devils Unto Dust by Emma Berquist
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLife out here is hard. So you have to be harder.Willie has always survived. No matter what life in Glory, Texas, has thrown at her. The sickness that swept through the state and turned most living creatures into terrifying shakes. Her own mother succumbing to the disease. Her father disappearing into saloons and gambling and liquor. Willie survives...Categorized as:
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Fail State by John Birmingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn Zero Day of the first and last cyberwar in human history the internet went dark, transport and power grids collapsed and cities began to starve. Ten days later millions have died from thirst and starvation, from violence and from the simple failure of the world’s machines to keep them alive... -
![Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter]()
Zero Tolerance by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis sequel to Patient Zero brings Joe Ledger back into action.Zero Tolerance picks up a few weeks after the close of Maberry’s action-thriller Patient Zero. Dropping back into the world of former Baltimore cop Joe Ledger, the Department of Military Sciences, and flesh-eating zombies, fans of the series will finally see the tying up of a few loose ends... -
![All These Monsters by Amy Tintera]()
All These Monsters by Amy Tintera
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times best-selling author Amy Tintera, a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about a teen girl who will do anything to escape her troubled home—even if that means joining a dangerous monster-fighting squad. Perfect for fans of Warcross and Renegades. Seventeen-year-old Clara is ready to fight back... -
![Forsaken by Michael McBride]()
Forsaken by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIT HAS SURVIVED At a research station in Antarctica, scientists discovered a strange and ancient organism. They thought they could study it, classify it, control it. They couldn't.IT HAS THRIVED Six months ago, a secret paramilitary team called Unit 51 was sent to the station. They thought the creature was dead, the nightmare was over. It wasn't... -
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MirrorWorld by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe'll see what a man without fear can do in this latest thriller from Jeremy Robinson, who's hailed as rivaling "the best of James Rollins, Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly". (Associated Press)Crazy has no memory and feels no fear... -
![SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror by Geoff Brown, Amanda J. Spedding]()
SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror by Geoff Brown, Amanda J. Spedding
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWar is hell . . . Soldiers fight to survive. They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside. Sometimes, they fight real monsters. This book collects stories of ancient myths, time travelers, horrors in the old west . . . and the soldiers who fight them...Categorized as:
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![Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson]()
Project Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsACE for 9781301779628Jon Hudson, lead investigator for the Department of Homeland Security's Fusion Center-P, thinks his job is a joke. While other Fusion Centers focus on thwarting terrorist activity, Hudson's division is tasked with handling paranormal threats to national security, of which there have been zero during his years at the DHS... -
![Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley]()
Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a Centers for Disease Control quarantine fails at Ben Taub Hospital, a Houston SWAT Team is sent in to secure the facility. What they find is destruction and death. Trapped in the hospital, cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants... -
![Mutation by Michael McBride, Neil Hellegers]()
Mutation by Michael McBride, Neil Hellegers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT LIVES. In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology-and turn it into something else . . . IT MUTATES. In the Amazon rain forest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers-and spawn a new race . . . IT SPREADS... -
![The Gathering Horde by Rich Baker]()
The Gathering Horde by Rich Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most ambitious terrorist plot ever undertaken is about to be put into motion, releasing an unstoppable force against humanity. Ordinary people - a group of students celebrating the end of the semester, suburban and rural families - are about to find themselves in the center of something that threatens the survival of the human species...
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