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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  mlm  wlw  horror  fantasy  fiction  mystery
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  mlm  horror  fantasy  fiction  mystery  audiobook
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The 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...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  mlm  wlw  magical-realism  romance  horror  fantasy
  • A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    A Collection of Monstrous Short Stories by Lily Mayne

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Revisit the Monstrous couples from the first seven novels of the series in this collection of sixteen short stories. Plus, meet a new Monstrous couple in a brand new 20k-word novella, Ruke...
  • We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    We Have Contact by Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    When you least expect it, expect it. Bethany Anne has been notified there is a spaceship inside the system...but they can't find it. Is it Kurtherian, someone else? The governments have to be told about aliens, which sparks a worldwide effort by Governments to find what TQB has... Oh, and Eric wants to date Gabrielle but he wants her to know he can protect her if need be...
  • Light by Michael Grant

    Light by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil...
  • Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vince finds himself going up in the underworld, but the mafia is far from the only gang in town.The city is abuzz with an international sorcerer's conference, and the mayor is cracking down hard on anything that might make him look bad. But Vince is out to get that bag. That means fulfilling his enforcer contract for the mob, police crackdown be damned...
  • Mob Sorcery by K.D. Robertson

    Mob Sorcery by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a city where magic is as common as air, Vince receives an offer he can't refuse. The local wolffolk mafia long for their glory days and their alluring don, Alessia Lionetti, wants a powerful enforcer to bring them back. That's Vince. This is his big break from his days as a hired thug.Working for the mafia has a short life expectancy, though...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode Seven by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode Seven by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and the Parkers have finally rescued Page just in time for their favorite family activity- killing Zombies. When they are attacked in the middle of the night, Reagan heads out with some Parkers to protect the bungalow...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode Six by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Get Page back. That’s the only thing Reagan and her friends can focus on, but that is not the only problem facing them. While new allies provide valuable assistance, the outside world still threatens to tear this group apart...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode Five by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode Five by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Things have been bad for Reagan and friends, but Raphael’s slaving camp might top them all. Unsure where Haley and Page were taken to, and faced with the evil that immediately surrounds her, Reagan is close to giving up. This life asks too much of her. This world demands too high a price...
  • Love and Decay 3, Episode Nine by Rachel Higginson

    Love and Decay 3, Episode Nine by Rachel Higginson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan Willow has made a lot of enemies during her time in the Zombie Apocalypse, but one enemy stands above the rest. He has made it his mission in life to destroy her and he will stop at nothing to get his way. Matthias Allen lost his family because of Reagan and the Parkers...
  • Welcome to Heathen Row by Logan Jacobs

    Welcome to Heathen Row by Logan Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one knows why it started, but the monster invasion all began right here, in Heathen Row.Ever since, men all over the world have been on the menu. And women have been at the frontlines, hunting the predators.But in a world where women are over-armed, over-paid, and under-satiated, Chris Hart isn’t staying safe inside while the monsters come out to feast...
  • The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

    The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr...
  • A God Among Insects Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    A God Among Insects Volume 2 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There is no denying it now, something is happening to Elish. Jade doesn’t know what is going on with his husband, he only knows Elish is hiding something from him – and that the new king’s mind is slipping.Too bad there’s nothing Jade can do about it, considering they’re both prisoners of an insane clone named Malachy...
  • Barbarian Alchemist by Aaron Crash

    Barbarian Alchemist by Aaron Crash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ymir has heard rumors of possible trouble with the merfolk because the fish people are not to be trusted. But everyone's favorite barbarian turned scholar has other things to worry about. He's working on forging another ring, running a business, and studying for his alchemy exams.The women of Old Ironbound aren’t making that easy...
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    polyamory  paranormal  romance  harem  fantasy  steamy  magic  litrpg
  • The Suicide King  Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    The Suicide King Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After months of being separated, Reaver and Killian are finally together; but their happiness is short lived. Unbeknownst to Killian, Reaver is struggling with his own inner demons, demons that threaten to not only rip Reaver apart, but their entire relationship as well.Unfortunately though, it’s not only demons they have to worry about...
  • No Longer Alone by Erin R. Flynn

    No Longer Alone by Erin R. Flynn

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Inez Garner, and my story has sort of been told… But not. I’m turning twenty-three and find out I’m not human; I’m apparently a vampire. Sure, who hasn’t read that story? Oh, but I’m a princess. And there’s a zombie apocalypse—although I’m debating where the line is of apocalypse vs. post-apocalypse...
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    mlm  paranormal  polyamory  adult  amnesia  apocalyptic  book  dystopia
  • Fear by Michael Grant

    Fear by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear...
  • Plague by Michael Grant

    Plague by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach...
  • A God Among Insects Volume 3 by Quil Carter

    A God Among Insects Volume 3 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Things have gone from bad to worse. Dr. Bastian Gibel is determined to right the wrong he’d made centuries before, and while the old man works on a way to eradicate immortals once and for all, the threat of the proxy worms grows stronger. Skyfall is in a dire place, but even with their world falling apart around them, the royal family is still fighting amongst themselves...
  • Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    John F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end...
  • The Lie by Mary E. Twomey

    The Lie by Mary E. Twomey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Baird is intent on searching out and destroying more unearthed tyranny, with or without his sister. When a visit from the elusive Everest Sinclair brings more treachery than they could have predicted, Blue knows she must protect both her Vemreaux family and her Wayward family, no matter the cost...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  abuse  book  coming-of-age  dark  death  dystopia
  • Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Incursion by M.D. Massey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace... But when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies!Incursion: Vampire ApocalypseTHEM Post-Apocalyptic Series Book TwoIt's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place...
  • Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Legacies by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the penultimate book of the second series of Deadlocked, the High Rollers struggle to find their way after an enormous loss. They fell into the trap of a madman and the horde is closing in even as the town burns around them. Meanwhile, Hero is dealing with his contraction of what is known as the Tempest Strain, a virus capable of infecting any mammal...
  • Anubis by Adrienne Wilder

    Anubis by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be over: The Utah Facility discovered, New World Genetics dismantled, and those hunting Luca—dead.Then strangers who call themselves Varu come for Luca for help. They claim he’s a Cana and tell him he’s the only one who can bring back their wolves.Nox doesn’t want to trust them, then he learns people called Mah are responsible for the atrocities committed in the Utah Facility...
  • We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy

    We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories by Margaret Killjoy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, swords, spears, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins. Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in the science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material...
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    lgbtq  wlw  horror  fiction  fantasy  sci-fi  trans-mc  anthologies
  • War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    War of the Living by Joshua Guess

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the early days after causing the end of the world, Kell McDonald was just trying to survive. Time passed, and along with others, a new world grew. Society began to be rebuilt. Years have passed since the mutated organism known as Chimera caused the dead to rise, and on the ashes of the old world, terrifying new forces have come into play...
  • Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Dead City by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many times can you cheat death? I’m not sure but I have a feeling I’m about to be tested.First there were thirteen and now there’s only one. But the responsibilities don’t lessen. Bring the Harvest in, they say, take the soul orb to Haven, they order.One of me, and too many places to be. Like hell am I putting my ass on the line without back up...
  • Bones Are White by Scott Sigler

    Bones Are White by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A collection of nine horror stories created by New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler, author of NOCTURNAL, INFECTED, CONTAGIOUS and ANCESTOR. This eBook- and audiobook-only collection brings you more of Scott's thought-provoking short stories from his five years of weekly storytelling, as well as a brand-new HUNTER HUNTERSON & SONS story and a brand-new KISSYMAN tale...
  • For the Power by Debbie Cassidy

    For the Power by Debbie Cassidy

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Take the journey, find the lock that fits the key and get some damn answers.Get from point A to point B. Stick to the mapped-out route and take shelter at the pre-planned times. It sounds simple enough, now if only we’d factored in getting attacked by djinn and having to take a detour through The Wilds...
  • The Best of Subterranean by William Schafer, Lewis Shiner

    The Best of Subterranean by William Schafer, Lewis Shiner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean magazine published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and fantasy literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30 pieces of Subterranean’s best, representing diverse, breathtaking short fiction from today’s modern masters...
  • Countdown by Mira Grant

    Countdown by Mira Grant

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The 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...
  • A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

    A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt’s house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination...
  • A God Among Insects Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    A God Among Insects Volume 1 by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two months after what is now known as ‘The Proxy Incident’ has every chimera who was present during Elish’s discipline living in fear. Elish and Jade are taking great joy in personally crafting punishments for the family members that have wronged them, and without Silas to stop the two, they’re free to do whatever they want...
  • Withered + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Withered + Sere by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Once upon a time, humanity could no longer contain the rage that swelled within, and the world ended in a wave of fire.One hundred years later, in the wasteland formerly known as America, a broken man who goes only by the name of Cavalo survives. Purposefully cutting himself off from what remains of civilization, Cavalo resides in the crumbling ruins of the North Idaho Correctional Institution...
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    lgbtq  mlm  paranormal  abuse  action-adventure  adult  age-gap  angst
  • Lies by Michael Grant

    Lies by Michael Grant

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 55 ratings
    It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness—or so they thought...
  • Shadow Unit 11 by Emma Bull, Leah Bobet

    Shadow Unit 11 by Emma Bull, Leah Bobet

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares, but there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. There, Stephen Reyes and his team pursue criminals transformed by a mysterious force: the anomaly. Welcome to Shadow Unit, a series created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...
  • Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Shadow Unit 6 by Emma Bull, Elizabeth Bear

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares humanity doesn't dream are real. The BAU sends those cases down the hall. Welcome to Shadow Unit.     The Shadow Unit series was created by award-winning authors Emma Bull and Elizabeth Bear...
  • The Truth by Mary E. Twomey

    The Truth by Mary E. Twomey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Living in the real world is a lot more confusing than Blue Anders bargained for. While Sam is patient with her, Baird is not – demanding the utmost perfection from his sister before she travels to the O-blood island to destroy the predator. Emotions run high as Blue trains with Sam, Alec and Brody, who insist on fighting the battle with her...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  abuse  book  coming-of-age  dark  death  dystopia
  • Intuition by Leigh Walker

    Intuition by Leigh Walker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Riley Payne has recently accepted several things. She'll probably never graduate from high school. She's a secret agent. She has telekinetic power--i.e., she can move things with her brain waves. The boy she likes, Finn, is telepathic--i.e., he can listen to all of her thoughts, including the ones involving his bulging biceps...
  • Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  book  crime  fiction  horror  killer  mystery  supernatural
  • The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

    The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism “Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured. So her new collection,  The Wishing Pool,  out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares...
  • Monsters within Men by T.J. Rose

    Monsters within Men by T.J. Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    London, 2053. One of the last remaining civilisations in the world. A decade on from the first wave of human-flesh-craving monsters that wiped out most of society, Noah finds himself stepping up to lead Squad E, part of London’s East Regiment, fighting back against the creatures that threaten mankind...
  • Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas

    Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M...
  • Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.

    Ten Simple Tips for Surviving the Apocalypse by Cari Z.

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Do you have what it takes to survive the apocalypse? Are you sure?Let Javi help!Ten Simple Tips For Surviving The Apocalypse is a handy guide for anyone who wants to weather the end of the world's mayhem, misery, and mutants with flair...
  • What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith

    What You Make It by Michael Marshall Smith

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith’s award-winning short stories. The first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote – a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats – won the World Fantasy award. It’s included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility of one of the most exciting writers working in Britain today...
  • Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Deep, Dark by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This chilling short story is the prequel to The Dragon Factory, the second installment in Maberry's action-packed Joe Ledger novels.Before Baltimore cop Joe Ledger goes up against two competing groups of geneticists looking to continue the master-race program in The Dragon Factory, he must battle another foe using human test subjects for his sinister plans...
  • Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater

    Fighting to Survive by Rhiannon Frater

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Katie and Jenni have found new lives with the survivors of their makeshift fort, but danger still lurks. Nothing is easy in the new world where the dead walk and every day is a struggle to keep safe. As the elements, bandits, and the zombie horde threaten their safe haven, Jenni and Katie join the other survivors in fighting to survive as the world dies...
  • Defekt by Nino Cipri

    Defekt by Nino Cipri

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question...
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