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  • Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

    Brief Cases by Jim Butcher

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Brief Cases is the sequel anthology of Side Jobs, and will be released before Peace TalksSet to include the following stories:An exclusive novellette from the perspective of Maggie and Mouse.“Curses” — from The Naked City, edited by Ellen DatlowTakes place between Small Favor and Turn Coat...
  • Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nightshift 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...
  • Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry

    Code Zero by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For years the Department of Military Sciences has fought to stop terrorists from using radical bioweapons—designer plagues, weaponized pathogens, genetically modified viruses, and even the zombie plague that first brought Ledger into the DMS. These terrible weapons have been locked away in the world’s most secure facility. Until now...
  • Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The trade paper reissue of Robert McCammon's New York Times bestselling Swan Song.An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war.He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and destroy her...
  • Predator One by Jonathan Maberry

    Predator One by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On opening day of the new baseball season a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is the exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it’s a prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens...
  • Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The 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...
  • That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Crossroads, noun: 1. A place where two roads cross.2. A place where bargains can be made.3. See also “places to avoid.”Antimony Price has never done well without a support system. As the youngest of her generation, she has always been able to depend on her parents, siblings, and cousins to help her out when she’s in a pinch—until now. After fleeing from the Covenant of St...
  • Assassin's Code by Jonathan Maberry

    Assassin's Code by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In ASSASSIN’S CODE, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series, Joe Ledger and the DMS go on a relentless chase to stop an ancient order of killers from plunging the entire world into Holy War...
  • Rage by Jonathan Maberry

    Rage by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rage is the first title in Jonathan Maberry's brand new Joe Ledger spin-off series of international weird science thrillers.A small island off the coast of Japan is torn apart by a bioweapon that drives everyone—men, women, and children—insane with murderous rage. The people behind that attack want Korea united or destroyed. No middle ground. No mercy...
  • Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...
  • King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition.To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake...
  • Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry

    Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What do you do when the power goes off?A terrorist group has acquired one hundred E-bombs. Each bomb's electromagnetic pulse is powerful enough to blow out all power and all technology from a major city. The terrorists plan to hit one hundred American cities in a campaign of destruction...
  • The Spook's Mistake by Joseph Delaney

    The Spook's Mistake by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As danger increases in the County, Tom is sent far north by his master to be trained by Bill Arkwright, another Spook. Arkwright lives in a haunted mill on the edge of a treacherous marsh and his training methods prove to be harsh and sometimes cruel. But he has toughened up many previous apprentices and now he must do the same for Tom and prepare him for the gravest dangers of his life...
  • Whitechapel Rising by Anthony M. Strong

    Whitechapel Rising by Anthony M. Strong

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a hundred years. But it won't stay that way.
  • Fall of Night by Jonathan Maberry

    Fall of Night by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The sequel to 'Dead of Night', bringing back beloved characters Desdemona Fox and Billy Trout as they race against time to quarantine a zombie epidemic while caught in a military strike.Stebbins Little School is full of bodies. It's unthinkable to Desdemona Fox...
  • The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    The Kill Society by Richard Kadrey

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sandman Slim has been to Heaven and Hell and many places in between, but now he finds himself in an unknown land: the far, far edge of the Tenebrae, the desolate home of the lost dead. Making his way inland with nothing but his unerring instinct for trouble to guide him, he collides with a caravan of the damned on a mysterious crusade, led by the ruthless Magistrate...
  • Pandemic by Scott Sigler

    Pandemic by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The 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...
  • The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    The Dark by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From 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...
  • More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

    More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic...
  • Fear by Ronald Kelly

    Fear by Ronald Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was a legend in Fear County... a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared...
  • Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds

    Moonstruck by Graeme Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over...
  • The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry

    The King of Plagues by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Saturday 09:11 Hours: A blast rocks a London hospital and thousands are dead or injured… 10:09 Hours: Joe Ledger arrives on scene to investigate. The horror is unlike anything he has ever seen. Compelled by grief and rage, Joe rejoins the DMS and within hours is attacked by a hit-team of assassins and sent on a suicide mission into a viral hot zone during an Ebola outbreak...
  • Dark Carousel by Joe Hill

    Dark Carousel by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Joe Hill, "the best horror writer of our generation” (Michael Koryta), returns with a brand new short story.A balmy summer night in 1994. Four teenagers out for an evening of fun on the boardwalk take a ride on the “Wild Wheel” – an antique carousel with a shadowy past – and learn too late that decisions made in an instant can have deadly consequences...
  • Joe Ledger: The Missing Files by Jonathan Maberry

    Joe Ledger: The Missing Files by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this collection of five short stories, Jonathan Maberry fills in the blanks in his action-thriller 'Joe Ledger' novels. In "Countdown," the prequel to "Patient Zero," meet Joe Ledger, Baltimore PD, attached to a Homeland Security task force who's about to get a serious promotion. "Zero Tolerance" picks up a few weeks after the close of "Patient Zero...
  • Callsign: Queen by Jeremy Robinson, David Wood

    Callsign: Queen by Jeremy Robinson, David Wood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At the beginning of her search for Rook, a missing Chess Team member, Zelda Baker, Callsign: Queen, is redirected to Pripyat, Ukraine, a ghost town on the radioactive outskirts of Chernobyl. Intel indicates that splinter cell of Manifold Genetics—a ruthless corporation dismantled by Chess Team—may be operating in the area...
  • Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Project 731 by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WASHINGTON 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...
  • Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer

    Project Maigo by Jeremy Robinson, Jeffrey Kafer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BOSTON 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...
  • Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

    Grave Importance by Vivian Shaw

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical...
  • Empire of Night by Kelley Armstrong

    Empire of Night by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    SISTERS MORIA AND ASHYN ARE THE KEEPER AND SEEKER OF EDGEWOOD.OR AT LEAST, THEY WERE.Their village is gone. Their friends have betrayed them. And now, they are all but prisoners in court, forced to watch and wait while the Emperor decides whether to help the children of Edgewood, who remain hostages of the treacherous Alvar Kitsune...
  • Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Contagious by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From 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...
  • The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry

    The Dragon Factory by Jonathan Maberry

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists.  One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele.  Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn first blood...
  • Threshold by Jeremy Robinson

    Threshold by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    After a terrorist attack on a reservation in Oregon leaves thousands dead, Jack Sigler, call sign King and his Chess Team — Queen, Rook, Bishop and Knight — must protect the only survivor, thirteen year-old Fiona Lane. When a death in the family pulls King away, and the rest of the team is sent on a mission, Fort Bragg is attacked by a strange and overwhelming force...
  • The Divide by Jeremy Robinson

    The Divide by Jeremy Robinson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A 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 ratings
    When 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...
  • Predatory Animals by Gabriel Beyers

    Predatory Animals by Gabriel Beyers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IN THE TOWN OF SHADELAND, PEOPLE ARE VANISHING.After suffering a near-death accident, Casper Brown awakens with a strange new connection to three stray dogs recently adopted by his family. Casper’s nights are filled with dreams of the dogs’ activities; at times he can even see through their eyes. And what he witnesses has him worried for his family’s safety...
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  • A Dark Roux by Blaine Daigle

    A Dark Roux by Blaine Daigle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Beneath the black waters of the Louisiana bayou hides a world of dark mysticism. A world steeped in superstition and the decay of family legacies. A world Rhiannon LeBeau thought she’d left behind fifteen years ago after a summer of tragedy and horror...
  • The First Bird: Episode 1 by Greig Beck

    The First Bird: Episode 1 by Greig Beck

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Matt Kearns, linguist, archaeologist and reluctant explorer from Beneath the Dark Ice and Black Mountain returns in his first full-time adventure. And this time he doesn't have Alex Hunter to save him when things get weird...
  • Blood is Red by Scott Sigler

    Blood is Red by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning

    The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The game s afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty s gang, the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a disappointing butler demon, a succubus, a wicked lord, an overly-Canadian lord, a tricycle-fight to the death and the dreaded Pumpcrow. Oh, and a hell hound, one assumes...
  • Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Material Witness by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Here 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 ratings
    One 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...
  • Nocturnal by Scott Sigler

    Nocturnal by Scott Sigler

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious … rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor …now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works his magic on the paranormal thriller, taking us inside a terrifying underworld of subterranean predators that only his twisted mind could invent...
  • The Tomb (Adversary Cycle, #2) by F. Paul Wilson

    The Tomb (Adversary Cycle, #2) by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with electronic appliances--he fixes situations for people, situations that usually involve putting himself in deadly danger. His latest project is recovering a stolen necklace, which carries with it an ancient curse that may unleash a horde of Bengali demons...
  • Primeval by David L. Golemon

    Primeval by David L. Golemon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Twenty thousand years ago, when early man made his way to North America, a tribe of prehistoric predators made the great trek as well. But these giant, deadly beasts seemingly became extinct…and humans lived to become the most violent creatures on Earth. Man's brutal nature reached a boiling-point with the execution of Russia's last czar and his entire family...
  • The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon

    The Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    D-Day is threatened, but one man could rip the heart of the Nazis -- with his bare claws....He is Michael Gallatin, master spy, lover -- and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury, he proved his talents against Rommel in Africa. Now he faces his most delicate, dangerous mission: to unravel the secret Nazi plan known as Iron Fist...
  • Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An 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...
  • Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Stung by Bethany Wiggins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There 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...
  • Comes a Horseman by Robert Liparulo

    Comes a Horseman by Robert Liparulo

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The ancients saw Death as a blazing figure on horseback, swift and merciless. Those facing the black chasm often mistook their pounding hearts for the beating of hooves.Now, two FBI agents pursuing a killer from a centuries-old cult realize they have become his prey...
  • Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter International by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry...
  • Excavation by James Rollins

    Excavation by James Rollins

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    “A real page-turner….Rollins keeps the story in overdrive, with plenty of twists and turns before the final shocker...
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