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Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters by Flannery O'Connor
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn her short lifetime, Flannery O'Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O'Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the "Christ-haunted" Protestant South... -
![The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave]()
The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Paleblood Hunt" is an in-depth exploration behind the lore of the popular FromSoftware video game Bloodborne. Redgrave first introduced this document on Reddit and it has since been revised, and finalized. He closely examines the information available to the player in order to build up the hidden story of the game... -
![Void's Tale: A Schooled In Magic Novella by Christopher G. Nuttall]()
Void's Tale: A Schooled In Magic Novella by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA hundred years before Emily, just after the fall of the Empire and the start of the Necromantic Wars, Void worked for the White Council as an agent of last resort, the sorcerer they called upon when no one else could complete the mission. But this mission may make or break him... -
![Duck, Duck, Noose by Sara C. Roethle]()
Duck, Duck, Noose by Sara C. Roethle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do the Morrigan, a necromancer, and an ancient Viking have in common? Nothing, except for a common goal. Now that Madeline has been reunited with Alaric and the others, she must align herself with her enemies if she hopes to succeed in what she originally set out to do. Together, Madeline, Alaric, and Mikael will try to take down Estus once and for all . . -
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![Tribe Master 4 by Noah Layton]()
Tribe Master 4 by Noah Layton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExpand the tribe. Fight mercenaries. Free slaves.With a new alliance established with the sun-elves, Jack turns his attention to improving his tribe’s perimeter defences and commanding the new ship they have acquired.But after a run-in with a beautiful stowaway, Jack ends up crossing paths with a vicious gang of mercenaries in search of the very woman he is protecting... -
![Aether Mage 2 by Dante King]()
Aether Mage 2 by Dante King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly a month ago, I found out that I was a mage. Then the Agency that was meant to teach me magic up and disappeared.Thankfully, I've made some friends who can help me learn how to use my new abilities. But with the Agency gone, the supernatural monsters that were kept at bay are plaguing Portland.Protecting the mundane world from monsters has now fallen to me. And it means I'll need more allies... -
![Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart]()
Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaven is the second book in The Balance series - a collection of paranormal thrillers dealing with the unseen world of balancing powers.Too often life is viewed in terms of good and evil, black or white, and the balance point tipping in either direction is ignored... -
![Mother Death by Lee Mountford]()
Mother Death by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings‘They struggle and plead and take their last breath, with that horrible old lady: Mother Death, Mother Death.’One of the most famous hauntings in British history took place at a house on South Hill Estate. There, the spirit of Mary Kane was said to have returned from the grave in search of more children.But that was a long time ago. No further activity has been reported since the 1980s… until now... -
![I'm The Bad Guy by Simon Archer]()
I'm The Bad Guy by Simon Archer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLevel Up. Kill Everyone Else. Take Their Stuff.All Dantem ever wanted was one teeny tiny, almost insignificant thing…Vengeance on those who wronged him.When he’s suddenly recruited by the world’s largest video game company, he will finally have a way to achieve his dream.Assuming, of course, he has no problem being the bad guy... -
![Shoots and Tatters by Sara C. Roethle]()
Shoots and Tatters by Sara C. Roethle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe old gods have returned, and there will be hell to pay. Now that Yggdrasil has been regrown, Madeline must face the old gods' judgment. She shouldn't exist, and they know it. The world has been irreparably changed, and perhaps the Vaettir no longer have a place in it. Madeline had thought that once she destroyed her rival she would be safe. Now she knows just how wrong she was... -
![Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine]()
Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRyan arrives in Empia to further investigate his bloodline. But while searching the temple and exercising his uniques powers, he meets an ancient entity: one of the Guardians, and it challenges all that he is by asking him to do a task.When the person closest to him commits the worst betrayal, the Dark becomes even more enticing... -
![Immortelle by Catherine McCarthy]()
Immortelle by Catherine McCarthy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Elinor’s daughter, Rowena, is found poisoned and dead in an animal trough, Elinor is sure the local parish priest is to blame. A ceramic artist by trade and influenced by her late grandmother’s interest in supernatural magic, Elinor crafts an immortelle for Rowena’s grave and attempts to capture the girl’s spirit in the clay model of a starling... -
![Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight]()
Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst published in 1938 and 1956, neither Sea Priestess nor Moon Magic have been out of print and are enduring favorites among readers of esoteric fiction. New packages will update these classic novels and introduce them to a new generation of readers... -
![My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach]()
My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book is the product of a sick mind; a product of the "Southern Madman." There are 104 Fantasies inside that are not based in reality, interspersed with 70 Short Stories of somewhat sane thought of heavy opinion. The theme of the Fantasies is Law and Order and the author and the good guys always win. In a few places, it is quite tame... -
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![Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross]()
Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much... -
![Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás]()
Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with a little love story in between –In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself... -
![Possession by Lee Mountford]()
Possession by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA haunted cathedral. A possessed priest.Sarah Pearson and her team are sent on their first assignment together—to investigate a case of possession in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.Father Hus, a respected priest, has reportedly succumbed to possession from a supernatural entity. On top of that, there are stories of a ghostly and bloody monk wandering the halls at night... -
![Water Walker by Ted Dekker]()
Water Walker by Ted Dekker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy name is Alice Ringwald, but the man who kidnapped me says that's a lie.Thirteen-year old orphan Alice Ringwald has no memory beyond six months ago. The only life she knows is the new one she's creating one day at a time with the loving couple that recently adopted her and gave her new hope.That hope, however, is shattered one night when she is abducted by a strange man... -
![The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins]()
The Offering by Karen Ann Hopkins
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing a string of crimes and the murder of a young woman in a neighboring community, local authorities make an arrest, but do they have the right man? Sheriff Serenity Adams has her doubts and embarks on her own investigation to solve the case... -
![The Mirror’s Truth by Michael R. Fletcher]()
The Mirror’s Truth by Michael R. Fletcher
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the Advance Reader Copy edition. The final published edition can be found hereBedeckt defined himself by the list of crimes he was unwilling to commit. It was such a short list. How could straying from it have gone so wrong?Bedeckt must undo the damage caused by wandering from his precious list... -
![Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley]()
Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The world is a stage, life is a play, and we are the puppets. It’s better not to ask who pulls the strings... -
![Demonic by Jeff Strand]()
Demonic by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of PRESSURE and AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, comes a new novel of unrelenting terror.Corey is falling in love with his co-worker Quinn. This is a problem. Not only because Quinn is married, but because her husband is a serial killer known as the Toledo Trasher, who has been forcing her to participate in his savage crimes... -
![Sarah et Sid by Eve Patenaude]()
Sarah et Sid by Eve Patenaude
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLe rêve brisé que je traîne derrière moi : le ballet.Je m’appelle Sarah et, autrefois, j’en faisais. Oh, je danse toujours… mais nue. Dans un bar. Ça reste de la danse. Voilà ce que je me répète sans cesse pour ne pas m’écrouler, pour tenter d’oublier à quel point ma vie est misérable… En plus, je dois de l’argent à Carl, mon patron... -
![Blood Colony by Tananarive Due]()
Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAcclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals - a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years - facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic... -
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![The War Hound and the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock]()
The War Hound and the World's Pain by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratings"The forest flourished, a lush and spreading refuge from the Wars, coolly green and welcoming. Beyond its borders the land burned flame red, blood red, ghastly black. Men and women, hacked to death, choked the paths and streams as the Armies of Religion clashed and slaughtered. Carrion-hung gibbets loomed starkly through the smoke and all the land was desolate. The forest was a refuge... -
![The Erstwhile by Brian Catling]()
The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and their reawakening will have major consequences. In Africa, the colonial town of Essenwald has fallen into disarray because the timber workforce has disappeared into the Vorrh. Now a team of specialists are dispatched to find them... -
![Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva]()
Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorderlands is a horror anthology series not concerned with traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlands is about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the 90s, Borderlands will remind you that horror can indeed be horrific. Read about a farmer who disdains his wife for a giant potato.. -
![13:24: A Story of Faith and Obsession by M. Dolon Hickmon]()
13:24: A Story of Faith and Obsession by M. Dolon Hickmon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE HEART-POUNDING, RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES THRILLER HONORED WITH A STARRED REVIEW IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF 2014 SPECIAL ISSUEDetective William Hursel has worked countless murder cases, staring down the cruelest deeds humanity has to offer... -
![Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt]()
Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Graves is a miserable man. Every day he comes home from his dream job to a stale marriage. On the day he finally summons the courage to tell his wife, Eve, he wants a divorce she has exciting news for him – she’s pregnant. Nick is a spiteful man. He purchases his dream home in an ideal location far away from family, friends, and coworkers... -
![The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias]()
The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognises that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. In search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent where her mother once lived... -
![Desecrating Solomon by Lucian Bane]()
Desecrating Solomon by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***WARNING*** This is a dark, gothic, slightly erotic romantic thriller that contains elements that may be disturbing and offensive. Please read with caution if you are triggered by events depicting violence and various forms of abuse. On the seventh day of the seventh year... she desecrates. Evil keeps a formidable schedule in Weston, West Virginia... -
![The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth Engstrom]()
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Elizabeth Engstrom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories... -
![The World of Tolkien by David Day]()
The World of Tolkien by David Day
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGo on a fascinating journey through the history of Middle-earth!The Lord of the Rings is commonly regarded as a work of fantasy. Yet Tolkien himself saw his work as a body of myth with an inherent veracity at its core, not an invention, but a recovered truth. In the Middle-earth of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien created not an imaginary world, but an imaginary history of our own world... -
![Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield]()
Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1328, Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras -- humans mixed with animals or armour, forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows.Margriet de Vos learns she's a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. He didn't come back for her... -
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![Fireshaper's Doom by Tom Deitz]()
Fireshaper's Doom by Tom Deitz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFIRE, FLAME, AND REVENGEThere are worlds above the earth and under the sea, mystical kingdoms of silver and light, known only to those who can see beyond…and there is the unknown place of fire frozen in time…FIRESHAPER’S DOOMMortal boy David Sullivan had discovered the mysteries of the other world. Indeed, he was put to the test, triumphing over the wily schemes of the Windmaster... -
![A Dark Collection by Mark Lukens]()
A Dark Collection by Mark Lukens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA DARK COLLECTION of 12 horror stories, one for each month of the year.CROW MANOR (January) - A young couple struggling with their finances gets an amazing opportunity to house-sit at a strange mansion where something horrible waits for them.FEARS OF TORTURE (February) - A new twist on the hitman and an assassination... -
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Witch by Patrick Logan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo food, no money, no way to make a living... how far would you go to make sure that you and your daughter are fed? After her husband's death, Anne LaForet is alone... alone to raise her young daughter in an area of the swamp that is too foul to grow anything. Anne is no criminal, but circumstances force her to resort to theft... -
![D.O.A. II by Jack Ketchum, Robert Devereaux]()
D.O.A. II by Jack Ketchum, Robert Devereaux
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Make sure your health insurance covers psychiatric counseling before reading this book, because you're gonna need it. The experience of this collection may be likened to getting run over by a 666-car locomotive engineered by Lucifer... -
![Twisted Sacrament by Zoe Blake, Alta Hensley]()
Twisted Sacrament by Zoe Blake, Alta Hensley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark. Depraved. Sacrilegious. Each shocking story from these bestselling, dark authors will deform a holy sacrament into a sensually wicked taboo. There is no sanctuary, no light - only darkness - a deep, clawing horror. The blood of the innocent will be shed in a twisted perversion of all you hold dear. You will search in vain for a happy ending. This is your only warning... -
![The Power of the Night by Chris Walley]()
The Power of the Night by Chris Walley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the spirit of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lamb among the Stars series weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and the supernatural into something unique and haunting. On the faraway planet of Farholme, humans live in peace under the gentle rule of the Assembly. War and evil are ancient history. But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to change... -
![The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson]()
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young... -
![Take the Long Way Home by Brian Keene]()
Take the Long Way Home by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll across the world, people suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye. From their cars during the rush hour commute. From the shopping malls. Their homes. Their beds. Even from the arms of their loved ones. Airline pilots. World leaders. Teachers. Parents. Children. Gone.Steve, Charlie and Frank were just trying to get home when it happened... -
![Little Eve by Catriona Ward]()
Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist.Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle... -
![White Pines by Gemma Amor]()
White Pines by Gemma Amor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman, returning to her roots. A town, built on sacred land. A secret, cloaked in tradition and lore. Welcome to White Pines.Don't get too comfortable.This is the new cosmic-folk-Celtic-cult-horror novel from Gemma Amor, the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura, Cruel Works of Nature and Till the Score is Paid... -
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![The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp]()
The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFilled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.Asmodeus “Sax” Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by globetrotting for the finest lost objects in the world... -
![The Crooked God Machine by Autumn Christian]()
The Crooked God Machine by Autumn Christian
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharles lives on the black planet, a place where plague machines terrorize citizens with swarms of locusts and rivers of blood, salesmen sell sleep in the form of brain implants, and God appears on the television every night to warn of the upcoming apocalypse... -
![Sorrow's Point by Danielle DeVor]()
Sorrow's Point by Danielle DeVor
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot All Exorcists are Equal....One is Marked.When defrocked ex-priest, Jimmy Holiday, agrees to help an old friend with his sick daughter, he doesn’t expect the horrors that await him. Blackmoor, his friend’s new residence, rests upon the outskirts of the town of Sorrow’s Point... -
![Beckon by Tom Pawlik]()
Beckon by Tom Pawlik
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome things weren't meant to be discovered. Three people are each drawn to the small town of Beckon, Wyoming. A young anthropologist researches a Native American legend and makes a terrifying discovery. An ex-cop investigating her cousin's disappearance finds herself in grave peril. And an aging businessman is lured by the promise of a miracle. One by one they discover the town's ghastly secret... -
![The Last Witchking by Vox Day]()
The Last Witchking by Vox Day
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Last Witchking consists of three stories set in the epic fantasy world of A THRONE OF BONES. The title story concerns the hidden heir to a fallen race of magicians, who learns his father's dark lore as he pursues vengeance against those who destroyed his people... -
![Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss]()
Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDo you see the point of the story, Nathan? We all cut parts of ourselves away, but we never lose them. Things stay with us - souvenirs with memories attached. We can't always choose what to keep, what to throw away...
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