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Love Will Tear Us Apart by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLove can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead.Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary... -
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Relight My Fire by C.K. McDonnell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome comebacks can be murder . . .Stella is enjoying life as an almost student, or at least she is until a man falls from the sky right in front of her, leaving a big old hole in the pavement for Manchester Council to fill. The obvious question of how he ended up in the sky in the first place has no obvious answers, which is where The Stranger Times come in... -
![Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman]()
Message in the Fire by Dawn Merriman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA daring escape, psychic visions, a terrifying cult and a burning ritual. . Blood stained her back and her hands were bound. She’d crumpled on her side under a tree, wrapped around her crying newborn. My psychic abilities would show me what happened to the young woman, but the horror can scar. Fear stopped me from touching her. I scooped the infant up and the young woman moved. She was alive. -
![The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes]()
The Fangs of Freelance by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Fred formed his own parahuman clan out of necessity, he understood that it was going to come with new responsibilities. Much as he hoped those tasks would center around extra paperwork and perhaps the occasional mandatory class, enough time around the supernatural has taught him to be ready for anything. Or so he thought... -
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![Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay]()
Hell for the Holidays by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe tree is trimmed. The mistletoe is hung. The eggnog is spiked. It’s time to celebrate the merriest, most heart-warming Christmas ever! Or not? No. Definitely, absolutely not. This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like Ash vs Evil Dead meets National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Because the Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails... -
![The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov]()
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov by Vladimir Nabokov
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the writer who shocked and delighted the world with his novels Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada, or Ardor, and so many others, comes a magnificent collection of stories. Written between the 1920s and 1950s, these sixty-five tales—eleven of which have been translated into English for the first time—display all the shades of Nabokov's imagination...Categorized as:
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![The Stranger Times by C. K. McDonnell, Brendan McDonald]()
The Stranger Times by C. K. McDonnell, Brendan McDonald
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThere are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them. A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but more often the weird) of modern life, it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable...At least that’s their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious... -
![Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike]()
Son of a Liche by J. Zachary Pike
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA doubly disgraced Dwarven hero. A band of accident-prone adventurers. Giving redemption a second shot may have been a grave mistake... Still bruised and heartbroken from their last calamitous quest, Gorm Ingerson and his band of washed-up heroes try to make amends for the Orcs they accidentally betrayed. But justice is put on hold when an old foe marches to the city gates... -
![Tales from the Gas Station, Vol. 1 by Jack Townsend]()
Tales from the Gas Station, Vol. 1 by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWorking at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building… As the only full-time employee at the twenty-four hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all... -
![Old Haunts by Dave Turner]()
Old Haunts by Dave Turner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath's not taking the news he received at the end of Paper Cuts very well. Dave is still getting used to the undead trying kill him at regular intervals while he and Anne attempt to solve the mystery of the strange forces that continue to engulf London. And Melanie's still putting up with more than any person should in a relationship... -
![The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink, Tom Fria]()
The Garbage Times/White Ibis: Two Novellas by Sam Pink, Tom Fria
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the freezing alleys of Chicago to the dew-blanketed bayou of Florida. From bouncing drunks and cleaning up puke to biking through the swamp laughing at peacocks. Freeze to thaw. Filth and broken glass and black water backed up in showers; lizards and Girl Scouts and themed birthday parties... -
![Grave New World by John P. Logsdon]()
Grave New World by John P. Logsdon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Council Gods Are Brutal. The Lesser Gods Are Worse. I'm All That Stands Between Them...You won't find me in the lore of the gods, but I'm there, hidden between the lines. Whenever the lesser gods torture humanity, creating armies of supernatural beasts to rain hell down on the innocent, it's my job to stand against the tidal wave of pain and death.I like my job... -
![Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh]()
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsBrace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr...Categorized as:
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![You're Kitten Me by Celia Kyle]()
You're Kitten Me by Celia Kyle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWant to mate a wolf? It's easy. Just make him—er, her—howl. Braden, the Second in the national weretiger pride, put Veronica on a plane back to wolf lands for her own protection. With DoPE—the Department of Paraphysical Entities—secretly determined to control shifters through any means necessary, he needed her out of harm’s way... -
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![Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Godsquad by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Team:Joan of Arc, the armour-plated teen saint of Orleans.Francis of Assisi, friend to all the animals whether they like it or not.St Christopher, the patron saint of travel who by papal decree has never existed – no matter how much he argues otherwise.The Mission: An impossible prayer has been received by Heaven and it’s a prayer that only Mary, Mother of God, can answer... -
![The Best of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale]()
The Best of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGodzilla’s in a twelve-step program. A soul-sucking Mummy stalks Elvis and John F. Kennedy. Joe Bob Briggs has a moral dilemma: If your girlfriend turns zombie on you, what do you do?And that’s the tame stuff.In this red-hot collection from world-champion Mojo storyteller Joe R. Lansdale, you’ll find his best, most outrageous stories... -
![Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Hellzapoppin' by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife at St Cadfan’s is never dull. There’s the cellar full of unexplained corpses. There’s the struggle to find food when the island is placed under quarantine. And there’s that peculiar staircase in the cellar… Being a demon in Hell has its own problems. There’s the increasingly impossible torture quotas to meet. There’s the entire horde of Hell waiting for you to slip up and make a mistake... -
![What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
What the Hell Did I Just Read by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsNYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of SpidersDave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear... -
![The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross]()
The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister... -
![The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Three of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Dessa, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations... -
![The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Sam Pink]()
The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Pink is a keen observer of the culture of minimum-wage jobs and low-rent studio apartments that is the reality of life for all those who don't find a cog space in today's hyper-capitalist economy." —The GuardianIt was maybe the first job I'd ever had where people were happy to see me. An odd feeling indeed, to wield this kind of power. To be this kind of force... -
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Ruby by Ann Denton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI messed up my Christmas miracle. That’s a big no-no for an angel. My boss shrunk my wings as a consequence. But did he have to make them so small? They’re the size of baby cupid wings for cloud’s sake! That’s why I’ve been hiding out on earth, in the small town of Silver Springs—feeding my shoe obsession and trying to understand humans so I can magic up a winning miracle this year... -
![Grave Creatures by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young]()
Grave Creatures by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHow exactly do you kill someone who's already dead?Playboy Police Chief Ian Dex didn't believe in zombies...until now.An old necromancer has been summoning the dead. His goal is to overrun the world, one city at a time. Too bad he started in Vegas.With the horde of zombies heading in from the old cemeteries, Ian and his crew soon realize they can't handle this threat alone... -
![It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God... -
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![Oddjobs by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Oddjobs by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that’s no excuse to get all emotional about it. Morag Murray works for the secret government organisation responsible for making sure the apocalypse goes as smoothly and as quietly as possible... -
![Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake]()
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTitus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death...Categorized as:
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![Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk]()
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsShe's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists...Categorized as:
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![Osbert the Avenger by Christopher William Hill, Chris Riddell]()
Osbert the Avenger by Christopher William Hill, Chris Riddell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first book in the gruesomely funny Tales from Schwartzgarten series. Meet Osbert Brinkhoff, the unlikeliest of avengers. His is a tale of dark delights and ghastly goings-on, of injustice and revenge. The villains are vicious. The settings are sinister. And good does NOT always prevail...If you prefer cleavers to kittens and fiends to fairies.. -
![Rose's Run by Dawn Dumont, Daniel Grenier]()
Rose's Run by Dawn Dumont, Daniel Grenier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRose Okanese, a single mother with two kids, has been pushed into a corner by Rez citizens to claim some self-respect, and decides that the fastest way to do that is to run the reserve’s annual marathon. Though Rose hasn’t run in twenty years, smokes, and initially has little motivation, she announces her intention to run the race... -
![The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington]()
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsLeonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book...Categorized as:
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![I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin]()
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions... -
![Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Clovenhoof by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia... -
![Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z. Brite]()
Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z. Brite
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans!Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man’s wildly creative, booze-laced food... -
![Factotum by Charles Bukowski]()
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsOne of Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job...Categorized as:
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![Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore]()
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsThere is an alternate cover edition here.Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching neck, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her...Categorized as:
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![Awoken by Serra Elinsen]()
Awoken by Serra Elinsen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn his house at R’lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her... -
![Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl]()
Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsIn Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous... -
![The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach]()
The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis...Categorized as:
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![Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey, محمد غفوری]()
Observatory Mansions by Edward Carey, محمد غفوری
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOnce the Orme family’s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing “inner and outer stillness,” Francis steals the cherished possessions of others to add to his private museum... -
![How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton]()
How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[i]Lazarus Dying[/i]: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. [i]The Fecalist[/i]: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. [i]Christmas[/i]: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth. Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton... -
![Negrophobia by Darius James]()
Negrophobia by Darius James
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvery racial stereotype is brought to life in this wry and raucous debut by James, a cutting-edge African American writer with an already established underground reputation. "By far the best novel to emerge from New York's Lower East Side literary scene".--Kirkus... -
![The Wine Club by Laurie Lisa]()
The Wine Club by Laurie Lisa
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBe ready to get hooked, with The Wine Club.Most people can’t tell a good wine from a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck.At least that’s what best friends Reggie and Audrey decide one night while celebrating their daughters’ election to the elite Mohave High Tigerette Pom Squad. But cheerleading in Scottsdale Arizona doesn’t come cheap, and both women are strapped for cash and going through a rough patch... -
![The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson]()
The Scarecrow by Ronald Hugh Morrieson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'The same week our fowls were stolen, Daphne Moran had her throat cut.' The greatest opening line in New Zealand literature opens this hilarious Gothic melodrama. Klynham is a sleepy little New Zealand town in which not a lot happens. But then one moonlit night the Scarecrow arrives, swilling brandies and looking for victims. Something sordid and even macrabre lies ahead... -
![Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw]()
Differently Morphous by Yahtzee Croshaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA magical serial killer is on the loose, and gelatinous, otherworldly creatures are infesting the English countryside. Which is making life for the Ministry of Occultism difficult, because magic is supposed to be their best kept secret... -
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![The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin]()
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSet in a crumbling Soviet Black Sea resort, The Life of Insects with its motley cast of characters who exist simultaneously as human beings (racketeers, mystics, drug addicts and prostitutes) and as insects, extended the surreal comic range for which Pelevin's first novel Omon Ra was acclaimed by critics... -
![The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns]()
The Juniper Tree by Barbara Comyns
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn their idyllic garden, Gertrude and Bernard forge a perfect triangle of friendship with Bella, the scarred mother of an illegitimate child. Then Gertrude conceives the child which has long eluded her, and the spell breaks into foreboding, menace and madness... -
![Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore]()
Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn San Francisco, the souls of the dead are mysteriously disappearing—and you know that can't be good—in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore's delightfully funny sequel to A Dirty Job.Something really strange is happening in the City by the Bay. People are dying, but their souls are not being collected...Categorized as:
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![Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore]()
Up Jumps the Devil by Michael Poore
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“The sustained comedy in this hilarious novel is equaled only by its heart, and the myriad ways there are for it to break. I love this book. Michael Poore writes like an angel... -
![Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk]()
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsFrom the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean...Categorized as:
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![In One Fell Swoop by Willow Rose]()
In One Fell Swoop by Willow Rose
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFasten your seatbelts as Willow Rose takes you on one scary, wildly imaginative ride. For anyone who loves a good thriller, this is a treat. On a hot day in June, two groups of campers disappear in the Green Swamps of Florida. The wood is still burning in the bonfire, all their belongings are abandoned, and there is blood at the campground. But not a single body is found...
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