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Fetch by Scott Cawthon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Fazbear Frights series continues with three more bone-chilling, novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five Nights at Freddy's player up at night . . .After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. Greg decides to put the controversial science he's been studying to the test... -
The Foul Mouth and the Mancy Martial Artist by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is King Henry Price. Yes, really. You'd think you'd be over that one by now. I'm the only freelance Artificer in the Western Hemisphere, crafting and experimenting to make objects of unique magical power. I'm also a geomancer, means I'm good at breaking metal, glass, and all the other important parts that keeps that box-like house over your head and not crashing down on it... -
The Foul Mouth and the Headless Hunny by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is King Henry Price. Yes, really. Still here. Still alive. Still running my Artificer shop. Got me a girlfriend now. Got a decent life for maybe the first time during my stay on this messed up little planet we call Earth. Better Earth than one of the other Realms I suppose . . . but that was last time around, wasn't it? This time around . . . well, got me kidnapped again... -
The Foul Mouth and the Troubled Boomworm by Richard Raley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is King Henry Price. Yes, really. I never been one for love. Don't think I've said the word but a handful of times and was probably lying when it crossed my lips anyway. Or said it cuz that's what you're SUPPOSED to say. Not one for love, also not a SUPPOSED TO SAY kind of guy either. Say what's on my mind, no matter the consequences, no matter how much trouble it usually gets me into...Categorized as:
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1:35AM by Scott Cawthon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFive Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans... -
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a beautiful signed, limited-edition hardcover.Ogres are bigger than you.Ogres are stronger than you.Ogres rule the world.It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites... -
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other... -
Artemis Fowl: Books 5-8 by Eoin Colfer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArtemis Fowl is the teenage child genius and most powerful criminal mastermind in history! He continues his devastating international crime spree, pursued all the time by Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police Force...Categorized as:
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Judicium by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrequel to the Devil's Playground Series.Can be read before or after Periculum...Categorized as:
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Edgar Allan Poe: Medo Clássico by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeguindo o padrão quase psicopata de qualidade que os leitores já esperam da DarkSide® Books, o livro é uma homenagem a Poe em todos os detalhes: da capa dura à nova tradução feita por Marcia Heloisa, pesquisadora e tradutora do gênero, além das belíssimas ilustrações em xilogravura feitas pelo artista gráfico Ramon Rodrigues... -
Trophies by Todd Travis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE LONG AWAITED SEQUEL TO CREATURES OF APPETITE IS HERE!TROPHIES... Young beautiful women are disappearing. Different types, with different backgrounds, most with a lot of debt, few friends and no close family to speak of. Gone.Someone is collecting trophies. Only one person can see it. Special Agent Emma Kane.Kane knows she'll need help on this ordeal... -
Narraciones Extraordinarias by Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. His name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, of love that extends beyond the grave, and of black ravens who utter only one word. Poe perfected the psychological thriller... -
Demon Hunter: The Breamstone Collective by Michael Dalton
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJimmy, Hayley, MJ, and Katarina have returned to school, but their lives have changed irrevocably with the discovery of Jimmy’s true identity as the dream child of the Breamstone Collective. Yet many questions remain unresolved.The search for answers sends them deeper into Jimmy’s dream world and further into his past in an attempt to unravel the plots of the demons behind the collective... -
A Wind From the Rift by Bonnie Wynne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sorceress has broken free of her shackles. Months of imprisonment have forged Gwyn into something new; something dangerous. Eight dead sorceresses whisper in her ear, hungry for blood and vengeance – and after unleashing the red magic to make her escape, she fears she won’t be able to stop.All Gwyn really wants is to go home... -
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The Eminence in Shadow, Vol. 2 by Daisuke Aizawa, 逢沢 大介
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTHCid pays a visit to the Sacred Land, where he finds himself getting roped into the Goddess's Trial. It's a ritual event that summons warriors from the past to engage with only the most worthy from the present... -
Escape by Nenia Campbell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's been one year since Val beat Gavin at his own game...She buried her old life and her old name, but memories from her dark past dog her at every corner--and some of those memories have teeth. The public wants her blood. Her enemies want her life. And Val just wants to forget. So she escaped to the city, where even the hunted can blend in with steel and concrete... -
The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky, Jon Padgett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life... -
Bottle Demon by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe sixth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.The Necromancer is dead. Long live the Necromancer... -
She Dreams in Blood by Michael R. Fletcher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDrawn by the shards of his obsidian heart, Khraen follows the path south. The islands, largely ignored by the Wizard’s Guild, have become a refuge for the unwanted of the world. Necromancers and sorcerers rule warring tribes haunted by the ghosts of savage and primal gods.With each fragment Khraen discovers more of the man he was.There was an Empire.There was a god.And she dreamed in blood... -
Goroth: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol. 7) by Neven Iliev
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt a glance, the dwarves and gnomes of the Horkensaft Kingdom are two peoples who are worlds apart. The former are seen as hardcore traditionalists Hell-bent on maintaining the status quo, while the latter only look ever forward and upward as they grasp at the future with both hands... -
Demon Hunter: Bloodline by Michael Dalton
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJimmy has paid off his soul debt to Hell, but he finds himself as closely bound to the infernal bureaucracy as ever due to the inescapable legacy of his birth.Now serving the demoness Amira, his once-mortal grandmother, Jimmy and his harem are called upon to locate a long-lost angel named Tamiel, who fell from grace with the rest of Hell but has not been seen in a millennium... -
Fire Season by Stephen Blackmoore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fourth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts.Los Angeles is burning.During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should... -
Beg For Mercy by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fight is on in this installment, Mercy is holding nothing back in her endeavor to prove to Sade he can experience love and pleasure. Sade,however has other plans and his darkness is front and center in them. Meanwhile, Father Abraham is still on the loose with a score to settle with them all and no one is safe from his wrath... -
No Mercy by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSade and Mercy’s journey takes a dark turn in No Mercy A Darker Continuation some nightmares last only minutes. Sometimes those minutes can last a lifetime. Dark lusts and self-loathing become a merciless dance Sade can't escape. Surviving one night of horror leads him to a ledge he's never been, where terror mixes with his sadism and masochism for a whole new monster with No Mercy... -
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Borrasca by C.K. Walker
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorrasca is a five-part novel written by C.K. Walker and originally published as a series on Reddit's NoSleep archive.Sam Walker moves to the town of Drisking, Missouri one summer and quickly befriends two other kids, Kyle and Kimber. They take a trip to a strange treehouse, where you are supposed to carve your name on the tree or "you'll disappear"... -
Demon Hunter: The Vermillion Cabal by Michael Dalton
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrad student Jimmy has settled into life as a sorcerer with succubus Katarina, girlfriend Hayley, and familiar Charlotte. But much about his background and relationship to the infernal bureaucracy remains a mystery he struggles to unravel.Hired to recover a powerful grimoire lost by Hell decades ago, Jimmy and his harem come into contact with a mysterious group known as the Vermillion Cabal... -
Law by Neven Iliev
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt would appear that, after two years of relative slacking, the Hero of Chaos is once again facing an ever-growing workload. Boxxy had been quite fortunate to obtain an exceptionally potent pawn with very little effort, but that was still effort it did not intend to expend... -
El cielo de la selva by Elaine Vilar Madruga
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLa selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alto de los precios a cambio. Su voracidad no termina nunca y aquellos que viven bajo su control deben entregarle a sus hijos como parte de un cíclico tributo caníbal... -
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors by Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeath and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that ''libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfils the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards....The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power...Categorized as:
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Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with a new book of stories.An aspiring actress goes to an audition with a mysterious director. An editor receives the last manuscript of his murdered friend. A young lawyer learns the terrible connection between her grandfather and an ancient race of creatures...Categorized as:
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Blood of Angels by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen I learned the truth of what I was seventy years ago, let’s just say, I didn’t take it well.I’m not human. I never was.I’m a homunculus crafted by two creatures for their benefit. Azrael, the archangel of death, made me to be his daughter and Asmodeus, the archdemon of lust, created me to be his wife.That’s the simplest part of my life right now... -
Fall of Angels by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAsmodeus lied to me. While I shouldn’t be surprised, to say my feelings for the archdemon are complicated is putting it lightly. But now, I don’t even know if I’ll ever have the chance to decide how I feel about him. Unfortunately, I know the terrible truth. Asmodeus told me that I was the only homunculus he made that survived—but there’s another one... -
Loki's Daughter The Opal Dungeon (Tales of the Opal Dungeon #1) by Marty Myers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlex Washington will be tried and tested as never before as she suffers under the cruel torture of the gods in order to earn a chance to escape and outlive the eradication of humanity. Her one chance comes at the hands of Loki who offers her a devil's bargain if there ever was one... -
Omulețul din perete by Marian Coman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsȘi dacă ești doar un personaj în cartea altcuiva?Cala, o femeie superbă și misterioasă, în jurul căreia se învârtesc multe dintre poveștile din carte. Sevăn, un bătăuș get-beget dintr-un sat uitat de lume. Fifi, o bibliotecară care face o descoperire inedită. Tanti Teofana, o ghicitoare care ascunde tot soiul de enigme și comori... -
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Mort by Joseph Duncan, Rod Redux
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA genetically modified food preservative mutates into a world-wide zombie plague, infecting humankind by the billions. As civilization collapses in a spectacular orgy of brain-eating destruction, overweight comic shop owner Mort Lesser must make his way out of his hometown of DuChamp before the local nuclear power plant goes critical... -
Shiloh: A Novella of the Civil War by Philip Fracassi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The ground had opened up and spit out hell and the detritus was Shiloh.”For two days in the year 1862, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War held theatre in southern Tennessee – a patch of land called Shiloh. Thousands of soldiers on both sides of the conflict lost their lives, and tens of thousands more were badly injured... -
Night Stalker: A Tale From The Tome of Bill by Rick Gualtieri
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBefore he was trying to save the world, he just wanted to save his own ass. Bill Ryder has a problem: the vampires under his rule don't respect him. Unfortunately, in the world of the supernatural, that makes him as good as dead.In order to keep breathing, Bill must become someone else ... something else.Enter the Night Stalker, fearsome predator of the undead... -
My Name Is Lydia by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSupernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a young girl who appears to be possessed by an evil spirit... -
Relentless by Bonny Capps
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is the third and final book in the Killer series. WARNING: THIS IS A DARK BOOK. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. M: What do you want to know? My family, they've abandoned me. My existence is stitched together by sin, regret and blood. This is my story. This is my salvation. This is a family's curse. Adriana: My soul is torn, my heart shattered. This isn't where I planned on ending up... -
Malevolence by Natalie Bennett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsa bittersweet love story set in a world of macabre. She was a mother. She was a bride. Now she’s merely a woman trapped within a shattered mind. With a body full of scars and a past forever gone, at Chateau Dahlia carnage continues to unravel, and ghosts rise from the dead. Sadist to masochist. Monster to monster. Malice and Malevolence collide one final time. “Je t’aime.” “Moi, non plus... -
The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron by Ross E. Lockhart, Justin Steele
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech...and we love you... -
The Haunting at Hawke's Moor by Camille Oster
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVictorian London shows little mercy when divorce leaves Anne Kinelly destitute and abandoned by her husband. Her bleak future is avoided when the merciful actions of her solicitor results in a stroke of luck, finding a house forgotten and left in probate by previous generations... -
Conan: People of the Black Circle (The People Of the Black Circle; The Devil In Iron; A Witch Shall Be Born; Jewels of Gwahlur) by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Phoenix on the Sword is the first volume of stories about Conan The Barbarian, perhaps Robert E. Howard's most famous creation, presenting it as it was originally written and appeared in the pulp magazine Weird Tales meticulously produced to the original magazine texts...Categorized as:
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Child of the Daystar by Bryce O'Connor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAmong the scattered fringe cities bordering the Cienbal desert, the true name of the Monster of Karth is spoken only in whispers... RAZ I'SYUL ARRO. A sellsword of the utmost caliber, Raz is a killer of paramount skill and highest regard. Towering tall even amongst the atherian, he is the only of his kind to live free in the "civilized" confines of mankind's varied cultures... -
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Los mitos de Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnticipada por notables precedentes (Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen, Algernon Blackwood) y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto... -
The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlicia and Jordan are married and live happily for three months. As Alicia falls ill, she hallucinates to a surprising, inevitable ending. A spiky classic by the Uruguayan master of the short story in Spanish. Sometimes called the Edgar Allan Poe of Latin America, Horacio Quiroga serves as a model for modern-day short fiction writers... -
Snakes and Ladders by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThere's nothing that little girls love more on Halloween than going trick or treating with their mother, a sackful of talking pantheistic mice, and their dead babysitter. All right, maybe there are a lot of things that little girls love more, but for Alice Healy, a nice out with her beloved mama and her favorite ghost is just about perfect... -
Night Visions 6 by Dean Koontz, F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents: Introduction / Dean R. Koontz --Feelings / F. Paul Wilson --Faces / F. Paul Wilson --Tenants / F. Paul Wilson --The gardener / Sheri S. Tepper --Monsters / Ray Garton... -
Salamanca by Dean Francis Alfar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDean Alfar's first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation... -
Corpsepaint by David Peak
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s been years since the groundbreaking debut of black metal band Angelus Mortis, and that first album, Henosis, has become a classic of the genre, a harrowing primal scream of rage and anger. With the next two albums, Fields of Punishment and Telos, Angelus Mortis cemented a reputation for uncompromising, aggressive music, impressing critics and fans alike...
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