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Whispers in the Mist by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClare and Dorran may still be alive against all odds, but relief is only temporary. Dorran is sick, and rapidly worsening. Clare fears the only way to save him lies in the mysterious Evandale Research Station, supposedly one of the few remaining human refuges. But the station is three days' journey away, and Clare isn't certain their small group can endure that long... -
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Dogs of War by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDogs of War: Robots are no longer science fiction. Autonomous, programmed to react like animals: fast, relentless, deadly. From microscopic nanobots to massive self-guided aircraft. This technology is here, it's accessible, and it's dangerous. What's even scarier is that almost anyone can get their hands on it... -
![The Plot to Kill the Pope by Anonymous]()
The Plot to Kill the Pope by Anonymous
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Red Mohawk returns in a new adventure featuring characters from the Bourbon Kid series. Someone is plotting to kill the Pope. Rodeo Rex knows the exact time the assassination will take place. But the location and the killer’s identity are unclear. Elvis and the Bourbon Kid tag along in a race against time to save the Pope from certain death... -
![Hominid by R.D. Brady]()
Hominid by R.D. Brady
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHominid (noun): any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family of humans or apesAccording to the experts, Homo sapiens are the only hominids in the family of humans that currently exists.One scientist has a plan to prove them wrong... -
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![Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter]()
Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry, Ray Porter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCaptain Joe Ledger--former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world's most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers... -
![Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom]()
Feral Outbreak by Sean Liscom
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPOST-APOCALYPTIC FICTION by Sean LiscomIn the wake of the cataclysmic events that reshaped our world in 2020, a sense of relief washed over us all. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn’t known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more... -
![The Other Brother by Brandon Massey]()
The Other Brother by Brandon Massey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGabriel Reid seems to have it all - a good family, a great career, a loving fiancee. Until a man named Isaiah Battle comes into his life, claiming to be his illegitimate brother... -
![Callsign: Deep Blue (Tom Duncan) by Jeremy Robinson, Kane Gilmour]()
Callsign: Deep Blue (Tom Duncan) by Jeremy Robinson, Kane Gilmour
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTom Duncan—Callsign: Deep Blue, former Army ranger, former president of the United States and handler of the black ops force known as Chess Team, is visiting the team’s new secret headquarters. The underground facility, known as Alpha, once belonged to Manifold Genetics, a corrupt corporation shut down by Chess Team. But despite being abandoned for years, Alpha still hides secrets...Categorized as:
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Abyss by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe explosive sequel to the Greig Beck blockbuster FATHOMLESS.Cate Granger is chasing ghosts.The monster shark she once encountered was a remnant of the ancient world - one that had escaped an underwater lair previously sealed off for millions of years. At great cost, Cate and her allies had killed the beast.So, no more ghosts, no more shadows. All gone.Or so Cate thought... -
![Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin]()
Dark of Night by Jonathan Maberry, Rachael Lavin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. The survivors are trapped in a world of monsters who prey on the helpless. Some of them are zombies...but they are not the only predators who feed on pain and suffering. Dark of Night is a story of worlds in collision. Three heroes who have survived the apocalypse are in a deadly race to save a busload of children from ravenous zombies and ruthless human scavengers... -
![Joe Ledger: The Missing Files by Jonathan Maberry]()
Joe Ledger: The Missing Files by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 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... -
![Unstoppable by Jonathan Maberry, Bryan Thomas Schmidt]()
Unstoppable by Jonathan Maberry, Bryan Thomas Schmidt
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn anthology of new stories by top authors set in the New York Times Bestselling universe of Maberry's Joe Ledger Horror Thriller series about government agents fighting zombies, plagues, and other supernatural terrors...Categorized as:
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![Callsign: King II - Underworld by Jeremy Robinson, Sean Ellis]()
Callsign: King II - Underworld by Jeremy Robinson, Sean Ellis
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStrange things have always happened in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona… Bizarre lights, reports of cave entrances that appear and then vanish, hundreds of mysterious disappearances…and rumors of monstrous creatures that inhabit a labyrinthine underworld...Categorized as:
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![From Hell by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan]()
From Hell by Greig Beck, Sean Mangan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the thrilling new blockbuster from Greig Beck comes the most horrifying edition to the Arcadian collection as Alex Hunter must journey into the heart of a volcano and confront a hellish adversary more powerful than anything he and his team have ever faced before."Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light...Categorized as:
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![Blood & Salt by Hubert L. Mullins]()
Blood & Salt by Hubert L. Mullins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril 10th, 1912: Titanic sails with a dark secret in her cargo hold . . .An ancient evil has been unleashed on the Ship of Dreams. One night into Titanic’s maiden voyage and passengers go missing, turn up dead, or bear a craving for blood and an aversion to the sun . . .Assistant Surgeon Benjamin York only wants to help his patients, and perhaps explain this odd affliction...Categorized as:
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![Kraken Rising by Greig Beck]()
Kraken Rising by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn't be higher.In 2008, a top secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica... -
![Cyrus LongBones and the Curse of the Sea Zombie by Jeremy Mathiesen]()
Cyrus LongBones and the Curse of the Sea Zombie by Jeremy Mathiesen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStealing into forbidden territory, sixteen-year-old Cyrus LongBones discovers that his small island is in fact a giant, fossilized turtle shell. With his village’s obsession of working the earth, the skeleton collapses in on itself, killing Cyrus’ brother and destroying his village. Forced into action, Cyrus is the first of his kind to leave his land and sail out to sea in search of a new home... -
![Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith]()
Dinosaur Lake II :Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrehistoric creatures have again invaded Crater Lake National Park …and this time there’s more than one. DINOSAUR LAKE II: Dinosaurs Arising by Kathryn Meyer Griffith Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for thirteen years now and thought the days when he’d had to fight a rogue dinosaur that lived in the caves below the lake were long over... -
![The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep by Ari Berk]()
The Secret History of Mermaids and Creatures of the Deep by Ari Berk
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk.Since ancient times, seafarers and coast-dwellers the world over have reported encounters with merpeople. Variously known as Finfolk, Dinny Mara, Nereids, Blue Men, and Merrymaids, merfolk have been the source of both gifts and disasters for humankind... -
![Kraken: Volume One by Max Hawthorne]()
Kraken: Volume One by Max Hawthorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings30 years have passed since the destruction of Paradise Cove. Since then, pliosaurs the size of whales have wreaked havoc on the world’s oceans... -
![Helicoprion by Michael Cole]()
Helicoprion by Michael Cole
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA series of violent shark attacks off the shores of northern California draw the attention of pessimistic Detective Luke Jansen. Despite reports of shark sightings by witnesses, the injuries appear to be more reminiscent of a chainsaw-wielding maniac rather than shark bites.Things get stranger when marine biologist Elise Sheldon encounters the creature... -
![When Giants Collide by Jake Bible]()
When Giants Collide by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeam Grendel has made some enemies. The Team of ex-Navy SEALs, scientists, and highly trained misfits may have saved countless lives, but they are now paying for their heroism. Pursued relentlessly across the globe by an unknown group, Team Grendel finds themselves disavowed by the United States and other sovereign nations for their work outside legal channels... -
![Ravaged World Saga (5 Horror Novels) by Iain Rob Wright]()
Ravaged World Saga (5 Horror Novels) by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll THREE books in the bestselling RAVAGED WORLD SAGA by Iain Rob Wright, plus 2389 and The Peeling Omnibus (5 books total). Unique and terrifying."Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me." - J.A.Konrath, author of Origins and Afraid. A virus the likes of which mankind has never seen has gotten loose and found its way aboard a luxury cruise liner... -
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![Operation: North Sea by William Meikle]()
Operation: North Sea by William Meikle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe chill grey waters of the North Sea off the Scottish coast are treacherous at the best of times and become even more so when something attacks an offshore oil rig.An old friend calls for S-Squad's expertise but what they find is a bigger enemy by far than any they have previously encountered.This time they're going to need bigger guns... -
![Behemoth Island by Jake Bible]()
Behemoth Island by Jake Bible
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRunning from the world, their ship crippled, their supplies dangerously low, Team Grendel follow Ballantine’s lead to a promised paradise. A place where they can hide and regroup, rest and plan the next step in their lives. If only life were so simple...Categorized as:
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![Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert]()
Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”Beware the one who got away . . -
![Deadlocked 4 by A.R. Wise]()
Deadlocked 4 by A.R. Wise
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt all ends here. The characters of the Deadlocked series have been through nearly unbearable challenges, but they're about to face the hardest yet. Kim has been taken by the cruelest, most vile person in the series, and it's up to Billy and Levon to save her... -
![Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole]()
Megalodon: Bloodbath by Michael R. Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact.Chief of Police Nico Medrano tries to investigate the matter...Categorized as:
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![Arcadian Genesis by Greig Beck]()
Arcadian Genesis by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn aeon ago it crashed into the frozen earth. Millennia later it was removed from the icy soil, still functioning. They opened it … they shouldn't have... -
![The First Bird: Omnibus Edition by Greig Beck]()
The First Bird: Omnibus Edition by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMatt Kearns, linguist, archaeologist and reluctant explorer from Beneath the Dark Ice and Black Mountain faces a terrifying new challenge as a prehistoric contagion threatens the survival of the entire world. And this time he doesn't have Alex Hunter to save him when the stuff hits the fan... -
![Out Behind the Barn by John Boden, Chad Lutzke]()
Out Behind the Barn by John Boden, Chad Lutzke
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe boys crept to the window and watched as Miss Maggie carried the long bundle into the barn, the weight of it stooping her aging back. Rafter lights spilled from the barn doors and Davey saw an arm fall from the canvas-wrapped parcel. He smiled.“She got someone!”Both children grinned and settled in their beds, eyes fixed to the ceiling.This was family growth... -
![Callsign: King (Jack Sigler) by Jeremy Robinson, Sean Ellis]()
Callsign: King (Jack Sigler) by Jeremy Robinson, Sean Ellis
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fabled Elephant Graveyard has been discovered. It contains enough ivory to make Ethiopia a wealthy nation. But the cave contains more than physical riches-it also holds the means to control the world. Fifteen scientists enter the cave. Only one leaves... -
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Fathomless by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCARCHARODON MEGALODONThe largest and most fearsome predator to have ever existed on our planet. Rumors of its existence in our modern oceans have persisted for centuries. Now, in a new adventure, the rumors explode into brutal and terrifying reality. BARANOF ISLAND, GULF OF ALASKA, 1952 Jim Granger is searching for a place of legend... -
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![Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson]()
Reprisal by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Reborn (6/90), Jim discovered the ancient evil that lurked within his past. Now Jonah, his only son, is the bearer of the horror. Jonah is biding his time, keeping his true identity a secret and waiting for the time when he can carry out the mission he was born for: to bring about the end of the world... -
![The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION POUNDS IN CASH.What at first appears to be a wonderful opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare he can imagine. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as ‘The Landlord’ controlling his every move, Damien will be forced to compete not only for the money, but for his life... -
![This Green Hell by Greg Beick, Sean Mangan]()
This Green Hell by Greg Beick, Sean Mangan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsDeep in the steaming jungles of Paraguay, Aimee Weir is in trouble. The petrobiologist has found what she was looking for ? a unique microorganism in a natural gas deposit ? but it proves to be more destructive than anyone could have imagined. A contagion is striking down all in its wake. The camp is quarantined, but workers start to vanish in the night... -
![Book of the Dead by Greig Beck]()
Book of the Dead by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnd the earth shall fall before they rise....Massive sinkholes are opening across the country—each larger and deeper than the previous one. First the family pets go missing, and anyone living near one of the pits is reporting strange phenomena—the vibrations, sulfurous odors and strange sounds rising up from the stygian depths. Then come the reports of horrifying "things" rising from the darkness... -
![Kronos Rising by Max Hawthorne]()
Kronos Rising by Max Hawthorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Steve refused to surrender. Even though he knew the creature was right behind him, he wouldn't quit. He would make it. Just as that beacon of hope began to shine down upon him, the bright sun overhead vanished from view. Confused, he gazed wide-eyed as the daylight grew dim. Then he realized the ultimate horror: the creature had overtaken him, its jaws opened wide.""He was in its mouth... -
![Infestation by William Meikle]()
Infestation by William Meikle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem... -
![A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote]()
A Dark Web of Monsters by J. Boote
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a young girl, Angela, is kidnapped, everyone fears the worst; another serial killer stalks the streets of Bradwell. But they are wrong. Unfortunately for Angela, that would have been too easy. Because someone is using her to make sordid videos on the dark web and her suffering is what feeds their abhorrent minds. And she's not the only one... -
![Arrival by Paul Elard Cooley]()
Arrival by Paul Elard Cooley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and sure to be more easily refined than anything that’s ever existed. To confirm their own analysis of their billion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea to Houston Analytical Laboratories (HAL)... -
![Primordial by David Wood, Alan Baxter]()
Primordial by David Wood, Alan Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire, Ellis Holloway, hires renegade marine biologist, Sam Aston, to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry... -
![In Darkness and Dank by K.L. Hiers]()
In Darkness and Dank by K.L. Hiers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKittisak Amarin is not a scientist—he's barely a student, but he joined his college professor's research team for an expedition into the Amazon as a last ditch effort to pass his biology course... -
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![Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley]()
Outbreak by Paul Elard Cooley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a Centers for Disease Control quarantine fails at Ben Taub Hospital, a Houston SWAT Team is sent in to secure the facility. What they find is destruction and death. Trapped in the hospital, cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants... -
![One by One by D.W. Gillespie]()
One by One by D.W. Gillespie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought at a steal, and Alice, the youngest of the family, is excited to explore the strange, new place. Her excitement turns to growing dread as she discovers a picture hidden under the old wallpaper, a child’s drawing of a family just like hers... -
![Sunblind by Michael McBride]()
Sunblind by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen U.S. Border Patrol Agent Christian Rivera discovers the body of an undocumented alien in the middle of the vast Sonoran Desert with three enigmatic words carved into her flesh, presumably by her own hand, it triggers a frantic search for the remainder of her party, a group of twenty-five men and women who have inexplicably vanished into the desert... -
![Fearful Symmetry by Michael McBride]()
Fearful Symmetry by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore than seventy years ago, five Nazi scientists embarked upon an expedition into the frozen Himalayas in search of the origins of the Aryan race. What they found instead was something beyond their wildest imaginations, a secret they would sooner take to their graves than risk releasing upon an unsuspecting world... -
![Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi]()
Mannheim Rex by Robert Pobi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRecently widowered and grieving, Gavin flees New York City for the quiet of the country. His new home on Lake Caldasac has surprisingly few visitors, and the author soon learns why: a suspiciously high number of people have gone missing in the small town. The deaths have all been ruled accidents, but Finn Horn, a handicapped boy obsessed with fishing, knows the truth... -
![Pliosaur by Russ Elliott]()
Pliosaur by Russ Elliott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArcheologist John Paxton has always been eluded by the great find. But his luck is about to change on a mysterious island near South Africa, where he seeks a rare prehistoric fish. Deep inside the caves, John finds more than he bargained for. He encounters the tribal elder, Kota―practically the devil himself with a plan straight from hell...
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