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Alive by Courtney Konstantin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRafe Duncan has been working his family’s compound for years in the event of a global catastrophe-- and doomsday has finally arrived. Both he and Charlie Brewer work at a facility where secret government experiments are carried out, experiments that are classified even to them. Then the plague breaks loose, and hell arrives on earth... -
![Snatched by the Sandman by Emily Shore]()
Snatched by the Sandman by Emily Shore
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you use TW's as a shopping list and love "WTF did I just read?" books that will give you trauma until you need therapy...or an exorcism, this book is for you.ZENYAA skeletal king saving me from faceless beings in another dimension is not the wildest part of my day. I follow the walking bone daddy into his fortress where I learn he is Nyxion, the God of Nightmares, and he has big plans for me... -
![I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells]()
I Don't Want to Kill You by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsJohn Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them... -
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Watchers by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsOn his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life... -
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![Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith]()
Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
![The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey]()
The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced... -
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 71 ratingsStephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals... -
![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 ratingsAll 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...Categorized as:
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![Undead Ultra by Camille Picott]()
Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUndead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh.Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles).For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent pounding out a twenty- to thirty-mile “fun run.” It’s during one of their runs that an insidious illness descends upon northern California, turning humans into flesh-shredding zombies... -
![Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry]()
Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world... -
![Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse...Categorized as:
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![Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher]()
Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Vita's humanity slowly drips away, monsters fallen from an island above spread throughout her home. While she fights fellow horrors outside the city's walls, her family suffers threats from within them. Yet surely, there's no problem enough power can't solve... and if there's one thing eating souls is good for, it's power... -
![Crown of Ashes by Amanda Aggie]()
Crown of Ashes by Amanda Aggie
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"We're all villains here." - Alice WhittakerBoth The Demon Prince and Crown of Ashes hit #1 in Amazon Charts for Paranormal Angel Romance, Dark Fantasy, Dark Fantasy Horror, Folklore, and Amazon New Releases!A year ago, we managed to escape the realm of monsters, unscathed.The mistake of trying to strike a bargain with the High King has been buried in the past…Or so we thought... -
![The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells]()
The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJohn Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can......but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war... -
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![Mr. Monster by Dan Wells]()
Mr. Monster by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies.But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve... -
![Fallocaust by Quil Carter]()
Fallocaust by Quil Carter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsOver two hundred and thirty years ago the Fallocaust happened, killing almost everything that lived and creating what is now known as the greywastes. A dead wasteland where cannibalism is a necessity, death your reality, and life before the radiation nothing but pictures in dog-eared magazines... -
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Wayward by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry... -
![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... -
![Nocturnal by Scott Sigler]()
Nocturnal by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsScott 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... -
![Reliquary by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Reliquary by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen police find two skeletons locked in a bony embrace deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid in the investigation. She soon realizes that the expertise the cops want is the result of her ordeal last year, battling the horrific beast loose in the basement corridors of the Museum...Categorized as:
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![Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic]()
Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeld in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet... -
![The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsOne of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world... -
![Bird Box by Josh Malerman]()
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsis a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page... -
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Merfolk by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the latest book in the bestselling WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series.A cave-diving expedition on a mysterious island goes horribly wrong for a renowned marine biologist and his fellow divers when they become hunted by a deadly breed of predators that, until then, had only been known in myths and legends... -
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![Forsaken by Michael McBride]()
Forsaken by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIT HAS SURVIVED At a research station in Antarctica, scientists discovered a strange and ancient organism. They thought they could study it, classify it, control it. They couldn't.IT HAS THRIVED Six months ago, a secret paramilitary team called Unit 51 was sent to the station. They thought the creature was dead, the nightmare was over. It wasn't... -
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Contain by Saul W. Tanpepper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey thought they were safe. They were wrong.CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot)Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more...Categorized as:
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![Handled by Romilly King]()
Handled by Romilly King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSerial killers think if it all goes south and they finally get caught that their swan song is a day in court, making the families relive the agony while they get off on that delicious pain, all over again. Not happening. Not anymore. We’re not making celebrities out of monsters. We’re not giving them a stage to strut on.Now they get an audience of two.One to Handle the problem, one to Witness it... -
![The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark]()
The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMore than Ghosts haunt you in his ghost story.Edward Meyer is returning back to his home town after the tragic loss of his wife. This move is rather ironic since it was the tragic loss of his parents that forced him away in the first place. When he returns, he learns a deep family secret that goes beyond the spirits that roam the town... -
![Predatory Instinct by Michael McBride]()
Predatory Instinct by Michael McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe fossilized remains of a previously unclassified hominin species are discovered in the Altai Mountains, prompting teams of scientists from around the globe to converge upon this isolated region of Siberia in search of further evidence to corroborate the revolutionary theory that a third proto-human ancestor coexisted with Neanderthals and primitive Homo sapiens... -
![Everything's Fine by Matthew Pridham]()
Everything's Fine by Matthew Pridham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEric’s day is off to a rough start: his regional managers are in town, he’s running late to work, the moon seems to be falling apart, and he just can’t seem to get his tie right. At least he has his priorities straight: it’s the little things that matter... -
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Sasquatch by K.T. Tomb
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeep in the woods of Texas, can Lux Branson find a creature that may not even exist? In SASQUATCH, bounty hunter and expert tracker Lux Branson is hired by cryptozoologist Dr. Stevens to find a legendary creature that he believes lurks in the Piney Woods... -
![Mutation by Michael McBride, Neil Hellegers]()
Mutation by Michael McBride, Neil Hellegers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT LIVES. In a research hangar in Virginia, a Unit 51 team studies an ancient but long-dormant virus that can transform human physiology-and turn it into something else . . . IT MUTATES. In the Amazon rain forest, a newly evolving life form known as Subject Z acquires the ability to think conceptually, build elaborate traps, create new carriers-and spawn a new race . . . IT SPREADS... -
![It Came With The Crash (Creature Encounters) by Boris Bacic]()
It Came With The Crash (Creature Encounters) by Boris Bacic
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey thought the plane crash was the worst that could happen to them. They were dead wrong.Stranded in the middle of the forest and without help, six crash survivors forge a plan to stay alive in the harsh conditions that surround them. As the days go on and their supplies dwindle, the tension in the group increases... -
![Descent by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Descent by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead will rise and the living will fall. The zombies have trapped them. Just a small band of survivors, alone in a building surrounded by hordes.Ken's family is shattered. His wife doesn't trust him. His son is gone. And his daughters... are changing.The survivors want to fight. To live. But some of them will not survive. Some will die - or worse. And the rest will find that the only way out... -
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![Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsPendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult.William Smithback Jr., a prominent New York Times reporter, was killed in a brutal attack in his Upper West Side apartment. His wife, Nora Kelly, an archeologist at the Museum of Natural History, was injured as well... -
![The Last Town by Blake Crouch]()
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, the last town.Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the town’s creator, is god. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed... -
![Phantoms by Dean Koontz]()
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThey found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease.But then they found the truth... -
![Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry]()
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhen you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing... -
![Jaws by Peter Benchley]()
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsWith the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phe- nomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature . and man against himself... -
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Rovers by Richard Lange
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this “utter triumph and delight” from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll ). Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims... -
![Forbidden Island by Jeremy Robinson]()
Forbidden Island by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsInternational bestselling author Jeremy Robinson has been compared to both Matthew Reilly and Stephen King. In Forbidden Island, he brings the characters and plotting of the fastest paced thrillers together with mind-bending imaginative horrors. SEEKING TO CONTACT HUMANITY'S LOST TRIBE...On the precipice of a cliff, contemplating suicide, dishonorably discharged U.S... -
![An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen]()
An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come.Kate Southerland, the first born of the latest generation of Southerlands, has been murdered, but she is not dead. Her little brother, Johnny, has also vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue... -
![Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones]()
Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told." --The Guardian (UK) for The String Diaries See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town... -
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Shadow Beast by Luke Phillips
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWe just lost our place at the top of the food chain. Man is just meat."This was on par with Jurassic Park." Courtney L."This story has heart and soul in the midst of its rampaging terror." Bevi Debb"His hero has the potential to be one of the most loved adventure icons, in the mould of Indiana Jones." A.K... -
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![Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings]()
Renegades by Michaelbrent Collings
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeing alive just means you have more to lose. The zombies are changing. Growing faster. Stronger. Smarter. Working together to destroy all of humanity.Ken Strickland has found his family. But finding something and keeping it are two very different things.The survivors are bruised. They are broken. And they are about to find out that the worst monsters are among those they count as their friends... -
![Pyramid Lake by Paul Draker]()
Pyramid Lake by Paul Draker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLies and deceit abound at a Top Secret research laboratory in Nevada, where DARPA's most advanced artificial intelligence can read your darkest secrets and hidden intentions right off your face.The AI technology's manipulative inventor, however, fears no future Big Brother surveillance state... -
![Spring Harvest by Rektok Ross]()
Spring Harvest by Rektok Ross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCoachella meets "The Vampire Diaries" in this absolutely addictive supernatural thriller where friends at a rural music festival must survive a vampire siege. Beautiful, confident, and freshly single Alix Summerlin and her friends are ready for the ultimate party weekend at the Garlic Groove Music Festival in remote little farm town Allium Valley... -
![Beyond the Ice Limit by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child]()
Beyond the Ice Limit by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 32 ratings"That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now..."With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth... -
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Sick by Brett Battles
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDaniel Ash wakes after midnight to the cry of his daughter. Just a bad dream, he thinks. She's had them before. Yet he can't help but worry when she cries out again as he pads down the hallway. Stepping through her doorway, he expects to find her sitting up in bed, frightened by a nightmare.But the nightmare is his. It's real. And it's just beginning...Something is burning Ash's daughter alive...Categorized as:
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The Mist by Stephen King
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 70 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction—originally published in the acclaimed short story collection Skeleton Crew and made into a TV series, as well as a feature film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden.In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends.
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