Books like 'Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 81'
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The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![Necronomicon II by H.R. Giger]()
Necronomicon II by H.R. Giger
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly once in a great while comes an artist with a completely new vision of the world. An ability to perceive things in a truly revolutionary manner. A talent to communicate through imagery so unique and provocative that it simply cannot be ignored. H.R. Giger is one such artist... -
![There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, Sam Hughes]()
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm, Sam Hughes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAn antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets... -
![Bedside Manor by Jack Townsend]()
Bedside Manor by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“We were a thousand miles away from home when the car gave up the ghost…” When Jack’s car breaks down in the middle of a cross-country road trip, the mysterious house at the top of the hill is a beacon of hope. If he can borrow a phone to call for help, he’ll be on his way in no time. But someone - or something - has other plans... -
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![Солярис. Эдем. Непобедимый by Stanisław Lem, Станислав Лем]()
Солярис. Эдем. Непобедимый by Stanisław Lem, Станислав Лем
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsВ книгу вошли философско-фантастические романы `Солярис`, `Эдем`, `Непобедимый` всемирно известного польского писателя и философа... -
![Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror by Rob Boyle, Lars Blumenstein]()
Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror by Rob Boyle, Lars Blumenstein
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEclipse Phase is the post-apocalyptic game of conspiracy and horror. Humanity is enhanced and improved, but also battered and bitterly divided. Technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone... -
![By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey]()
By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn the Lost Coast, some things should never be found.When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Zelda Ruiz’s adolescence, she retreats with her uncle Mark to the bucolic town of Greywood Bay. It’s a chance to heal, a chance to build a new life together.But nothing can prepare them for the malignant terror long coveting these lands.It looms over redwood groves and lurks among the foundations of homes... -
![The Haar by David Sodergren]()
The Haar by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I don’t fear death... but they do.”Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lost… until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland... -
![Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend]()
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
![Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff]()
Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end... -
![Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDa Robert Bloch a Fritz Leiber, Henry Kittner e, indirettamente, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft ha esercitato un influsso determinante su gran parte della narrativa fantastica del dopoguerra... -
![Horus Rising by Dan Abnett]()
Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAfter thousands of years of expansion and conquest, the imperium of man is at its height. His dream for humanity nearly accomplished, the emperor hands over the reins of power to his warmaster, Horus, and heads back to Terra...Categorized as:
21st-century action-adventure adult audiobook book contemporary cosmic-horror dystopia -
![Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright]()
Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright's brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land... -
![Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II by Brian Keene]()
Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sequel to Conqueror Worms. Free serialized e-novel... -
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![A Colder War by Charles Stross]()
A Colder War by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos... -
![Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky]()
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way... -
![Collected Fiction Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Collected Fiction Volume 4 (Revisions and Collaborations): A Variorum Edition by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsFollowing S. T. Joshi's acclaimed three-volume variorum edition of Lovecraft's fiction, this final collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft on behalf of his friends and clients... -
![God Seed by David J. Rodger]()
God Seed by David J. Rodger
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsIn the near future, a documentary film-maker is covering mercenaries engaged in corporate espionage. A nervous executive wants to smuggle stolen data to Cairo. Yet events rapidly and frighteningly escalate out of control... -
![Lily by Daniel Barnett]()
Lily by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThings have changed.For John Hawthorne and his companions, finished at last with their long drive north, there’s a feeling that wasn’t there before, a warmth both familiar and hard to define... -
![The Peaslee Papers: A Lovecraftian Chronicle by Pete Rawlik]()
The Peaslee Papers: A Lovecraftian Chronicle by Pete Rawlik
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsThe Yith Are Eternal, Patient, Methodical, Monstrous, Cold Minds From Beyond Time and Space... They were there when the Saurians were cast aside, and the ancestors of men were little more than pets for the things that once walked the Earth. They witnessed the wrathful judgment of gods and the terrible punishment inflicted on those who defy them... -
![Techno-Goth Cthulhu by Mark Anthony Crittenden, Wednesday Silverwood]()
Techno-Goth Cthulhu by Mark Anthony Crittenden, Wednesday Silverwood
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratings"...And ye shall know them by their cosmic signs, etched in the path of elder stars. Be ever vigilant, for they will rise again in future centuries. Their father is Cthulhu, and their mother is Biotech... -
![Even the Worm Will Turn by Hailey Piper]()
Even the Worm Will Turn by Hailey Piper
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 1 ratingsFour years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed from her troubled past, only to be abducted one December night by a monster in man’s skin.Held prisoner by operatives of a clandestine research facility and drugged into a sickened state, each day brings questioning and punishment... -
![Beyond the Mountains of Madness: An Epic Campaign & Sourcebook by Charles Engan, Jan Engan]()
Beyond the Mountains of Madness: An Epic Campaign & Sourcebook by Charles Engan, Jan Engan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsBeyond the Mountains of Madness continues the story begun in H.P. Lovecraft's novel "At the Mountains of Madness". It is the tale of the Starkweather-Moore Expedition of 1933 which bravely - and foolishly - seeks to finish what the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition began three years before... -
![The Demons of Emily Eldritch by Martin Adil-Smith]()
The Demons of Emily Eldritch by Martin Adil-Smith
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsShe knew that she was ready to do what must be done.Emily Eldritch has known for all of her thirty-nine years that she is not who she is meant to be. Now, in an anonymous hotel in Mid-Town Manhattan, she faces the truth of her ruined life; a husband who does not love her, a child she believes she is not fit to care for, and a grief that has never been faced... -
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![The Desolate Guardians by Matt Dymerski]()
The Desolate Guardians by Matt Dymerski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsSomething strange is going on at this corporation - the organization's network extends much further than it should. Secret encrypted pathways connect to drives that shouldn't exist, to systems that defy location, and even to entire alternate Internets filled with news, information, and conversations that reference historical and cultural events that never happened... -
![The Complete Supernatural Stories by Algernon Blackwood]()
The Complete Supernatural Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsAlgernon Blackwood (1869-1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T. Joshi has stated that “his work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer’s except Dunsany’s... -
![The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea]()
The Autopsy and Other Tales by Michael Shea
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsMichael Shea has demonstrated an unnerving facility for the macabre, the cerebral, and the whimsical, and he possesses the deceptively effortless ability to conjure scenes of horror and dread leavened by sly humor... -
![All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill]()
All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 2 ratingsThe red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the morning is no blessing. The handful of scattered survivors are confronted by blood-red skies and an infestation of predatory horrors that never originated on earth. An occupying force intent on erasing the remnants of animal life from the planet... -
![The Night Land: A Story Retold by James Stoddard, William Hope Hodgson]()
The Night Land: A Story Retold by James Stoddard, William Hope Hodgson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsAn adventure of both science fiction and fantasy—one of the great love stories--this is William Hope Hodgson's masterpiece, rewritten for the modern reader. Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult, archaic style that readers often find impenetrable... -
![The Call of The Black River by Martin Adil-Smith]()
The Call of The Black River by Martin Adil-Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsIn 1977, Earth received its only extra-terrestrial radio signal. At NASA, Professor Tom Jenkins is notified that the broadcast originated on our planet. Tasked with discovering who or what is reaching out to the stars, his mission will force him to confront the ghosts of his past in his hometown of Lorain, Ohio. Our government told us the signal was a hoax... -
![Bio Melt by Carlton Mellick III]()
Bio Melt by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsNobody goes into the Wire District anymore. The place is an industrial wasteland of poisonous gas clouds and lakes of toxic sludge. The machines are still running, the drone-operated factories are still spewing biochemical fumes over the city, but the place has lain abandoned for decades... -
![The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joanna Koch, Joe Koch]()
The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joanna Koch, Joe Koch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsThree Women, One BattleA world gone mad. Cities abandoned. Dreams invade waking minds. An invisible threat lures those who oppose its otherworldly violence to become acolytes of a nameless cult. As a teenage girl struggles for autonomy, a female weapons director in a secret research facility develops a living neuro-cognitive device that explodes into self-awareness... -
![Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Jeremy Robert Johnson, Cody Goodfellow]()
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Jeremy Robert Johnson, Cody Goodfellow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 3 ratingsIn the brutal zero-sum game of the new future, every meal is a murder, and every act of love is a declaration of genocidal war... -
![Skidding Into Oblivion by Brian Hodge]()
Skidding Into Oblivion by Brian Hodge
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsWe each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside, to the world on a cosmic scale. Worlds imposed on us, and worlds of our own making.In time, though, all worlds will end... -
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![Where the Summer Ends: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume One by Karl Edward Wagner, Laird Barron]()
Where the Summer Ends: The Best Horror Stories of Karl Edward Wagner, Volume One by Karl Edward Wagner, Laird Barron
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsThe first volume of Karl Edward Wagner's horror fiction collects the title story, the classic Lovecraftian "Sticks," "The Fourth Seal," "Beyond Any Measure," and other classic horror tales by a unique Southern voice in American fiction. Lavishly designed and illustrated, Wagner's psychological portrayals and ingenious use of Southern landscape make this publication an event... -
![The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror by William Meikle]()
The Ghost Club: Newly Found Tales of Victorian Terror by William Meikle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsWriters never really die; their stories live on, to be found again, to be told again, to scare again.In Victorian London, a select group of writers, led by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Henry James held an informal dining club, the price of entry to which was the telling of a story by each invited guest...Categorized as:
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![With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer: A Collection of Short Horror Stories in the Weird, Lovecraftian, and Cosmic Horror Vein by J.R. Hamantaschen]()
With a Voice that is Often Still Confused But is Becoming Ever Louder and Clearer: A Collection of Short Horror Stories in the Weird, Lovecraftian, and Cosmic Horror Vein by J.R. Hamantaschen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 4 ratingsThe follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection, You Shall Never Know Security, J.R. Hamantaschen returns with another collection of his inimitable brand of weird, dark fiction... -
![The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings48 Classic Horror Books in One Volume! NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader. ----- From the mind of pulp great, H.P. Lovecraft... -
![The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge]()
The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"You wouldn't think events happening years apart, at points in the solar system hundreds of millions of miles distant, would have anything to do with each other."When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor's toolshed, and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through... -
![I'll Bring You the Birds From out of the Sky by Brian Hodge]()
I'll Bring You the Birds From out of the Sky by Brian Hodge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Nona Conklin brings him a painting by the great-grandfather she never knew, gallery owner Timothy Randolph knows he's found the project of a lifetime: curating a spectacular cache of folk art hidden for decades in the mountains of her home. "God never made a lazier man than Cecil Conklin. Never put a more slothful soul in a fella big enough to wrestle an ox to the ground... -
![Nightfall by Daniel Barnett]()
Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...
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