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The Perfect Betrayal by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMike and his squad launch a rescue for Trip, but nefarious forces have aligned against them. He marshals his team together, but will it be enough? Etna Station and everything Mike cares about is on the brink of collapse. All will be lost unless Mike can convince his team to heed the crazed warnings of an old friend... -
![We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Fourth Season by K.C. Wayland, Claire Dodin]()
We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Fourth Season by K.C. Wayland, Claire Dodin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLength: 13h 18minThe battle has begun. There is no more running away or trying to hide. The survivors confront their attackers head on, both human and otherwise... -
![Orchard of Skeletons by Eli Wilde]()
Orchard of Skeletons by Eli Wilde
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOrchard of Skeletons is a dystopian novel about Isaac and Macy who are on the run from a psychopath that wants to kill one of them and return the other to a life of slavery.During their run for freedom, they encounter an unlikely friend in the form of a replicant searching for something only they can help him find.The land they journey through is full of bones, abandoned towns and starving wolves... -
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Etna Station by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGetting to Etna Station is all that matters, with the world rapidly collapsing around them, Mike and company make a desperate trek to reach what they believe to be a safe haven. Can they out run the demons that chase them? Will they succumb to Knox and his tyrannical army or Payne, a revenge-bent vampire? New friends will be made along the way while some old ones will fall... -
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![All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen, Beware the Qu]()
All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by C.M. Kosemen, Beware the Qu
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform and colonize Mars. After a brief but violent civil war between the two planets, the genetically engineered survivors begin a new wave of colonization, spreading across the galaxy. Everything is looking up for the human race.. -
![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... -
![A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly]()
A Bouquet of Viscera by Bridgett Nelson, Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn overzealous vigilante, who sees her victims' auras, finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation. A young woman, injected with a microchip in a futuristic America, develops unusual and grisly cravings. Four high school graduates end up on the menu of a giant, mutant sea creature. Diary entries share shocking and disturbing confessions.. -
![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...Categorized as:
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![Descended in Blood by L.T. Ryan]()
Descended in Blood by L.T. Ryan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFollowing his reunion with his daughter, Sean is anxious to leave the survivors' camp behind with the few refugees who have joined him. His bunker is only a few miles away, but the path is cut off by a massive horde of afflicted. Their only option: south to Charleston, where Turk and his family are waiting... -
![Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand]()
Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story collection from the author of DEAD CLOWN BARBECUE. Over 85,000 words' worth of insanity! Cemetery Dance Magazine says that "No author working today comes close to Jeff Strand's perfect mixture of comedy and terror... -
![Your Body is Not Your Body by L.C. von Hessen, Rain Corbyn]()
Your Body is Not Your Body by L.C. von Hessen, Rain Corbyn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEXTREME CONDITIONS DEMAND EXTREME RESPONSES.Over thirty creators from the Trans/Gender Nonconforming communities come together to voice their rage, defiance and fearlessness in the New Weird Horror tradition that Tenebrous Press exemplifies.A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club... -
![The Haunting of Hardstone Jail by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Hardstone Jail by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the notorious Hardstone Jail is reopened after many years of neglect, nobody cares about the ghost stories. They just want somewhere to put more prisoners.But a ghost has been waiting patiently at Hardstone. The ghost of a little girl walks the corridors, seeking revenge for something that happened a century ago. And anyone who looks into her eyes will be dead within days... -
![The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson]()
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Here is how monstrous humans are."A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men: of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans... -
![Apocalypse by Devon C. Ford]()
Apocalypse by Devon C. Ford
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1989, Peter's young life is an unfair and miserable existence, even before events unfold far beyond his isolated, rural corner of the world. He is left alone to fend for himself and to survive in impossible circumstances. In the dying throes of the Cold War, testing of experimental bioweapons goes wrong in the worst kind of way... -
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![The Fourth Phase by Adrian J. Smith, Raphael Corkhill]()
The Fourth Phase by Adrian J. Smith, Raphael Corkhill
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWould you risk it all to save your family? The Hemorrhage Virus tore through America and swept the globe, leaving no country untouched. New Zealand was no exception. Those infected mutated into monsters, monsters that became known as Variants. Seven weeks have passed since Jack and Dee's quiet world shattered. Along with a small band of survivors, they fled to Mayor Island... -
![Zombies and Shit by Carlton Mellick III]()
Zombies and Shit by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBattle Royale meets Return of the Living Dead in this post-apocalyptic action adventure Twenty people wake to find themselves in a boarded-up building in the middle of the zombie wasteland. They soon realize they have been chosen as contestants on a popular reality show called Zombie Survival. Each contestant is given a backpack of supplies and a unique weapon...Categorized as:
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![Playground by Aron Beauregard]()
Playground by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsONCE IN A LIFETIMEThree low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades... -
![Intercepts by T.J. Payne]()
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
![PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape]()
PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE by Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsgurowave novella about a disgraced biomech pilot and her girlfriend, an ex-magical... -
![The Hill by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Hill by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn ancient land breeds a new threat…The Scottish Highlands; a sparse, mountainous region some say was carved by the gods themselves. Few places are as untouched as this harsh, prehistoric landscape. It is no place for man... -
![Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper]()
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the Bram Stoker AwardWithin forty-eight hours, Yaya Betancourt will go from discovering teeth between her thighs to being hunted by one of the most powerful corporations in America.She assumes the vagina dentata is a side effect of a rare genetic condition caused by AlphaBeta Pharmaceutical, decades ago, when she and several thousand others were still in the womb... -
![Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin]()
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsY: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate... -
![Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode]()
Within the Woods by Tony Urban, Thomas Rode
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon't go in the woods... For 12-year-old Garrett and his four best friends, the idyllic summer of 1989 crashes to a halt when Garrett's older brother vanishes. Something is very wrong in Sallow Creek, Pennsylvania. Something is turning their neighbors, their relatives, into unstoppable monstrosities... Monsters that are coming for the them... -
![Fever House by Keith Rosson]()
Fever House by Keith Rosson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator... -
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![Infested by C.M. Forest]()
Infested by C.M. Forest
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomething sinister is happening inside the New Leaf apartment buildingOlivia wakes on her bedroom floor, head spinning in a pool of vomit. Something isn’t right. The power is off and her husband is missing.But the vicious storm outside is nothing compared to the storm raging outside her apartment doors. A parasite has begun invading, possessing, the residents... -
![Infection by J.T. Sawyer]()
Infection by J.T. Sawyer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn epic struggle for survival between humans and a twisted mutation of undead begins in Emergence—the first book in a pulse-pounding post-apocalyptic series by author JT Sawyer. When a CIA bioweapons ship goes dark, operative Will Reisner and his team are sent to the South China Sea to investigate... -
![Zombies on The Block by Mike Evans]()
Zombies on The Block by Mike Evans
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the flu season struck America it impaired the population crippling what the collected power of the people were capable of doing to fight the outbreak. Unfortunately, it was not the same for everyone. There were three types of people. The first had no diseases, the second had the flu, and the third were busy fostering a zombie virus that was going to bring the nation to its knees...Categorized as:
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![sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw]()
sickEST B*stards by Matt Shaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSickEST B*stards continues from the end of SickER B*stards. To understand this short story, and wrap the events of Sick B*stards up, you need to have read the previous two titles. READERS TAKE NOTE: This is A SHORT STORY. It is intended for the members of Kindle Unlimited who have been requesting me for short, sick, bedtime stories... -
![The Big Meat by Carlton Mellick III]()
The Big Meat by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the godfather of bizarro fiction, Carlton Mellick III, award-winning author of Quicksand House and Cuddly Holocaust, comes a "kaiju" tribute novel that explores the surreal aftermath of a giant monster attack.The creature was finally dead... -
![Prankster: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper]()
Prankster: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 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... -
![The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark by Warren Wagner]()
The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark by Warren Wagner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark , an HIV positive gay man must leave the relative safety of his cabin in the woods to brave the zombie apocalypse and find the medication he needs to stay alive. "There's a raw, primordial scream echoing from each and every page of Warren Wagner's The Only Safe Place Left is the Dark... -
![Came with the Frame by Aron Beauregard]()
Came with the Frame by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsART OR ATROCITY?Francisco Booth is an infamous photographer known for pushing boundaries, yet it’s only the boundaries he pushes away from the public eye that satisfy his macabre appetite. But when he’s gifted an antique picture frame that contains a strange stock photo, Francisco’s life is suddenly turned upside down. Each time he looks at the picture, he sees something different...Categorized as:
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![Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud]()
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCrypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe... -
![House With One Hundred Doors: And Other Dark Tales by Travis Brown]()
House With One Hundred Doors: And Other Dark Tales by Travis Brown
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin your guide, Travis Brown, one of Reddit's most-upvoted NoSleep horror authors, for a tour of his most chilling tales. Within you'll find...A team exploring a seemingly endless house, each door leading deeper into a mad world. A neighborhood where no one looks out their windows after 3 a.m. for fear of seeing the lone whistler passing through...Categorized as:
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![Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud]()
Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, Cathedral of the Drowned is a dripping, squirming, scuttling tale of altered bodies and minds.There are two halves of Charlie Duchamp. One is a brain in a jar, stranded on Jupiter’s jungle moon, Io, who just wants to go home... -
![Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson]()
Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeth-heads, man-made monsters, and murderous Neo-Nazis. Blissed out club kids dying at the speed of sound. The un-dead and the very soon-to-be-dead. They're all here, trying to claw their way free...Categorized as:
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![Exoskeleton by Shane Stadler]()
Exoskeleton by Shane Stadler
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA convict is given a choice at his sentencing: Serve a 25-year prison term, or spend one year in an experimental corrections program. As his only hope for redemption, he opts for the latter, and finds himself in a horrific situation that transforms him into something the world has never seen. EXOSKELETON is a dark, dark ride along the border between science fiction and horror... -
![Jack's Magic Beans by Brian Keene]()
Jack's Magic Beans by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt happens in a split-second. One moment, customers are happily shopping in the Save-A-Lot grocery store. The next instant, they are transformed into bloodthirsty psychotics, interested only in slaughtering one another and committing unimaginably atrocious and frenzied acts of violent depravity. Only Jack, Sammi, Angie and Marcel seem immune to the insanity that has infected the rest of the town...Categorized as:
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![Entombed by Brian Keene]()
Entombed by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHERE ARE THINGS MUCH WORSE THAN ZOMBIESFirst time in paperback!In the long-awaited follow up to DEAD SEA, it has been several months since the disease known as Hamelin's Revenge decimated the world. Civilization has collapsed and the dead far outnumber the living. The survivors seek refuge from the roaming zombie hordes, but one-by-one, those shelters are falling... -
![Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee]()
Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou've seen Cannibal Holocaust. You've seen Salo. You've seen Nekromantik. You ain't seen shit! Zombie prostitutes, religious rapists, horny werewolves, death by vomit, and sexual fetishes scraped off the sidewalk. From sex prisons to mafia torture chambers, hold on tight because you're about to enter the perverted and twisted mind of Edward Lee... -
![They All Died Screaming by Kristopher Triana]()
They All Died Screaming by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s called The Scream... Once you get it, you simply cannot stop screaming. You can’t eat or sleep. It drives you more and more insane until you can’t stand to be alive a second longer.When the phenomenon hits Chuck's city, the chronically unemployed pervert joins a band of misfits to make his final stand... -
![Hissers by Ryan C. Thomas]()
Hissers by Ryan C. Thomas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the small town of Castor, it’s the last weekend of summer break. In just two days four teenage friends will begin their high school careers. Dating, who to sit with at the lunch table, and what to wear seem to be the most important decisions facing them...Categorized as:
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![Cockblock by C.V. Hunt]()
Cockblock by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the daily grind at their jobs all Sonya and Callie want is to enjoy a quiet night out together at a new restaurant. But making it to their reservation is proving to be a challenge. A few men on the street near their destination verbally assault them. And the situation quickly escalates into a nightmare... -
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Shards by Ian Rogers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of the collection Every House Is Haunted comes Ian Rogers's horror story, "Shards", a Tor.com OriginalA group of five friends rent a cabin in the woods—the next day only four are alive. What happened and why is something the survivors are desperate to unravel.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
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![Inside Out by Lor Gislason]()
Inside Out by Lor Gislason
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsINSIDE OUT is an over-the-top tribute to the goopy, grimy and gross horror of the 1980s. After a mysterious infection spreads through the world, people and animals start melting into horrific monsters. This wild debut novella follows everyday people dealing with the new chaotic reality, from school children to scummy landlords to mad scientists... -
![Witch Piss by Sam Pink]()
Witch Piss by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI noticed it was beginning to get dark. And for a couple seconds, it was scary—like that meant the world was breaking, or expired, or bruised, or something worse. It was really scary for a couple seconds but then I calmed down. Up above, the moonlit clouds looked rippled, like the ribcage of some giant thing digesting me... -
![Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager]()
Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe asks for a light. You reach in your pocket and dig out your Bic, strike the flint, and touch the flame to her cigarette. She inhales. The tip roils cinder. A line of flame draws down the paper, crossing the band, down the filter. It touches her lips and her entire face is a blaze... -
![Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect by P.D. Alleva]()
Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect by P.D. Alleva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarnivals, Cannibals, and Clowns. Oh My!Wanna go for a ride?Meet Jigglyspot, a five-foot tall half human half warlock carnival clown who spends his free time moonlighting as a drug dealing pimp and lackey for demonic entities who prey on the weak and vulnerable, casting their dark shadow across humanity through manipulation, and fear... -
![Meat by Joseph D'Lacey]()
Meat by Joseph D'Lacey
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsAbyrne is a decaying town, trapped by an advancing wilderness. Its people depend on meat for their survival, meat supplied by the processing plant on the edge of town.Meat is sanctified in Abyrne, a precious commodity eaten with devout solemnity by everyone except for a handful of people who won't, who suspect that the town is evil, rotten to its core... -
![Head Like a Hole by Andrew Van Wey]()
Head Like a Hole by Andrew Van Wey
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen you bury your past make sure that it’s dead.It’s the mid-nineties. Grunge and flannel are fading as the Spice Girls and Hot Topic conquer the malls. Cherry gloss glistens on the lips of the youth. Modems hiss as America comes online.And in a fog-drenched cove at the edge of New England, something terrible awakens when a fisherman reels in a gruesome catch: the remains of a young woman...Categorized as:
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