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Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAlex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace... -
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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... -
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Insidious Monsters by Debbie Cassidy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNever fall for the monster inside you.Telarion and I have an understanding:*Never talk about our emotions.*Never express our feelings to each other.*Never spend the evenings together.Luckily, catching eldritch is time consuming and exhausting work... -
![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRemember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on The Twilight Zone, John Lithgow saw it in the movie-even Bart Simpson saw it. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic horror stories by Richard Matheson that have insinuated themselves into our collective imagination... -
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![The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath]()
The Purge of Babylon by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOne night. That was all it took. Creatures that once lived in the shadows, hidden from humankind, have risen, spreading like a plague across the globe over the course of a single night. Their numbers growing exponentially through infection, these seemingly unkillable creatures have swallowed up whole cities and collapsed unprepared governments. Survivors call it The Purge... -
![The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross]()
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary... -
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I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsRobert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn... -
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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... -
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Impact Winter by Travis Beacham
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"They came after the impact and the firestorms. When the sun went dark. Like they’d been there all along. Just waiting."From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun... -
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The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAlma Katsu, the visionary author of The Fervor, The Hunger, and The Deep, brings readers a terrifying short story about monsters among men—and the thin lines that divide them.Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother... -
![The Pit and the Box by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan]()
The Pit and the Box by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOn an isolated mountain, a stone labyrinth provides rough shelter for a band of mercenaries. At its core lies a centuries-old mystery. But in part two of The Boy in the Iron Box, no secret is safe.A concealed pit; an iron box, wrapped in chains; a statue of a boy. What unknowns await the anxious, disoriented team in this strange ruin? Night will tell... -
![Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratings"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media... -
![Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht, Bowie V. Ibarra]()
Plague of the Dead by Z.A. Recht, Bowie V. Ibarra
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe end begins with a viral outbreak unlike anything mankind has ever encountered before. The infected are subject to delirium, fever, a dramatic increase in violent behavior, and a one-hundred percent mortality rate. Death. But it doesn't end there. The victims return from death to walk the earth... -
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The Hollows by Daniel Church
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the facts don't add up: the dead man is clutching a knife in one hand, and there's evidence he was hiding from someone. Someone who watched him die... -
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Infected by Scott Sigler
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAcross America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim... -
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The Playground: A Short Story by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the iconic science fiction author of Fahrenheit 451, a chilling dystopian short story that became a classic episode of TV’s Ray Bradbury Theater. The Playground, first published in the hardcover edition of Bradbury’s legendary work Fahrenheit 451, tells the story of Charles Underhill, a widower who must protect his young son, Jim, from the horrors of the playground... -
![Zombie Patrol by J.R. Rain, Elizabeth Basque]()
Zombie Patrol by J.R. Rain, Elizabeth Basque
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles County park ranger, Jack Carter, is about to discover that not all is as it seems in his tranquil life. Once responsible for patrolling the many public parks, in particular the popular Griffith Park with its famous observatory and zoo, Jack is about to discover that a whole new kind of animal roams his woods.The undead kind... -
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Saturnalia by Stephanie Feldman
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia’s elite Saturn Club—with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends and her chance to climb the social ladder... -
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Eden by David Holley
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAfter enduring a horrific plane crash, a small group of survivors must work together in order to withstand the harshest conditions imaginable in the remote wilderness of New Zealand’s South Island.The year is 2022, and their epic journey, fraught with danger and mystery, will alter the course of human history forever... -
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The Shadow Revolution by Clay Griffith, Susan Griffith
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThey are the realm’s last, best defense against supernatural evil. But they’re going to need a lot more silver.As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts... -
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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsWhat might be done to human beings by the "Other"--whether the "Other" be vampires, demons or creatures from outer space--is always in competition for absolute horror with what we do to ourselves. Stephen King has, in his time, played with both sources of the nightmarish and in Dreamcatcher, the first complete novel since his near-fatal accident, he gives us both... -
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The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsIn Benjamin Percy's new thriller, a post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark saga, a super flu and nuclear fallout have made a husk of the world we know. A few humans carry on, living in outposts such as the Sanctuary-the remains of St. Louis-a shielded community that owes its survival to its militant defense and fear-mongering leaders...Categorized as:
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스위트 홈 12 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“우리가 여기 살아있다는 걸 꼭 기억해주세요.”마침내, 그린 홈에서의 마지막 싸움이 펼쳐진다!옥상에 도착한 생존자들은 작전대로 로프를 이용해 뒷산으로 대피하려고 하지만 아래층에서 올라오는 괴물들과 날아다니는 괴물 탓에 이마저도 쉽지 않다. 한편 현수는 위험에 처한 지수를 구하기 위해 육체의 괴물화를 용인해 괴물을 무찌르고 지수와 함께 옥상에 도착한다. 하지만 엄청난 괴물이 되어 나타난 절대 악 신중섭의 등장으로 현수와 은혁은 외롭고도 고독한 마지막 싸움을 시작한다... -
![Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5 by James Tynion IV, Miquel Muerto]()
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5 by James Tynion IV, Miquel Muerto
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsErica Slaughter strikes out on her own in the bestselling, award-winning series!After a year since we last saw her in Archer’s Peak, Erica Slaughter resurfaces to take on the case of a girl who’s seen a new kind of monster, one with terrifying implications. But Erica’s broken ties with the House of Slaughter and that can have deadly consequences. The Order of St... -
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![스위트 홈 5 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비]()
스위트 홈 5 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“녀석은 우리의 강력한 무기가 될 수 있어요.”하나둘씩 괴물화 증상을 보이는 생존자들!촉수 괴물과 싸우다가 극적으로 1층 생존자들과 만나게 된 현수. 그런데 괴물이 되어가는 것은 현수 한 명만이 아니었다. 증상을 숨기는 생존자들로 인해 공동체에는 의심이 싹트기 시작한다. 이런 와중에 현수의 비정상적인 힘을 눈치챈 이은혁은 현수를 이용해 괴물과 싸우려는 작전을 짠다... -
![Sweet Home T03 by Youngchan Hwang, Carnby Kim]()
Sweet Home T03 by Youngchan Hwang, Carnby Kim
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSans famille, sans amis, sans espoir... un reclus peut-il survivre à l'apocalypse ? Depuis son écran, Hyeon-Su assiste à l'effondrement de la civilisation et à l'avènement des monstres jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères de l'Etat ! Mais pour lui, au fond, c?a ne change rien... Le monde est tout aussi effrayant qu'avant et le mieux est encore de rester cloîtré... -
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스위트 홈 10 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“1층 바리케이드가 무너지고 있어!”그린 홈이 뚫리면서 진짜 모험이 시작되다!위험을 무릅쓰고 밖으로 나가 신중섭 일당의 버스를 탐색하던 편상욱과 이은혁은 버스 안에서 토막 난 시체들을 발견하고 이들이 그린 홈까지 온 경위를 파악하게 된다. 두 사람의 움직임에 괴물들이 그린 홈으로 몰려오게 되고, 편상욱은 이들을 유인하기 위해 그린 홈 반대편으로 이동하지만 결국 엄청난 수에 1층 바리케이드가 뚫리고 마는데…... -
![스위트 홈 11 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비]()
스위트 홈 11 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“내가 대체 뭘 본 거지?”괴물에서 태어난 새로운 인간,과연 희망인가? 절망인가?생존자들은 뒷산 나무에 로프를 고정해 그린 홈을 빠져나가기 위해 옥상으로 향하는데, 현수는 한두식을 구하기 위해 무리에서 나와 지하 주차장으로 발길을 옮긴다. 하지만 한두식은 이미 목숨을 잃은 후고, 현수는 그곳에서 지금껏 보지 못했던 초인을 만나게 된다. 한편 지수는 자신을 희생해 다른 사람들을 살리기 위해 엄청난 볼륨으로 베이스를 연주하기 시작하는데…... -
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Sweet Home T09 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEp 94 - 105After an unexpected family tragedy, a reclusive high school student is forced to leave his home -- only to face something much scarier: a reality where monsters are trying to wipe out humanity. Now he must fight alongside a handful of reluctant heroes to try and save the world before it’s too late... -
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Sweet Home T08 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEp 80 - 93After an unexpected family tragedy, a reclusive high school student is forced to leave his home -- only to face something much scarier: a reality where monsters are trying to wipe out humanity. Now he must fight alongside a handful of reluctant heroes to try and save the world before it’s too late...
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