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Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe was one of the most original writers in the history of American letters, a genius who was tragically misunderstood in his lifetime... -
![Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia/Rose Madder by Stephen King]()
Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia/Rose Madder by Stephen King
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTitles include Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia and Rose Madder... -
![Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell]()
Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBooks 4-6 in the Chaos series (including bonus novella, Kings). Usurper It’s been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire... -
![Duck, Duck, Noose by Sara C. Roethle]()
Duck, Duck, Noose by Sara C. Roethle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat do the Morrigan, a necromancer, and an ancient Viking have in common? Nothing, except for a common goal. Now that Madeline has been reunited with Alaric and the others, she must align herself with her enemies if she hopes to succeed in what she originally set out to do. Together, Madeline, Alaric, and Mikael will try to take down Estus once and for all . . -
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![Tribe Master 4 by Noah Layton]()
Tribe Master 4 by Noah Layton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExpand the tribe. Fight mercenaries. Free slaves.With a new alliance established with the sun-elves, Jack turns his attention to improving his tribe’s perimeter defences and commanding the new ship they have acquired.But after a run-in with a beautiful stowaway, Jack ends up crossing paths with a vicious gang of mercenaries in search of the very woman he is protecting... -
![Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter]()
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other... -
![Aether Mage 2 by Dante King]()
Aether Mage 2 by Dante King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly a month ago, I found out that I was a mage. Then the Agency that was meant to teach me magic up and disappeared.Thankfully, I've made some friends who can help me learn how to use my new abilities. But with the Agency gone, the supernatural monsters that were kept at bay are plaguing Portland.Protecting the mundane world from monsters has now fallen to me. And it means I'll need more allies... -
![Red by Calvin Demmer]()
Red by Calvin Demmer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInside, the red raged. Its true intentions had united with near-surface primal instincts. It wanted to hunt, kill, and devour...A short story... -
![The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison]()
The Essential Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn April of 1949, Harlan Ellison was a lonely little kid living in Painesville, Ohio. A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid... -
![Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled / The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman]()
Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled / The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison, Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis fourth volume in the acclaimed Edgeworks series collects classic short stories from the author whom the Los Angeles Times calls the "20th century Lewis Carroll". Includes The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (with Introduction by Neil Gaiman) and Love Ain't Nothing but Sex Misspelled... -
![I'm The Bad Guy by Simon Archer]()
I'm The Bad Guy by Simon Archer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLevel Up. Kill Everyone Else. Take Their Stuff.All Dantem ever wanted was one teeny tiny, almost insignificant thing…Vengeance on those who wronged him.When he’s suddenly recruited by the world’s largest video game company, he will finally have a way to achieve his dream.Assuming, of course, he has no problem being the bad guy... -
![Shoots and Tatters by Sara C. Roethle]()
Shoots and Tatters by Sara C. Roethle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe old gods have returned, and there will be hell to pay. Now that Yggdrasil has been regrown, Madeline must face the old gods' judgment. She shouldn't exist, and they know it. The world has been irreparably changed, and perhaps the Vaettir no longer have a place in it. Madeline had thought that once she destroyed her rival she would be safe. Now she knows just how wrong she was... -
![Bones by Andrew Cull]()
Bones by Andrew Cull
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'Bones' brings together four chilling ghost stories by award winning writer-director Andrew Cull. Four monsters collected in paperback for the first time. 'Did You Forget About Me?'"He had written to me a month or so before he died. I'd ignored the letter the same way I'd ignored all the others... -
![Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine]()
Arising Son: Part Two: Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRyan arrives in Empia to further investigate his bloodline. But while searching the temple and exercising his uniques powers, he meets an ancient entity: one of the Guardians, and it challenges all that he is by asking him to do a task.When the person closest to him commits the worst betrayal, the Dark becomes even more enticing... -
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![Lightning / Midnight / The Bad Place by Dean Koontz]()
Lightning / Midnight / The Bad Place by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLightning: The first time the lightning strikes, Laura Shane is born... Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, but she is protected by a mysterious stranger who acts as her guardian. Then the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. The adventure - and the terror - have only just begun... -
![J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath]()
J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree complete horror novels by the master of chills, J.A. Konrath. A F R A I D WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now...A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed... -
![Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology by Christopher Golden]()
Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology by Christopher Golden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBram Stoker Awards® nominee for Superior Achievement in an Anthology (2022)35 BRAND NEW TALES OF TERRORNot all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it... -
![My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach]()
My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book is the product of a sick mind; a product of the "Southern Madman." There are 104 Fantasies inside that are not based in reality, interspersed with 70 Short Stories of somewhat sane thought of heavy opinion. The theme of the Fantasies is Law and Order and the author and the good guys always win. In a few places, it is quite tame... -
![The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe]()
The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction by Gene Wolfe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a literary perspective, this will certainly be the best collection of the year in science fiction and fantasy. Gene Wolfe, of whom The Washington Post said, “Of all SF writers currently active none is held in higher esteem,” has selected the short fiction he considers his finest into one volume... -
![A Long December by Richard Chizmar]()
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
![Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti]()
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales... -
![Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread by F. Paul Wilson]()
Soft and Others: 16 Stories of Wonder and Dread by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPresents a collection of horror short stories, among them Soft, Green Winter, and The Cleaning Machine... -
![The Complete Knifepoint Horror by Soren Narnia]()
The Complete Knifepoint Horror by Soren Narnia
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKnifepoint Horror is an original genre which strips tales of supernatural suspense down to such a raw, minimalist form that literally nothing is left over to allow the mind a respite of even a single paragraph. To accomplish this, the most primal element of storytelling--a single human voice describing events exactly as it experienced them--is adhered to without embellishment or exception... -
![Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl]()
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 by Frederik Pohl
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContentsDisappearing Act • short story by Alfred BesterIt's a Good Life • short story by Jerome BixbyThe Clinic • (1953) • short story by Theodore SturgeonThe Happiest Creature • [Quarantine] • short story by Jack WilliamsonThe Odor of Thought • short story by Robert SheckleyF Y I • short story by James BlishCritical Factor • short story by Hal ClementThe Remorseful • short story by C.M... -
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![The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology by Gordon Van Gelder, Peter S. Beagle]()
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology by Gordon Van Gelder, Peter S. Beagle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction... -
![Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley]()
Limbus, Inc. - Book II by Brett J. Talley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The world is a stage, life is a play, and we are the puppets. It’s better not to ask who pulls the strings... -
![The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison]()
The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew, fresh, and different is tricky in the storytelling business, as rare as diamonds, but, as a born storyteller, Harlan made story brave, daring, surprising again, brought an edge of the gritty and the strange, the erudite and the street-smart, found ways to make words truly come alive again in an over-worded world... -
![The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve by Ronald Kelly]()
The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve by Ronald Kelly
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastly costumes and masks of the season, and bags of candy galore. Then, as you travel farther into its shadowy depths, things begin to change. The air smells of damp autumn leaves and candle-scorched pumpkin. The shelves of All Hallows’ Eve fare grow darker and more disturbing... -
![The Cockroach King by Andrew Cull]()
The Cockroach King by Andrew Cull
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“We’d been in the house two weeks when Tommy pulled the first bones from the garden.”When Cassie Baker buys the house on Cedar Street, it’s partly because it reminds her of the house she grew up in in the ‘80s. It reminds her of happier times, when her Mom was still alive, before the cancer had taken her. It seems like the perfect place to raise her baby boy, Sam... -
![Warped: A Menapace Collection of Short Horror, Thriller, and Suspense Fiction by Jeff Menapace]()
Warped: A Menapace Collection of Short Horror, Thriller, and Suspense Fiction by Jeff Menapace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning tales of horror, to heart-stopping stories of crime and suspense, WARPED is the short story lover's dream companion. Acclaimed stories like: "The Straw Man and a Murder" - Hiding from his abusive father, a young boy finds solace in the arms of a scarecrow. "Sugar Daddy" - A wealthy slice of suburbia holds a deadly supernatural secret... -
![The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others by Kealan Patrick Burke]()
The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others by Kealan Patrick Burke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAvailable for the first time in digital format, the acclaimed collection THE NUMBER 121 TO PENNSYLVANIA & OTHERS, almost 100,000 words of short fiction by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE TURTLE BOY.The lonesome sound of a long forgotten train draws an old man to memories of a horrific past.. -
![Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill]()
Joe Hill Collection by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGet four bone-chilling novels of psychological and supernatural suspense from New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill in one e-book, including: Heart-Shaped Box, 20th Century Ghosts, Horns, and NOSA2. Each publication of Hill is beautiful textured, deliciously scary, and greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for works of skin-crawling supernatural terror... -
![Acluofobia. Zece povestiri macabre by Flavius Ardelean, Mircea Pricăjan]()
Acluofobia. Zece povestiri macabre by Flavius Ardelean, Mircea Pricăjan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“În România, de-a lungul timpului, am avut puţini, foarte puţini autori talentaţi care să scrie proză (cu accente) horror. Nici la momentul actual lucrurile nu stau mai bine. Există însă câţiva scriitori tineri aflaţi în plină dezvoltare artistică, iar anii următori s-ar putea să plaseze România, în sfârşit, pe harta mondială a creatorilor de fantezii macabre... -
![Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini]()
Master B-1212 by A.A. Dark, Alaska Angelini
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the death of Whitlock, a new home for horror is born…Garden of the GodsGOTG Registry Rob DelgadoMaster #: 1212 CEO, son to the Vice-PresidentSlave N/ARecruiter #: 21293721Beginner ⌧IntermediateExperiencedMain Master Rob Delgado grew up in the public eye. From being the root of sympathy for his politically driven father, to getting abused for never being good enough... -
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![Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda]()
Ghostroots: Stories by 'Pemi Aguda
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.’Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a woman who uncannily resembles her sinister, deceased grandmother... -
![Dead of Winter by Kealan Patrick Burke]()
Dead of Winter by Kealan Patrick Burke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man takes drastic steps to reconcile with his estranged daughters on Christmas Eve...Santa Claus takes a ride into the heart of darkness...A widower joins the search for a missing woman in an eerily deserted town...And a young man spends one last Christmas with his ailing father... -
![Sarah et Sid by Eve Patenaude]()
Sarah et Sid by Eve Patenaude
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLe rêve brisé que je traîne derrière moi : le ballet.Je m’appelle Sarah et, autrefois, j’en faisais. Oh, je danse toujours… mais nue. Dans un bar. Ça reste de la danse. Voilà ce que je me répète sans cesse pour ne pas m’écrouler, pour tenter d’oublier à quel point ma vie est misérable… En plus, je dois de l’argent à Carl, mon patron... -
![Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison]()
Slippage: Previously Uncollected, Precariously Poised Stories by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarlan Ellison is undoubtedly one of the most audacious, infuriating, brazen characters on the planet. Which may help explain why he is also one of the most brilliant, innovative, and eloquent writers on earth. Slippage simply presents recent, typical Ellison. In a word, masterful... -
![Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury]()
Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOver 50 years out of print the October release of DARK CARNIVAL by RAY BRADBURY will be the literary event of the year for Bradbury fans. After many years Ray Bradbury has agreed to allow this classic to be published in a LIMITED edition, with bonus material, edited by his long-time bibliographer Donn Albright... -
![The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin]()
The Essential Clive Barker: Selected Fiction by Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on anelaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world... -
![The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca]()
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose... -
![Hellbound Hearts by Paul Kane, Jeffrey J. Mariotte]()
Hellbound Hearts by Paul Kane, Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClive Barker's iconic masterpiece The Hellbound Heart, the novella adapted into the film Hellraiser, unleashed a new mythology of horror, brilliantly conceived and born of the darkest imagination. Now, enter this visionary world - the merciless realm of the demonic Cenobites - in this collection of stories inspired by The Hellbound Heart... -
![Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti]()
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSongs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters... -
![Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison]()
Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Seattle Times said of Angry Candy: "Ellison's stories rattle the bars of complacency that people put around their souls . . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear... -
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![From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness by Thomas F. Monteleone, Jon F. Merz]()
From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness by Thomas F. Monteleone, Jon F. Merz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEditors Elizabeth E. and Thomas F. Monteleone have reapeatedly transformed teh landscape of the modern horror story with their acclaimed Borderlands anthologies. Now in an indispensable new collection, they present twenty-five all-original tales of terror by today's acclaimed masters and the best new voices in horror fiction, including: Stephen KingWhitley StrieberJohn FarrisTom PiccirilliDavid J... -
![Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva]()
Borderlands by Thomas F. Monteleone, David B. Silva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBorderlands is a horror anthology series not concerned with traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlands is about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the 90s, Borderlands will remind you that horror can indeed be horrific. Read about a farmer who disdains his wife for a giant potato.. -
![Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi by Brian Lumley]()
Fruiting Bodies, and Other Fungi by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon't look for commonplace nightmares in these stories. Brian Lumley's monsters are never commonplace! In the award-winning 'Fruiting Bodies', for example, the terror doesn't stalk the night but moves almost imperceptibly underfoot, or through the woodwork.. -
![Necrophilia Variations by Supervert]()
Necrophilia Variations by Supervert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNecrophilia Variations is a literary monograph on the erotic attraction to corpses and death. It consists of a series of texts that, like musical phrases, take up the theme and advance it by means of repetition, contrast, and variation... -
![The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier]()
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Monte VeritàVictorThe BirdsThe Apple TreeThe Little PhotographerKiss Me Again, StrangerThe Old... -
![Desecrating Solomon by Lucian Bane]()
Desecrating Solomon by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***WARNING*** This is a dark, gothic, slightly erotic romantic thriller that contains elements that may be disturbing and offensive. Please read with caution if you are triggered by events depicting violence and various forms of abuse. On the seventh day of the seventh year... she desecrates. Evil keeps a formidable schedule in Weston, West Virginia...
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