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The Green Mile: The Screenplay by Frank Darabont
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the guards and prisoners around him reexamine their... -
![The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (V. 5) by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe (V. 5) by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork... -
![The Prince of Milk by Exurb1a]()
The Prince of Milk by Exurb1a
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll of time is simultaneous. Matter tends towards perfection. Cats can be dicks sometimes. The Prince of Milk is a leisurely stroll from prehistory to the distant future, stopping for tea in the 21st century English countryside. Before the time machine, before the undead mannequins, before the cat with the universe eye, there were the arbiters... -
![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... -
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![The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson]()
The Magic of Shirley Jackson by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExperience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work.This collection consists of three complete books:The Bird's NestLife Among the SavagesRaising Demonsand eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery... -
![Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike]()
Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Let me tell you about the night I experienced true evil. It started with a gaze. She was eye fucking the shit out of me." Michael is at the tail end of his bachelor party vacation with his buddies and has had enough of all the gambling and flirtatious prostitutes. Then he meets Isabelle, a foreigner herself, and Michael is smitten. But even evil can come in a beautiful package... -
![Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1 by Brian Keene]()
Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1 by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This is my gift. This is my legacy. This is my curse…”BLOOD ON THE PAGE is the first book in a series collecting all of Keene’s short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as “Burying Betsy”, “Dust”, “The Resurrection and The Life”, “I Am An Exit”, “Fast Zombies Suck”, “Bunnies In August”, “I Sing A New Psalm”, and many more...Categorized as:
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![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.. -
![Ex-Boogeyman by Kristopher Triana]()
Ex-Boogeyman by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHE’S NOT FREDDY, HE’S NOT JASON…HE’S ALL WASHED UP.As Nicky Hector—the unstoppable slasher from the Lunatic horror movie franchise—Jonathan Zain reached levels fame once unimaginable to a young actor. On top of headlining fifteen films, he appeared on MTV, had his own 976 number, and became one of the most recognizable faces of the 1980s.But that was thirty years ago...Categorized as:
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![Hurt Others by Sam Pink]()
Hurt Others by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOh man, it just had to happen. Someone had to be a bagger at a grocery store and fantasize about hitting children in the head with wine bottles. Someone had to fear a puddle floating at him from across the street. Someone had to celebrate beating up a pregnant woman. Someone just HAD to be a nanny, and stare at giant motorized spiders...Categorized as:
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![Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Great Short Works: Poems, Tales, Criticism by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe classic poems and spine-tingling stories of a Gothic American master collected in one volume.Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill... -
![Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would you do to save a loved one?Robert’s mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robert’s friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price... -
![Sacrificios humanos by María Fernanda Ampuero]()
Sacrificios humanos by María Fernanda Ampuero
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMaría Fernanda Ampuero se ha convertido en una de las voces indispensables de la literatura latinoamericana. Su libro Pelea de gallos (2018) ha sido en estos tres años todo un fenómeno que forma parte de una labor creativa, social y política de algunas escritoras a través de sus libros... -
![Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth]()
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: A Concordance, #1 by Robin Furth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Dark Tower is the backbone of Stephen King's legendary career. Inspired more than thirty years ago by works as diverse as J.R.R. Tolkien's epics, Robert Browning's poetry, and Sergio Leone's Westerns, this is the tale that Stephen King has never abandoned... -
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![Shiloh: A Novella of the Civil War by Philip Fracassi]()
Shiloh: A Novella of the Civil War by Philip Fracassi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The ground had opened up and spit out hell and the detritus was Shiloh.”For two days in the year 1862, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War held theatre in southern Tennessee – a patch of land called Shiloh. Thousands of soldiers on both sides of the conflict lost their lives, and tens of thousands more were badly injured... -
![Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney]()
Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Kevin Maloney alchemizes the allure of dicey friendships, hallucinatory sex and a drug so terrifying I’m heartbroken I’ll never get to try it. Cult of Loretta captures the manic fury of Richard Brautigan writing a sequel to The Outsiders during a ketamine binge... -
![Dr. Sadist by Jon Athan]()
Dr. Sadist by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBradley Anderson, known as Dr. Sadist, is a master of torture and a veteran director of snuff films at Deep Red Pictures—a studio owned by a sadistic entrepreneur, Mr. Snuff. He is paid handsomely for his work, he owns an expensive, secluded home, and he lives with a loving family. The problem? He loves his family and he can’t stop his once-buried conscience from reawakening... -
![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... -
![Modern Hysteria by Aron Beauregard]()
Modern Hysteria by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEVERY PARENT’S WORST NIGHTMAREA mysterious internet figure, known only as Mr. Boy, is preying on depressed teenagers and brainwashing them into horrific acts of self-harm and suicide. The macabre message behind ‘The Dropout Challenge’ is simple: Dropout of sight. Dropout of school. Dropout of society. Dropout of life altogether...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Sew Sorry by Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe]()
Sew Sorry by Aron Beauregard, Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYOU GET WHAT YOU EARNHenry’s mother has enough money to live more than comfortably. But the only comfort she can concentrate on is her bizarre obsession. She can’t help but constantly seek out the donation bins on the darker side of the city. The only problem is, she isn’t putting clothing into them, she’s taking it out... -
![We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson]()
We Live Inside You by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWe are within you, and we are growing. Watching. Waiting for your empires to fall. It won't be long now. We are the fear of death that drives you and the terrible hunger that reshapes you in its name. We are the vengeance born from senseless slaughter and the pulsing reptile desire that negates your consciousness... -
![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... -
![La mano que cura by Lina María Parra Ochoa]()
La mano que cura by Lina María Parra Ochoa
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHay encuentros que dejan una huella indeleble en nuestra memoria y nuestro cuerpo, encuentros que nos cambian profundamente o, tal vez, solo nos desvelan quiénes somos en realidad. Eso es lo que le ocurre a la niña Soledad cuando conoce a Ana Gregoria, su maestra de escuela, de quien aprenderá a hacer trabajos, amarres, bebedizos. A llamar al silencio sobre sí misma para no ser vista ni escuchada... -
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![The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink]()
The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The thought of calling off work is like the thought of suicide, just nice to think about."In The No Hellos Diet, Sam Pink brings you straight into a world you've never been to before -- your own life. Find yourself working at a department store where everyone must wear red and khaki clothing. Find yourself throwing out garbage for fifty cents more than minimum wage... -
![Am I A Monster? by J. Boote]()
Am I A Monster? by J. Boote
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe follow-up book to, They Are all Monsters!Six years ago, not one but two monsters came to Belton, causing widespread terror until both were eventually caught. The villagers thought they were safe again.They were wrong.Sarah is ecstatic. She has just received an email informing her that her first novel has been accepted by a publisher and will soon be published in all major bookstores... -
![Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan]()
Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator... -
![Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of the poems by the famous American writer.Al Araaf --Alone --Annabel Lee --Bells --Bridal ballad --City in the sea --Coliseum --Conqueror worm --Dactylic couplet --Deep in earth --Dream --Dream-land --Dreams --Dream within a dream --Eldorado --Elizabeth --Enigma --Eulalie --Evening star --To F --To F-SS... -
![The Erstwhile by Brian Catling]()
The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and their reawakening will have major consequences. In Africa, the colonial town of Essenwald has fallen into disarray because the timber workforce has disappeared into the Vorrh. Now a team of specialists are dispatched to find them... -
![Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt]()
Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Graves is a miserable man. Every day he comes home from his dream job to a stale marriage. On the day he finally summons the courage to tell his wife, Eve, he wants a divorce she has exciting news for him – she’s pregnant. Nick is a spiteful man. He purchases his dream home in an ideal location far away from family, friends, and coworkers... -
![Through the Eyes of Desperation: The Red Version by Aron Beauregard]()
Through the Eyes of Desperation: The Red Version by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsALL BETS ARE OFFRed has tried to keep his nose clean but the sins of his past still haunt him. They’ve forced him back into the darkness—toward a life he’d hoped to leave behind. Now he has just four days to make things right.The scam seemed safe enough at first, but now Red is six figures in debt, and there's more than just money at stake... -
![Born or Bred: Pigs and Monsters by J. Boote]()
Born or Bred: Pigs and Monsters by J. Boote
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClaire Peterson was born into a toxic, abusive family. Unwanted and unloved by practically everyone, taunted and bullied by kids at school. Then she suffers a head injury after falling down the stairs and something in her changes. But for the better or worse?Depends who you ask. Because from now on, things are going to change. And no one is going to bully her anymore.This is Claire's story... -
![#thighgap by Chandler Morrison]()
#thighgap by Chandler Morrison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library.A collection of novellas curated by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann to represent her favorite themes, tropes, and subgenres in horror fiction today.BOOK TWO: #thighgap by Chandler Morrison –Los Angeles fashion model Helen Troy wasn’t always skinny. Drastic weight loss has given her everything–money, confidence, attention, respect... -
![Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman]()
Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before... -
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![A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories by Eliza Victoria]()
A Bottle of Storm Clouds: Stories by Eliza Victoria
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author Eliza Victoria mixes magic with the mundane in this special concoction of 16 short stories. A girl meets a young man with the legs of a chicken. A boy is employed by a goddess running a pawnshop. A group of teenagers are trapped in an enchanted forest for 900 days. A man finds himself in an MRT station beyond Taft, a station that was not supposed to exist...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 Book Of A Thousand Sins by Wrath James White]()
The Book Of A Thousand Sins by Wrath James White
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDelve into the tantalizing works of Wrath James White with this thrilling romp through 15 of his most disturbing stories. Devilishly thought-provoking, this collection explores some of the darkest aspects of humanity. Travel with the downtrodden and the disillusioned through personal hells of their own making, populated by terrifying monsters and skulking demons...Categorized as:
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![The Perfect Victim by David Sodergren]()
The Perfect Victim by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one expects to be kidnapped. No one expects to have to fight for their life. But for Katy Ketcher, that nightmare is about to become reality. She’s sixteen years old, and the daughter of a wealthy Hollywood producer. She’s the perfect victim. Now, Katy and her best friend Jill must use their wits and cunning in a desperate battle for survival against four dangerous criminals... -
![Awakened in Blood by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Awakened in Blood by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a drunken and adulterous night, Shane and Veronica’s marriage is on the rocks. In an attempt to save their relationship, Veronica books a couple’s retreat at an old lodge outside Ashmore, New York. Violent dreams, uncontrollable sexual desires and primal instincts haunt the guests at the old lodge...Categorized as:
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![Something Akin to Revulsion: Six Extreme Short Stories by Judith Sonnet]()
Something Akin to Revulsion: Six Extreme Short Stories by Judith Sonnet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGet ready to feel.... SOMETHING AKIN TO REVULSION.Judith Sonnet is proud to present three gut-churning tales of depravity, murder, and mayhem!Meet an abusive monster on the internet... attend the worst party in the world... watch as a vile woman receives her supernatural comeuppance.. -
![A Gift of Death by Daniel J. Volpe]()
A Gift of Death by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Gift of Death, is on tour. The three band members, Sarin, Vee-Exx, and Arsenic travel the country playing their dark brand of music for screaming fans. Their violent lyrics and goth style draw people to them. But, something else is drawing people to the mysterious trio...something sinister. They feed off the energy of the crowd, but desire something more: blood. Cameron Snyder is an outcast...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![Splatter Punks by Paul M. Sammon, Patti Manzone]()
Splatter Punks by Paul M. Sammon, Patti Manzone
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEditor Paul Sammon collected this group of visceral, graphic, and original horror stories by authors such as Clive Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, David J. Schow, and the duo of John Skipp and Craig Spector. Another story features a parody of Bret Easton Ellis called "Less Than Zombie," and "Outlaws," an essay on the sub-genre, rounds out the bunch... -
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![sickER B*stards by Matt Shaw]()
sickER B*stards by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sequel to Sick B*stardsWARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase this book if you are easily shocked, disgusted or offended. This book is not for you... -
![Motel Styx by Michelle von Eschen, Jonathan Butcher]()
Motel Styx by Michelle von Eschen, Jonathan Butcher
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTucked away in the Chihuahuan Desert lies a motel unlike any other…Fueled by online trends, a shift in the American zeitgeist has led to the instatement of the Lazarus Act, legalizing the 'recreational use' of human corpses... -
![Talia by Daniel Volpe]()
Talia by Daniel Volpe
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the early 1990s the rising popularity of the video cassette gave birth to a seedy, underground world of illicit pornography.Talia, a Midwest dreamer, leaves home in search of fame under the blinding Broadway lights. But nothing could have prepared her for what she finds instead. Savage violence, bottomless depravity, and no way out... -
![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... -
![Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes by Carlton Mellick III]()
Every Time We Meet at the Dairy Queen, Your Whole Fucking Face Explodes by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKnown for his cute, disturbing, and utterly absurd novels, cult author Carlton Mellick III returns with a tale of childhood love and spontaneous face explosions.Ethan is in love with the weird girl in school. The one with the twitchy eyes and spiders in her hair. The one who can't sit still for even a minute and speaks in an odd squeaky voice. The one they call Spiderweb... -
![Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall]()
Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, Helen Marshall’s exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory, and cost of creating art...
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