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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... -
![The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave]()
The Paleblood Hunt by Redgrave
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Paleblood Hunt" is an in-depth exploration behind the lore of the popular FromSoftware video game Bloodborne. Redgrave first introduced this document on Reddit and it has since been revised, and finalized. He closely examines the information available to the player in order to build up the hidden story of the game... -
![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...Categorized as:
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![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... -
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![The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations... -
![The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein]()
The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Events at Poroth Farm is a horror novella written by T.E.D Klein, in which Jeremy, a college lecturer, takes a summer vacation in Gilead, New Jersey, to prepare for a course on Gothic literature he'll be teaching in the upcoming semester. He rents an outbuilding from Mennonite couple Sarr and Deborah Poroth, and at first his holiday is happy and productive, but then odd things begin to happen... -
![Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon by Donald Tyson]()
Alhazred: Author of the Necronomicon by Donald Tyson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsH. P. Lovecraft's compelling character, Abdul Alhazred, is brought to life in this epic tale detailing the mad sorcerer's tragic history and magical adventures. Alhazred tells his own life story, beginning with himself as a poor, handsome boy in Yemen who attracts the attention of the king for his divine skill in poetry... -
![Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross]()
Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much... -
![The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross]()
The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister...Categorized as:
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![To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin, Mark McLaughlin]()
To Rouse Leviathan by Matt Cardin, Mark McLaughlin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSince the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird fiction with a distinctively cosmic and spiritual focus. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti, Cardin explores the convergence of religion, horror, and art in a cosmos that may be actively hostile to our species. In this substantial volume, Cardin gathers the totality of his short fiction...Categorized as:
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![The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories by John Gregory Betancourt, H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories by John Gregory Betancourt, H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Colour Out of Space) to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E... -
![It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God...Categorized as:
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Declare by Tim Powers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare...Categorized as:
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![The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron]()
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories by Laird Barron
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Proboscis" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story...Categorized as:
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![Revelator by Daryl Gregory]()
Revelator by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee... -
![The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti]()
The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOften at the conclusion of an author interview, a question is posed, one that allows the subject to announce or promote forthcoming projects and publications. In the case of Thomas Ligotti, the response has invariably been to the effect that he never has any idea what he is going to produce in the future, if anything... -
![Dark Faith by Maurice Broaddus, Jerry Gordon]()
Dark Faith by Maurice Broaddus, Jerry Gordon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's Damnation... -
![The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young by Robert M. Price]()
The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young by Robert M. Price
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCall of the Cthulhu... -
![Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLESCHOLARLY PURSUIT ENDS IN AWAKING NIGHTMARE...Sir John Babcock, endowed with wealth and a healthy dose of curiosity, has stumbled on to an ancient order. With what he now knows, there will be no turning back. Even if he wants to. Not after he is trained as an initiate and knows of their perverted lusts—and their murders... -
![Sisters of the Crimson Vine by P.L. McMillan]()
Sisters of the Crimson Vine by P.L. McMillan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Ainsworth nearly died in that car crash.Soon he’ll learn there are worse fates.After a brutal accident, John awakens in the dilapidated Crimoria Convent under the care of thirteen unconventional nuns. Grievous injuries trap him within the borders of the ruined sanctuary and its strangely successful vineyard... -
![Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred by Donald Tyson]()
Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred by Donald Tyson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnyone familiar with H. P. Lovecraft's work knows of the Necronomicon, the black magic grimoire he invented as a literary prop in his classic horror stories. There have been several attempts at creating this text, yet none stand up to Lovecraft's own descriptions of the Necronomicon...until now... -
![The God Gene by F. Paul Wilson]()
The God Gene by F. Paul Wilson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRick Hayden and Laura Fanning of Panacea return in this next thriller by F. Paul Wilson and come across another impossible medical scenario—the gene that makes us human. Or does it?Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, suddenly liquidates his assets and walks out of his job never to be seen again...Categorized as:
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![Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani]()
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror... -
![Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling]()
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGIVE US THAT OLD-TIME RELIGIONAbout fifteen miles west of Stauford, Kentucky lies Devil’s Creek. According to local legend, there used to be a church out there, home to the Lord’s Church of Holy Voices—a death cult where Jacob Masters preached the gospel of a nameless god.And like most legends, there’s truth buried among the roots and bones... -
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![White Pines by Gemma Amor]()
White Pines by Gemma Amor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman, returning to her roots. A town, built on sacred land. A secret, cloaked in tradition and lore. Welcome to White Pines.Don't get too comfortable.This is the new cosmic-folk-Celtic-cult-horror novel from Gemma Amor, the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura, Cruel Works of Nature and Till the Score is Paid... -
![Echopraxia by Peter Watts]()
Echopraxia by Peter Watts
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsPrepare for a different kind of singularity in this follow-up to the Hugo-nominated novel Blindsight It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie... -
![Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos by Robert M. Price]()
Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos by Robert M. Price
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers—among them his closest peers—added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master’s dark vision... -
![The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers]()
The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"One night last winter I was lying in bed thinking about nothing at all in particular. I had been posing for you and I was tired out, yet it seemed impossible for me to sleep. I heard the bells in the city ring ten, eleven, and midnight. I must have fallen asleep about midnight because I don't remember hearing the bells after that... -
![Mosaic by Catherine McCarthy]()
Mosaic by Catherine McCarthy
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomething wicked waits.When a stained-glass artist embarks upon the restoration of a church window, her personal demons are put to the test when she unveils a conspiracy to reawaken a cosmic force... -
![The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling]()
The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJerry Campbell just wants to be left alone. Grief-stricken over the death of his wife Abigail, the elderly widower and recent retiree is desperate for a change of scenery. When his realtor suggests a new home in Fairview Acres, a retirement community in the Poconos, Jerry figures it will be a nice place to spend the rest of his days in solitude.Until he moves in.Weird neighbors... -
![Flicker by Theodore Roszak]()
Flicker by Theodore Roszak
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of every moviegoer... -
![The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen]()
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real... -
![The Dunwich Horror: Seven Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Dunwich Horror: Seven Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis edition reprints seven stories appearing in the 1963 Arkham House edition. The reprinted stories include:"In the Vault";"Pickman's Model";"The Rats in the Walls";"The Music of Erich Zann";"The Haunter of the Dark";"The Dunwich Horror";and "The Thing on the Doorstep"... -
![Black Easter by James Blish]()
Black Easter by James Blish
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlack Easter is a Nebula Award-nominated fantasy novel by James Blish in which an arms dealer hires a black magician to unleash all the Demons of Hell on earth for a single day. It was first published in 1968. The sequel is The Day After Judgment. Together, those two very short novels form the third part of the thematic "After Such Knowledge" trilogy (title from T.S... -
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![The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson]()
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsProfessor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.But the journey sends her on a quest across the Dreamlands and into her own mysterious past, where some secrets were never meant to surface... -
![Terminus by Peter Clines, Ray Porter]()
Terminus by Peter Clines, Ray Porter
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMurdoch's past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He's been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he's been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things. Chase has spent the past year just trying to get away... -
![The Day After Judgment by James Blish]()
The Day After Judgment by James Blish
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheron Ware and Father Domenico are left to combat the evil forces unleashed on Black... -
![Samlade svenska kulter by Anders Fager]()
Samlade svenska kulter by Anders Fager
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSamlade svenska kulter är ett antal berättelser som alla är pusselbitar i en stor helhet. De väver en berättelse från en värld som är både skrämmande, bisarr och obehagligt lik den verklighet vi känner som vår egen.Anders Fager skriver med en penna som söker det skräckinjagande och som frilägger det dolda och lyckas med obönhörlig skärpa tydliggöra det redan verkliga... -
![The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein]()
The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his dissertation and preparing for the class he will be teaching in the fall on Gothic Literature; he thinks he has found the perfect place in Gilead, New Jersey, is a world all to its own, the home of a strict religious sect with extremely puritan ideas... -
![Cult of the Spider Queen by S.A. Sidor]()
Cult of the Spider Queen by S.A. Sidor
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn ancient horror deep in the Amazon jungle spins a web of nightmares to ensnare adventurers, explorers, and their souls, in this skin-crawling Arkham Horror novel of cosmic dread.When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple “Maude Brion is very much alive!” , he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness... -
![The Mound by H.P. Lovecraft, Zelia Bishop]()
The Mound by H.P. Lovecraft, Zelia Bishop
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"The Mound" is a horror/science fiction novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written by him as a ghostwriter from December 1929 to January 1930 after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story about an Indian mound which is haunted by a headless ghost. Lovecraft expanded the story into a tale about a mound that conceals a gateway to a subterranean civilization, the realm of K'n-yan...Categorized as:
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![A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick]()
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations... -
![Swedish Cults by Anders Fager]()
Swedish Cults by Anders Fager
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForget everything you think you know about Sweden. In Anders Fager’s stories, Sweden is revealed as a place where dark and unimaginable things happen. Where deep in the woods bloody sacrifices are made to ancient and monstrous deities. Where two young people’s road trip to visit their grandmother takes a turn for the bizarre and nightmarish... -
![Lacuna's Point by Tim Meyer]()
Lacuna's Point by Tim Meyer
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree years ago, Ellie Brower’s daughter went missing somewhere in the heart of Virginia. Today, Ellie receives a mysterious text message that leads her to believe her daughter might still be alive. She follows this rabbit hole to the coastal town of Lacuna’s Point. But there’s something wrong with this place. The town’s only constable is zero help and downright hostile... -
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![The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher]()
The Six-Gun Tarot by R.S. Belcher
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBuffy meets Deadwood in a dark, wildly imaginative historical fantasyNevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures...Categorized as:
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![Night Train by Thomas F. Monteleone]()
Night Train by Thomas F. Monteleone
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder the subways' roar, out of the deep, wet caves, comes the fury from Hell...In the bedrock beneath New York, a beautiful news reporter and a hard-bitten cop enter an eerie maze of abandoned tunnels, searching for a train that vanished with all aboard---over half a century ago...Categorized as:
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![Little Heaven by Nick Cutter]()
Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn all-new epic tale of terror and redemption set in the hinterlands of midcentury New Mexico from the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down...old-school horror at its best...Categorized as:
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Revival by Stephen King
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsIn a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church... -
![Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys]()
Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAfter attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help...Categorized as:
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![The Reddening by Adam Nevill]()
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne million years of evolution didn't change our nature. Nor did it bury the horrors predating civilisation. Ancient rites, old deities and savage ways can reappear in the places you least expect. Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty...
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