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The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK
15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
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The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
14 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims]()
The Magnus Archives: Season 5 by Johnathan Sims
12 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
![The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin]()
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
38 ratingsA classic science fiction novel by one of the greatest writers of the genre, set in a future world where one man's dreams control the fate of humanity. In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr...Categorized as:
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![Blindness by José Saramago]()
Blindness by José Saramago
43 ratingsFrom Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossA city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women...Categorized as:
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![Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith]()
Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
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... -
![Wayward by Blake Crouch]()
Wayward by Blake Crouch
35 ratingsWelcome to Wayward Pines, population 461. Nestled amidst picture-perfect mountains, the idyllic town is a modern-day Eden...except for the electrified fence and razor wire, snipers scoping everything 24/7, and the relentless surveillance tracking each word and gesture.None of the residents know how they got here. They are told where to work, how to live, and who to marry...Categorized as:
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![Replay by Ken Grimwood]()
Replay by Ken Grimwood
28 ratingsAt forty-three Jeff Winston is tired of his low-paid, unrewarding job, tired of the long silences at the breakfast table with his wife, saddened by the thought of no children to comfort his old age. But he hopes for better things, for happiness, maybe tomorrow ...But a sudden, fatal heart attack puts paid to that... -
![Ubik by Philip K. Dick]()
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
41 ratingsGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation...Categorized as:
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![Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Andy Weir]()
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Andy Weir
51 ratingsJason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.- - -'Are you happy in your life?'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious... -
![The Time Machine/The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells]()
The Time Machine/The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
32 ratingsThe Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras... -
![The Last Town by Blake Crouch]()
The Last Town by Blake Crouch
34 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...Categorized as:
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![Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King]()
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet by Richard Matheson, Stephen King
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... -
![Intercepts by T.J. Payne]()
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
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... -
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![The Wall by Marlen Haushofer]()
The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
20 ratingsFirst published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle-aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished. Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self-renewal...Categorized as:
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![Solaris by Stanisław Lem]()
Solaris by Stanisław Lem
40 ratingsA classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover... -
![Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ]()
Recursion by Blake Crouch, سعید سیمرغ
46 ratingsMemory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes...Categorized as:
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![One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz]()
One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz
26 ratingsMichelina Bellsong is on a mission. She is following a missing family to the edge of America...to a place she never knew existed--a place of terror, wonder, and shattering revelation.What awaits her there will change her life and the life of everyone she knows--if she can find the key to survival... -
![The Trial by Franz Kafka, Arthur H. Samuelson]()
The Trial by Franz Kafka, Arthur H. Samuelson
42 ratingsWritten in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka's death, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information... -
![The Trial by Franz Kafka]()
The Trial by Franz Kafka
42 ratingsWritten in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information... -
![V. by Thomas Pynchon]()
V. by Thomas Pynchon
26 ratingsThe wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and "V.," the unknown woman of the title... -
![Blindsight by Peter Watts]()
Blindsight by Peter Watts
30 ratingsIt's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us... -
![Lexicon by Max Barry]()
Lexicon by Max Barry
29 ratingsAt an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics--at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science...Categorized as:
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![The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick]()
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
18 ratingsThe Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the final novel in the trilogy that also includes Valis and The Divine Invasion, is an anguished, learned, and very moving investigation of the paradoxes of belief. It is the story of Timothy Archer, an urbane Episcopal bishop haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress - and driven by them into a bizarre quest for the identity of Christ... -
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![Under the Dome by Stephen King]()
Under the Dome by Stephen King
43 ratingsIt's a bright Autumn morning in the small town of Chester's Mill. Claudette Saunders is having a flying lesson and Dale Barbara is hitching a ride out of town. Neither make it to their intended destinations...Inexplicably, an invisible barrier has descended over the town... -
![Stories to be Read with the Door Locked: v. 1 by Alfred Hitchcock]()
Stories to be Read with the Door Locked: v. 1 by Alfred Hitchcock
6 ratingsMurder and Suspense That Will Chill, Excite, or Even Occasionally Amuse. Contents1. Introduction by Alfred Hitchcock2. Hijack by Robert L. Fish3. Tomorrow and ... Tomorrow by Adobe James4. Funeral in Another Town by Jerry Jacobson5. A Case for Quiet by William Jeffrey6. A Good Head for Murder by Charles W. Runyon7. The Invisible Cat by Betty Ren Wright8. Royal Jelly novelette by Roald Dahl9... -
![The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love]()
The Possibilities by Yael Goldstein-Love
6 ratingsA new mother ventures into parallel worlds to find her missing child in this mind-bending novel that turns the joys and anxieties of parenthood into an epic quest."A bravura, unforgettable performance."--Namwali Serpell, author of The FurrowsWhat if the life you didn't live was as real as the one you did?Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month... -
![Chocky by John Wyndham]()
Chocky by John Wyndham
20 ratingsCover Artist: Harry WillockMatthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of a telephone conversation while someone argued, cajoled and reasoned with another person you couldn't hear... -
![Rant by Chuck Palahniuk]()
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
34 ratingsBuster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life...Categorized as:
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![নি by Humayun Ahmed]()
নি by Humayun Ahmed
10 ratingsমবিনুর রহমানকে হাজতে ঢোকানোর তিন ঘন্টার ভেতর থানার চারপাশে দু’তিন হাজার মানুষ জমে গেল। তারা হৈ চৈ, চিৎকার কিছু করছেনা। চুপচাপ দাঁড়িয়ে আছে। সবাই শান্ত। এই লক্ষণ ভালো না। খুব খারাপ লক্ষণ। এরা থানা আক্রমণ করে বসতে পারে। থানায় আগুন লাগিয়ে দিতে পারে। থানায় টেলিফোন আছে- অতিরিক্ত ফোর্স চেয়ে টেলিফোন করা যায়। কিন্তু টেলিফোন গত এক সপ্তাহ থেকে... -
![The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry]()
The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
18 ratingsFrom the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality.I love you. In every world.Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at an open house says these words to her...Categorized as:
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![Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
26 ratingsDeadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness... -
![This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers]()
This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
25 ratingsIt's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad... -
![The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe]()
The Face of Another by Kōbō Abe
16 ratingsLike an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him... -
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![Gated by Amy Christine Parker]()
Gated by Amy Christine Parker
16 ratingsA fast-paced, nerve-fraying contemporary thriller that questions loyalties and twists truths. Appearances can be deceiving. In the Community, life seems perfect. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Pioneer invited Lyla’s family to join his group and escape the evil in the world. They were happy to be chosen, happy to move away from New York and start over in such an idyllic gated community... -
![Dreamfall by Amy Plum]()
Dreamfall by Amy Plum
14 ratingsCata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse...but she was terribly wrong.Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with the lab equipment, and Cata and six other teen patients are plunged into a shared dreamworld with no memory of how they got there... -
![The Hollow City by Dan Wells]()
The Hollow City by Dan Wells
14 ratingsMichael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That’s bad enough...Categorized as:
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![The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, Peter Straub]()
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, Peter Straub
28 ratingsFor Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same... -
![Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard]()
Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
20 ratingsOn a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped... -
![Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles]()
Rabbits: A Novel by Terry Miles
18 ratingsConspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the popular Rabbits podcast. It's an average work day. You've been wrapped up in a task, and you check the clock when you come up for air—4:44 pm... -
![The God Game by Danny Tobey]()
The God Game by Danny Tobey
16 ratingsYou are invited!Come inside and play with G.O.D.Bring your friends!It’s fun!But remember the rules. Win and ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE.™ Lose, you die!With those words, Charlie and his friends enter the G.O.D. Game, a video game run by underground hackers and controlled by a mysterious AI that believes it’s God...Categorized as:
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![BZRK by Michael Grant]()
BZRK by Michael Grant
22 ratingsCharles and Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, have a goal: to turn the world into their vision of utopia. No wars, no conflict, no hunger. And no free will. Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to protect the right to be messed up, to be human.This is no ordinary war, though... -
![The Way Inn by Will Wiles]()
The Way Inn by Will Wiles
8 ratingsUp in the Air meets Inception in this smart, innovative, genre-synthesizing novel from the acclaimed author of Care of Wooden Floors—hailed as “Fawlty Towers crossed with Freud,” by the Daily Telegraph—that takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee, and the free wifi, and twists them into a surrealistic nightmare of infinite proportions... -
![Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson]()
Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson
14 ratingsWhat if every time you pushed a button you received $50,000...but someone you didn’t know died? Would you still push the button? How many times? "Button, Button", which inspired a memorable Twilight Zone episode, is just one of a dozen unforgettable tales in this new collection by Richard Matheson, the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come... -
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![The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones, Isabella Star LaBlanc]()
The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones, Isabella Star LaBlanc
14 ratingsOnly on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw... -
![Sphere by Michael Crichton]()
Sphere by Michael Crichton
41 ratingsA group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the ocean floor in the middle of the South Pacific. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently, undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old... -
![The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg]()
The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg
16 ratingsSeeking the immortality promised in an ancient manuscript, The Book of Skulls, four friends, college roommates, go on a spring break trip to Arizona: Eli, the scholar, who found and translated the book; Timothy, scion of an American dynasty, born and bred to lead; Ned, poet and cynic; and Oliver, the brilliant farm boy obsessed with death...Categorized as:
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![Foe by Iain Reid]()
Foe by Iain Reid
24 ratingsA taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things.We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other... -
![Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson]()
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson
25 ratingsA mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled...Categorized as:
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![Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed]()
Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed
20 ratingsNever Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history...
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