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Eclipse Phase: The Roleplaying Game of Transhuman Conspiracy and Horror by Rob Boyle, Lars Blumenstein
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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![Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff]()
Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff
6 ratingsJohn F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end... -
![Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Tutti i racconti: 1923-1926 by H.P. Lovecraft
6 ratingsDa Robert Bloch a Fritz Leiber, Henry Kittner e, indirettamente, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft ha esercitato un influsso determinante su gran parte della narrativa fantastica del dopoguerra... -
![Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright]()
Awake in the Night Land by John C. Wright
8 ratingsAWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright's brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land...Categorized as:
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![Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II by Brian Keene]()
Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II by Brian Keene
10 ratingsThe sequel to Conqueror Worms. Free serialized e-novel...Categorized as:
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![A Colder War by Charles Stross]()
A Colder War by Charles Stross
10 ratingsA Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos... -
![Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Driving to Geronimo's Grave and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale
6 ratingsFrom the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world of monsters and mystery, Joe R. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment... -
![The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Collected Stories 1 by H.P. Lovecraft
6 ratings48 Classic Horror Books in One Volume! NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader. ----- From the mind of pulp great, H.P. Lovecraft... -
![Nightfall by Daniel Barnett]()
Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment...Categorized as:
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![Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway]()
Carrier Wave by Robert Brockway
6 ratingsHumanity listened to the night sky. What we heard shattered the world.Listen.Just once. That’s it.As soon as you hear it, it has you. And once it has you, it’s over. You may think you’re in control. You’re not. You want one more listen. You want to look at that strange spot in the sky. The one that’s been slowly growing. The one that didn’t make sense… until you listened... -
![The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratings'It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands over an accursed marsh...'H.P. Lovecraft was perhaps the greatest twentieth century practitioner of the horror story, introducing to the genre a new evil, monstrous, pervasive and unconquerable... -
![The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft
19 ratingsSet in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, an unnamed narrator investigates a local area known as the “blasted hearth.” After failing to extract any information from the Arkham locals, the narrator encounters an old man, Ammi Pierce, who relates the story of a farmer who once lived there. The hearth, he claims, was caused by a meteorite that fell onto the farmer’s field in 1882... -
![The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft
19 ratingsFirst published in 1927, "The Colour Out of Space" is H. P. Lovecraft's signature science-fiction horror story, finely presented here in a single volume with Lovecraft's landmark essay on "weird" fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" - a must-read for all students and lovers of horror. Quixotic Books are reprints of important classic and historic texts, handsomely formatted and presented... -
![The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross]()
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross
24 ratingsBob Howard, from The Laundry, secret UK agency against evil forces, narrates boarding yacht of Ellis Billington for Gravedust device that talks with dead. Ellis plans to raise Jennifer Morgue, monster from deep sea, rule world. U.S. Black Chamber sends lethal Ramona Random, in conflict with her bosses. Includes: Pimpf tale - Bob in virtual game; Afterword; Glossary... -
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![The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan
6 ratingsThe Signalman returns in The Tindalos Asset.A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling...Categorized as:
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![Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
6 ratingsThe first horrible incident of our acquaintance was the greatest shock I ever experienced, and it is only with reluctance that I repeat it. As I have said, it happened when we were in the medical school1 where West had already made himself notorious through his wild theories on the nature of death and the possibility of overcoming it artificially... -
![Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes From the End of the World by Brian Keene]()
Earthworm Gods: Selected Scenes From the End of the World by Brian Keene
6 ratingsOne day it started raining-and it never stopped...So began Brian Keene's Earthworm Gods, a novel that straddled the lines between the horror and bizarro genres. Fans have long marveled over that post-apocalyptic landscape-a flooded earth filled with strange and terrifying monsters. Readers returned to that world in Earthworm Gods II: Deluge. Now, it's time for one last trip...Categorized as:
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![14 by Peter Clines]()
14 by Peter Clines
28 ratingsPadlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches.There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment.Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable...Categorized as:
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![The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson]()
The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson
10 ratingsWilson probably has earned a reputation more as a scholar & biographer than as a novelist; but this novel, originally published in 1969, proves that he possesses significant skills in the area of fiction as well... -
![The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch]()
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
25 ratings“I promise you have never read a story like this.” —Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark MatterInception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.. -
![The Classic Horror Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Classic Horror Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
8 ratingsH. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction... -
![Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall]()
Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall
6 ratingsA bizarro tribute to Spaghetti westerns, H.P. Lovecraft, and foot fetish enthusiasts.Screwhorse, Nevada is legendary for its violent and unusual pleasures, but when a mysterious gunslinger drags a wooden donkey into the desert town, the stage is set for a bloodbath unlike anything the west has ever seen. His name is Calamaro, and he's from New Jersey... -
![The Dunfield Terror by William Meikle]()
The Dunfield Terror by William Meikle
6 ratingsIt starts with a strange glowing fog that arrives at the height of a snowstorm. A terror from the past has returned, bringing with it death and destruction that threatens to overrun the town. The old stories tell of a post-war experiment gone wrong, one that opened the way for the fog—or whatever was behind it—to begin its reign of terror... -
![Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane]()
Doctor Who: All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane
6 ratings‘I’ve been all over the universe with you, Doctor, and Earth in the nineteenth century is the most alien place I’ve ever seen.’England, 1887. The secret library of St John the Beheaded has been robbed. The thief has taken forbidden books which tell of mythical beasts and gateways to other worlds. Only one team can be trusted to solve the crime: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson... -
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![Space Eldritch by D.J. Butler, Nathan Shumate]()
Space Eldritch by D.J. Butler, Nathan Shumate
6 ratingsStartling Stories meets Weird Tales in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera. Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R... -
![The Gatherings by Jeremy Ray]()
The Gatherings by Jeremy Ray
6 ratingsThe Gatherings were supposed to bring world peace. What they brought was the apocalypse.Celebrities, politicians, and other prominent figures put together The Gatherings, an event to be held worldwide promoting global peace. When a friend invites Emily to one of the gatherings in a secluded apple orchard, she obliges... -
![City of the Dead by Brian Keene]()
City of the Dead by Brian Keene
18 ratingsAs the world succumbs to a devastating plague that brings its victims back from the dead, eager to destroy all that is living, a group of survivors, trapped inside a fortified skyscraper, must fight for their survival against an indestructible enemy that keeps coming back...Categorized as:
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![The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene]()
The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene
18 ratingsOne day the rain just didn't stop. As the flood waters slowly rose and coastal cities and towns disappeared, some people believed it was the end of the world. Maybe they were right. But the water wasn't the worst part. Even more terrifying was what the soaking rains drove up from beneath the earth — unimaginable creatures, writhing, burrowing ... and devouring all in their path... -
![The Whisperer in the Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Whisperer in the Darkness by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratingsThis is a short novel by Lovecraft mixing horror and science fiction. The story introduces the Mi-Go, an extraterrestrial race of strange fungoid beings and makes many references to the Cthulhu Mythos... -
![Overtime by Charles Stross]()
Overtime by Charles Stross
16 ratingsIntroduced to readers in the novels The Atrocity Archive and The Jennifer Morgue, the Laundry is a secret British government agency charged with preventing dark interdimensional entities from destroying the human race... -
![The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross]()
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
26 ratingsNEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed...Categorized as:
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![Terminus by Peter Clines, Ray Porter]()
Terminus by Peter Clines, Ray Porter
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...Categorized as:
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![World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories by Brian M. Sammons, John Shirley]()
World War Cthulhu: A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories by Brian M. Sammons, John Shirley
6 ratingsThe world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terrors battled it out across this planet and this known universe in ways unimaginable. It has always been a losing battle for our side since time began...Categorized as:
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![Strange Eons by Robert Bloch]()
Strange Eons by Robert Bloch
6 ratingsWhat men know is called science; what they have not yet learned they call magic. But both are real.... — In the world of today and the near future, three people inexorably linked by a common interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, discover: — that the legendary creatures he created in his fantasies have hideous counterparts in reality... that his fiction is incredible fact.. -
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![The Day After Judgment by James Blish]()
The Day After Judgment by James Blish
6 ratingsTheron Ware and Father Domenico are left to combat the evil forces unleashed on Black... -
![The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins]()
The Last Plague by Rich Hawkins
6 ratings"One of the most intriguing post-apocalyptic novels I've read in a long time," - David Moody, author of Autumn and Hater. A PLAGUE HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE LAND. SLAUGHTER FILLS THE STREETS. ALL SEEMS LOST. After Great Britain is hit by a devastating epidemic, four old friends must cross the war-torn country to get home to their families...Categorized as:
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![Kaiju Winter by Jake Bible]()
Kaiju Winter by Jake Bible
6 ratingsThe Yellowstone super volcano has begun to erupt, sending North America into chaos and the rest of the world into panic. People are dangerous and desperate to escape the oncoming mega-eruption, knowing it will plunge the continent, and the world, into a perpetual ashen winter...Categorized as:
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![The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson]()
The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson
12 ratingsWilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site... -
![Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez, Mark Williams]()
Clickers by J.F. Gonzalez, Mark Williams
12 ratingsClick Click Click Click Phillipsport, Maine is a quaint and peaceful seaside village. But when hundreds of creatures pour out of the ocean and attack, its residents must take up arms to drive the beasts back. They are the Clickers, giant venomous blood-thirsty crabs from the depths of the sea. The only warning to their rampage of dismemberment and death is the terrible clicking of their claws...Categorized as:
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![The Rising by Brian Keene]()
The Rising by Brian Keene
20 ratingsSince it's 2003 debut, Brian Keene's THE RISING is one of the best-selling zombie novels of all-time. It has been translated into over a dozen languages, inspired the works of other authors and filmmakers, and has become a cultural touchstone for an entire generation of horror fans...Categorized as:
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![Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Herbert West—Reanimator by H.P. Lovecraft
19 ratings"Herbert West: Reanimator" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media... -
![Missile Gap by Charles Stross]()
Missile Gap by Charles Stross
10 ratingsIt's 1976 again. Abba are on the charts, the Cold War is in full swing -- and the Earth is flat. It's been flat ever since the eve of the Cuban war of 1962; and the constellations overhead are all wrong... -
![Blackout by Tim Curran]()
Blackout by Tim Curran
8 ratingsIn the midst of a beautiful summer, in a perfectly American suburban middle-class neighborhood, a faraway evil is lurking, waiting to strike the unsuspecting residents. First come the flashing lights, then the heavy rains, high winds, and finally a total blackout... -
![Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan]()
Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan
16 ratingsA government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman... -
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![Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez]()
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez
15 ratingsThe story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I... -
![Hive by Tim Curran]()
Hive by Tim Curran
8 ratingsJimmy Hayes had a bad feeling the moment he arrived at Kharkhov Station, and his feeling was confirmed when mummies were discovered in the mountains. When the ruins of a pre-human civilization are discovered, the real trouble at Kharkhov Station begins...Tim Curran (author of Skin Medicine) presents a stunning sequel to H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness... -
![From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft]()
From Beyond by H.P. Lovecraft
13 ratings"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10).The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast... -
![Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nick Mamatas]()
Future Lovecraft by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nick Mamatas
6 ratingsDecades, centuries and even thousands of years in the future: The horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time...or space. Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and drive a crew mad. Worship the Tloque Nahuaque as he overtakes Mexico City... -
![Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak]()
Hellhounds of the Cosmos by Clifford D. Simak
6 ratingsThe paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another front-page story told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear... -
![Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene]()
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene
16 ratingsOne morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out...Categorized as:
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