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Mr. X [Secure eReader]
by Peter Straub
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For more than two decades Peter Straub has engrossed, entertained, and terrified us with his dazzling blend of cool artistry and mad, spine-tingling imagination. With Mr. X, the bestselling author of Ghost Story, The Talisman (with Stephen King), and The Hellfire Club takes us into the darkest dimensions of the human psyche and proves once again that he is without peer in the realm of psychological suspense and horror, a master storyteller whose unique and powerful gifts qualify him to be called... more info>>
Category: Horror
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Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror [MultiFormat]
by A.P. Fuchs
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15 Tales of Darkness Lie Within this Thrilling Collection of Horrific Adventure The Magic Man comes when you least expect him. Give him what he wants and he'll grant you your heart's desire, but are you prepared to pay the price? A mother of two is en route to take her kids to the babysitter's when darkness envelops her car and covers the world in blacks and grays. No matter how many times Sharon tries to beat the Spinning Room, someone always dies, unless she can find a way to conquer this t... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 69969 - Reading Time: 199-279 min.
Category: Horror/Suspense/Thriller
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Whispering Bones [MultiFormat]
by Rita Vetere
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When someone dies in outrage, a curse is born. In 1576 Venice, during the second and worst outbreak of the plague, a dying child is shown no mercy. Her death spawns a curse, one which has endured for more than four centuries. In 1927, the curse manifested in acts of madness and murder in a newly constructed asylum, events which, almost a century later, have not quite been laid to rest. Now, in a rendezvous with fate, architect Anna LaServa has arrived in Venice, opening the door to the next f... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 60404 - Reading Time: 172-241 min.
Category: Horror
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Bigfoot War [MultiFormat]
by Eric S. Brown
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Jeff Taylor was an ordinary boy growing up in the small town of Babble Creek, North Carolina, until one night his life was changed forever when a sasquatch brutally murdered his family. Taylor fled the town, hoping to leave the painful memory behind. Years later, after two tours of duty in the Iraq War, he's back in Babble Creek seeking vengeance. Taylor's lust for the blood of the monster that slew his family sets in motion a series of events that soon has the entire town fighting for its li... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 31680 - Reading Time: 90-126 min.
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Crucifax [MultiFormat]
by Ray Garton
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Originally published in 1988, Ray Garton's second novel, after his stunning debut with LIVE GIRLS, is regarded as a classic of the "splatterpunk" movement in horror fiction. Garton has a way with teenage boredom, atmospheric small-town isolation, incest, drug abuse and over-the-top violence and he has managed to create a modern re-make of the story of the Pied Piper with a sinister character, Crucifax, appearing on the scene, seducing mixed-up kids with his siren song of pleasure, power and indu... more info>> (Published: 1988)
Words: 118095 - Reading Time: 337-472 min.
Category: Horror
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The Alchemist's Pocket Watch [MultiFormat]
by Tom Arbino
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READ THE TALES THAT WILL KEEP YOU UP TONIGHT ONE GHOST OF A WITCH Denise's friends are acting strange, she is missing time, falling into visions, and to top it all off she is pregnant. Denise needs to get away fast but there is no place to go and no one will believe the strange things that are happening to her. She has only one person that she can trust--herself. ONE ANGRY SPIRIT John ducks into a graveyard to avoid arrest, but the spirit that haunts doesn't like his partying ways a... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 86194 - Reading Time: 246-344 min.
Category: Horror
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Black House [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Stephen King
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Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to aw... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
Category: Horror/Mystery/Crime
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Conjure Wife [MultiFormat]
by Fritz Leiber
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What if half the world's population (the female half) practiced witchcraft and kept it a secret from men? Norman Saylor, a professor of ethnology, discovers his wife Tansy has put his research in the field of "Negro Conjure Magic" into practice for the sake of protecting him from other spell-casting faculty wives who wish to further their own husbands careers. A man of science, Norman has only an academic interest in the subject of magic and superstition and forces Tansy to cease all her workin... more info>> (Published: 1953)
Words: 60616 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
Category: Horror
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Tempting Evil [Riley Jenson Guardian Series Book 3] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Keri Arthur
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In a world of sorcery and seduction, the nights bring out the beautiful, the damned, and the desired. Here, Riley Jenson is on her own--half werewolf, half vampire, working for an organization created to police the supernatural races. Trusting her superiors and lovers barely more than she trusts her worst enemies, Riley plays by her own set of rules. Her latest mission: to enter the heavily guarded pleasure palace of a criminal named Deshon Starr--a madman-scientist who's been messing around in ... more info>>
Category: Horror/Mainstream
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Full Moon Rising [Riley Jenson Guardian Series Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Keri Arthur
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In this exciting debut, author Keri Arthur explodes onto the supernatural scene with a sexy, sensuous tale of intrigue and suspense set in a world where legends walk and the shady paths of the underworld are far more sinister than anyone envisioned. A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson and her twin brother, Rhoan, work for Melbourne's Directorate of Other Races, an organization created to police the supernatural races--and protect humans from their depredations. While Rhoan is an ... more info>>
Category: Horror/Mainstream
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Peking Man [MultiFormat]
by Robert J. Sawyer
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When the 130,000-year-old bones of Peking Man were discovered in 1927 near Beijing, they were believed to be proof of the Missing Link, but the attempt to smuggle them away from the advancing Japanese in WWII ended in disaster beneath the Atlantic in 1941. Now, from central Europe, comes the true story of Peking Man and his evil roots back to the dawn of human civilization. (Published: 1996) Aurora Award Winner
Words: 3826 - Reading Time: 10-15 min.
Category: Horror/Mystery/Crime
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Dangerous Games [Riley Jenson Guardian Series Book 4] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Keri Arthur
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In Melbourne's urban underworld, there's a nightclub for every fantasy and desire. But for Riley Jenson, one such club has become an obsession. Riley, a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, hasn't come in pursuit of pleasure but of an unknown killer who's been using the steamy nightspot as his hunting grounds. Leave it to Riley to find the only ticket into the heavily guarded club: Jin, a deliciously hot-bodied bartender who might just provide the key to unmasking a killer unlike any other in th... more info>>
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Dark Faith [MultiFormat]
by Jerry Gordon, Maurice Broaddus
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The 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."" Look into ""The Mad Eyes of the Heron King"" to find the beautiful brutality written in the moment of epiphany or ""Go and Tell it On the Mountain,"" where Jesus Christ awaits your la... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 119784 - Reading Time: 342-479 min.
Category: Horror/Fantasy
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Dark Fiction [MultiFormat]
by David Kempf
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An aspiring young writer attending a prestigious university is thrilled when the school's most famous professor--a bestselling author--decides to be his mentor. Although ecstatic to find that some dreams really do come true, the young writer is horrified to learn that so do some nightmares. When his mentor's dark secret is revealed, he realizes there are things worse than even those conjured up by a horror writer's imagination. (Published: 2010)
Words: 127802 - Reading Time: 365-511 min.
Category: Horror/Dark Fantasy
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Kissing Sin [Riley Jenson Guardian Series Book 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Keri Arthur
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From Melbourne's gleaming skyscrapers to its throbbing nightclubs, Riley Jenson's world is raging with danger and desire. A drop-dead-gorgeous werewolf--with a touch of vamp coursing in her blood--Riley works for an organization created to police the supernatural races. But when she wakes up naked and bruised in a barren alley, she knows only that she must run for her life. Within moments Riley collides with the sexiest man she's ever seen: steely, seductive Kade, who is fighting a life-and-deat... more info>>
Category: Horror/Mainstream
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Monster Nation [Monster Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by David Wellington
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This is where it begins. This is where the end of the world begins? She wakes up alone and feeling like she's half-dead. She can't remember her name. She staggers outside, looking for help--and that's when she sees that the dead have returned to life, that zombies are running in the streets and devouring the living. And she's one of them. She isn't breathing. The zombies leave her alone. Because they know she's one of their kind. And yet she differs from the brainless ghouls around her in some c... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Words: 100856 - Reading Time: 288-403 min.
Category: Horror
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Prodigal Son [Frankenstein Series Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson
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From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of ... Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a seri... more info>>
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe EPUB]
by Stephen King
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides--or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail--and the worst nightmares of... more info>>
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The Talisman [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Stephen King
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On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is ... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 125000 - Reading Time: 357-500 min.
Category: Horror/Mainstream
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Animal Behavior and Other Tales of Lycanthropy [MultiFormat]
by Keith Gouveia
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Animal Behavior and Other Tales of Lycanthropy Delivers Eleven Startling Tales of Werewolf Terror!An excommunicated priest who hides a dark secret, one not even the dead will be able to keep.The grisly death of a high profile doctor leads to an investigation into one man's psyche, and poses the question if he is a man at all.A lone wolf whose only wish is to be a mother, but how far will she go?After losing his beloved daughter, a man hunts the beast responsible, but soon realizes things aren't ... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 66409 - Reading Time: 189-265 min.
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Blood of the Dead: A Zombie Novel [Undead World Trilogy Book One] [MultiFormat]
by A.P. Fuchs
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One year ago, the world came to an end. First came the rain. Then came the screams. Then came the undead. The Haven became the only place in the city free of the walking dead. A place of community. A place to be safe. Now, things have changed. The zombies are coming to the Haven, seeking out the remaining survivors of the human race. Joe Bailey prowls the Haven's streets, taking them back from the undead, each kill one step closer to reclaiming a life once stolen from him. Billie Friday and Des ... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 85016 - Reading Time: 242-340 min.
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City of Night [Frankenstein Series Book 2] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman
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From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of ... Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created---and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios---once Frankenstein---can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terro... more info>>
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Embraced By Darkness [Riley Jenson Guardian Series Book 5] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Keri Arthur
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She's hunting a killer ... and shattering every boundary ... she's ever known. Part vamp, part werewolf, Riley Jenson plays by her own rules, whether it's her stormy love life or her job as a guardian. But when her family's alpha male demands that she solve the mystery of a vanished girl, Riley can feel a trap closing in around her. Because the job comes with a catch: if Riley fails, her own mother will die. Now the stakes are raised, the hunt is on ... and when more women vanish, Riley is caugh... more info>>
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Hot Blood: The Hot Blood Series -- Book One [Secure eReader]
by Jeff Gelb, Lonn Friend
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You've never had horror like this! Robert R. McCammon... Graham Masterton... Harlan Ellison... Ramsey Campbell... F. Paul Wilson... Robert Bloch... Richard Christian Matheson... Dennis Etchison... these and other masters of the macabre take you into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction. In twenty-four tales of dread and debauchery, a preternatural lust lures the beast out of a beguiling beauty... a voodoo sorceress sells a potion that promises men really big thi... more info>>
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Some Cost a Passing Bell [MultiFormat]
by Lee Barwood
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The headlines are vicious--philandering husband murdered by mistress, who commits suicide. But the haunting is worse: Camilla Carthan, the widow, can't even grieve. Her husband betrayed her at every opportunity; now that he's dead, he won't leave her alone. Each night Tim returns in nightmares, with his dead mistress, looking even worse than he did on the morgue table and promising to stay with her forever. Though others knew him as vindictive and unfaithful, Camilla never saw the side of her hu... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 118400 - Reading Time: 338-473 min.
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