The Hunted

      Charlie Higson
     The Hunted

The Hunted is Charlie Higson's sixth terrifying installment in the thrilling The Enemy series. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets - Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ella's all-alone except for her silent rescuer, Scarface - and she's not even sure if he's a kid or a grown-up. Back in London, Ed's determined to find her. But getting out of town's never been more dangerous- because coming in the other direction is every SICKO in the country. It's like they're being called towards the capital and nothing is going to stop them...In the penultimate book in The Enemy series, the survivors' stories cross with chilling consequences.

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    What Once We Feared

      Carrie Ryan
     What Once We Feared

When the zombie apocalypse hits and the dead begin to rise, Jonah and his friends are on a class field trip downtown.  Panicked, they make a split-second decision to seek shelter in the Overlook, an apartment complex built like a fortress on the edge of town.  But as they begin to face the realities of what it will take to survive, they realize that while making the decision of where to run was easy, living out the consequences of that decision may be impossible.  From Carrie Ryan, the New York Times bestselling author of the Forest of Hands and Teeth books, What Once We Feared is an original digital short story about facing a world that is forever changed and in which survival means more than merely escaping the undead.

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    That Nietzsche Thing

      Christopher Blankley
     That Nietzsche Thing

The girl was dead, and no fooling...Another Gene Genie taken by her addiction – by a plague tearing the world apart. Sasha is a cop. Though, now-a-days, he mostly cleans up messes. There are plenty of those. To Sasha, the girl looks like just another mess, until her body mysteriously vanished from the morgue..."You know that Nietzsche thing?” the girl asked, “about what doesn't kill you makes you stronger?Well, let me tell you, he got that all turned around...”The girl was dead, and no fooling...Another Gene Genie taken by her addiction – by a plague tearing the world apart. Sasha is a cop. Though, now-a-days, he mostly cleans up messes. There are plenty of those. To Sasha, the girl looks like just another mess, until her body mysteriously vanished from the morgue. Turns out the girl was the daughter of some rich and powerful East Coast NeoCon...Turns out the girl is a mess that even Sasha can't easily sweep under the rug... Before long, a Federal occupying army has descended on Seattle, hellbent on a roots-to-branches cleansing of America...Turns out the girl is one serious mess, indeed. But a deeper mystery lurks behind the girl's death. A mystery that connects the Geneing epidemic with an obscure doomsday cult and the last, encrypted novel of a long dead, half-forgotten sci-fi novelist.

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    Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

      Jay Lake
     Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies - his own and others' - for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extreme body modification is only the beginning of where he will go before he's finished...

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    Zombie Drug Run

      C.G. Banks
     Zombie Drug Run

Former Vietnam bush pilot finds himself in a helluva mess when black magic, drug dealers and the walking dead try to make this run his last.Frederick Paol is a small-time drug runner who's been playing the averages too long. When a shifty friend of his turns him on to the Franklin brothers in New Orleans, his life goes into a dark spiral. Because the most psychotic of the two tries to play him, and Paol is not a guy who will take that lying down. In a completely irrational moment, he invites the brother to come along on the run and they soon find themselves in the jungles of Bogota, Colombia. Fighting back-stabbing drug dealers and a terrible storm, things go from bad to worse until Paol finds himself alone and hunted by a ghoul dredged up from the very pits of hell itself.

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    The Shadow Out of Time

      H. P. Lovecraft
     The Shadow Out of Time

Voted one of the top ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2001 by *Cinescape Magazine.* "The Shadow out of Time" is H. P. Lovecraft's last major story. It was first published in Astounding Stories for June 1936. And yet, this text has never been published as Lovecraft wrote it--until now. The recent discovery of Lovecraft's handwritten manuscript allows readers to appreciate this magnificently cosmic story exactly as originally written. All previous editions of the story contain hundreds of serious errors, including errors in paragraphing, omissions and mistranscriptions of many words and passages, and erroneous punctuation. Leading Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz have provided an exhaustive introduction and commentary on the story, elucidating names, places and other elements in this richly evocative story. A must for all devotees of Lovecraft and weird fiction!

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    Dark Aeons

      Z. M. Wilmot
     Dark Aeons

This collection of terrifying tales reveals the timeless horrors that lurk behind all of existence, bringing these eternal fears to chilling life. From ghost ships to faceless men, from mad winds to silver doors, from carnivorous rain to interdimensional fishers, and from succubi to visions of hell, this twisted collection of horrifying tales will leave no reader unchanged.This collection of terrifying tales reveals the timeless horrors that lurk behind all of existence, bringing these eternal fears to chilling life. From ghost ships to faceless men, from mad winds to silver doors, from carnivorous rain to interdimensional fishers, and from succubi to visions of hell, this twisted collection of horrifying tales will leave no reader unchanged. In "Parallax," a young man and an aging professor team up to defeat an interdimensional horror. In "Winds of Madness," a young boy suffers from a crippling, irrational fear of winds. In "Sally," a Pilgrim town bands together to cast out a witch. In "Station Fourteen," a dying Lieutenant tries to warn mankind of a terrible horror close to home, and in "The Vessel" a Roman equestrian is stalked by a terrible black ship. In "Afflatus Divine," three individuals find their creativity hijacked and used for evil purposes, and in "The Silver Door," a young boy finds far more than he bargained for in the depths of his town's ancient library. "Hell Factory" presents a terrifying vision of hell, and "The Derelict" chronicles a space scavenging team's wrong choice of prey. In "The Horror in Woods," a small town descends into the realm of terror, and in "The Parasite," a young girl descends into madness, sickness, and death. Explore these and other chilling situations in Dark Aeons.

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    B666 Bingo!

      Mark Trimeloni
     B666 Bingo!

Where do you go when you kill someone? Jacob is a nine year old boy who looks like he's six. But age doesn't matter when you are in a game for your soul and the Devil is pulling the balls. A nudist horror short story written to challenge everything you believe in. My work is often misunderstood. If you have questions, please ask.A Sci-fi, Space, Action, Adventure & Romance novel series. Formally known as the BIAlien series.A young man by the name of Jaden is abducted by benevolent aliens, bio-engineered to superhuman levels and sent back to Earth years later to stop an alien invasion.150,000 years ago Darclonians began on an experimental dark energy/dark matter weapon that works only with carbon based life forms. The organic subject would eventually die.100,000 years ago Darclonian probes sought out thousands of planets with life on them that could develop into intelligent life forms. The probes fired Quadrillions of Nanomoles into Earth's atmosphere seeking intelligent life. The Nanomoles hid inside of the modern Homosapien brain and studied humans for thousands of years. The Nanomoles recorded our feelings, memories, emotions, experiences and DNA from generation to generation. Today the Nanomoles await a signal from a Darclonian mothership to begin it's 84 hour three stage countdown.Jaden's bio-engineered body is the key to perfecting the Darclonian's weapon of mass destruction. The rebirth of science fiction begins.

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    Needful Things

      Stephen King
     Needful Things

Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed," usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.

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    The Season of Passage

      Christopher Pike
     The Season of Passage

Dr. Lauren Wagner was a celebrity. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken. The whole world admired and respected her. But Lauren knew fear. Inside--voices entreating her to love them. Outside--the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. The dead group. But were they simply dead? Or something else? A terrifying novel of horror--and, surprisingly, of salvation--from one of America's bestselling writers. A novel you won't forget.

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    They Never Came Home

      Lois Duncan
     They Never Came Home

Dan and Larry’s hiking trip ends in a missing persons search. Can Joan find her brother before it’s too late? When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don’t come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows the mountains well. Larry is smart and resourceful. But soon the boys’ families must accept the unthinkable, as little sign of them can be found in the hills. For Larry’s sister—and Dan’s girlfriend—Joan, grief soon turns to mystery when some of her brother’s old acquaintances start calling with strange and threatening messages.  In They Never Came Home, the truth of Larry and Dan’s disappearance is far more shocking than any of their loved ones can anticipate. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

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    Demon Apocalypse

      Darren Shan
     Demon Apocalypse

One boy's life ripped to shreds before his eyes. . . One wrathful demon master hell-bent on revenge. . . An army of grisly Demonata on the rampage. . . It's the end of the world as we know it. The sixth novel in the chilling Demonata series by Darren Shan, author of the "New York Times "bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, will terrify readers long after the last page.

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    Bringing Hell

      C.G. Banks
     Bringing Hell

Bringing Hell is another controversial excursion into the abyss with the author of the popular Dead Echo.Hitler, drugs and alcohol, a sentient planet, an idiot's idea of perfection, unruly students, and a cat from Hell. These are a taste of the new elements boiling in the cauldron.

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    Solomon

      JT Pearson
     Solomon

It's 1957 and aliens that resemble us but say very little about their origins are trading technology and advanced machines for some of our soil.Quickly companies form partnerships with the extraterrestrials and single mother, Lydia Meyer is convinced by a slick salesman that used to sell vacuum cleaners to purchase a new Solomon series robot to be a companion for her lonely son. It goes badly.This story was inspired by Brian Aldiss' Supertoys Last All Summer Long. But instead of exploring what happens when a couple recieves a child that is a robot this story explores what happens when a child recieves a surrogate parent that is a robot. It's done with alternate history, the year 1957, and aliens that resemble us but say very little about their origins are trading technology and advanced machines for some of our soil.Quickly companies form partnerships with the extraterrestrials and single mother, Lydia Meyer is convinced by a slick salesman that used to sell vacuum cleaners to purchase a new Solomon series robot to be a companion for her lonely son. It goes badly.

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