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Captain quad Sean Costello · 2001 · 550p · ≈ 18h · Moderate A tragic accident leaves Peter Gardner paralyzed from the neck down. The former prodigy of music, sports, and flying is confined to his hospital bed. As rage and hatred intensify, he fantasizes about leaving his broken body and traveling anywhere. Then, one day... he can! But by then he is a Frankenstein monster -- breaking all the rules of morality. Shares Horror

RED X David Demchuk · 2021 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Horror with this book.

Manhunt Gretchen Felker-Martin "By far the best book I've read this year.” —Roxane Gay #1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads) • A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist) • A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror • A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com) • A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo) • A Top… Shares Horror

Wicked Angel Taylor Caldwell A tale of family horror in the tradition of The Bad Seed and The Omen from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Dialogues with the Devil. To his mother, Angelo is the most beautiful and brilliant child in the world. She caters to his every whim and dismisses his malicious outbursts as childish pranks. But as Angelo grows older, his behavior only becomes more disturbing.   … Shares Horror

I Am Legend Richard Matheson Winner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century: the genre-defining classic of horror sci-fi that inspired three films.   The population of the entire world has been obliterated by a pandemic of vampire bacteria. Yet somehow, Robert Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of what happened and learn to protect himself against… Shares Horror

The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®

The Time Travel MEGAPACK ® Edward M. Lerner, Richard A. Lupoff, Clifford D. Simak, Damien Broderick, Reginald Bretnor, William F. Nolan, John Gregory Betancourt, James H. Schmitz, C.J. Henderson & Darrell Schweitzer · 2013 · 505p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor PROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak 12:01 P.M., by Richard A. Lupoff TIME CONSIDERED AS A… Shares Horror

The Night House

The Night House Jo Nesbø & Neil Smith From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black YarnIn the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard… Shares Horror

Bird Box Josh Malerman “[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a… Shares Horror

The Sunken, the Adored

The Sunken, the Adored Donyae Coles Shares Horror with this book.

Penpal Dathan Auerbach In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected.  Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end… Shares Horror

How to Sell a Haunted House

How to Sell a Haunted House Grady Hendrix AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times"Ingenious."-The Washington PostNew York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.   When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her… Shares Horror

Night Shift Stephen King #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR • A treasure trove of bone-chilling tales from the “undisputed master of suspense and terror” (The Washington Post) who shaped American horrorFeatures the stories that inspired The Stand and over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn, Lawnmower Man, Chapelwaite, and The BoogeymanStephen King’s first collection of… Shares Horror

The Serpent of Venice

The Serpent of Venice Christopher Moore Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising an evening of sprits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado… Shares Horror

The Unheld Luke Larkin Shares Horror with this book.

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction H. P. Lovecraft Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles… Shares Horror

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Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Moderate This book is about stories that encounters with the ghosts of the dead and dying. The spirits of the dead reach out to the living, to pass on a message or to pursue a killer. Shares Horror

Carrie Stephen King & Margaret Atwood #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • New Original series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan coming soon to Prime Video. • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • “Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever” (Esquire) with a chilling vision of a world where bullies rule—and one girl’s secret power turns her into a weapon of terror.“A… Shares Horror

The Cipher Kathe Koja Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook. Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the… Shares Horror

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