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Wings in the Night Robert E. Howard · 2005 · 38p · ≈ 1h · Moderate This latest volume in the planned ten-volume set of The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard collects Robert E. Howard's fiction and prose published in Weird Tales from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard's infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all--Conan the Cimmerian--and ably demonstrate that each of Howard's stories improved… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror

Deathworld 1 Harry Harrison · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Deathworld" centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction

The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley · 1963 · ★ 3.7 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Synopsis - When Bart Steele goes to the Earth spaceport to meet his father for the first time in five years, he doesn’t realise that his life will never be the same again. Half- Mentorian by birth, he is able to understand and co-exist with the Lhari, the non-human species which has a strangle hold on space travel. Bart overhears the Lhari at the spaceport discussing the need to intercept an… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction

Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut · 1952 · ★ 3.9 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery

Everville Clive Barker · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Moderate "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understand the mysterious world around us and the mysteries within ourselves."  — New York Times Book ReviewFrom master storyteller and New York… Shares: Horror, Mystery

The Night Watch Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡anenko · 1999 · ★ 3.7 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch.Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction

The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut · 1959 · ★ 4.2 · 317p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery

The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham · 1957 · ★ 3.9 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery

The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham · 1951 · ★ 4.0 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

Scattered Suns Kevin J. Anderson · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 736p · ≈ 24h · Moderate One of the today's most successful science fiction writers, Kevin J. Anderson is the author of many popular Star Wars and X-Files novels, as well as his bestselling Dune prequels, coauthored with Brian Herbert. Now Anderson returns with a stunning new chapter in the Saga of Seven Suns, his boldly imagined epic of interstellar intrigue and adventure... The war between the alien hydrogues and the… Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction

The Invisible Man H. G. Wells · ★ 3.6 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows. Shares: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery

The Damned Algernon Blackwood · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 110p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The Damned is a chilling tale of supernatural horror from one of the great masters of horror fiction, Algernon Blackwood. Shares: Horror

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce · 1913 · 67p · ≈ 2h · Challenging 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

Darkness Comes Dean Koontz · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination. Shares: Horror

The Manitou Graham Masterton · 1975 · ★ 3.7 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate It only grows at night. Karen Tandy was a sweet and unassuming girl until she discovers the mysterious lump growing underneath her skin. As the doctors and specialists are puzzling over the growth, Karen's personality is beginning to drastically change. The doctors decide there is only one thing to do, cut out the lump. But then it moved. Now a chain reaction has begun and everyone who comes… Shares: Horror

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

Eden's eyes Sean Costello · 1989 · 244p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Karen Lockhart has been blind all her life. Now she can see with a dead man's eyes but with her new blessing come an even greater curse: terror. Karen's world had grown dark until a vicious punk named Eden Crowell is killed one night in a barroom brawl and doctors salvage what they can from his ruined body. His heart goest to an old drunk, his kidney to a young girl, and his silver blue eyes… Shares: Horror

Austin And His Friends Frederic H. Balfour · 2005 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The old-fashioned ghost-story was always terrifying and ghastly; something that made people afraid to go to bed, or to look over their shoulders, or to enter a room in the dark. It dealt with apparitions in a white sheet, and clanking chains, and dreadful faces that peered out from behind the window curtains in a haunted chamber. And the more blood-curdling it was, the more keenly people enjoyed… Shares: Horror

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