29 Best horror books to read
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23 Hours
- By: David Wellington
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.91(1246 ratings)
3.91(1246 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDWhen vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose and plenty of time to kill. Caxton’s always been able toWhen vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by countless murderers and death-row inmates with nothing to lose and plenty of time to kill.
Caxton’s always been able to watch her own back—even when it’s against a cellblock wall. But soon she learns that an even greater threat has slithered behind the bars to join her. Justinia Malvern, the world’s oldest living vampire, has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an all-you-can-drink open bar of fresh blood. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxton’s strings, too, and she’s issued an ultimatum that Laura can’t refuse. Now Laura has just 23 hours to fight her way through a gauntlet of vampires, cons, and killers.
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5 Levels of Fear
- By: Sable Jak
- Narrator: Jonathan Lee-Vroman
- Length: 1 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.38(16 ratings)
3.38(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThis four-part microseries follows three urban explorers on a trip into a century-old abandoned mansion: one that has never been explored before. The mansion, frankly, had escaped the notice of almost everyone and has little to no informationThis four-part microseries follows three urban explorers on a trip into a century-old abandoned mansion: one that has never been explored before.
The mansion, frankly, had escaped the notice of almost everyone and has little to no information available about it. Except for the blueprints. And, as it turns out, those aren’t exactly truthful.
One of the explorers, due to a fall in a past exploration, is now confined to a wheelchair and through body cams keeps track of the other two as they enter the house. Because they can’t get in at ground level, they end up going in through the roof, which is not a preferred method of entrance. They find the place, at first, in pristine shape, complete with belongings from everyone who’d lived there, including two young lovers. But that deteriorates as they descend lower into the house.
Then they find the floor that isn’t on the blueprints, and the rows of beds with restraints, and a hallway that progressively narrows, always followed by the howl of someone who has been trapped in the building for a few weeks, or so they’ve been told. And not lastly they find the jungle growing up from the dank, dark, grave-like basement.
Wanting to explore turns quickly into needing to escape.
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A Black and Endless Sky
- By: Matthew Lyons
- Narrator: Hillary Huber
- Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 15, 2022
- Language: English
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3.44(503 ratings)
3.44(503 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDSiblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn’t be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah’s divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to theirSiblings Jonah and Nell Talbot used to be inseparable, but ever since Jonah suddenly blew town twelve years ago, they couldn’t be more distant. Now, in the wake of Jonah’s divorce, they embark on a cross-country road trip back to their hometown of Albuquerque, hoping to mend their broken relationship along the way. But when a strange accident befalls Nell at an abandoned industrial site somewhere in the Nevada desert, she begins experiencing ghastly visions and exhibiting terrifying, otherworldly symptoms. As their journey through the desolate American Southwest reveals the grotesque change happening within his sister, one thing becomes clear to Jonah: It’s not only Nell in there anymore. Pursued by a mysterious stranger who knows far more about Nell’s worsening condition than they let on, the siblings race to find a way to help Nell and escape the desert before they’re met with a violent, bloody end. But there are far worse things lurking in the desert ahead…some of them just beneath the skin.
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A Book of Tongues
- By: Gemma Files
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.48(686 ratings)
3.48(686 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIn Gemma Files’s horror-fantasy debut, former Confederate chaplain Asher Rook has cheated death and now possesses a dark magic. He uses his power to terrorize the Wild West, leading a gang of outlaws, thieves, and killers, with his cruelIn Gemma Files’s horror-fantasy debut, former Confederate chaplain Asher Rook has cheated death and now possesses a dark magic. He uses his power to terrorize the Wild West, leading a gang of outlaws, thieves, and killers, with his cruel lieutenant and lover, Chess Pargeter, by his side.
Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow is going undercover to infiltrate the gang, armed with a shotgun and a device that measures sorcerous energy. His job is to gain knowledge of Rook’s power and unlock its secrets. But there is someone else who has Rook in her sights: the Lady of Traps and Snares, a bloodthirsty Mayan goddess who will stop at nothing to satisfy her own desires.
Caught between the good, the bad, and the unholy, Morrow will have to ride out a storm of magical mayhem to survive, in this debut novel, the first book of Files’s “weird Western Hexslinger trilogy…[which] is chock full of hellish horrors” (Mike Allen, author of Unseaming).
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A Holiday Haunting at the Biltmore
- By: Eva Pohler
- Narrator: Debbie Andreen
- Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Eva Pohler
- Publish date: October 10, 2022
- Language: English
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4.18(133 ratings)
4.18(133 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEllen should have known that a gathering in America’s last castle would entail a few uninvited guests. During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts.Ellen should have known that a gathering in America’s last castle would entail a few uninvited guests. During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen. Voted Best Mystery Book of the Year for 2022 at Utopia Con! The books in this series can be read in any order.
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A Rope of Thorns
- By: Gemma Files
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.98(230 ratings)
3.98(230 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDWelcome to Hex City. Population: magicians. Thanks to hexslinger “Reverend” Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming–a tempest known as Chess Pargeter. Infuriated byWelcome to Hex City. Population: magicians.
Thanks to hexslinger “Reverend” Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming–a tempest known as Chess Pargeter.
Infuriated by his former lover Rook’s betrayal and sacrificed in the name of the Mayan goddess who is Rook’s current consort, Chess leaves a trail of death and destruction in his wake. Caught up in Chess’s crusade are Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow and a young woman spiritualist.
But there are more than Chess’s own demons to be reckoned with, including a resurrected lawman with a bone to pick–and a final judgment to deliver.
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A Sad Mistake
- By: R. L. Stine
- Narrator: Fred Berman
- Length: 36 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: December 06, 2016
- Language: English
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3.35(25 ratings)
3.35(25 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.003.98 USDA reclusive, haunted Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant are visited by a strange, persistent stranger in this haunting short story by R.L. Stine. It’s a dark and stormy night, and the new, unnamed assistant to the penniless Dr. VictorA reclusive, haunted Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant are visited by a strange, persistent stranger in this haunting short story by R.L. Stine.
It’s a dark and stormy night, and the new, unnamed assistant to the penniless Dr. Victor Frankenstein answers the front door’s knock. There stands a stranger, who has managed to track down the elusive doctor and forces a wager: reanimate the man’s dead brother or face exposure to the community at large. But who is gaming whom — will the massive corpse actually be revived?
“A Sad Mistake” by R.L. Stine is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books’s Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and listen to them all!
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A Tree of Bones
- By: Gemma Files
- Narrator: Donald Corren
- Length: 16 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.13(160 ratings)
4.13(160 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDA new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by “Reverend” Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. MonstersA new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by “Reverend” Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the battleground, rocket trails of spells crisscross the sky, and an unnatural rain falls.
Sides must be taken, but Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow, spiritualist Yancey Kloves, and even Rook must choose what ruin or redemption means to each of them. Meanwhile, Chess Pargeter gears up for the greatest fight of his life–and death. A battle out of hell itself …
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Ararat
- By: Christopher Golden
- Narrator: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.39(4474 ratings)
3.39(4474 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDChristopher Golden‘s Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong–on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined toChristopher Golden‘s Ararat is the heart-pounding tale of an adventure that goes wrong–on a biblical scale. When an earthquake reveals a secret cave hidden inside Mount Ararat in Turkey, a daring, newly engaged couple are determined to be the first ones inside … and what they discover will change everything.
The cave is actually a buried ancient ship that many quickly come to believe is Noah’s Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses. Inside the coffin, they find an ugly, misshapen cadaver–not the holy man they expected, but a hideous creature with horns.
Shock and fear turn to horror when a massive blizzard blows in, trapping them thousands of meters up the side of a remote mountain. All they can do is pray for safety. But something wicked is listening to their prayers … and it wants to answer.
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At the Mountains of Madness
- By: H P Lovecraft
- Narrator: Jon Bennett
- Length: 4 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: February 23, 2016
- Language: English
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3.84(34722 ratings)
3.84(34722 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDA large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is becauseA large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group led by Professor Lake, encountered ancient alien life forms dubbed The Elder Things. Told from Dyers perspective, this story goes into detail of Dyer’s fatal encounters with the aliens in Antarctica and how this new expedition will surely end in nothing but more tragedy.
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Aurora
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrator: Ali Ahn
- Length: 16 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: July 07, 2015
- Language: English
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3.76(18463 ratings)
3.76(18463 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.98 USDA major new novel from one of science fiction’s most powerful voices, Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of hisA major new novel from one of science fiction’s most powerful voices, Aurora tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system.
Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.
Our voyage from Earth began generations ago.
Now, we approach our new home.
AURORA.
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Awakened
- By: P. C. Cast
- Narrator: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 04, 2011
- Language: English
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4(124218 ratings)
4(124218 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“My love, speak to me. Tell me everything.” Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal. “What would you have me say?” He didn’t meet her eyes.“My love, speak to me. Tell me everything.” Neferet went to Kalona, kneeling before him, stroking the soft, dark wings that unfurled loosely around the immortal.
“What would you have me say?” He didn’t meet her eyes.
“Zoey lives.” Neferet’s voice was flat, cold, lifeless.
“She does.”
“Then you owe me the subservience of your immortal soul.” She started to walk away from him.
“Where are you going? What will happen next?”
“It is quite simple. I will ensure Zoey is drawn back to Oklahoma. There, on my own terms, I will complete the task you failed.”
Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn’t it? Why should she return to Tulsa? After losing her human consort, Heath, she will never be the same – and her relationship with her super-hot-warrior, Stark, may never be the same either…
And what about Stevie Rae and Rephaim? The Raven Mocker refuses to be used against Stevie Rae, but what choice does he have when no one in the entire world, including Zoey, would be okay with their relationship? Does he betray his father or his heart?
In the pulse-pounding 8th book in the bestselling House of Night series, how far will the bonds of friendship stretch and how strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?
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Baby Teeth
- By: Zoje Stage
- Narrator: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 17, 2018
- Language: English
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3.61(44986 ratings)
3.61(44986 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA battle of wills between mother and daughter reveals the frailty and falsehood of familial bonds in award-winning playwright and filmmaker Zoje Stage’s tense audiobook of psychological suspense, Baby Teeth. Afflicted with a chronicA battle of wills between mother and daughter reveals the frailty and falsehood of familial bonds in award-winning playwright and filmmaker Zoje Stage’s tense audiobook of psychological suspense, Baby Teeth.
Afflicted with a chronic debilitating condition, Suzette Jensen knew having children would wreak havoc on her already fragile body. Nevertheless, she brought Hanna into the world, pleased and proud to start a family with her husband Alex. Estranged from her own mother, Suzette is determined to raise her beautiful daughter with the love, care, and support she was denied.
But Hanna proves to be a difficult child. Now seven-years-old, she has yet to utter a word, despite being able to read and write. Defiant and anti-social, she refuses to behave in kindergarten classes, forcing Suzette to homeschool her. Resentful of her mother’s rules and attentions, Hanna lashes out in anger, becoming more aggressive every day. The only time Hanna is truly happy is when she’s with her father. To Alex, she’s willful and precocious but otherwise the perfect little girl, doing what she’s told.
Suzette knows her clever and manipulative daughter doesn’t love her. She can see the hatred and jealousy in her eyes. And as Hanna’s subtle acts of cruelty threaten to tear her and Alex apart, Suzette fears her very life may be in grave danger…
Praise for Baby Teeth:
“We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Gone Girl meets The Omen….a twisty, delirious read that will constantly question your sympathies for the two characters as their bond continues to crumble.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A pulse-spiking thriller.” –PopSugar
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Bag Of Bones
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Stephen King
- Length: 21 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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3.91(174982 ratings)
3.91(174982 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDA powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is stillA powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.
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Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls “Sara Laughs,” Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie’s and Kyra’s struggle—and as he falls in love with both of them—he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs…now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and just what do they want of Mike Noonan? -
Ballistic Kiss
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 25, 2020
- Language: English
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4.13(1235 ratings)
4.13(1235 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USD“I loved where Kadrey started with this series, but I love where he’s going even more.”— NYT Bestselling author Cory Doctorow Sandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive,“I loved where Kadrey started with this series, but I love where he’s going even more.”— NYT Bestselling author Cory Doctorow
Sandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive, high-octane page-turner–the next to last volume in the popular and acclaimed fantasy adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey.
As the battle between warring angels continues, James Stark is focused on seemingly simpler matters now that he’s resurfaced on earth: an invasion of ghosts. L.A.’s Little Cairo neighborhood has suddenly been overrun by violent spirits, and Thomas Abbott knows if anyone can figure out why they’ve appeared–and how to get rid of them–it’s Stark.
Armed with the Room of Thirteen Doors, Stark quickly learns that the answer may reach back to the 1970s and the unsolved murder of small-time actor, Chris Stein. As he begins to dig into the cold case, another area of Stark’s life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Janet, a woman he saved during the High Plains Drifter zombie attack.
Janet’s brush with the living dead hasn’t quenched her thirst for danger. She’s an adrenaline junkie and a member of The Zero Lodge–a club that promises “there’s zero chance you’ll get out alive.” The Lodge attracts thrill seekers who flock to perilous events such as night walks through the LA Zoo–with its deadliest animals uncaged. Joining the lodge to be with Janet, Stark makes a pair of crucial discoveries that could decide the fate of LA and Heaven itself.
To prevent the Little Cairo haunting from consuming the city, Stark must piece together the connections between the Lodge and a missing angel last seen in a Hollywood porn palace. But while he may dispatch the ghosts, Stark knows that without his help, the bloody war in Heaven could rage forever.
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Beyond Carcosa
- By: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 1 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USD“For there be divers sorts of death–some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit.”– An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce “Direct me, I beseech you, to“For there be divers sorts of death–some wherein the body remaineth; and in some it vanisheth quite away with the spirit.”– An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce
“Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa.”– An Inhabitant of Carcosa, by Ambrose Bierce
“Strange is the night where black stars rise, / And strange moons circle through the skies / But stranger still is / Lost Carcosa”– Verse 2 “Cassilda’s Song” by Robert W. Chambers
Skyboat Media and Steven Archer reunite for another unique audiobook experience …
Beyond Carcosa is an original compilation featuring stories and poetry by Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Edgar Allan Poe, and William Bulter Yeats.
Carcosa is an imagined land that first appeared in Bierce’s 1886 story “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” (included in this collection), and later in Robert W. Chambers’s volume The King in Yellow. It has since been featured by many other Fantasy writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, Joseph S. Pulver, John Scott Tynes, and George R. R. Martin. Carcosa has even been referenced in HBO’s True Detective and Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
This collection takes us to Carcosa and other imagined places explored by the finest Weird storytellers of the nineteenth century.
As with the first Skyboat and Archer collaboration, The Masque of the Red Death, the works of these classic and innovative writers are given new life, and a new generation of readers will have the chance to voyage to Carcosa … and beyond.
Original musical score and artwork by Steven Archer. Includes an accompanying PDF of Steven Archer’s original illustrations.
Compiled and Produced by Stefan Rudnicki at Skyboat MediaDirected by Alison Belle Bews
Full Contents:
“To Elsa” (From The Haunts of Men) by Robert W. Chambers”An Inhabitant of Carcosa” by Ambrose Bierce”Cassilda’s Song” (From The King in Yellow) by Robert W. Chambers”In the Court of the Dragon” by Robert W. Chambers”The Haunts of Men” by Robert W. Chambers”A City in the Sea” by Edgar Allan Poe”The Purple Emperor” by Robert W. Chambers”Song of the Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats
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Black Mad Wheel
- By: Josh Malerman
- Narrator: Robertson Dean
- Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 23, 2017
- Language: English
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3.29(3282 ratings)
3.29(3282 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom the author of the hit literary horror debut Bird Box (“Hitchcockian.” —USA Today) comes a chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitatingFrom the author of the hit literary horror debut Bird Box (“Hitchcockian.” —USA Today) comes a chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitating sound
The Danes–the band known as the “Darlings of Detroit”–are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once again have a number one hit. That is, until an agent from the US Army approaches them. Will they travel to an African desert and track down the source of a mysterious and malevolent sound? Under the guidance of their front man, Philip Tonka, the Danes embark on a harrowing journey through the scorching desert–a trip that takes Tonka into the heart of an ominous and twisted conspiracy.
Meanwhile, in a nondescript Midwestern hospital, a nurse named Ellen tends to a patient recovering from a near-fatal accident. The circumstances that led to his injuries are mysterious–and his body heals at a remarkable rate. Ellen will do the impossible for this enigmatic patient, who reveals more about his accident with each passing day.
Part Heart of Darkness, part Lost, Josh Malerman’s breathtaking new novel plunges us into the depths of psychological horror, where you can’t always believe everything you hear.
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Blackout
- By: Ragnar Jonasson
- Narrator: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.67(4347 ratings)
3.67(4347 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, this is the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer. On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a brightA huge bestseller in England, France, and Australia, this is the third book in the Dark Iceland series from a spectacular new crime writer.
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer’s night. As the twenty-four-hour light of the arctic summer is transformed into darkness by an ash cloud from a recent volcanic eruption, a young reporter leaves Reykajvik to investigate on her own, unaware that an innocent person’s life hangs in the balance. Ari Thor Arason and his colleagues on the tiny police force in Siglufjordur struggle with an increasingly perplexing case, while their own serious personal problems push them to the limit.
What secrets does the dead man harbor, and what is the young reporter hiding? As silent, unspoken horrors from the past threaten them all, and the darkness deepens, it’s a race against time to find the killer before someone else dies.
Dark, terrifying, and complex, Blackout is an exceptional, atmospheric thriller from one of Iceland’s finest crime writers.
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Blaze
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Ron McLarty
- Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2007
- Language: English
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3.75(40793 ratings)
3.75(40793 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDMaster storyteller Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) presents this gripping and remarkable New York Times bestselling crime novel about a damaged young man who embarks on an ill-advised kidnapping plot—a work as taut and riveting asMaster storyteller Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) presents this gripping and remarkable New York Times bestselling crime novel about a damaged young man who embarks on an ill-advised kidnapping plot—a work as taut and riveting as anything he has ever written.
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Once upon a time, a fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 (“cancer of the pseudonym”), but this last gripping Bachman novel resurfaced after being hidden away for decades—an unforgettable crime story tinged with sadness and suspense.
Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., was always a small-time delinquent. None too bright either, thanks to the beatings he got as a kid. Then Blaze met George Rackley, a seasoned pro with a hundred cons and one big idea. The kidnapping should go off without a hitch, with George as the brains behind their dangerous scheme. But there’s only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, Blaze’s partner in crime is dead. Or is he? -
Bloodsucking Fiends
- By: Christopher Moore
- Narrator: Christopher Moore
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 12, 2008
- Language: English
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3.94(57309 ratings)
3.94(57309 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDChristopher Moore is a New York Times best-selling author whose offbeat novels combine comedy and the supernatural. A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown SanChristopher Moore is a New York Times best-selling author whose offbeat novels combine comedy and the supernatural. A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops start suspecting Tommy of being a local bloodsucking serial killer.
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Bone Chase
- By: Weston Ochse
- Narrator: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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2.98(200 ratings)
2.98(200 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDIn true The Da Vinci Code fashion, a taut thriller filled with rival factions vying for control of the truth in a giant global conspiracy. There were giants on the earth in those days–at least that’s what the Bible says. But, where areIn true The Da Vinci Code fashion, a taut thriller filled with rival factions vying for control of the truth in a giant global conspiracy.
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There were giants on the earth in those days–at least that’s what the Bible says. But, where are they? Did they ever really exist at all?
When out-of-work math teacher Ethan McCloud is sent a mysterious box, he and his ex-girlfriend begin to unravel a mystery 10,000 years in the making–and he is the last hope to discovering the world’s greatest conspiracy. Chased by both the Six-Fingered Man and the Council of David, Ethan must survive the chase–and find the truth. -
Bone Machines
- By: John Dodds
- Narrator: Robin Sachs
- Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2012
- Language: English
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3.07(98 ratings)
3.07(98 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA gritty Scottish crime thriller featuring a very different kind of serial killer They suffer for his art… When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the specter of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rearsA gritty Scottish crime thriller featuring a very different kind of serial killer
They suffer for his art… When a number of women are reported missing in Glasgow, the specter of a previous spate of unsolved disappearances in the city rears its head. Journalist Ray Bissett is drawn into the case when his daughter joins the ranks of the missing. Ambitious police detective Tom Kendrick won’t let Ray forget a terrible incident from his past that resulted in the death of a young boy. Damaged lives and dark secrets… The streets of Glasgow are haunted by the ghosts of the missing—and an artist driven by a deadly inspiration.
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
- By: Micah Dean Hicks
- Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 15, 2019
- Language: English
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3.63(682 ratings)
3.63(682 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSwine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town’s hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to them, and people avoided those streets,Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town’s hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to them, and people avoided those streets, locked those doors, stopped going into those rooms . . . They could hurt you. Worse, they could change you. Jane is haunted. Since she was a child, she has carried a ghost girl that feeds on the secrets and fears of everyone around her, whispering to Jane what they are thinking and feeling, even when she doesn’t want to know. Henry, Jane’s brother, is ridden by a genius ghost that forces him to build strange and dangerous machines. Their mother is possessed by a lonely spirit that burns anyone she touches. In Swine Hill, a place of defeat and depletion, there are more dead than living. When new arrivals begin scoring precious jobs at the last factory in town, both the living and the dead are furious. This insult on the end of a long economic decline sparks a conflagration. Buffeted by rage on all sides, Jane must find a way to save her haunted family and escape the town before it kills them
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Burke & Hare
- By: Terry Newman
- Narrator: Rob Crouch
- Length: 1 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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3.5(7 ratings)
3.5(7 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThis is the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Scottish grave robbers who weren’t Scottish and didn’t rob graves. They were actually Irish, and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh’s anatomists proved to beThis is the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Scottish grave robbers who weren’t Scottish and didn’t rob graves. They were actually Irish, and as robbing graves to supply the needs of Edinburgh’s anatomists proved to be rather hard work, they just took to murdering people–usually their neighbors–for profit. In collaboration with their common-law wives, they set about supplying corpses for Dr. John Knox, an eminent Scottish surgeon, with considerable enthusiasm and gusto. The play follows their business exploits from small beginnings, through their days of peak output, and on to the final reckoning–set against a world that is becoming recognizably modern.
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Can Such Things Be?
- By: Ambrose Bierce
- Narrator: Anthony Heald
- Length: 6 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDPrepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained.Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce’s 1893 story collection Can Such Things Be? One of the greatest masters of horror brings you twenty-five tales of the supernatural and the unexplained. Whether in stories of ghosts sending desperate warnings to their human counterparts, psychics attempting to bridge unknown dimensions, howling werewolves, or a robot who takes on a life of his own, Bierce plumbs the depths of fear and fascination. Spooky thrills and mind-bending mysteries await all who dare to open the cover of Can Such Things Be?
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Cannibal Reign
- By: Thomas Koloniar
- Narrator: Brian Hutchison
- Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.94(840 ratings)
3.94(840 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDFirst the asteroid would come, slamming into the earth just north of the Montana border, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and unending night. And after that … Hell. Astronomer Marty Chittenden is the first to recognize the approachingFirst the asteroid would come, slamming into the earth just north of the Montana border, followed by earthquakes, tsunamis, and unending night. And after that … Hell.
Astronomer Marty Chittenden is the first to recognize the approaching doom–a discovery that makes him a marked man.
Green Beret Jack Forrest knows the catastrophe is inevitable and begins stockpiling an abandoned missile silo with supplies while gathering together a small community of men, women, and children he prays can survive the apocalypse.
Then disaster strikes. In an instant the world they know ends forever, transformed into a nightmare realm of eternal darkness. Soon the few remaining humans are transformed as well, becoming savage things–raping, pillaging, and devouring their own.
And the time is approaching when Forrest and his people will have to leave their underground “Noah’s Ark” to face a shattered world and the unspeakable terrors that dwell there–in desperate pursuit of one slim hope of survival … called Hawaii.
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Casting the Runes, and Other Classic Stories of the Supernatural
- By: M R James
- Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.93(45 ratings)
3.93(45 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEnglish author Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is considered by many aficionados the unquestioned master of the modern ghost story, and several of his tales have served as source material for multiple creepy film versions. He broke new ground byEnglish author Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is considered by many aficionados the unquestioned master of the modern ghost story, and several of his tales have served as source material for multiple creepy film versions. He broke new ground by abandoning many of the conventions of gothic mysteries and substituting contemporary settings, situations, and characters. Nevertheless, as a Cambridge medieval scholar, James was steeped in the esoteric lore of the Middle Ages, and he applied that scholarship brilliantly to his stories.
The four stories in this compilation not by James are meant to serve as prime illustrations of the best work of a few of his contemporaries and immediate antecedents.
Contents include:Casting the Runes – M. R. JamesWailing Well – M. R. JamesRats – M. R. JamesMezzotint – M. R. JamesCount Magnus – M. R. JamesNumber 13 – M. R. JamesOh, Whistle and I’ll Come – M. R. JamesThe Monkey’s Paw -W. W. JacobsGreen Tea – Sheridan Le FanuThe Screaming Skull – F. Marion CrawfordHow Love Came to Professor Guildea – Robert Hichens
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Chasing the Boogeyman
- By: Richard Chizmar
- Narrator: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.98(13033 ratings)
3.98(13033 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben). In the summer of 1988, theThe acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel of small-town evil that “is genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben).
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In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet suburb. But soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. Law enforcement, as well as members of the FBI, are certain that the killer is a living, breathing madman–and he’s playing games with them. For a once peaceful community trapped in the depths of paranoia and suspicion, it feels like a nightmare that will never end.
Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch is formed. Amid preparing for his wedding and embarking on a writing career, he soon finds himself thrust into a real-life horror story. Inspired by the terrifying events, Richard writes a personal account of the serial killer’s reign of terror, unaware that these events will continue to haunt him for years to come.
A clever, terrifying, and heartrending work of metafiction, Chasing the Boogeyman is the ultimate marriage between horror fiction and true crime. Chizmar’s “dazzling work of fresh imagination and psychological insight” (Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of You) is on full display in this truly unique novel that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. -
Chimera
- By: Mira Grant
- Narrator: Christine Lakin
- Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 24, 2015
- Language: English
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3.82(3536 ratings)
3.82(3536 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDFrom New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the final book in the terrifying Parasitology series. The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seeminglyFrom New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the final book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
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The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob.
Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built. . . including the chimera.
The broken doors are closing. Can Sal make it home?
“A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton.” –John Joseph Adams on Parasite
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Parasite
Symbiont
Chimera
Newsflesh
Feed
Deadline
Blackout
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