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Student of Death: A Flesch & Stone novel

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Student of Death: A Flesch & Stone novel
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Obsession and murder run in the blood…

DI Richard Flesch: Three words to describe my partner: Brave. Unrelenting. Haunted.
DI Sarah Sarah: Three words to describe my partner: Intelligent. Focused. CANNIBAL.

When a young girl is found tortured and mutilated at an abandoned train station, retired army captain Sarah Stone is persuaded to join a specialised police unit that is dedicated to catching serial killers. Her new partner, Richard Flesch, is the country’s leading expert at catching psychopaths. Because he used to be one. He is the Chester-Le-Street Cannibal.

How can Sarah focus on catching monsters when she is forced to work with one?

‘Iain Rob Wright scares the hell out of me!’ – author, J.A. Konrath

‘Keeps you guessing all the way through.’ – Amazon Reviewer

‘Sick and twisted. So thrilling!’ – author, Matt Shaw

‘Wow. Just wow!’ – Amazon Reviewer

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The Dead Unleashed: (Unleashed Anthology series Volume 3)

The Dead Unleashed: (Unleashed Anthology series Volume 3)
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Grab your bug out bag, strap on every weapon you can find, and get ready for a 600-page descent into undead hell! This gigantic book of the dead and reanimated is brought to you by 30 mind-scarring apocalyptic word warriors penning you horrors you could never have imagined… and can only live safely through by reading The Dead Unleashed.

Contents
Novacaine, Rich Restucci
…and the Geiger Counter Clicks, Brandon Scott
The Closet, Blake Standard
Overhand Follow Through, Jay Wilburn
Our Last Day of School Ever, Joseph C. DiNallo
Operation Z, Marie Lanza
Mavreides Gambit, Matthew Hollis Damon
Planted, Steve Oden
The Living Dead Man, R.J. Spears
A Merry Maskless Christmas Eve Ball, Kurt Newton
Chimera, Jacob Austin
Zombies at Red Rock, Roxanne Dent
Rucco, James Robert Smith
Dead Tranquil, Chantal Boudreau
Alexa, Stop!, Maria Wickens
Hipster Apocalypse, Chad A. B. Wilson
Dust, Catlyn Ladd
Zombies, Troy Diffenderfer
Running with Zombies, Sean M. Davis
Zombitropolis, Gregory L. Norris
About Brains, Claire Davon
The Disincarnate, Stanley B. Webb
The Death of Art, Tim Latham
Bones, Phoenix Roberts
Picture Show, Jay Seate
Dead Love, John Teel
Parts of Us, Shelly Lyons
Mostly Dead, Darrin Bright
Drawn And Quartered, Mark Tufo
Still Dead Cadillac, Javan Bonds

Brian Lumley’s The Best of the Rest

Brian Lumley's The Best of the Rest
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This pretty much is what the title says. Many of the stories/novellas here will have only been done in limited print runs, such as in fanzines, magazines, pamphlets, special editions or online magazines.

It’s a mixed genre of stories and these are what Brian considers the best of the rest of the stories in his body of work. We’ve got 111,000+ words in this collection so that means lots of enjoyment in what is likely the last collection coming from Brian.

It Calls From the Sea: An Anthology of Terror on the Deep Blue Sea

It Calls From the Sea: An Anthology of Terror on the Deep Blue Sea
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It Calls From the Sea is an all-original anthology of twenty brutal tales of horror from the deep blue sea.

Prepare to die. The sea awakens.

Eerie River brings you another round of insatiable thrills. There is no end to the terrors we have in store and there is nowhere left to hide.

Within the Mariana Trench, a research vessel’s crew is threatened by a mysterious force. A father and daughter’s holiday by the ocean turns deadly as a sinister creature stalks them. A group of friends learn that some things should remain in the ocean. Filled with a sense of wonder, a young biologist discovers a new species of kelp, but with disastrous consequences.

Can you hear it, the call of the sea? The lulling rock of the water beneath you, the soft breeze as it moves along your skin. The slip and slime of the beast as it caresses your face and takes you under? Can you feel it? Will you join me?

Building Strange Temples

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In this rich and extensive collection of stories and verse, Don Webb weaves a colorful tapestry with threads derived from
H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu Mythos’ works, the writings of William S. Burroughs, ancient mysticism, and much else.

But, above all, Webb’s fictional creations—at times developed with collaborators—evince a singular vision that speaks not only to the millennial generation, but to veteran connoisseurs of eldritch horror and supernatural wonder.

Five Maidens on the Pentagram

Five Maidens on the Pentagram
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Nobody believes Jonah, a mild-mannered mental patient with split personalities, that his doctor is working with his evil alter ego, Maldeus, to sacrifice women to a sex-crazed demon in the hospital basement.

Determined to expose his doctor’s evil plan, Jonah goes undercover as Maldeus.

Assisted by a cute nudist mental patient named Aurora, Jonah is thrust into a diabolical plot that forces him to confront the very limits of his own identity.

Will Jonah defeat his doctor in time to stop the rise of Satan?

She Was Asking for It (Tales to Make You Vomit)

She Was Asking for It (Tales to Make You Vomit)
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His girlfriend Emily has been kidnapped by a ghoul called the Librarian and hung upside down above a pit of bubbling lava. In order to win Emily back he must read a book from the Librarian’s collection, without vomiting.

This might sound like an easy task, but the Librarian doesn’t curate just any ordinary books. Each and every terrible tome in her bibliotheca of bile is so disgusting that nobody can read one without doing a Technicolor burp.

The book he must read is a repugnant little horror story about the revolting sex lives of failed Hollywood actors and actresses called She Was Asking for It. It’s a real page turner. It’s a stomach turner too!!!

He’d better have a strong stomach, because if even a single drop of bile escapes from between his lips while reading, his girlfriend will fall into the pit of lava beneath her and be burnt to a cinder.

Can you read this book without throwing up? Do you take the challenge?

The Nookienomicon: Bawdy Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

The Nookienomicon: Bawdy Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
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“Cor, look at the tentacles on that!”

Two golden ages collide in this celebration of cosmic horror and classic British comedy.

Before the Karma Sutra there was The Nookienomicon, a book so insidious that it brought more than mere titillation… it brought terror!

Follow the path of madness wrought by this dreadful tome from the Hyborian Age to the present day as it spreads its influence, and its tentacles, throughout history. Join Kolon the Barbarian, Annie Mater, the insufferable Professor Feeley and a host of other bungling characters as they strive to halt the influence of the book and the abominations it summons.
From the gambrel roofed streets of Arkham and the decaying wharves of Innsmouth to Paris, Spain and the dusty halls of hallowed British institutions, one thing can be certain, wherever the Nookienomicon is found, it will bring insanity and hilarity.

Eight side-splitting and sanity-shredding tales of the expanded Cthulhu Mythos by:
Ella Ann, David Green, S.O Green, Chris Hewitt, Tim Mendees, Beth W. Patterson,
Callum Pearce & Robert Poyton

In a Lonely Place

In a Lonely Place
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One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last!

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers of the modern era, but his work has been out of print and nearly unobtainable for many years. His seminal volume In a Lonely Place collects eight of his best tales, including “In the Pines,” a classic ghost story evocatively set in the Tennessee woods, “Beyond Any Measure,” an original take on the vampire story, “River of Night’s Dreaming,” a surreal and nightmarish masterpiece inspired by The King in Yellow, and the author’s most famous tale, “Sticks,” a disturbing story thought by many to have been the basis for The Blair Witch Project.

This new edition includes all the stories from the original 1983 edition, plus an additional rare tale and the author’s afterword from the Scream/Press limited edition, and features a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell.