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Denibus Ar: An Archaeology Adventure

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Denibus Ar: An Archaeology Adventure
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The Land of the Pharaohs is both rich and deadly.

The discovery of a six-sided pyramid sets the archaeological world in a stir as an international team excavates mysterious ruins in the Sahara. In the midst of unexplained phenomena, military corruption and paranormal sightings, a sinister presence is uncovered…

Australian archaeologist Carl Langley experiences visions and protective urges for site relics while in the tunnel entrance to Sinesi 1. He is progressively beset with deeper mystical connections with what he believes is the long dead Pharaoh of Upper Egypt…

Langley allies with Yisella Hillen and archaeologist Aseh Yasser. But are these stalwarts enough to outwit the thieves of the desert and a corrupt military captain? The presence is in full force, haunting the tunnels, dealing death to intruders.

Can Langley tap the secrets of the tomb and overcome his mystical possession by a force of which he has no comprehension? He must hurry, for there are diabolic forces that wish to penetrate one of the greatest archaeological finds of the century.

Mindstar Rising: The Greg Mandel Trilogy

Mindstar Rising
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It’s the 21st century, and global warming is here to stay, so forget the way your country used to look. And get used to the free market, too – the companies possess all the best hardware, and they’re calling the shots now.

In a world like this, a man open to any offers can make out just fine.

A man like Greg Mandel for instance, who’s psi-boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state-of-the-art weaponry – and late of the English Army’s Mindstar Battalion.

As the cartels battle for control of a revolutionary new power source, and corporate greed outstrips national security, tension is mounting to boiling point – and Greg Mandel is about to face the ultimate test.

Boneshaker: A Novel of the Clockwork Century

Boneshaker
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In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice.

Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born. But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead. Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city.

Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history. His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories

Haunted Castles
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Prefaced by Guillermo del Toro, “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King)

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell’s masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of “Sardonicus,” “Sanguinarius,” and “Sagittarius.” The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core: the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo; the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy);

the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell’s Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Assassinorum: Kingmaker (Warhammer 40K)

Assassinorum: Kingmaker
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New to warhammer 40K universe? go there for a recommended reading order

Explore the fascinating relationships between the different Assassinorum Temples in this fantastic novel from Robert Rath. The Officio Assassinorum safeguards the future of humanity. Its agents are the bloody-handed, secret saviours of the Imperium, killers charged with achieving the impossible… and Vindicare assassin Absolom Raithe has just been handed the most difficult assignment of his career. The Knight World of Dominion is on the verge of seceding from the Imperium, its court riven by factionalism and ruled by an increasingly unhinged monarch. With the aid of the shapeshifting Callidus assassin Sycorax, Raithe must remove the king from his throne – and safely steer a pro-Imperial candidate to victory through the brutal succession crisis that will inevitably ensue.

His team will need to infiltrate a world steeped in chivalric codes, where every move risks discovery, and every threat pilots an adamantine monster… for if the assassins fail, and Dominion falls, the entire sector will be plunged into darkness.

Bloodlines (Warhammer 40K)

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The first title in the new "Warhammer Crime" imprint. Try to unravel the secrets lurking in the sprawling city of Varangantua. In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight. The people demanding answers, though, are powerful and ruthless,…

New to warhammer 40K universe? go there for a recommended reading order

Something different than the usual 40k stories a kind of hard-boiled detective thriller in a hive city

2 other books in the same setting by different authors :

For another serie set in a hive city there is Necromunda

Grey Seer (Thanquol and Boneripper Book 1)

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You might want to read some Gotrek & felix first as the protagonist come from this serie

Nefarious Grey Seer Thanquol, skaven sorcerer and arch-enemy of Gotrek & Felix, embarks on his own adventure to recover the deadly artefact known only as Wormstone.

With this dread substance, he plots to poison the city of Altdorf and rise to power in the eyes of his masters amongst the Council of the Thirteen.

Bloodborn (Ulrika the Vampire – Warhammer)

Bloodborn (Ulrika the Vampire Book 1)
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Ulrika former Felix love interest in the Gotrek&Felix serie is turned into a vampire and must learn to control her new urges while investigating a murder

Ulrika, recently turned as a vampire, attempts to adjust to her new way of life. But when a fellow vampire is killed in Nuln, Ulrika and her mentor, Gabriella, are sent to investigate. Soon they find themselves facing danger from all sides as they attempt to solve a mystery that threatens the very existence of the Lahmian bloodline. How can they hope to destroy something with the power to kill a vampire?

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
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From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there.

A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.

Occultation and Other Stories by Laird Barron

Occultation and Other Stories
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Winner of the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror from the heir apparent to Lovecraft’s throne. Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.

His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occulation’s nine tales of terror (two published here for the first time) were nominated for just as many Shirley Jackson awards, winning for the novella “Mysterium Tremendum” and the collection as a whole. Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron’s fans have come to expect.

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