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Straight Outta Tombstone Baen weird west trilogy
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Tales of the Weird Wild West. Top authors take on the classic western, with a weird twist. Includes new stories by Larry Correia and Jim Butcher!

Come visit the Old West, the land where gang initiations, ride-by shootings and territory disputes got their start. But these tales aren’t the ones your grandpappy spun around a campfire, unless he spoke of soul-sucking ghosts, steam-powered demons and wayward aliens.

Here then are seventeen stories that breathe new life in the Old West.

Among them: Larry Correia explores the roots of his best-selling Monster Hunter International series in “Bubba Shackleford’s Professional Monster Killers.” Jim Butcher reveals the origin of one of the Dresden Files’ most popular characters in “Fistful of Warlock.” And Kevin J. Anderson’s Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I., finds himself in a showdown in “High Midnight.” Plus stories from Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael A. Stackpole, and many more.

This is a new Old West and you’ll be lucky to get outta town alive!

sequels : Straight Outta Deadwood and Straight Outta Dodge City

Terminus

Terminus
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Murdoch’s past has finally come crashing down on him. His former girlfriend. His Family. He’s been happily avoiding them for ages, trying to live something close to a normal life. But now he’s been drawn back into another one of their ludicrous attempts to bring about the end of all things.

Chase has spent the past year just trying to get away. Trying to escape the memories that won’t stop following him, the moment when his life collapsed. He’s traveled around the world trying to stay ahead of it all, but those final moments may be catching up with him at last.

Anne is tired of living in the past. She’s finally looking to the future and embracing her destiny. She’s going to lead the Family forward on their greatest, final crusade to destroy the hated Machine of their long-time adversary.

Their paths will intersect in the middle of nowhere, on an uncharted island where the walls of reality are thin…and an apocalyptic threat is tearing its way through.

The Sunken City

The Sunken City
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At the bottom of a prehistoric lake in Antarctica there is a city old as time, a relic of an alien pre-human intelligence. Somewhere, deep in its ancient labyrinthine depths, there is an ever-increasing source of power of incalculable menace.
Now an elite team of Navy divers is going down to investigate it, and what they find is a nightmare beyond imagining.
The city is not dead.
As it wakes from its deathless slumber of countless millions of years, so does the race that built it, unleashing a deadly force that will harvest the human race like cattle.
Trapped beneath the ice, haunted by the city, its inhabitants, and the monsters spawned from their own fragile psyches, the divers have only one chance to destroy it before it rises to engulf the world of men.
The clock is ticking.
And the city’s black heart is beating

Dead Sea

Dead Sea
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Journey into a place of unknown humanity. a space between spaces where sea monsters, ghosts ships, and the undead dwell!
From the author of ALIEN HORRORS and HIVE comes DEAD SEA, a nightmarish Lovecraftian journey. When The Mara Corday, an aged freighter, enters the Graveyard of the Atlantic, nightmares becomes real. The crew finds themselves trapped in a realm where time doesn’t exist and unimaginable horrors dwell. Lost in a becalmed sea, in a netherworld where evil manifests itself in hideous forms, the survivors of the Mara Corday have an eternity to find a way out – if they aren’t killed first by the creatures stalking them.

The Great White Space

The Great White Space
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Colin Wilson Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of “The Great White Space,” described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe.

Plowright, Scarsdale, and the rest of their crew embark on the Great Northern Expedition, traversing a terrifying and desolate landscape to the Black Mountains, where a passageway hundreds of feet high leads to a lost city miles below the surface of the earth. But the unsettling discoveries they make there are only a precursor of the true horror to follow.

For the doorway of the Great White Space opens both ways, and something unspeakably evil has crossed over-a horrifying abomination that does not intend to let any of them return to the surface alive . . . One of the great British horror writers of the 20th century, Basil Copper (1924-2013) was best known for his macabre short fiction, which earned him the World Horror Convention’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. The Great White Space (1974) is a tale in the mode of H. P. Lovecraft and is recognized as one of the best Lovecraftian horror novels ever written.

This edition, the first in more than 30 years, includes a new introduction by Stephen Jones.

“The best writer in the genre since H. P. Lovecraft.” – Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

“Outstanding in the genre.” – August Derleth

“In the same class as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood.” – Michael and Mollie Hardwick

“One of the last great traditionalists of English fiction.” – Colin Wilson

Hive by Tim Curran

Hive by Tim Curran
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Nothing stays buried forever at the Pole.
In the frozen wastes of Antarctica, a research team discovers the frozen remains of an alien race in a mountain cave. They are dead, but not dead enough.
At the bottom of a sub-glacial lake beneath the ice cap, a prehistoric city dating from antiquity is found. And what has waited there for hundreds of millions of years, has been awakened.
These two events are the catalyst in an ancient conspiracy that will culminate in the extinction of the human race.
Evil has waited forever.
But it waits no more.

Skull Moon

Skull Moon
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Montana Territory, 1878.

Wolf Creek is under siege by a vicious, flesh-eating evil that stalks the night, leaving dismembered and devoured corpses in its wake. It is unknown, unseen, and unstoppable.

Enter Joseph Longtree, deputy U.S. Marshal. He knows there is a rhyme and reason behind the killings, but to discover the truth will mean penetrating local superstition, corruption, and vice, which will ultimately bring him face to face with a monstrosity out of Native American folklore.

The Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft

The Shadow Out of Time
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H.P. Lovecraft’s classic novella blending science fiction with elements of horror and psychological thriller. Through the experiences of Nathaniel Peaslee, we learn of the extraterrestrial great race of Yith. For eons, the Yithians explored space and time by projecting their consciousnesses into the bodies of beings throughout the universe, in the future and the past.

Sometimes confused as spiritual possession, the Yithians used this body switching technique to amass great knowledge. Switching bodies en masse to avoid destruction, the Yithians travelled to prehistoric earth. While questioning his sanity following episodes of possession, Peaslee discovers clues of the Yithians and their alien enemies.

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness
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“On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal lifeforms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms.

Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and misunderstandings, the group learns of Earth’s secret history and legacy.” –Amazon.com.

Iron Truth (Primaterre Book 1)

Iron Truth
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A bold and uncompromising science fiction epic. When miners on a remote colony dig too deep, the golden age of space exploration comes to a bloody end. An alien corruption springs from the soil, possessing every mind it touches. Aboard one of the last colony ships, junior botanist Joy Somerset slumbers in cryostasis, unaware of the spreading chaos. She awakes stranded on Cato – a planet whose menacing sands seem to share a hunger with the crazed locals. Commander Cassimer, a Primaterre veteran dedicated to fighting the corruption, leads his elite strike team to Cato to recover a clandestine starship. On this storm-lashed world, surrounded by shadow and ruin, Cassimer faces not only failure, but the loss of what little sanity he has. Joy and Cassimer must trust each other long enough to uncover Cato’s dark secret and work together to survive deranged cultists, terrorist rebels, and the IRON TRUTH.