Outstanding Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror
Explore a curated list of outstanding science fiction, fantasy, and horror books. Discover top-tier reads in speculative fiction for every fan of the extraordinary.
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The Taking
by Dean Ray Koontz
Molly and Niel Sloan and their neighbors in a small California mountain town encounter a threat that transforms their peaceful streets into a ghostly labyrinth …
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Night Witch
by Jack Priest
Alone in bed Carolina plays with her locket, a gift from her dad. She doesnt know he stole it from an evil woman in Trinidad. …
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Night Visions 11
by Kim Newman
For nearly two decades, the Night Visions anthologies have provided a forum for some of the finest dark fantasists of the modern era, including Stephen …
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The Dark
by Ellen Datlow
Datlow, referred to by some as the Mistress of Horror, has gathered ghost stories by 15 masters of the macabre in this deliciously frightening anthology …
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Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King
Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus" (Locus).
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The Dark Tower VI
by Stephen King
While Jake, Father Callahan, and Oy struggle to free Susannah Dean, whose body is possessed by a demon-mother named Mia, Roland and Eddie find themselves …
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The X President
by Philip Edward Baruth
In the year 2055 America is entangled in a devastating world war, and as the threat of homeland invasion grows stronger, Sal Hayden, official biographer …
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Air
by Geoff Ryman
What happens when the whole world goes online . . . through the air? A brilliant literary SF novel by the author of 253.
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Dragon's Kin
by Anne McCaffrey
Beginning with the classic "Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted …
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The Destroyer Goddess
by Laura Resnick
An epic saga of such grand scale it must be told in two books Laura Resnick, author of In Legend Born, has created a novel …
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A Yuletide Universe
by Brian M. Thomsen
The contributors to this Christmas anthology include well-known writers with strong fan followings such as Bram Stoker and Hugo Award-winning author of "American Gods" Neil …
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl
by Peter Straub
From the bestselling author of "Black House" and "Mr. X" springs a groundbreaking story of the persistence of evil, told with tantalizing ambiguity and structural …
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In the Night Room
by Peter Straub
Willy Patrick finds her life intersecting with that of a stranger, Timothy Underhill, when she experiences an eerie event involving the death of her daughter …
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Lazarus Rising
by David Sherman
The popular Starfist series, featuring Marines in the far future, makes its hardcover debut with this story of a war against aliens on the planet …
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Fudoki
by Kij Johnson
"And who set her on a new kami road, where Kagaya-hime will have to choose a way to find what happiness she can."--BOOK JACKET.
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
by Harry Turtledove
In a novel of alternative history, Germany has won World War II, and in the twenty-first century rules most of Europe and North America, but …
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Mirror Mirror
by Gregory Maguire
A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror is set in Renaissance Italy, where Gregory Maguire draws a connection between the poison apple in …
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The Salt Roads
by Nalo Hopkinson
When three Caribbean slave women gather one night to bury a stillborn baby, their collected mournings braid into a powerful calling, and a deity is …
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Sunshine
by Robin McKinley
"Sunshine" is what everyone calls her. She works long hours in her family's coffeehouse, making her famous "Cinnamon Rolls as Big as Your Head," Bitter …
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The Night Country
by Stewart O'Nan
A tragic car accident that kills three teens while leaving one hospitalized with brain damage and another suffering with guilt yields more pain one year …
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Any Man So Daring
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Acclaimed playwright William Shakespeare ventures back into the forest realm of the Elven king Quicksilver to rescue his son, only to discover that Quicksilver is …
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Horror. Early novel about four men who inadvertently cause the death of a young woman in the 1920s.