The Great Forest is an anthology of cosmic horror short stories that is based on Germanic folklore and American Lovecraftian storytelling. The fear of the unknown penetrates us all and the forest calls to every person differently. In this book, you will find three stories that do just that. What monstrous creatures will crawl out of the woods and into these pages? What new realms will you discover? The void beyond the trees has been here since before humanity and will be here after it. Will you take your chances in the Great Forest? And as always, watch out for what is around that next tree. I hope you will enjoy your peek into the Great Forest.
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
"My first thought was, "That house is insane." Not just a house for the insane, but that the building itself was insane, as if the layout of the walls themselves belied a shattered psyche dwelling within the stone...." (page 177) Near the end of World War II, during the Battle of The Bulge, a US Army unit pursues a renegade SS panzer battalion into the secluded Ardennes forest. There, hidden deep in the snow-covered pines, they find an ancient manor house containing an inhuman evil that defies any sense of reality. Confronted with a supernatural evil inside the manor, and surrounded by enemy troops outside, the soldiers will have to unravel the mysteries of the creature called The Geist and face a nightmarish battle for body and soul if they are to survive. Part war story, part Lovecraftian horror story, One Last Gasp will hold you in its haunting grip from its explosive beginning to its mindbending conclusion.
Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’s multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu—published with Liu’s support—envisions the aftermath of the conflict between humanity and the extraterrestrial Trisolarans. In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun Tianming found himself on the front lines. Riddled with cancer, he chose to end his life, only to find himself flash frozen and launched into space where the Trisolaran First Fleet awaited. Captured and tortured beyond endurance for decades, Yun eventually succumbed to helping the aliens subjugate humanity in order to save Earth from complete destruction. Granted a healthy clone body by the Trisolarans, Yun has spent his very long life in exile as a traitor to the human race. Nearing the end of his existence at last, he suddenly receives another reprieve—and another regeneration. A consciousness calling itself The Spirit has recruited him to wage battle against an entity that threatens the existence of the entire universe. But Yun refuses to be a pawn again and makes his own plans to save humanity’s future... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences. When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen’s quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely life, it also pits him against soldiers and scientists with motives of their own: a beautiful army major with an obsession with dangerous weaponry, and a physicist who has no place for ethical considerations in his single-minded pursuit of knowledge. "Wildly imaginative."—Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy Tor books by Cixin Liu The Three-Body Problem Series #1 The Three-Body Problem #2 The Dark Forest #3 Death's End At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body “Remina” after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction... Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale. -- VIZ Media
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.
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." ~ H.P. Lovecraft This collection includes 160 of H.P. Lovecraft''s works. The collection is grouped by Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborative Works, Poetry and Essays. The groups are organized in chronological order by the date that each work was written. * Professional formatting, giving you full control over fonts, font sizes, and line spacing * Active table of contents accessed by the "go to" or "menu" button * Links to download full-length audiobooks included FREE! Early Writings: The Little Glass Bottle (1897) The Secret Cave (1898) The Mystery Of The Graveyard (1898) The Mysterious Ship (1902) The Beast in the Cave (1905) The Alchemist (1908) Fiction: The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917) Sweet Ermengarde (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old Bugs (1919) The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) The White Ship (1919) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) The Terrible Old Man (1920) The Tree (1920) The Cats of Ulthar (1920) The Temple (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The Street (1920) Celepha?»s (1920) From Beyond (1920) Nyarlathotep (1920) The Picture in the House (1920) Ex Oblivione (1921) The Nameless City (1921) The Quest of Iranon (1921) The Moon-Bog (1921) The Outsider (1921) The Other Gods (1921) The Music of Erich Zann (1921) Herbert WestÑReanimator (1922) Hypnos (1922) What the Moon Brings (1922) Azathoth (1922) The Hound (1922) The Lurking Fear (1922) The Rats in the Walls (1923) The Unnamable (1923) The Festival (1923) The Shunned House (1924) The Horror at Red Hook (1925) He (1925) In the Vault (1925) The Descendant (1926) Cool Air (1926) The Call of Cthulhu (1926) Pickman''s Model (1926) The Silver Key (1926) The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) The Colour Out of Space (1927) The Very Old Folk (1927) The Thing in the Moonlight (1927) A History Of The Necronomicon (1927) Ibid (1928) The Dunwich Horror (1928) The Whisperer in Darkness (1930) At the Mountains of Madness (1931) Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) The Evil Clergyman (1933) The Book (1933) The Shadow Out of Time (1934-1935) The Haunter of the Dark (1935) Collaborative Works: The Green Meadow (1918) Poetry and the Gods (1920) The Crawling Chaos (1920) The Horror At Martin''s Beach (1922) Under the Pyramids (1924) Two Black Bottles (1926) The Last Test (1927) The Curse Of Yig (1928) The Electric Executioner (1929) The Mound (1929) Medusa''s Coil (1930) The Trap (1931) The Man Of Stone (1932) The Horror In The Museum (1932) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932) Winged Death (1933) Out of the Aeons (1933) The Horror In The Burying-Ground (1933) The Hoard Of The Wizard-Beast (1933) The Slaying of the Monster (1933) The Tree On the Hill (1934) The Battle That Ended the Century (1934) Till A'' the Seas... (1935) Collapsing Cosmoses (1935) The Challenge From Beyond (1935) The Disinterment (1935) The Diary Of Alonzo Typer (1935) In the Walls of Eryx (1936) The Night Ocean (1936) Poetry: Poemata Minora, Volume II (1902) On Receiving a Picture of Swans (1915) March (1915) Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea (1915) An American to Mother England (1916) Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee (1916) The Rose of England (1916) The Poe-et''s Nightmare (1916) The Teuton''s Battle-Song Fact and Fancy (1917) Pacifist War SongÑ1917 (1917) A Garden (1917) The Peace Advocate (1917) Ode for July Fourth, 1917 (1917) Nemesis (1917) Astrophobos (1917) Sunset (1917) Laeta; a Lament (1918) Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme (1917-1918) The Conscript (1918) Despair (1919) Revelation (1919) The House (1919) The City (1919) To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany (1919) The Nightmare Lake (1919) On Reading Lord Dunsany''s Book of Wonder (1920) Christmas (1920) Sir Thomas Tryout (1921) Waste Paper (1922) Providence (1924) The Cats (1925) Festival (1925) Hallowe''en in a Suburb (1925) The Wood (1929) The Outpost (1929) The Ancient Track (1929) The Messenger (1929) Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-1930) Little Sam Perkins (1934) Dead Passion''s Flame (1935) Arcadia (1935) In a Sequester''d Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk''d (1936) To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures (1936) Life''s Mystery (No date) Nathicana (No date) Christmas Greetings (No date) Essays: Metrical Regularity (1915) The Allowable Rhyme (1915) At the Root (1918) The Despised Pastoral (1918) The Literature of Rome (1918) Americanism (1919) Literary Composition (1920) Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess (1921) Supernatural Horror In Literature (1925-1927) Cats And Dogs (1926) Notes On Writing Weird Fiction (1933) Audiobook Links: Links to download 60 free, full-length audiobooks for H.P. Lovecraft''s works can be found at the end of the book.
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft is a seminal work of cosmic horror that explores the existence of an ancient, malevolent entity named Cthulhu. Through a series of disturbing discoveries and strange occurrences, the story unveils a hidden, incomprehensible reality where humanity's significance is dwarfed by forces beyond its understanding. The narrative, told through fragmented accounts, delves into themes of fear, madness, and the unknown.
