The House on the Borderland
A found manuscript leads two men into a remote Irish house where a recluse’s horrors escalate into cosmic visions.
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Frankenstein
A scientist’s pursuit of life beyond death unleashes a tragic chain of responsibility, rejection, and ruin.
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The Door in the Wall
A man recalls a childhood encounter with a mysterious green door that keeps reappearing as his life moves on.
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Mad Sisters of Esi
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The Damned Thing
An inquest into a gruesome death in the woods turns on a witness’s account of an unseen, possibly impossible attacker.
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Two warriors escort a captive god across a fractured empire, inside a tale told through dreams, theater, and memory.
The Library of Broken Worlds
A queer teen librarian-in-training tells a god her story while navigating a cosmic archive, hidden history, and war.
From a Buick 8
A grieving young man learns the long-guarded secret behind a bizarre Buick hidden by rural state troopers.
The Course of the Heart
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
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The Circumference of the World
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The First Binding
A legendary storyteller recounts his rise, secret mission, and the myths that shaped him in a richly layered fantasy.
Il richiamo del corno
A traumatized British POW wakes in a Nazi-dominated future and must survive a grotesque hunting estate.
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The Prestige
Two rival Victorian magicians wage a lifelong battle of secrets, with descendants later uncovering the truth.
Cylinder van Troffa
A returning astronaut finds Earth transformed, and must navigate a fractured future while chasing what time left behind.
Drowning Towers
In a flooded near-future Melbourne, a family’s fall into underclass life exposes a harsh world of climate collapse and class war.
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Wizard and Glass
After a deadly riddle contest, Roland tells his companions the tragic story of his youth, first love, and path to the Tower.
Strangers from the Sky
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A 19th-century Yankee wakes in King Arthur's Britain and tries to remake it with modern science, wit, and satire.
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A designerly first-contact epic where an alien signal, a moon mystery, and typographic experiments reshape reality.
Star Wars: The Legends of Luke Skywalker
A cargo-ship crew trades legends about Luke Skywalker, blurring myth, truth, and hero worship across the galaxy.
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The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
A brutal space-opera opener retells a pirate-captive clash from shifting angles to expose the darker truth.
The Separation
Twin brothers on opposite sides of WWII become entangled in an alternate-history puzzle of war, memory, and identity.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
A rich, guilt-ridden heir tries to spend his fortune on kindness, while relatives and lawyers try to prove him insane.
Bluebeard
An aging Armenian-American artist writes his life story while hiding a secret in his barn and being disrupted by a pushy widow.
The Revisionaries
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That Which Should Not Be
A student’s quest for a forbidden book leads him into a stormbound tavern, where linked horror tales reveal a cosmic trap.
The Last Dance
An inspector investigates a possible mutiny aboard a Mars-bound ship, uncovering competing truths, loyalties, and power plays.
The Lovecraft Compendium
Five linked Cthulhu-mythos tales of cults, ruins, and forbidden knowledge, where curiosity opens the door to cosmic dread.
Or What You Will
An aging fantasy writer and the muse living in her mind try to keep both of them alive through one last, deeply meta book.
Metallic Realms
An obsessive fan chronicles a troubled sci-fi writing collective and their stories as fiction, fandom, and real life blur.
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
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All This & More
A middle-aged woman joins a reality show that lets her rewrite her life—while the reader chooses her next move.
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Never Let Me Go
A woman recalls her sheltered childhood at an isolated boarding school as buried truths about her life and future emerge.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
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الشيطان يحكي
A mysterious hotel conference forces strangers to tell uncanny stories, while a hidden judge tests truth, lies, and belief.
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