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This Audible Original drama voyages across the seas on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in pursuit of a mysterious monster that has been terrifying unsuspecting ships, in an expedition to hunt this creature down before more people are injured or killed. Amongst the crew are Professor Pierre Aronnax, who wants to be the first person to identify the creature, believing it to be nothing more than an oversized Narwhal. He’s joined by Ned Land, a Canadian harpoonist, believed to be the best in the world.

24/7 Demon Mart: Publisher's Pack features two books from the 24/7 Demon Mart series: The Graveyard Shift, book one, and Monster Burger, book two. It also includes the bonus Hell for the Holidays, a 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas special. Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell.

The Pirates destroyed the enemy, cut off their access to the Milky Way. Against all odds, Joe, Skippy, and the Merry Band of Pirates pulled off yet another impossible mission. They should be celebrating. Unfortunately, the dying enemy had one final act of spite. Now an unstoppable force is...

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . . King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine...

READ THE NOVEL THAT IGNITED THE PHENOMENON!In the world of Unital Ring, the foreboding presence that has been targeting the party finally makes itself known! Elsewhere, a reunion with Seijirou Kikuoka leads Kirito, Asuna, and Alice back to the Underworld, where two-hundred years have passed...

Following the journey of Thaddeus Stormbreaker, a hardened Finnish-Canadian immigrant forged by his survivalist father and Indigenous mentor to thrive beyond the reaches of civilization, the Mortuous 28 series takes you on a blood-soaked, action-packed journey across a North American hellscape. A decade of pandemics, economic collapse, and global conflict has left the world order in ruin. Lines in the dirt have been redrawn, militaries are exhausted, and the once-dominant superpowers no longer have the might to protect and police the world.

For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the twenty-third century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren’t supposed to.

What mysteries lie hidden beneath the ocean's surface, beyond the reach of human exploration? When reports of a terrifying sea monster begin spreading across the world's oceans, Professor Pierre Aronnax, a renowned French marine biologist, joins an expedition to investigate the mysterious...

The fate of humanity rests on a lie, but the truth is infinitely more deadly. ‘When a mysterious signal from the outer reaches of space is detected, the world is on the brink of an unimaginable breakthrough—first contact with an advanced alien race. Fleeing their dying planet, they offer Earth an extraordinary alliance that could alter the course of human history. But beneath this promise lies a chilling ultimatum: for the aliens to survive on Earth, half of humanity must be sacrificed. The choice is stark—comply or face complete annihilation.

Crystal Culling never should have moved to Lake Hancock. Her real estate agent had warned her: the property on the end of Fox Hunt Drive was cursed, and if the Dragon of Crystal Lakes ever roused from his slumber, shed be the first to be sacrificed to his appetite.Her new neighbors, upon...

Most people look forward to the harvest, but some just want to watch it burn. With the final evacuation over, the Atlantic survivors hoped they’d found peace, but the war has followed them west. While searching for his lost vault, General Denning has laid waste to Washington State. Farms have been burned, bridges mined, and cities filled with the undead, all in pursuit of a forgotten weapons vault everyone else thinks is a myth. Everyone except Maggs who found proof of it shortly after she arrived in the west.

From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself - the greatest war in the history of mankind rages on. While the traitor Legions continue their campaign of terror across the galaxy, preparations are made for the defence of the Imperial Palace and the final, inevitable reckoning that must yet come between Horus and the Emperor....

The Heresy came to Calth without warning. In just a few hours of betrayal and bloodshed, the proud warriors of the XIIIth Legion - Guilliman's own Ultramarines - were laid low by the treachery of their erstwhile brothers of the XVIIth. Now, as the planet is scoured by solar flares from the wounded Veridian star, the survivors must take the fight to the remaining Word Bearers and their foul allies, or face damnation in the gloomy arcology shelters beneath the planet's surface.

The Man in Black is waiting to make your acquaintance. Maybe you’ll meet him on a bus, in the supermarket or at an airport luggage carousel. Perhaps he’ll peer into your baby’s pram or approach you in the corridor of a care home. Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. Stories of darkness and death, myth and madness. Stories to unsettle and horrify.

During the year 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest to be a giant narwhal. The United States government assembles an expedition in New York City to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist and narrator of the...

Created in the Emperor's own image, the primarchs had long thought themselves to be princes of the universe and masters of their own destiny - they led the Space Marine Legions in glorious conquest of the galaxy, and no enemy of the Imperium could stand against them. However, even amongst this legendary brotherhood, the seeds of dissent had been sown long before the treacherous Warmaster Horus declared his grand heresy.

A deadly infection spreads across Europe. The Undead Series: A terrifying account of one man desperately struggling to survive this harrowing event. The Undead, Part 21: The Heat. The UK's best-selling horror series continues.

When Terrance picks up a rideshare client at Logan International Airport in Boston, he has no idea how pivotal a moment in his life it will be. Within minutes of their introductions, the stranger offers Terrance the fulfillment of his dreams in less than one month. All he asks in return is that...

Four hundred degrees! Toxic atmosphere! Gravity beams that crush men in armor like beer cans! Welcome to Infernus. Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit...

When Ray Lilly was 13 years old, a handgun accident landed his best friend, Jon Burrows, in a wheelchair and turned Ray into a runaway and petty criminal. Fifteen years later, Ray returns home after a stint in prison; he's determined to go straight, but he knows he can't do that without making peace with his old friend. What Ray doesn't expect is that Jon has just received a mysterious cure - not only is he out of his wheelchair, he seems stronger and faster than...well, pretty much anyone.