Plane Horror

The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book, Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live - a central motif of the horror genre. In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy and horror.

Enter a world where the dead have risen, not to greet loved ones with open arms, but with open mouths and appetites. This book invites the reader to enter a world where heroes, cowards, men and women of all types must face the threat of the living dead. Where a military officer puts into place a desperate plan to save what's left of the human race, but factions within are plotting to stop him. Where a loner, whose memory is lost to him, saves a little boy and is brought back into the war against the dead. Where creatures of myth and legend battle for the survival of a humanity that has ...

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...

Stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, a spy must survive and uncover a conspiracy in the first book of an epic space opera trilogy by an award-winning author of The Protectorate series. "A body-hopping, zombie-popping rock licking good time." —Emily Skrutskie, author of Bonds of...

After a plane is forced to make an emergency landing in a remote area, the surviving crew and passengers must wait until a rescue team arrives. But they soon discover they are not alone in the wilderness, and the rescue team is not showing up anytime soon.

Atra Hart’s shadow has grown teeth. It moves on its own and whispers her name. She calls it Dread, and it threatens to devour her mind. When a fire breaks out at the asylum where she’s locked up, Atra seizes the chance for freedom, only to witness an electric-purple rift split the sky open. Like Dread, the rift is visible only to her. Then, she awakens back in the asylum, unharmed, as if the fire, the escape, and the rift never happened. But everything feels wrong. No one remembers her old life. Her family, her friends—even her past—have vanished.

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space-horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence. An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger. Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most...

A doomed plane. A frozen mountain. And a legend that kills. When a charter flight crashes near the base of Mount Everest, the handful of survivors believe the worst is behind them. But the icy winds and jagged cliffs aren’t their biggest threat. Something ancient prowls these peaks—something massive, white-furred, and bloodthirsty. As the group struggles to stay warm and alive, they begin to vanish, one by one. Whispers speak of the Ice Demon—a beast the locals dare not name. Now, survival depends not on strength or supplies… but on staying quiet, staying hidden, and staying out of ...

Now available for the first time in audiobook format, Necroscope III: The Source is the third installment in the Necroscope series by horror master Brian Lumley. This story traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming...

A Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers across the demon-haunted American Southwest of 1879. In this acclaimed first volume, four sequential novellas and one bonus short story chronicle the weird adventures of the Merkabah Rider. Featuring The Blood Libel, The Dust Devils, Hell's Hired Gun, The Nightjar Women, and "The Shomer Express."

In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, Mace Windu must journey to his long-forgotten homeworld to confront a terrifying mystery with dire personal consequences. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, homeworld of the legendary Jedi Master Mace Windu, has become a battleground in the increasing...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord. The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the infamous, power-hungry Sith, beholden to the dark side, the time has come to rise again. After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Key to his scheme are the Neimoidians...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn brings his epic two-volume series The Hand of Thrawn to an explosive conclusion with a discovery that rocks the New Republic to its foundations--and threatens to resurrect the Empire. The Empire's master plan is under way. The New Republic is on the verge...

Imagine a world where the average life expectancy is measured in hours. A world where storms strip flesh from bone, the air turns toxic without warning, and even the smallest organism can kill. Now imagine that same world being breathtakingly beautiful. Welcome to Terra Nova. After a brutal civil war in the Solar System, survivors fleeing the Tudor Regime cross the stars in search of freedom on humanity’s newest frontier. What they find instead is a planet that seems almost designed to exterminate them. There's a reason they call the planet "Terror" Nova. Survival is never guaranteed. ...

They came for the green. The green consumed them. For three generations, the city-world of 7-V has been dying. Metal. Grey. Processed air. When factory worker Jace sees an advertisement for Ranigad—a frontier planet kept wild for tourism—he books a two-week trip for his wife and three children. They have never seen a tree. Never felt grass. Never tasted food that came from actual soil. The cabin is perfect. The lake is blue. The forest is alive with a hundred shades of green. Then the knocking starts. Jace finds three-fingered footprints beneath his children's window. His youngest son ...

In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, discover the legacy of Rogue Squadron and its fabled pilots, who became a symbol of hope throughout the galaxy. They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and...

An adventurous debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer’s harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her—only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness. Nineteen-year-old...

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire: Behind the Scenes is a special recording that features new commentary by author Timothy Zahn and editor Betsy Mitchell, written for the 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire, read by Zahn and Mitchell. Each annotation includes audio from the new unabridged...

Four worlds. Four missions. One rule: survive the wildlife. Across humanity’s frontier colonies, the greatest threat is not always war. Sometimes it is simply what was already there. When alien ecosystems turn deadly, the Xenofauna Suppression Corps gets called in. Everyone else calls them Hell Patrol. On Carver’s World, burrowing predators tear through an agricultural colony from beneath the fields. On Darius, eighty thousand armoured beasts migrate straight toward a city built across their ancient route. On Trinity, a rescue team races against triple sunset before the skies fill with ...