Weird Detectives

The brilliant conclusion to Melissa Caruso’s Echo Archives trilogy; a whip-smart adventure fantasy where a detective has to solve the greatest mystery of all—her own murder. Kembral Thorne is back on the job. Everything is going great—she hasn’t been in mortal peril for months, her...

Completed Trilogy In an alternate America where gods walk among mortals and magic crackles through the streets of Five Cities, Romeo Moon is a detective with a problem: he's desperately in love with a villain. Romeo works for the Poe Detective Agency, the only law enforcement that spans from the Madlands to New York City. Julia Ford works for Bloody Bill, the most notorious crime lord in South City. They know their love is impossible—a romance as doomed as their Shakespearean namesakes—but they can't stay away from each other. When Satan himself kidnaps the three Fate sisters to rewrite...

Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction—cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and—a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry—weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known—occult detective tales.

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Peter Nichols, bestselling author of The Rocks In scenic Granite Harbor, life has continued on—quiet and serene—for decades. That is until a local teenager is found brutally murdered in the...

Bloomsbury presents Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures by Mark Powers, read by Paul Panting. Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian 'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE Grown an extra head...

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story. In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket...

Some witches ride brooms, wear pointy hats, and have warty noses. Others come disguised as soul mates. A fortune teller predicts Augie will soon meet a green-eyed beauty with a crescent-moon tattoo. Best yet, she’s his soul mate. Or maybe that’s not so great since he already has a wonderful girlfriend who lives with him and his father. Breaking up with her is out of the question. When the new girl shows up to school, she’s everything the psychic predicted and more. Is it his fault if he falls for the girl the universe picked out for him? Sure, she’s got a mean streak and turns his ...

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story. In the fading town of Stain’d-by-the-Sea, young apprentice Lemony Snicket has a...

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective Dr. Jules de Grandin.

A killer stalks the fog‑choked streets of Victorian London. A detective hunts him across realities. And a doorway to an impossible world is about to open… Inspector Joshua Darknoll has seen his share of horrors, but nothing prepares him for a murder scene that defies every natural law. When the trail leads into a twisted, labyrinthine version of London — a place where shadows whisper and the air itself feels wrong — Darknoll is forced to confront a truth he was never meant to discover. As he pursues a madman through a city that mirrors his own yet obeys none of its rules, Darknoll ...

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events—even before the invention of Netflix—Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story. Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds...

Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world. This is his story. Train travel! Murder! Librarians! A Series Finale! On all other nights, the train...

Enter the night land of William Hope Hodgson, pioneer of cosmic horror, haunted seas, and the occult detective tale. This massive public-domain collection gathers his most famous weird novels and sea stories of the borderland, the deep waters, and the ghost-finder Carnacki. Included: • The House on the Borderland • The Night Land • The Ghost Pirates • The Boats of the Glen Carrig • Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder • Men of the Deep Waters (including The Voice in the Night) • The Luck of the Strong • Captain Gault If you love Lovecraft, Machen, sea horror, or classic ghost ...

Seabury Quinn's most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave. The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, presents all 93 published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The third volume, The Dark Angel, includes all Jules de Grandin stories from "The Lost Lady" to "The Hand of Glory", as well as The Devil's Bride.

One massive Algernon Blackwood collection — the Willows, the Wendigo, John Silence, the Centaur, and dozens more haunted woods, empty houses, and occult novels. Algernon Blackwood wrote the strangest kind of fear: not gore, but the feeling that the forest, the river, or the night itself has noticed you. This omnibus gathers his great weird tales, nature-horror, ghost stories, and mystical novels into one Virtual Voice–ready volume. Inside this complete collection: The Willows — two men camp on a Danube island where something in the trees keeps moving closer The Wendigo — a hunting ...

Sheriff Gus knows it’s going to be a bad week when he sees Sedric Hedgecock’s breathalyzer score. With a blood alcohol level of 0.62 percent, Hedgecock should be dead. If the breathalyzer’s isn’t on the fritz, Hedgecock’s superhuman. Either way, he’s blind drunk, so off to the county jail he goes. Joining the wannabe Bacchus in Gus’s cells is Jennifer Louis Bachman, awaiting extradition to Kansas on a murder charge. The victim in question is Jennifer’s unborn child, and the murder weapon is an illegal Mexican abortion. With the governor vacillating on whether to extradite, ...

Read by the incredible John Lee Winner of the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a World Fantasy award, and a BSFA Award. Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other. When the body of a murdered...

A locked‑room mystery in deep space — perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, classic whodunnits, retro science fiction, and detective novels with a twist. It's the Roaring Twenties and humanity has ventured out into the stars. Orbiting at the edge of the solar system, the luxurious Hotel Galileo is a glittering Art Deco resort where wealthy travellers, socialites, scientists, and celebrities escape the troubles of Earth. But when an Arcturan dignitary is found murdered in his private suite, the glamorous space hotel becomes the scene of a chilling interstellar crime. Detective Barclay ...

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more...

VISIT THE AWESOME TEMPLE OF TOBRIOSUS SOLVE THE GREAT MYSTERY OF THE VANISHED TOBRII RACE For sleuth Barclay Heath, it was a mystery too great to resist. But as night falls on the deserted alien world, his fellow passengers begin to vanish one by one . . . Heath must unravel an age-old mystery before time runs out, before he, too, suffers the same fate as the Tobrii . . . The Barclay Heath Mysteries are set in a whimsical alternate-1920s, where humanity has ventured out into the stars but Twenties values and attitudes prevail. Barclay Heath is a gentleman detective enjoying semi-retirement ...