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Daryl Gregory

    This award-winning author masterfully blends elements of fantasy and science fiction to explore the intricate aspects of the human psyche and interpersonal relationships. His narratives often delve into themes of identity, reality, and the boundaries of perception, employing a unique style that is both thought-provoking and captivating. His ability to craft believable characters and compelling plotlines has earned him critical acclaim and a dedicated readership. This innovative approach to genre fiction marks him as a distinctive voice in contemporary literature.

    Daryl Gregory
    Made To Order
    Harrison Squared
    The Mythic Dream
    100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust
    Unpossible and Other Stories
    When We Were Real: A Novel
    • 2025

      When We Were Real: A Novel

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and geographic miracles that started cropping up seven years earlier--right after the Announcement that revealed our world to be merely a digital simulacrum. The outing, courtesy of Canterbury Trails Tours, promises the trip of a (not completely real) lifetime in a (not completely deluxe) coach. Their fellow passengers are 21st-century pilgrims, each of them on the tour for their own reasons. There's a nun hunting for an absent God, a pregnant influencer determined to make her child too famous to be deleted, a crew of horny octogenarians living each day like it's their last, and a professor on the run from leather-clad sociopaths who take The Matrix as scripture. Each stop on this trip is stranger than the last--a Tunnel outside of time, a zero gravity Geyser, the compound of motivational-speaking avatar--with everyone barreling toward the tour's iconic final stop Ghost City, where unbeknownst to our travelers the answer to who is running the simulation may await.

      When We Were Real: A Novel
    • 2021
    • 2021

      Revelator

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.0(4541)Add rating

      ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders. “Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a tenderness and brutality … this is as good as novels get.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the Ghostdaddy. Years later, after a tragic incident that caused her to flee, Stella—now a professional bootlegger—returns for Motty's funeral, and to check on the mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted. Sunny appears innocent enough, but she is more powerful than Stella could imagine—and she’s a direct link to Stella's buried past and her family's destructive faith. Haunting and wholly engrossing, summoning mesmerizing voices and giving shape to the dark, Revelator is a southern gothic tale for the ages.

      Revelator
    • 2021

      The Album of Dr. Moreau

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.0(966)Add rating

      "It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitely the world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the 'boyz' become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (the cute one), Matt the megabat (the funny one), Tim the pangolin (the shy one), Devin the bonobo (the romantic one), or Tusk the elephant (the smart one)? Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ' journey first began--a place they used to call home."--Provided by publisher

      The Album of Dr. Moreau
    • 2020

      Made To Order

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(203)Add rating

      A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word Robot, exploring the impact it has had on the world.

      Made To Order
    • 2019

      The Mythic Dream

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.0(82)Add rating

      "Madeleine L'Engle once said, 'When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe'. The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations."--Provided by publisher

      The Mythic Dream
    • 2017

      "A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus family is known for performing inexplicable feats on talk shows and late-night television. Teddy, a master conman, heads up a clan who possess gifts he only fakes: there's Maureen, who can astral project; Irene, the human lie detector; Frankie, gifted with telekinesis; and Buddy, the clairvoyant. But when, one night, the magic fails to materialize, the family withdraws to Chicago where they live in shame for years. Until: As they find themselves facing a troika of threats (CIA, mafia, unrelenting skeptic), Matty, grandson of the family patriarch, discovers a bit of the old Telemachus magic in himself. Now, they must put past obstacles behind them and unite like never before. But will it be enough to bring The Amazing Telemachus Family back to its amazing life?"-- Provided by publisher

      Spoonbenders
    • 2015

      Harrison Squared

      • 271 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      3.9(46)Add rating

      Harrison is a lonely teenager, afraid of water ever since a boating accident as a toddler. And he and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town on the Atlantic coast. When his mother disappears, Harrison tries to solve the mystery, putting him in conflict with a strange church, a killer, and the Deep Ones. It will take all his resourcesand an unusual host of alliesto defeat the danger and find his mother.

      Harrison Squared
    • 2014

      Afterparty

      • 350 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(58)Add rating

      In a world where God is a drug, one woman has to get sober. Lyda Rose was one of the neuroscientists who helped create Numinous, which produces the illusion of a personal deity, but since unwittingly overdosing, she has been haunted by her own visions of an angel she calls Dr. Gloria. After a stay in an asylum, she thinks she's put it behind her. The others start overdosing. Who is still producing the drug, and why?

      Afterparty
    • 2014

      We Are All Completely Fine

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.8(3177)Add rating

      A group of outcasts with questionable states of mental health—including Stan, who was partially eaten by cannibals, and Greta, who may be a mass-murdering arsonist—are sought by a psychotherapist to uncover internal and external monsters. Original. 10,000 first printing.

      We Are All Completely Fine