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Alien Horrors 2
Beyond the stars, hell waits. On dead planets, primeval worlds, and in the deranged spaces in-between, are alien horrors.
From the hunting grounds of an apex alien predator to abductees that are kept alive as food for a rare, monstrous being, from a starship where a hellborn extraterrestrial hunts the crew down one by one for sport to an alien death camp where men and women are used as guinea pigs in horrific experiments, man has finally reached the stars.
And it's a nightmare beyond imagining.
From the hunting grounds of an apex alien predator to abductees that are kept alive as food for a rare, monstrous being, from a starship where a hellborn extraterrestrial hunts the crew down one by one for sport to an alien death camp where men and women are used as guinea pigs in horrific experiments, man has finally reached the stars.
And it's a nightmare beyond imagining.
- GenresHorrorScience Fiction
398 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2025
About the author
Tim Curran
149 books609 followersTim Curran lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels Skin Medicine, Hive, Dead Sea, Resurrection, The Devil Next Door, and Biohazard, as well as the novella The Corpse King. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as City Slab, Flesh&Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom, and Inhuman, and anthologies such as Shivers IV, High Seas Cthulhu, and Vile Things.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
For DarkFuse and its imprints, he has written the bestselling The Underdwelling, the Readers Choice-Nominated novella Fear Me, Puppet Graveyard as well as Long Black Coffin.
Find him on the web at: www.corpseking.com.
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October 31, 2025
I literally cannot imagine a book more packed with alien horror.
October 24, 2025
Excellent follow-up to Alien Horrors
Tim Curran has once again delivered another grim, unsettling, and nauseating collection of short stories with Alien Horrors 2.
I appreciated each story in the collection, but the standouts for me were "Lifeform", "Tomb on a Dead Moon", and "When Yiggrath Comes". My absolute favorite story in the collection was "Mice".
Give it a read if you want a fun sci-fi horror anthology!
Tim Curran has once again delivered another grim, unsettling, and nauseating collection of short stories with Alien Horrors 2.
I appreciated each story in the collection, but the standouts for me were "Lifeform", "Tomb on a Dead Moon", and "When Yiggrath Comes". My absolute favorite story in the collection was "Mice".
Give it a read if you want a fun sci-fi horror anthology!
December 21, 2025
I've just finished this book and it was very good read compared with the first.
I've always loved Horror & Sci-Fi. There aren't that many authors doing it.
In this book we've got a collection of short stories - they may or not be set on the same "world" but they are totally unconnected.
The last one is beyond horror, it's splatterpunk and it's best. It's awful story about what people had to endure being capture by alien beings, from phyisical to psychological horror - sometimes very graphic. It remind me a bit on what jews had to suffer in the death camps of the Nazi.
You've got tales about monsters that are beyond our understanding, the hunt of aliens that in turn hunt us, you've got stories about alien civilizations, what smart aliens would do to us as we do to mices, you've got abandoned ships etc.
Fist I won't advice you to back read Aliens Horror 1 and then 2. It will feel repetitive.
Tim Curran is one my favourite writers, like Bentley Little or Dan Abnett (not Brown). But one thing I learn is , never over-read your favourite author. It becomes stale and boring. I can praise people reading back to back a trilogy- I can't do it. I will try reading a couple of fantasy trilogies but never back to back.
Advisable to anyone who wants to read Sci-Fi Horror. Apart from a couple, they are really good.
I've always loved Horror & Sci-Fi. There aren't that many authors doing it.
In this book we've got a collection of short stories - they may or not be set on the same "world" but they are totally unconnected.
The last one is beyond horror, it's splatterpunk and it's best. It's awful story about what people had to endure being capture by alien beings, from phyisical to psychological horror - sometimes very graphic. It remind me a bit on what jews had to suffer in the death camps of the Nazi.
You've got tales about monsters that are beyond our understanding, the hunt of aliens that in turn hunt us, you've got stories about alien civilizations, what smart aliens would do to us as we do to mices, you've got abandoned ships etc.
Fist I won't advice you to back read Aliens Horror 1 and then 2. It will feel repetitive.
Tim Curran is one my favourite writers, like Bentley Little or Dan Abnett (not Brown). But one thing I learn is , never over-read your favourite author. It becomes stale and boring. I can praise people reading back to back a trilogy- I can't do it. I will try reading a couple of fantasy trilogies but never back to back.
Advisable to anyone who wants to read Sci-Fi Horror. Apart from a couple, they are really good.
Did Not Finish
November 4, 2025The first book of this series was better, this one just felt like everything was repeated. and booooringgggggg. DNFed at like 40%
October 20, 2025
Another excellent set of sci-fi/space horror stories by Tim. I didn't find them as engrossing as the first book but I still enjoyed them immensely.
October 8, 2025
Read the first short story collection and fell in love with Curran, so this was my most anticipated book dropping in 2025. It delivered!
While not quite same level as the first book to me, it's still filled with amazing extraterrestrial horror stories in a plethora of different situations and threats. All types of nightmarish visuals, horror action, and violence/gore/body horror (everything you could want)
Standout stories:
Hunting Grounds: A group of mercenaries, hired by a trillionaire who hosts a museum of alien specimens and needs the last one, go to the green hell swamp planet of Xenos to go after the most dangerous alien hunter in the galaxies. This features the same villian and world as the story Charnel World from the first book, but gives a more in-depth look into the world's environment and the horrors that lurk.
Mice: A door-to-door salesman enters the house of a sweet old lady and proceeds to get roofied, finding out he's trapped in a giant rat cage with a diverse group of characters on a spaceship. Things escalate when they find out they are being taken care of as meals for a rare monstrous alien captured in the cell next to theirs.
Slithid: A recon team investigates a research station with no responses to distress calls. Upon investigating, they find parasitic monstrosities turning the victims into living martyrs (most messed up game of dodgeball you'll read)
Tentaculoid: A woman wakes up from cryo sleep to find the ship without power and missing people, discovered later to be mutilated in horrible ways. Unfortunately, a serial-killing extraterrestrial has boarded the vessel and proceeds to host its hunting games no matter what...
Death Camp: Groups of different voyagers are captured in alien concentration camps by a species of urban legend, the reason why missing vessels across galaxies are kept secret. Undergoing the most horrific experimentations feasted upon mortal eyes, can the indomnitable human spirit really succeed? This was the most messed up story I read by Tim Curran, and I've read like 90% of his total work.
There's more than these at 14 short stories, but you gotta board for liftoff and see them for yourselves.
While not quite same level as the first book to me, it's still filled with amazing extraterrestrial horror stories in a plethora of different situations and threats. All types of nightmarish visuals, horror action, and violence/gore/body horror (everything you could want)
Standout stories:
Hunting Grounds: A group of mercenaries, hired by a trillionaire who hosts a museum of alien specimens and needs the last one, go to the green hell swamp planet of Xenos to go after the most dangerous alien hunter in the galaxies. This features the same villian and world as the story Charnel World from the first book, but gives a more in-depth look into the world's environment and the horrors that lurk.
Mice: A door-to-door salesman enters the house of a sweet old lady and proceeds to get roofied, finding out he's trapped in a giant rat cage with a diverse group of characters on a spaceship. Things escalate when they find out they are being taken care of as meals for a rare monstrous alien captured in the cell next to theirs.
Slithid: A recon team investigates a research station with no responses to distress calls. Upon investigating, they find parasitic monstrosities turning the victims into living martyrs (most messed up game of dodgeball you'll read)
Tentaculoid: A woman wakes up from cryo sleep to find the ship without power and missing people, discovered later to be mutilated in horrible ways. Unfortunately, a serial-killing extraterrestrial has boarded the vessel and proceeds to host its hunting games no matter what...
Death Camp: Groups of different voyagers are captured in alien concentration camps by a species of urban legend, the reason why missing vessels across galaxies are kept secret. Undergoing the most horrific experimentations feasted upon mortal eyes, can the indomnitable human spirit really succeed? This was the most messed up story I read by Tim Curran, and I've read like 90% of his total work.
There's more than these at 14 short stories, but you gotta board for liftoff and see them for yourselves.
December 24, 2025
imagine you’re deeply depressed and your antidepressants have been taken from you—how raw will you feel?
What an amazingly disturbing experience this book was! A terrifying, deep in your gut disturbing, shock show. Tim Curran, I loved your previous space horror anthology and I absolutely gobbled this one up too. I will continue to seek your books and read them! Give me more!
What an amazingly disturbing experience this book was! A terrifying, deep in your gut disturbing, shock show. Tim Curran, I loved your previous space horror anthology and I absolutely gobbled this one up too. I will continue to seek your books and read them! Give me more!
November 20, 2025
14 stories of alien horror. Some more devastating than others. But all of them will keep you up at night glad you are on planet Earth.
January 25, 2026
This is the best fucking thing i read this year! I absolutely loved the 1st one. Now waiting for Alien Horrors 3! Lets go!!
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