116 Free Thriller Ebooks and Online Web Serials
For some, the word Thriller often associates with Michael Jackson’s album Thriller, released in the year 1982. The meaning behind it and the thriller genre is pretty much similar if you really look into it. Having said that, thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Alfred Hitchcock’s films are good examples.
Thrillers generally keep the audience on the “edge of their seats” as the plot builds towards a climax. It’s usually a villain-driven plot, whereby he or she presents obstacles that the protagonist must overcome. Long story short, anything that “thrills” you, it’s a thriller, whether it’s a book, movie, audibook or a play. Not forgetting the sub-genres that it carries – legal, spy, action-adventure, medical, police, romantic, historical, political, religious, high-tech, military and many more. If you think that the general thriller storyline is too mundane for you, perhaps it’s time to go deeper and specialize in one.
Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety.
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Some of the thriller classics which you probably have read before include Little Red Riding Hood (psycho-stalker thriller – 1697), The Three Apples and One Thousand and One Nights (murder mystery), The Count of Monte Cristo (revenge thriller – 1844), The Riddle of the Sands (first modern thriller – 1903) and many many more. Ancient epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer’s Odyssey use similar narrative techniques as modern thrillers.
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“The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets…” – Sara Shepard, Flawless
The first part of the download list consists of 86 free thriller ebooks, from various sub-genres. A handful of them are generally online web serials, but some do provide downloadable ebooks in popular formats such as PDF, EPUB and MOBI. Regardless, these are top-notch totally free thriller reads that can eat up days or weeks of your life. The second part of downloads list free thriller reads by specific authors, namely E. Phillips Oppenheim, John Buchan and Jon Evans. The latter has more downloadable formats, rather than strictly online reading materials only. We hope you’ll have fun with these selections!
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Free Thriller Ebooks
- 139: In Evening by Aden Ng
- A Table for Twelve by Doug Davidson
- Agents Provocateurs by Tama Wise
- All Kinds of Things Kill by Robert R. Best
- Available Darkness by David Wright and Sean Platt
- Banter by M.J. Moore
- Between There and Everywhere by Cameron Duke
- Birthright by Ian Sime
- Borrowed Time by Emmy Jackson
- Breathless by V. J. Chambers
- Brother’s Keeper by Amen Alonge
- Calamity by J.T. Warren
- Church by CL Stegall
- Cold Hillside by Martin Cooper
- Corridors Of Gunterlacs: ARC 1 by HoiHoiSoi
- Dark Heights by C.D. Miller
- Dead Heroes by Wilf Morgan
- Diamond by Steve Weinstein
- Don’t Feed The Dark by Scott Scherr
- Elle by Brandon Josef Thompson
- Escape by Ray Weeks
- Fenced With Iron by Sean Tierney
- Fight Crime! (A Love Story) by Kristen Brand
- Fresh Monsters by Mike
- Galico by Steven Marshall
- GEISTMANN by Ron Singer
- He Lies at My Front Door by AC Gregory
- Hideaway Hospital Murders by Robert Burton Robinson
- Hurting People for Fun and … by Asher Wismer
- I am Deliverance by Naomi Aiken
- Identity by GP Chaldecott
- In the Valley of the Sun by MedleyMisty
- Indigo by Ophelia Keys
- K2 by Geoff Wolak
- Listening to the Other Side by Justin Woolley
- Magestic by Geoff Wolak
- Material Things by Kody Boye
- Mysteries of Our Lives by E. Ty Junior
- Nightwaves by Annie Gebler
- No Name by Wilkie Collins
- Oasis by Bryce Beattie
- Obnoxious Weeds by Kendall
- Omaha by Kevin O’Kane
- Pieces of Humanity by Lovejoy Edwards
- Prey on the Prowl: A Crime Novel by B.S. Murthy
- Project Redemption by Joyeuse
- Ride with Madness by psychmum
- Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
- Somewhere Out West of … by JT McGowan
- Sons of the City: A Novel by Scott Flander
- Steele by Graeme Corner
- Tarantella by Andrew Vest
- The Apple by Dani Voelkel
- The Armored Satchel by Sean Munger
- The Blue by Christopher Anderson
- The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes
- The Dark Star by Robert W. Chambers
- The Day the Sun Stopped Shining by Matthew Wood
- The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
- The Emperor by T. Penn
- The Finding by Nicky Charles
- The Five Arrows by Allan Chase
- The Forest by Justin Groot
- The Gold Comfit Box by Valentine Williams
- The Golden Triangle: The Return of Arsene Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc
- The Gray Mask by Wadsworth Camp
- The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace
- The House of Whispers by William le Queux
- The International Spy by Allen Upward
- The Man They Called God by Dean Moses
- The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams
- The Mongolian Girl by Ian Scott
- The Omega Child by DW Masters
- The Outbreak by Timothy Pruett
- The Paranormal Saints: Subterranean by Mike Monroe
- The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
- The Second Bat Guano War: a Hard-Boiled Spy Thriller by J.M. Porup
- The Unbroken Chaos by Alex Davidson
- Traverse, Inc. by W.G. Sells
- Trembling by V. J. Chambers
- Twelve Steps and a Razor by Emmy Jackson
- Umbra: The Horror by Alex Davidson
- Under Two Flags by Ouida
- Underlife by Robert Finn
- Water Water by Amanda Green
- Wherefore Love’s Shadow by Kurt Ulmer
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Postmaster of Market Deignton
- The Passionate Quest
- Harvey Garrard’s Crime
- The Wrath to Come
- The Spy Paramount
- The Man Without Nerves
- The Lion and the Lamb
- The Glenlitten Murder
- Peter Ruff and The Double Four
- Mysterious Mr. Sabin
- The Amazing Judgment
- A Maker of History
- A Monk of Cruta
- The Great Impersonation
- The Moving Finger
- The Avenger
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John Buchan
- Huntingtower
- Sick Heart River
- A Lodge in the Wilderness
- The Three Hostages
- The Power-House
- Salute to Adventurers
- Prester John
- The House of the Four Winds
- Greenmantle
- The Thirty-Nine Steps
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Jon Evans
Long story short, anything that “thrills” you, it’s a thriller.
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Gotten immensely thrilled yet? Which one of the above thriller stories was your favorite? Do leave your comment below if one of them did push you off the seat and caught you off by surprise, so that the rest can share your graceful maneuver off your chair 😀 As usual, we hope you’ve enjoyed this compilation, and do stay tuned for more similar lists such as this. If you’ve any other suggestions on what we should cover, do leave your comments below and happy reading!
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