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  • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 52 ratings
    Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him.When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free...
  • And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    And With Madness Comes the Light by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Man. The Mystery. The Madness.Dex Foray has never been anyone’s fool – until he missed his chance for happiness with Perry Palomino. Broken and alone, Dex has no choice but to rise from the ashes Perry left behind and find his own path to redemption. But nothing in Dex’s life has ever come easily, especially when there’s a dark madness waiting in the wings...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  magic  paranormal  sad  spooky  suspense  alpha-mc
  • As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the terrifying final installment of the Bad Girls Don't Die series, Alexis battles a more powerful ghost than she's ever faced before... and one whose fate is tied to hers in ways she couldn't possibly imagine...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  friendship  ghosts  magic  paranormal  spooky  suspense
  • The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ghost removal specialist Ellie Jordan must face a dangerous, shape-shifting entity that she and Calvin have encountered once before, with tragic results. The spirit has the power to reach into the minds of living and feed on their fears, taking the shape of their worst nightmares, and it has awoken in search of new victims...
  • The Unbound by Victoria E. Schwab

    The Unbound by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she’s struggling to get her life back...
  • Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Mia Devlin knows what it is like to love with your whole heart—and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared—and determined to live without love...
  • Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their home at night. Their seven-year-old son's invisible friends may not be imaginary at all, but the restless spirits of dead children...
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    dark  family  ghosts  paranormal  spooky  suspense  audiobook  book
  • The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

    The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy. I am yours to command.Suraya is delighted when her witch grandmother gifts her a pelesit. She names her ghostly companion Pink, and the two quickly become inseparable...
  • In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

    In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise...
  • From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Alexis is the last girl you'd expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs--an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who's finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs...
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead...
  • Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated to the town by the long-dead heiress...
  • Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

    Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company.There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. And it isn't as safe...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar...
  • Scorch by Gina Damico

    Scorch by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Lex Bartleby is a teenage grim reaper with the bizarre ability to damn souls. That makes her pretty scary, even to fellow Grims. But after inadvertently transferring her ability to Zara, a murderous outlaw, Lex is a pariah in Croak, the little town she calls home.To escape the townspeople’s wrath, she and her friends embark on a wild road trip to DeMyse...
  • Dead Voices by Katherine Arden, Катрин Арден

    Dead Voices by Katherine Arden, Катрин Арден

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces.Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide...
  • Lanny by Max Porter

    Lanny by Max Porter

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs...
  • Tunnel of Bones by Victoria E. Schwab

    Tunnel of Bones by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs...
  • Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

    Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in this standalone fantasy.Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.Meet Dodger, his twin...
  • Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

    Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away...
  • Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Old Blood by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A haunting novella from the Experiment in Terror Series...From her harrowing introduction in Darkhouse, the spectre known as “Creepy Clown Lady” has been a constant fixture in Perry Palomino’s life. But beyond the horrid makeup and piercing stare lies Pippa, a woman just like everyone else.Well, not quite...
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    dark  family  female-mc  ghosts  magic  paranormal  sad  suspense
  • Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rogue by Gina Damico

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lex is a teenage Grim Reaper with the power to Damn souls, and it’s getting out of control. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time...
  • Connecting by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Connecting by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Now that Calla has accepted her ability to communicate with the Other Side, she's desperate to connect with the spirit of her late mother. But she gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles across a shocking secret that will change her future forever...
  • Bridge of Souls by Victoria E. Schwab

    Bridge of Souls by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Where there are ghosts, Cassidy Blake follows ... unless it's the other way around?Cass thinks she might have this ghost-hunting thing down. After all, she and her ghost best friend, Jacob, have survived two haunted cities while travelling for her parents' TV show.But nothing can prepare Cass for New Orleans, which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  gothic  low-fantasy  magic
  • Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

    Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classicAfter suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books...
  • The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Whispering Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  amnesia  audiobook
  • Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

    Bad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  magic  paranormal  spooky
  • The Devouring by Simon Holt

    The Devouring by Simon Holt

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice.When Reggie reads about the Vours in a mysterious old journal, she assumes they are just the musings of an anonymous lunatic...
  • Nightbooks by J.A. White

    Nightbooks by J.A. White

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A boy is imprisoned by a witch and must tell her a new scary story each night to stay alive. This thrilling contemporary fantasy from J. A. White, the acclaimed author of the Thickety series, brings to life the magic and craft of storytelling.Alex’s original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping the witch Natacha happy, but soon he’ll run out of pages to read from and be trapped forever...
  • The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

    The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Asylum meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, in this riveting tale of ghosts, secrets, and family, from master of suspense Katie Alender.Delia's new house isn't just a house. It used to be an insane asylum, a place to lock up "troubled" young women long ago. And a restless, wicked spirit is still at play--and it doesn't want defiant girls like Delia to go anywhere...
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    dark  family  female-mc  friendship  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky
  • All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue, Stefanie Caponi

    All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue, Stefanie Caponi

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears. After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school...
  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

    The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms...
  • Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

    Legacy of Lies by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Something is haunting Megan... She had seen Scarborough House only in her dreams. Now Megan was here, visiting the grandmother she'd never met, and her newfound cousin Matt, too handsome by far, who wanted her to disappear. Grandmother was so cold, so distant...
  • Sanctuary by V.V. James

    Sanctuary by V.V. James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The small Connecticut town of Sanctuary is rocked by the death of its star quarterback. Daniel's death looked like an accident, but everyone knows his ex-girlfriend Harper is the daughter of a witch - and she was there when he died. Then the rumours start. When Harper insists Dan was guilty of a terrible act, the town turns on her...
  • The Archived by Victoria E. Schwab

    The Archived by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself...
  • The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect.The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon...
  • Poison Tongue by Nash Summers

    Poison Tongue by Nash Summers

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Levi Bell can see a person’s soul just by looking into their eyes. In Monroe Poirier’s eyes, he sees the devil himself.When Monroe moves back to the small Southern town of Malcome, Levi is repelled by the darkness of the stranger’s soul. But Levi is cursed to love things dark and wicked, and he's seduced each time he looks into Monroe’s eyes—and drawn to the swamp behind the old Poirier house...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  gothic  lgbtq  magic  paranormal  spooky  suspense
  • Dark Paradise by Angie Sandro

    Dark Paradise by Angie Sandro

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DARK LEGACYMala LaCroix has spent her whole life trying to escape her destiny. As the last in a long line of "witch women," she rejects the notion of spirits and hoodoo and instead does her best to blend in. But when she finds a dead body floating in the bayou behind her house, Mala taps into powers she never knew she had. She's haunted by visions of the dead girl, demanding justice and vengeance...
  • Strange Folk by Alli Dyer

    Strange Folk by Alli Dyer

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman returns to her estranged, magical family in Appalachia but when a man is found dead in the woods nearby, it seems the family has conjured something sinister in this lush, shimmering, and wildly imaginative debut novel that is perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Deborah Harkness, and Sarah Addison Allen.Lee left Craw Valley at eighteen without a backward glance...
  • The Shadows by Jacqueline West

    The Shadows by Jacqueline West

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings...
  • The Forsaken and the Fated: The Hollow and the Haunted duology by Camilla Raines

    The Forsaken and the Fated: The Hollow and the Haunted duology by Camilla Raines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this much anticipated sequel to The Hollow and the Haunted, Miles and Gabriel find themselves ensnared in a web of dark magic beyond their wildest imaginings. Time is running out to change their future, and the dead are hungry...Perfect for fans of atmospheric queer fantasy romance, including The Raven Cycle, Cemetery Boys and Sixteen Souls...
  • Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

    Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world...
  • The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

    The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Imogene's tough, rebellious nature has caused her more harm than good—so when her family moves to Newford, she decides to reinvent herself. She won't lose her punk/thrift-shop look, but she'll try to avoid the gangs, work a little harder at school, and maybe even stay out of trouble for a change. But trouble shows up anyway...
  • Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore

    Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Daisy Goodnight can speak to the dead. It’s not the result of a head injury or some near-death experience. She was just born that way. And she’s really good at it. Good enough to help the police solve the occasional homicide.But helping the local authorities clear cold cases is one thing...
  • Beholder by Ryan La Sala

    Beholder by Ryan La Sala

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us"A top-notch horror novel." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"Ryan La Sala is one of the most exciting, risk-taking authors working in YA. BEHOLDER is, like THE HONEYS, a high-wire act of brilliant invention...
  • Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan

    Unmade by Sarah Rees Brennan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Powerful love comes with a price. Who will be the sacrifice?Kami has lost the boy she loves, is tied to a boy she does not, and faces an enemy more powerful than ever before. With Jared missing for months and presumed dead, Kami must rely on her new magical link with Ash for the strength to face the evil spreading through her town...
  • Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan

    Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It's time to choose sides.... On the surface, Sorry-in-the-Vale is a sleepy English town. But Kami Glass knows the truth. Sorry-in-the-Vale is full of magic. In the old days, the Lynburn family ruled with fear, terrifying the people into submission in order to kill for blood and power. Now the Lynburns are back, and Rob Lynburn is gathering sorcerers so that the town can return to the old ways...
  • The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

    The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    On Christmas Eve five years ago, Holly was visited by three ghosts who showed her how selfish and spoiled she'd become. They tried to convince her to mend her ways.She didn't.And then she died.Now she's stuck working for the top-secret company Project Scrooge--as the latest Ghost of Christmas Past.Every year, they save another miserly grouch...
  • Croak by Gina Damico

    Croak by Gina Damico

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with her Uncle Mort for the summer, hoping that a few months of dirty farm work will whip her back into shape. But Uncle Mort's true occupation is much dirtier than shoveling manure. He's a Grim Reaper. And he's going to teach Lex the family business...
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