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Phase of Fate by Coralee June
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐.I was the average daughter. The troublemaker. The side character in my sister, Monaโs, story. My sister was a Prodigy, endowed with exceptional skills and bonded with a guardian. In a world where all leaders, scientists, and artists are selected and pledged to shifters, she was born for greatness... -
Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiscover that the Highway to Hell really is paved with good intentionsSupernatural, the hit show from The CW, continued its streak of critical praise and ratings gold as the fourth season upped the stakes for Sam and Dean Winchester and introduced another potent supernatural element into the mix - angels... -
Bane County: Forgotten Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe large river-island of Bane County has a troubled past; but some histories are eagerly forgotten, especially those written in blood. Nestled into the foothills of the National Wildlife Refuge, the small rural town of Silver Canyon seems idyllic to most; but a long-slumbering evil is about to reawaken... -
Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBooks 4-6 in the Chaos series (including bonus novella, Kings). Usurper Itโs been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire... -
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Synergy by Jamie Magee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharlie continues down her path in SYNERGY - the third book of the SEE series. SYNERGY begins with Charlie coming to grips with a string of horrific nightmares; visions in which she is surrounded by death. Ashes fall from the skies and cover the ground. Is this a piece of her past? A terrible future? And still Charlie stands by her love... -
Tales from the Gateway: A Companion Novel to the World of the Gateway by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExperience the world you love as you've never seen it before... From best-selling author E.E. Holmes comes a collection of short stories that will take you on an unforgettable journey into the lives of your favorite characters from The Gateway Trilogy and The Gateway Trackers. Go back in time and explore Fairhaven Hall with Karen and Elizabeth when they were just Apprentices... -
Redefined by Jamie Magee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a desperate search for silence in the closing chapters of Synergy Charlie battled her ultimate fear and left the only sanctuary she has ever known. She has paid a devastating price for that fateful move. She lost her foundation... -
The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe monster demon is BACK! ...and heโs had twenty-six years to plot his revenge. More horrifying than any Hollywood-animated, computer-generated, mechanical unreality, the winged demon called an efreet will do anything to get what he wants. Pronounce that: An-y-thing Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the monster returns determined to kill them... -
Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I cowered away from him, unable to formulate a coherent sentence. Questions ran through my mind though none made it past my lips. I wondered how this could be happening, what he wanted, and what major injustice I'd brought against the universe to bring a fate such as this upon me.Perhaps being born was reason enough... -
The Haar by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsโI donโt fear death... but they do.โMuriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lostโฆ until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland... -
Dark and Dangerous Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe final showdown has begun. With Abel in the hospital and Molly stronger than ever, it is up to Elise and newly released Silas Ford to figure out a way to send Molly back to Hell for good. She won't make it easy, of course. She has bargains to keep. Elise Morgan is ready for this to all be over... -
The Knowing by Ninie Hammon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen the hot call comes over the radio: โCode Red! Active shooter at Carlisle Elementary School,โ Police Sergeant Jack Carpenter has one job and only one job. Find the gunman; take him out. He rushes into the school, fully armed and focused on cold, hard reality. But what happens to him in the next few hours shatters the world as he has always known it... -
Lastnight by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles... -
Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would you do to save a loved one?Robertโs mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robertโs friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price... -
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Twisted Little Things and Other Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA man accidentally receives two dangerous wooden figures in the mail... A woman is preparing breakfast for her children when she hears a dangerous voice in her head... Late one night, an old man meets a strange girl on a canal towpath... Twisted Little Things and Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories... -
Aether Witch (Witches of Mountain Shadow) by Tarah Benner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPremonitions of death. Murder in a small town. A killer is on the loose, and the coven fears it might be one of their own.The Grimes sisters arenโt normal โ even by witchesโ standards. For weeks, Fiona has been having chilling visions of death, and Eleanor sees restless spirits nearly everywhere she goes... -
Still Bleeding by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story by the bestselling author of the Jack Nightingale series. Supernatural detective Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the girl is in mortal danger... -
The Raven by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFearing that mankind is heading toward nuclear extinction, a group of geneticists unleash a plot to save the world. They've discovered that mythological creatures such as werewolves, vampires, witches, and satyrs were once real, and that these monstrous genetic strands are still present in human DNA... -
Dark and Dreadful Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can't believe everything you see. Reeling from the events that took place at the King House, Abel Hale and Elise Morgan have been sent to a new haunting at the house of Cody Cain. Except thanks to overhearing a private conversation between Abel and the evil Silas Ford, Elise isn't sure she can trust Abel, much less work with him... -
Dark and Devious Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that Abel Hale and Elise Morgan have been forced to hunt ghosts for Silas Ford's television show, things are about to get all kinds of freaky. Their first case involves Shonda King, a mother in Kentucky whose friendly childhood ghost has turned into an adult nightmare. Shonda, terrified for the safety of her family, wants Abel and Elise to get rid of the ghost-- by any means necessary... -
The Arrival by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArianna Rose is a woman marked for death. Evil conspires against her, hunts her, always on her heels, and threatening everyone she cares for. But she never guessed it would strike from within. Betrayal forces Arianna to put her trust in someone new... -
Chasm by Christina Garner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo months have passed since Ember Lyons nearly died killing the powerful Root Demon threatening the Los Angeles Gateway. Physically healed, images of the day still haunt her and she can no longer access the power she once wielded. She can't talk about it with anyone at The Institute--not even her handsome, demon-hunting boyfriend, Taren... -
Starling by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWARNING: Due to extremely disturbing content, this book is intended for MATURE READERS ONLY. Midian, Tennessee is a city on the brink of ruin. Coming off a cataclysmic event that has changed the course of the town and revealed the threat to all, no respite comes to the beleaguered people of Midian... -
American Coven by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe kidnapped three women and held them in his basement.He thought they couldn't fight back.He was wrong...Snatched from the street near her home, Holly Carter is taken to a rural house and thrown down into a stone basement. She meets two other women who have also been kidnapped, and soon Holly learns about the horrific rituals that take place in the house... -
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Book of the Dead by John Skipp, Edward Bryant
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYou hold in your hands what is perhaps the most explicit and overt anthology of original horror fiction ever assembled.Each of the stories in this anthology is set in a world where the dead have risen to eat the living, and each author has his own intimate vision of what those days will be like: in the brilliant and caustic "On the Far Side of the Cadillac Dessert with Dead Folks," Joe R...Categorized as:
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ุงูู ุฑุชุฏ by ุญุณู ุงูุฌูุฏู
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsุชูุงูู ุงูุดุงููุด ูุงูู ุณู ุงุฑ ููุถุน ุงูู ุณู ุงุฑ ุนูู ุญุฑู ุงูู(ู ) ูุถุฑุจ ุจุงูุดุงููุด ุนูู ุฑุฃุณ ุงูู ุณู ุงุฑ ูุงุฆูุง: "ูุง ุฃููุง ุงูู ููู ุจุญุฑู ุงูู ูู ุงุณุฃูู ุจุงููุฐู ุฎููู ุจุฃู ุชุญุถุฑ ู ุทููุจู ููุงุ ูุง ู ุบุชุฑู ู ู ุจุญูุฑ ู ุนุงุฏู ุฌูุงูุฑ ุงูุฃุณุฑุงุฑ.. ูููุงุจูุน ู ูููุช ุฌุจุฑูุช ุงูุฃููุงุฑุ ูุง ู ู ุดู ู ุช ุฏุฎูุชู ูุญุถุฑุช ุฅูู ู ูุงู ู ุชููู ุจุฅุญุถุงุฑ ุงูุฎุงุฏู ุ ุชููู ุจุฅุญุถุงุฑ ุงูุฎุงุฏู ุจู ุง ูุฎุฑุฌ ู ู ุทุจุน ุญุฑู ุงูู ูู ุ ุชููู ููู ุง ุฃู ุฑุชู ุจู ุจุญู ุทููุชู ุดู ุงูููุชู ุฃุญุถุฑ ู ุทููุจู ุฏุงุฎู ุงูุฏุงุฆุฑุฉ . -
Infernal Angel by Edward Lee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe city of Hell. That's what Hell is now, an endless metropolis bristling with black skyscrapers, raging in eternal horror. The moon is black and the sky is blood red. Screams rip down the streets and through alleys. The people trudge down sidewalks on their way to work or to stores, just like in other cities. There's only one difference. In this city the people are all dead... -
Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBased on the motion picture written by Tom Holland.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire's next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo, Evil Ed... -
Welcome to the Show by Doug Murano, John Skipp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings17 horror Stories. One legendary music venue. We all know the old clichรฉ: Sex, drugs and rock and roll. Now, add demons, other dimensions, monsters, revenge, human sacrifice, and a dash of the truly inexplicable. This is the story of the (fictional) San Francisco music venue, The Shantyman... -
The Grass Monkey and Other Dark Tales by Scott Langrel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to Shallow Springs, Virginia. It's not a nice place to visit, and an even worse place to live. Evil dwells in the mountains and lakes surrounding the town. Creatures more ancient than the Appalachian Mountains themselves lurk in the shadows and prey on the unsuspecting... -
The Bookshop From Hell by David Haynes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHorror is what Dan Law enjoys.He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. Thatโs what Dan lives for.When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal storyโฆa story they have to follow to the brutal end... -
The Haunting of RedRise House by Caroline Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark things happened in RedRise House. Acts so bad they left a stain on the soul of the building. Now something is lurking there... waiting... dare you enter this most haunted house? Rosie is running from her past. Looking for peace and a new beginning. House sitting in the luxurious and romantic RedRise House seemed like a perfect plan to rediscover herself and rebuild her life... -
Gilbert House by Brian Harmon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little more than one year ago, Albert and Brandy discovered a fantastic labyrinth hidden deep beneath the streets of Briar Hills, Missouri. Now, strange telephone messages are stirring up the memories of those dark passages and it seems that it may be time for them to return to that perilous, underground world to finish what they started... -
The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman watches from a high window as her brother approaches the house... A little girl realizes that her family's new home is trying to warn her about something... A teenager with a debilitating mental health problem starts hearing a scratching sound, coming from the attic... The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories by Amy Cross... -
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Lineage by Joe Hart
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA LIFE FILLED WITH ANGUISH Pain, horror, fear- These are the things that bestselling novelist Lance Metzger's life have been comprised of. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and the abandonment of an apathetic mother. In turn, his only refuge became his writing... -
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs night falls, five demonice, shadowy figures descend on small Brinkley Springs to feed as they have for centuries, in a feast of carnage and murder. Before the night is through the town will be decimated. Terror--and blood--will run in the streets... -
House Infernal by Edward Lee
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA CITY, BUILT WITH BLOOD AND BONES... Three things are about to join a crypt in Hell with a house on Earth... Nuns molested and drained of blood. A virginal student seduced by the perverse and taunted by things worse than ghosts. And six Angels, imprisoned in Hell and made pregnant by God knows what... โ A HOUSE, BUILT FOR THE CHURCH, BUT DESIGNED BY SATAN... When Venetia Barlow begins work at St... -
Horror in the Woods by Lee Mountford
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFinding that desecrated body was only the beginning....For Ashley and her three friends, it was supposed to be an adventure-filled weekend. A chance to get away from the hustle-and-bustle of city life and experience the peaceful tranquillity of nature.But when they ventured into those woods, their trip turned into a horror far beyond what they could have ever imagined... -
The Curse of Wetherley House by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen she agrees to visit a supposedly haunted house with an old friend, Rosie assumes she'll encounter nothing more scary than a few creaks and bumps in the night. Even the legend of Evil Mary doesn't put her off. After all, she knows ghosts aren't real. But when Mary makes her first appearance, Rosie realizes she might already be trapped. For more than a century, Wetherley House has been cursed... -
The Box by Brian Harmon
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCollege student Albert Cross loves puzzles, so when a mysterious wooden box appears in the driver's seat of his locked car with cryptic messages carved into it, it is no surprise that he quickly becomes obsessed... -
The Wicked by James Newman
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAN ANCIENT EVIL RISES...BURNS...KILLS...After a fire consumes the Heller Home for Children, the residents of Morganville, North Carolina thought they knew evil...They were wrong... -
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It's Only a Nightmare! by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou're spending the night in a very strange inn. As you fall asleep, you have dreams that are total nightmares. First you turn into a bat. Then your parents become aliens... -
The Mortician's Wife (The Mortician Series Book 1) by Maralee Lowder
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe honeymoon of Ada, a shy and innocent young girl and Horace, a dashingly handsome, charismatic, mortician, gets off to a rough start. The marriage goes down hill from there. Although the marriage continues to be unconsummated, Ada holds out hope that one day the love she has for her husband will destroy the emotional wall that continues to separate them... -
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The Girl in the Basement by Ray Garton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings15-year-old Ryan Kettering has spent his young life in a series of mostly abusive foster homes. But his luck has changed. Now heโs in the Preston house, where he has a budding romance with fellow foster child Lyssa. But something strange is going on in the basement.Maddy is a slow nine-year-old girl who is kept in the basement. Sometimes she talks in a gravelly adult voice... -
Spine by Steven Jenkins
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsListen closely. A creak, almost too light to be heardโฆwas it the shifting of an old house, or footsteps down the hallway? Breathe softly, and strain to hear through the silence. That breeze against your neck might be a draught, or an open window. Slip into the pages of SPINE and youโll be persuaded to leave the lights on and door firmly bolted... -
Halloween Carnival, Volume 1 by Brian James Freeman, Robert McCammon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSTRANGE CANDY by Robert McCammonChocolate bars and sour suckers are trick-or-treat staples, but beware the odd sweet at the bottom of your bag. You never know who itโs fromโor what it might do to you.THE RAGE OF ACHILLES by Kevin LuciaFather Ward should have heeded the warnings about hearing confession on All Hallowโs Eve... -
The Devil Stood Up by Christine Dougherty
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould the Devil, Himself turn out to be our ultimate hero? This is the brutally told story of how the Devil, after countless millennia of strictly doing Godรขโฌโขs will of punishing sinners in Hell, decides to lay down a Judgment of his own. Compelled by the horrific case of a young mother who murdered her child and the lawyer who gets her set free, the Devil comes to Earth seeking justice... -
Thirteen More Tales of Horror by A. Finnis, Garry Kilworth
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE NIGHTMARE RETURNS!A terrifying journey into horror - thirteen more tales guaranteed to fill you with fear.What are the mysterious creatures stalking the woods at night, and who will be their next prey? A chilling game of cat and mouse.Who is the mysterious party guest in the frighteningly real costume? Every breath he takes is death...Categorized as:
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Angel Manor (Lucifer Falls Book 1) by Chantal Noordeloos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA beautiful house โ with a dark and deadly secret.When Freya inherits her mother's childhood home, she sees it as an opportunity. A chance for a new life with her best friends, as they convert the crumbling mansion into an exclusive hotel.Instead, they'll be lucky to escape with their lives...
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