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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  spooky  dark  gothic  horror  fantasy  fiction
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by NOT A BOOK

    The Magnus Archives: Season 2 by NOT A BOOK

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  spooky  dark  gothic  horror  fantasy  fiction
  • The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
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    lgbtq  paranormal  spooky  gothic  dark  horror  fantasy  fiction
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah...
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence...
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    dark  drama  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  20th-century
  • Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

    Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . .
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    dark  drama  ghosts  lgbtq  suspense  21st-century  abuse  adult
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
  • The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman

    The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    At Stanner Hall, a Victorian mansion-turned-hotel, Ben Foley hosts murder-mystery weekends and strives to prove that his hotel is the house on which Arthur Conan Doyle based his immortal Baskerville Hall. As the days shorten and the weather worsens, Foley’s dabbling uncovers more than he can handle...
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection...
  • Figment by Cameron Jace

    Figment by Cameron Jace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After her encounter with the Cheshire Cat, Alice Wonder can hardly tell reality from imagination. But when kids have their head chopped off and stuffed in watermelons all over the city, it's clear that another Wonderland Monster has arrived, possibly scarier than the Cheshire...
  • The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them. In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved...
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    dark  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  age-gap  book
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride...
  • White Silence by Jodi Taylor

    White Silence by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *The first instalment in the new, gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.* "I don't know who I am. I don't know what I am." Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn’t want to see them and she definitely doesn’t want them to see her...
  • Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman

    Midwinter of the Spirit by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The post of Diocesan Exorcist in the Church of England has changed to the preferred term Delivery Ministry. It sounds less sinister, more caring, so why not a job for a woman? When offered the post the Rev. Merrily Watkins cannot easily refuse, having suffered uncanny experiences of her own...
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command...
  • Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as a TV series by Starz with the producers of Breaking Bad...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.It can.She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong...
  • The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum

    The Sense of Death by Matty Dalrymple, Sarah E. Purdum

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ann Kinnear has created a peaceful existence at her cabin in the Adirondack woods. But the calm is shattered after Philadelphia socialite Elizabeth Firth is reported missing. With few clues and fewer options, detective Joe Booth calls upon Ann's spirit sensing abilities to help solve the mystery...
  • A Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts

    A Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There had been no attempt to bury the dead girl, naked except for the white ribbon tied to her wristTwenty-five-year-old Julie Hall has a unique ability: when she takes up a dowsing rod, she finds not water but bodies. To Julie, it's a curse, not a gift, and one she rarely uses—she prefers her quiet life in a trailer, with her grandfather and her dog for company...
  • River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, Lucas Astor

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some truths are better kept secret. Some secrets are better off dead. ALONG THE BANKS OF THE BOGUE FALAYA RIVER, sits the abandoned St. Francis Seminary. Beneath a canopy of oaks, blocked from prying eyes, the teens of St. Benedict High gather here on Fridays. The rest of the week belongs to school and family—but weekends belong to the river.And the river belongs to Beau Devereaux...
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    suspense  gothic  dark  ghosts  horror  young-adult  fantasy  fiction
  • Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

    Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives...
  • Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson

    Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Knock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life.Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse...
  • Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns...
  • The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb

    The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death...
  • নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মিসির আলি সিরিজের বই। "নিশীথিনী" হচ্ছে "দেবী" এর দ্বিতীয়...
  • Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight...
  • The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some monsters live in your head. Not this one.Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice...
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before the murderous force residing there makes both she and her friend's daughter its next victims...
  • A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest.The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said...
  • A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

    A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—he’s led to a place many believed to be only a legend...
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    dark  drama  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  audiobook  book
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
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    dark  paranormal  lgbtq  suspense  drama  ghosts  romance  mlm
  • Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

    Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • The Fisherman by John Langan

    The Fisherman by John Langan

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  21st-century  adult
  • Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different...
  • Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

    Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine.A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  lgbtq  paranormal  spooky  suspense  20th-century
  • Ghost Story by Peter Straub

    Ghost Story by Peter Straub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder...
  • Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche...
  • Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death...
  • The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich

    The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia...
  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

    The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  suspense  21st-century  adult
  • 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...
  • Flying in Place by Susan Palwick

    Flying in Place by Susan Palwick

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness--with bravery and compassion--for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones...
  • Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke...
  • Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson

    Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception...
  • The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

    The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story...
  • The Crying Child by Barbara Michaels

    The Crying Child by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trapped between madness and imagination...From the moment she arrived on King's Island, Joanne McMullen knew that her sister's grief over losing her child had driven her dangerously close to madness. Jo grew anxious when Mary confided that she heard a thin, insistent wail that rose up beyond the dark Maine woods...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • You Are Invited by Sarah A. Denzil

    You Are Invited by Sarah A. Denzil

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Cath receives her invitation to The Event--a monetised retreat for social media influencers--she can't believe her luck. Irene Jobert is the most famous influencer in the world, and now Cath will be one of the five participants chosen to stay with Irene in a renovated Transylvanian monastery.The catch? Their every move will be live-streamed to millions of people around the world...
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