Books like 'Enter, Night'
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Crowbones by Anne Bishop
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late... -
Lake Silence by Anne Bishop
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy, set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, Vicki DeVine and her lodger, the shapeshifter Aggie Crowe, stumble onto a dead body . . . and find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly... -
Nocturnal by Clio Evans
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI was his toxic obsession. He was my sadistic monster.Nora:When I took a job at St. Thorns university as a psychology professor, I encountered something—someone—unexplainable. Fascinating. And deadly.Alec Briar had the eyes of a killer.He’s a botanist who would rather rot in his greenhouse alone than deal with students, professors, or me... -
Ghost by Kat Blackthorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAsh Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one... -
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Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGeorge and Lou used to be thugs for hire. Now they're living in a shack in Costa Rica, hiding from the crime lord who wants them dead. Their last job, to deliver him a werewolf in a cage, went...badly. But they can't hide out forever, and when they're finally captured, it seems as if George and Lou's ultimate fate will involve being doused in gasoline and set aflame... -
Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Dan Wells continues his acclaimed John Wayne Cleaver series, popular with fans of DexterHi. My name is John Cleaver, and I hunt monsters. I used to do it alone, and then for a while I did it with a team of government specialists, and then the monsters found us and killed almost everyone, and now I hunt them alone again.This is my story... -
Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells, Kirby Heyborne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest - but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind... -
Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAngel Crawford is finally starting to get used to life as a brain-eating zombie, but her problems are far from over. Her felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie hunters are popping up, and she’s beginning to wonder if her hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. Yeah, that’s right—the zombie mafia... -
Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom internationally bestselling, acclaimed author Melinda Salisbury comes a darkly seductive story of murder, betrayal, love, and family secrets in a small town in the Scottish Highlands.Here are the rules of living with a murderer.One: Do not draw attention to yourself.Of course, when you live with a murderer, this is impossible. Even the subtlest of spectres is bound to be noticed... -
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsThousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town... -
Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Cerilli delivers a stunning debut in this gripping paranormal horror novel about queer teens growing up in a community that doesn’t accept them and the insidious danger of apathy... -
White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland, Daniel Dos Santos
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOur favorite white trash zombie, Angel Crawford, has enough problems of her own, what with dealing with her alcoholic, deadbeat dad, issues with her not-quite boyfriend, the zombie mafia, industrial espionage and evil corporations. Oh, and it’s raining, and won’t let up... -
Her Soul to Take by Harley Laroux
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsLeonI earned my reputation among magicians for a reason: one wrong move and you're dead. Killer, they called me, and killing is what I'm best at.Except her.The one I was supposed to take, the one I should have killed - I didn't.The cult that once controlled me wants her, and I'm not about to lose my new toy to them.RaeI've always believed in the supernatural... -
Destined to Hide by Sterling Thomas
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEscape or die. The man I loved is a liar, a predator who lured me in with sweet words and empty promises. Now, I’m trapped and it’s only a matter of time before he loses control. I have one chance to run. Head for the wilds and don’t look back. If I leave, I might die, but he’ll kill me if I stay. For so long it’s seemed like I’m destined to spend my days in hiding; scared and alone... -
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The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith's Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry.When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won't find the killer... -
Beware the Wild by Natalie C. Parker
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's an oppressively hot and sticky morning in June when Sterling and her brother, Phin, have an argument that compels him to run into the town swamp—the one that strikes fear in all the residents of Sticks, Louisiana. Phin doesn't return. Instead, a girl named Lenora May climbs out, and now Sterling is the only person in Sticks who remembers her brother ever existed... -
Jillian Cade: (Fake) Paranormal Investigator by Jen Klein
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlly Carter’s megabestselling Gallagher Girls series meets Veronica Mars with a paranormal twist when Jillian Cade’s (fake!) private eye service unearths far more than she bargained for. Jillian Cade doesn’t believe in the paranormal, unlike her famous father, a professor and expert on the occult... -
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“True Detective” meets H.P. Lovecraft in this chilling novel of murder, mystery, and slow-mounting dread from acclaimed author Mary SanGiovanni….It begins with a freak snowstorm in May. Hit hardest is the rural town of Colby, Connecticut. Schools and businesses are closed, powerlines are down, and police detective Jack Glazier has found a body in the snow... -
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFailed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted... -
Jago by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPaul, a young academic composing a thesis about the end of the world, and his girlfriend Hazel, a potter, have come to the tiny English village of Alder for the summer. Their idea of a rural retreat gradually sours as the laws of nature begin to break down around them. The village, swollen by an annual rock festival of cataclysmic proportions, prepares to reap a harvest of horror... -
Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsZora Novak has been framed.When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies in the blaze, everyone in Addamsville, Indiana, points a finger at Zora. Never mind that Zora has been on the straight and narrow since her father was thrown in jail. With everyone looking for evidence against her, her only choice is to uncover the identity of the real killer... -
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsOn the edge of town a beast haunts the woods, trapped in the Gray, its bonds loosening…Uprooted from the city, Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths, a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New York... -
What Big Teeth by Rose Szabo
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsRose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark and thrilling novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement.Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind... -
The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Stephen is forced to move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already sure he’s not going to like it. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see things only in black-and-white. But things start looking up when Stephen meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon... -
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Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsErica Slaughter may have slain the monster terrorizing the small Wisconsin town of Archer’s Peak, but now she sets off deeper into the woods -- because the monster she killed was a mother… and now she needs to kill its children.EVIL NEVER DIES...UNLESS ERICA SLAUGHTER KILLS IT... -
Rachel Rising, Volume 3: Cemetery Songs by Terry Moore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDark forces are at work in Manson. The relentless snow falls like a body count and the town in infested with rats. It's all the work of Lilith as she brings judgement to the town that persecuted her 300 years ago. Only Rachel and Jet can stop the ageless witch, but Rachel is struggling to recall her powers and Jet is lying frozen in a morgue. The body count is rising in Cemetery Songs... -
Rachel Rising, Volume 2: Fear No Malus by Terry Moore
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRachel and Jet are dead. So why are they still here, looking drop dead gorgeous? Zoe, a 10-year old serial killer, suggests the answer is Lilith, an ethereal woman who seeks to destroy the town that hung them for witchcraft over 300 years ago. But Zoe is full of surprises, including an indwelling demon named Malus with his own wicked plan reaching far beyond the city limits... -
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, no matter the cost.IT’S THE MONSTERS WHO SHOULD BE AFRAID.When the children of Archer's Peak—a sleepy town in the heart of America—begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless... -
Revival, Vol. 1: You're Among Friends by Tim Seeley
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSubtitle to the book is "A rural noir by Tim Seeley + Mike Norton"For one day in rural central Wisconsin, the dead came back to life. Now it's up to Officer Dana Cypress to deal with the media scrutiny, religious zealots, and government quarantine that has come with them... -
30 Days of Night, Vol. 4: Return to Barrow by Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe 21st century has seen a horror comics renaissance, and it all started with Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's frostbitten vampire saga 30 Days of Night. The original three issue series spawned a major motion picture and grabbed the attention of thousands of fans longing for an innovative tale of terror...
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