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Readers who enjoyed The Darkness Compendium, Vol. 1 by Garth Ennis, Marc Silvestri, Scott Lobdell, Malachy Coney, David Wohl, Paul Jenkins, Joe Benítez & Dale Keown also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

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  • The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One, two, the ghosts are coming for you… Three, four, better salt your door… Five, six, death and hatred mix… Seven, eight, help will come too late… Nine, ten, never reap again…Seventeen year old, Mattie Hathaway, has enough on her plate without having to deal with the latest teenage ghost drama. The ghosts of eight murdered girls are out for her blood. They blame Mattie for their deaths...
  • House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The luxurious Lathrop Grand Hotel is a Savannah institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager to encounter its numerous ghosts...
  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Netherworld Paranormal Police Department Full Series Box Set, #1-5 by John P. Logsdon, Christopher P. Young

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thousands sold. Millions of pages read. Get your badge today! *INCLUDES BOOKS 1-5* Nearly 900 pages of action-packed adventure. Blood Crossed (Book 1) Meet Piper Shaw. She's one of the Netherworld Paranormal Police Department's toughest. She's also an immortal, and she's got one hell of a chip on her shoulder. Meet Reaper Payne. He's an actual reaper. Yes, one of those guys who ferries the dead...
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
  • The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Left alone at Marlow House with Sadie and Max, Walt expects Danielle and Lily to return by the end of the week. When they don’t, he begins to wonder what happened to them. The ghost of Marlow House doesn’t scare six-year-old Evan MacDonald. When the child sneaks into the house in the middle of the night, seeking Walt’s help, the resident spirit learns something has happened to Danielle and Lily...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  fiction  ghosts
  • Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that feeds on sadness and misery...
  • Maze of Souls by J.L. Bryan

    Maze of Souls by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's October, and down at newly opened Pine Hollow Farm, the ghosts are running wild!. This “genuine” old-time family farm offers a big heap of fun fall activities. You can drink cider fresh from the orchard, enter a pumpkin-carving contest, and explore the five-acre corn maze...
  • The Book of Death by Anonymous

    The Book of Death by Anonymous

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Believing the Bourbon Kid to be dead, the Egyptian Mummy Rameses Gaius has formed an undead army to take over the city of Santa Mondega. Vampires and werewolves are swarming the streets killing thousands of innocents. The local cops have all been murdered and replaced by.... Sanchez the bartender and his new sidekick Flake...
  • Hookah by Cameron Jace

    Hookah by Cameron Jace

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts...
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    crime  paranormal  book  comedy  dark  fairy-tale  fiction  horror
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  demons  fiction  horror
  • The Ghost of a Memory by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost of a Memory by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Past and present collide when a secret from the 1920s wreaks havoc on Marlow House.Walt struggles to remember what he may have forgotten before it’s too late...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  fiction  ghosts
  • Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant

    Bangkok Warlock by John P. Logsdon, Noah K. Sturdevant

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Why sell your soul when you can rent it? Mark Vedis is an average cop. Average for a mage in the Paranormal Police Department (PPD), anyway. After years of doing the jobs nobody else wanted, his career, and life, seemed to be on hold...
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    crime  paranormal  super-powered  audiobook  book  comedy  dark  demons
  • Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Bringing up the bodies by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The book you've been waiting for... With Kaitlin in critical condition after a fatal stab wound, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper has learned that the body she found in the Murder House is actually her own father...
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    crime  paranormal  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  magic  murder
  • A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Bogie in the Boat by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You know what doesn’t go down well with morning coffee? A body in a canal. When a neighbor finds a grim discovery in the waterways of Venice Beach, Linx Maxwell gets an unexpected visitor in the form of a new ghost. The only problem? Her new ghost doesn’t see eye to eye with her old one. Detective Frank Bogle doesn’t know what to make of the young victim...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • The Ghost and the Leprechaun by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost and the Leprechaun by Bobbi Holmes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone knows leprechauns are just make believe...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  fiction  ghosts
  • Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The forever rebellious Clothilde’s gravestone only mentions her first name and date of death. A small bump in the ground next to her grave marks former police officer Robert’s last resting place.And in thirty years, no visitors for either of them.Confined within the cemetery borders and yearning for closure to move on, the two ghosts can’t go after the people who killed them...
  • Vampire King by Rowan Hart

    Vampire King by Rowan Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Only the desperate make deals with the powerful vampires who rule this city. But I’m all out of options.Ambrose d’Vil is power and sin personified. His savage kingdom is filled with blood and violence. And he's my last hope.Only Ambrose can save my best friend's life. But the vampire king demands a high price.I’m his for the next three months. In a single moment my boring human life vanishes...
  • White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland

    White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Angel Crawford has finally pulled herself together (literally!) after her disastrous dismemberment on Mardi Gras. She’s putting the pieces of her life back in order and is ready to tackle whatever the future holds.Too bad the future is a nasty bitch. There’s a new kind of zombie in town: mindless shamblers, infectious and ravenous...
  • A Lovely Drop by Darynda Jones

    A Lovely Drop by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A woman who claims to do the impossible…Andrea Grace comes from a long line of women who can do the impossible: They can eavesdrop on the past. But ever since her mother’s suspicious death, Andrea has led a half-life, guarding herself from those who would kill to get their hands on her...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness

    Amazing Grace by John G. Hartness

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessica Fletcher meets Aunt Bea meets Odd Thomas in this Southern Gothic Paranormal Mystery with a dose of romance from award-winning novelist John G. Hartness. Lila Grace Carter is your favorite new detective, you just don’t know it yet. She’s determined, smart, caring, and sassy as the day is long. She also talks to dead people. Of course, as she puts it, “I’m Southern...
  • The Empath by Jody Klaire

    The Empath by Jody Klaire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aeron Lorelei is a young woman with a troubled past and a troubling gift. Blessed and cursed with the ability to sense the feelings, past, and future of those around her, Aeron lived as a misfit child. When she was sixteen, she took the blame for the death of her best friend’s little brother...
  • New Spark by Al K. Line

    New Spark by Al K. Line

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Take one wizard—that's me—add a hot female vampire, give them a nice place in the country and what do you get? Paradise. Heaven on earth. So, of course, someone decided to go spoil it. No, it wasn't me, not this time...
  • Guilty Spark by Al K. Line

    Guilty Spark by Al K. Line

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'd been gone for a year, incarcerated in a Hidden prison. The verdict was guilty, punishment death.Invoking the Law, I've got my freedom until my sentence is carried out. Three days then I'm history. Gone, not even a memory. Wiped from the collective consciousness of those that knew, even loved me.Magic drives me on as I try to right so many wrongs committed in the name of justice...
  • Neon Spark by Al K. Line

    Neon Spark by Al K. Line

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hundred years I've waited for this, my chance for revenge. To confront and kill the person who murdered my parents and caused such unbearable heartache.Tokyo has other ideas. As neon burns my retinas, and bizarre, utterly foreign Hidden try to thwart me at every turn, I lose control...
  • Big Easy Evil by Heather Graham

    Big Easy Evil by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Halloween in the Big Easy . . . Does evil really exist? Michael Quinn and Danni Cafferty are far too familiar with the question. At the death of her father, Danni inherited his house and shop on Royal Street in New Orleans—and much more than she ever anticipated, including a book kept by her family for generations on how to combat the most unusual forces...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts  holidays
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  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...
  • The Spirit Girls by Dawn Merriman

    The Spirit Girls by Dawn Merriman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m Rylan Flynn. I hunt for ghosts and restless spirits, and solve the mysteries that make them haunt the living.I’ve learned to live with my “gift” but sometimes I long to escape. My aunt’s cabin, deep in the woods, is usually peaceful. But this time I can feel that something is different.The ghost of a young woman approaches through the trees...
  • An Assassin's Deception by A.K. Koonce, Harper Wylde

    An Assassin's Deception by A.K. Koonce, Harper Wylde

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a rogue assassin, all the rules I used to live by have changed. I find myself working with four sexy assassin’s who test all of my self-control. Dedicating my life to a greater cause, I’m thrown into a new case - one meant to help rather than harm. If I can just save this missing girl, I know that I’ll be able to make a new life for myself...
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    crime  paranormal  audiobook  book  dark  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Joe by H.D. Gordon

    Joe by H.D. Gordon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of The Alexa Montgomery Saga comes a story that will take you into the mind of a genuine psychopath, the lives of six ordinary people, and the world of a very special girl named Joe. Joe is seemingly an ordinary college student. She works, studies and reads. But in between these activities, Joe has a gift that promises to add a dose of color into her life at any given moment...
  • Predatory Animals by Gabriel Beyers

    Predatory Animals by Gabriel Beyers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    IN THE TOWN OF SHADELAND, PEOPLE ARE VANISHING.After suffering a near-death accident, Casper Brown awakens with a strange new connection to three stray dogs recently adopted by his family. Casper’s nights are filled with dreams of the dogs’ activities; at times he can even see through their eyes. And what he witnesses has him worried for his family’s safety...
  • The Third Eye of Jenny Crumb by Martina Dalton

    The Third Eye of Jenny Crumb by Martina Dalton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jenny Crumb appears to have the perfect life. She’s smart, beautiful, and... normal. But, on the inside, she struggles to keep a dark secret from her friends and family. Jenny is psychic—and she fears that if people find out, she’ll be labeled as a loser and a freak. Jenny falls in love with the handsome new guy in school...
  • Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "You know, we've never really talked about what it means that you've claimed me."Newbie vamp Anja Evans is eager to find out what it means to be claimed by sexy, vampire cop, Bishop. Unfortunately, he's been transferred by the Order and she's left to fend for herself...
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
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    crime  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Evil Spark by Al K. Line

    Evil Spark by Al K. Line

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'd had less than a week to recover from an incident that left me half-dead. My body was battered and bruised in ways I can't even begin to describe.Dark magic use had consumed me, spat me out a husk of a man. I was little more than flesh and bone, weary to my very soul.So, of course, there was a knock at the door...
  • City of the Snakes by D.B. Shan

    City of the Snakes by D.B. Shan

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling novelist Darren Shan presents the final book in his The City series. For ten years Capac Raimi has ruled the City. Created by the first Cardinal to continue his legacy, Capac cannot be killed. Then Capac disappears. His trusted lieutenant, Ford Tasso, suspects the mysterious villacs, ancient and powerful Incan priests...
  • Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust

    Coyote's Kiss by Christa Faust

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A truck full of illegal Mexican immigrants slaughtered with supernatural force is found by the side of a road. Trying to find answers, Sam and Dean are plunged into the dangerous world that exists along the Mexican border. They encounter a tattooed, pistol-packing bandita on a motorcycle who seems be everywhere they go before they get there...
  • Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane

    Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3...
  • Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross

    Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened...
  • Forever Road by Catie Rhodes

    Forever Road by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A world full of ghosts. A reluctant psychic medium. Destiny only knocks once—then it kicks down the door. Peri Jean Mace thinks seeing ghosts is a curse, but her murdered trailer trash cousin doesn’t care. She wants Peri Jean to expose her killer.Peri Jean figures out everyone in her one-stoplight East Texas town has something to hide. And one of them will kill to hide the truth...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Carved in Flesh by Tim Waggoner

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious supernatural force as young children, their father taught them how to hunt and destroy the paranormal evil that exists in the dark corners of America. After their father’s demonic death, they discovered that they are descended from a long line of hunters and chose to continue their mission...
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