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Undeading Bells by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAfter surviving countless perils and dangers, including an examination by the Blood Council, Fred is preparing to take on his most important adventure to date: marrying Krystal. That is, if he can get everything handled in time. Visiting Boarback, hiring new staff, clearing out his schedule for a honeymoon; there’s no shortage of tasks to check off before the big day arrives... -
Bloody Acquisitions by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe third book in Drew's outrageously adventurous and satirical series, including THE UTTERLY UNINTERESTING AND UNADVENTUROUS TALES OF FRED, THE VAMPIRE ACCOUNTANT (Book 1) and UNDEATH & TAXES (Book 2).With a thriving parahuman accounting practice, a steady relationship, and a circle of trusted friends, Fred’s undead life has become more enjoyable than his normal one ever was... -
Otherworld Nights by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRare and never-before published short stories featuring fan favorites from the New York Times bestselling seriesIt’s been more than ten years since Kelley Armstrong began the Otherworld series and drew legions of fans to a realm roamed by witches, werewolves, necromancers, vampires, and half-demons... -
Undeath and Taxes by Drew Hayes
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe sequel to the Amazon bestseller THE UTTERLY UNINTERESTING AND UNADVENTUROUS TALES OF FRED, THE VAMPIRE ACCOUNTANT. After discovering just how filled with magic, intrigue, and adventure the parahuman world of being an Undead American can be, Fredrick Frankford Fletcher did exactly what was expected--he became a certified parahuman accountant... -
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Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe #1 "New York Times" bestselling author sets the stage for a battle of epic proportions.Savannah Levine is all grown up. As a witch endowed with an array of spells, she is also a force to be reckoned with. As a paranormal investigator she is finally coming into her own. But her last case tore a family apart, and Savannah swore she'd give up her powers to fix the mess she helped create... -
Angel Trouble by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell stand between YOU and certain death. Or not. No, definitely not, because the grim reaper's lost his job. He's been stripped of his scythe and banned from reaping. The angel of death has officially fallen, and he's crash-landed at 24/7 Demon Mart... -
Tales from the Gas Station, Vol. 1 by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWorking at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building… As the only full-time employee at the twenty-four hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all... -
Death's Shadow by Darren Shan
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn't the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she's more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone.Something has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity's greatest threat.. -
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
Blood on the Page: The Complete Short Fiction of Brian Keene, Volume 1 by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“This is my gift. This is my legacy. This is my curse…”BLOOD ON THE PAGE is the first book in a series collecting all of Keene’s short fiction. Included in this volume are such critically-acclaimed and fan favorite stories as “Burying Betsy”, “Dust”, “The Resurrection and The Life”, “I Am An Exit”, “Fast Zombies Suck”, “Bunnies In August”, “I Sing A New Psalm”, and many more...Categorized as:
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A Drop of Anguish by Stacey Trombley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI might be a magicless human, but I won't be easy prey.Everyone at Shadow Hills Academy thinks they know who I am. Canadice Montgomery, a weak magicless human whose only claim to power was her relationship with the demon prince, Jarron.The girl who's so desperate for power, she'd be willing to kill her peers in a deadly competition... -
The Women in the walls by Tim McGregor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the detective she's fallen for needs help, a reluctant psychic must put aside her feelings to help him unravel a horrific crime. HAMILTON - Trying to maintain a normal life, psychic Billie Culpepper struggles to block out the dead souls that haunt her every move but her attempts to suppress her ability only serve to isolate her even more... -
Sweet Vengeance by Viano Oniomoh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoy needs a deal with a demon to bring an end to the man who’d ruined her life. Malachi needs a deal with a human so he can remain in the mortal realm, far from the sentries looking to drag him back to his sect in hell.It’s a match seemingly made in heaven... -
All Hallows Night by Marie Hall, R.S. Black
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSecrets and truths, lies and red herrings… which is which? That’s what Pandora’s trying to figure out. Ever since the death of her best, and probably only friend by her own hands, she’s not sure who to trust anymore. The Priest is dead. The Gray Man is… she’s not even sure what. Luc, well, Luc is Luc. The Order has sent her deep into the heart of Mexico to investigate a potential zombie uprising... -
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Exeunt Demon King by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJohannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has faced many horrors during his career, but in this tale he tells of an early encounter with something that horrified even him.Pantomime.A provincial theatre has seen a series of strange deaths. The young Cabal investigates, even though this requires him to don red tights, a curling moustache, and become... the Demon King... -
The Graveyard Shift by D.M. Guay
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA frightfully funny novel for fans of Tom Holt and Christopher Moore.Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. So clueless, that he doesn't even realize the beer cave in the corner store where he works is the gateway to hell.The gate needs a hero, but Lloyd's a zero, a loser with a capital L... -
Guns and Graveyards by Katie May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past... -
Night Terror by John Passarella
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAlerted to strange happenings in Clayton Falls, Colorado, Bobby sends the boys to check it out. A speeding car with no driver, a homeless man pursued by a massive Gila monster, a little boy chased by uprooted trees — it all sounds like the stuff of nightmares... -
Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents: Horror Stories:Adept's gambit Man who never grew young Smoke ghost Automatic pistol Inheritance Hill and the hole Dreams of Albert Moreland Hound Diary in the snowGirl with the hungry eyesBit of the dark worldFantasy:The Sunken land (Fafhrd & Gray... -
Ghostbusters: Tobin's Spirit Guide by Erik Burnham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis dynamic in-universe book takes fans inside the world of Ghostbusters like never before. In the first Ghostbusters movie, Tobin’s Spirit Guide is a comprehensive supernatural encyclopedia used by our heroes to research ghouls and ghosts... -
Raven Revivals by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeep beneath the village of Rippon, the Devil's body still rests in its tomb. But powerful forces are determined to break in and steal the body, and only one thing stands between those forces and total world domination.Her name is Sam and she's a gardener.One year after Grave Girl, Sam is still working at the cemetery in Rippon... -
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... -
Inferno Park by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarter was only twelve when he witnessed the disaster that killed more than a hundred people at Starland Amusement Park. Five years later, Carter’s hometown is no longer a busy Florida panhandle resort, but a slowly dying town full of empty motels and attractions rusting behind chains and padlocks.Now something evil stirs in the ruins of the old amusement park.. -
Welcome to my Nightmare by Katie May, Steffanie Holmes
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonsters aren’t just in your nightmares.Sometimes, they’re the people you love most.I’m Lily Dean, and I hunt monsters.Vamps, ghouls, demons. I’ll slay them all. Each kill gets me closer to finding the monsters who killed my parents and stole my future... -
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The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe game s afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty s gang, the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a disappointing butler demon, a succubus, a wicked lord, an overly-Canadian lord, a tricycle-fight to the death and the dreaded Pumpcrow. Oh, and a hell hound, one assumes... -
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... -
The Dark Winter by Flint Maxwell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCan you survive the cold?After the initial series of summer blizzards, the snowfall has decreased, but the temperatures continue to drop, the icy wind still blows, and with each passing day, the darkness lasts longer and longer.It is in the darkness the monsters thrive... -
Dead Man's Song by Jonathan Maberry, To Be Announced
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the powerful imagination of a horror master comes a bone-chilling tale set in a small town where good and evil are joined in a terrifying, deadly battle. Evil endures. Once an idyllic Pennsylvania village, Pine Deep awoke one morning to find itself bathed in a massive bloodletting... -
Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEllie Jordan’s job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, one of the oldest and most haunted cities in North America... -
Books of Blood, Volume Two by Clive Barker, Dominique Dill
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAlternate Cover Edition of ISBN 9780425087398To a surgeon, cutting into the human body is an art. Muscle and flesh are his canvas, the scalpel his tool. He studies the composition of the organs -- their balance and form -- the structure of the bones and network of blood vessels. He makes his incision, cutting, slicing with loving care. — Clive Barker is another type of surgeon... -
The Devil by Name by Keith Rosson
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call... -
Devil Said Bang by Richard Kadrey
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsRichard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim—aka James Stark—is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension... -
Merfolk by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the latest book in the bestselling WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series.A cave-diving expedition on a mysterious island goes horribly wrong for a renowned marine biologist and his fellow divers when they become hunted by a deadly breed of predators that, until then, had only been known in myths and legends... -
The Supernatural Book of Monsters, Spirits, Demons, and Ghouls by Alexander C. Irvine
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwenty-three years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a demonic supernatural force. Following the tragedy, their father, John, set out to teach his boys everything about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and how to kill it... -
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The Book of Bad Things by Dan Poblocki
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne kid's trash is another kid's terror in this spooky supernatural mystery.When Cassidy Bean leaves New York to spend the summer upstate, she's disappointed to find that Whitechapel is not the quiet, pleasant suburb she remembers. Ursula Chambers, the strange old hermit at the end of the cul-de-sac, has passed away under mysterious circumstances... -
Grave Girl by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Sam Marker ran away from her old life, all she needed was a job and somewhere to live. Anything would do. And then, one fateful day, she saw that the town of Rippon was looking for a new gardener...Unfortunately for Sam, the 'garden' is actually a cemetery, and it just so happens to contain the deadliest grave in the world... -
The Little Ghost Who Lost Her Boo! by Elaine Bickell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPerfect for Halloween! A charming read-aloud about a little ghost who tries to find her lost "boo!"--ideal for fans of Five Little Pumpkins and Room on a Broom ! Little Ghost went out in the middle of the night and flew up to someone to give them a fright.She opened her mouth--but her BOO wasn't there! All that came out was a rush of cold air... -
The Smoky Corridor by Chris Grabenstein
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library and coauthor of I Funny and Treasure Hunters, comes a series of spine-tingling mysteries to keep you up long after the lights go out... -
Demonic Indemnity by Craig McLay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDemon boss. Bloodsucking coworkers. Supernatural insurance is scary business...As the first human in 3,200 years to work in the Special Investigations Unit of Crimson Seal Insurance, Tim Lovecraft knows his days of processing run-of-the-mill claims for werewolf maulings and poltergeist home invasions are over... -
Skin Medicine by Tim Curran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn unspeakable evil is stalking the territory. Civil war veteran and bounty hunter Tyler Cabe, who is tracking a merciless murderer, must find a way to battle something beyond the imagination of living man... -
Behind the Door by Mary SanGiovanni
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOccult specialist Kathy Ryan returns in this thrilling novel of paranormal horror from Mary SanGiovanni, the author of Chills.Some doors should never be opened . . .In the rural town of Zarepath, deep in the woods on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, stands the Door. No one knows where it came from, and no one knows where it leads... -
Chasing Spirits - The Memoirs of Reginald Weldon by Glynn James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat Readers are saying about CHASING SPIRITS: "Spooky, captivating mystery." ... "A glimpse of a strange world behind this one." ... "Great story telling!" ... "If you are a fan of this genre give this book a try you will not regret it." ... "I was sorry when it ended." ... "an epic journey through a mans life" ... "This was a wonderful story... -
Claiming Her Beasts 1 by Dia Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne seeks my heart. One craves my body. And one will stop at nothing to possess my soul.Family is everything and I’ll do whatever it takes to support what’s left of mine. I’ll work double waitressing shifts seven days a week. I’ll even become the headliner at the local strip club.But I draw the line at accepting a drug lord’s indecent proposal. I’m not for sale... -
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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HOLLOW by Celina Myers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMia feels stuck. The only talents she has ever had - the ability to see ghosts - dried up when she was a child. She knows there must be something more for her out there, but what? Then one day a tragic series of events kills her and she soon discovers she has been turned into a vampire. She must choose between two vampire families - and two unexpected loves... -
Step Devil 2 by Aiden Pierce
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Make no fucking mistake, little lamb. I’m not saving you. Either the Elder One eats you…or I do.” With Titus’s father dead, we were supposed to leave the Pine Barrens and never look back. But with a cult hunting us through the woods and an ancient evil slowly rising from its slumber…We’re damned... -
Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDown by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's development projects.But deep beneath the riverbank, the evidence of a terrible crime has been covered up twice... -
The Mistwalker by Regine Abel
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo be loved by a shadow in the Mist.Every month, for three days, a mysterious fog filled with demonic creatures swallows the world. Since its first appearance a decade ago, I’ve diligently secured my home against the danger. Today, my sister’s negligence has allowed something in. A Mistwalker. A part of him now resides inside of me, his brand on my chest a constant reminder of his presence... -
The Harvest by Sara Clancy
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmid the sweet sounds of a music box, their darkest fears will haunt them… In Black River, Tennessee, everyone knows the legend of the Bell Witch… and the alleged curse that hangs like a dark shroud over the town. To some, it is just a local tall tale. But to others, it is terrifyingly real. For centuries, four families have been forced into the ritualistic tradition of sacrifice and terror... -
Cabal by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFor more than two decades, Clive Barker has twisted the worlds of horrific and surrealistic fiction into a terrifying, transcendent genre all his own. With skillful prose, he enthralls even as he horrifies; with uncanny insight, he disturbs as profoundly as he reveals...
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