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The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dark secret, a secluded island, and nowhere to run.When author Daisy Dawkins hits a wall of writer's block, she seeks out a retreat at the infamous Coyote Island, home of the reclusive publishing guru Greg Bregoli. Upon her arrival at Bregoli Estate, strange things begin happening to Daisy, but none of the other writers seem to notice the estate's odder qualities... -
![Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill]()
Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He’s also—and this is the most interesting thing—not dead... -
![J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath]()
J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree complete horror novels by the master of chills, J.A. Konrath. A F R A I D WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now...A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed... -
![Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman]()
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth... -
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![The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates]()
The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow far will she go to save the damned?Keira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat to Artec, a powerful corporation intent on trapping the tortured dead for profit. They've been tracking her for years and now, finally, there's nowhere left for her to run.Artec fears Keira and everything she's capable of... -
![Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz]()
Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCONTENTS: LIGHTNING THE FACE OF FEAR THE... -
![Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson]()
Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Night Gallery is one of three books written by Rod Serling based on stories he created for the 1970 television series by the same name. Similar to his Stories From The Twilight Zone books, he novelized six of the show’s scripts for this volume, including They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar, which was nominated for an Emmy award... -
![Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck, Deena Warner]()
Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck, Deena Warner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror.After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before... -
![Mr Cables by Ronald Malfi]()
Mr Cables by Ronald Malfi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor bestselling horror novelist Wilson Paventeau, the scariest novel of his career is one he didn’t write. It bears his name on the dust jacket and contains his bio near the end, but this enigmatic tome is not part of his oeuvre. And the most frightening thing about it may not be the tale between the covers, but the reason for its mysterious appearance in Paventeau’s life... -
![Cold, Thin Air: A Collection of Disturbing Narratives and Twisted Tales by C.K. Walker]()
Cold, Thin Air: A Collection of Disturbing Narratives and Twisted Tales by C.K. Walker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA doll is more than what she seems, a monster lives within a child's walls, a murder solved, another remembered, an experiment in death, and the tale of a demonic, forgotten statue. These are just a few of the freighting stories contained inside. I invite you in to experience the hauntingly horrifying, the terrifyingly true and the unsettlingly unique texts within.. -
![Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater]()
Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the autumn of 1968, the bodies of six brothers were found hanging from Hollyhead's billboard dressed in white, flowing gowns. Their killer was never identified.Twelve years later, another death has occurred. Will Metlocke, an author with seemingly psychic abilities, is called back to his hometown by his estranged father in a plea to help solve the murders... -
![Livre de sang by Clive Barker]()
Livre de sang by Clive Barker
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist... -
![GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd]()
GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPerhaps the scariest book you will ever read.... Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career... -
![Family Business by Jonathan Sims]()
Family Business by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything.But then she gets a new job: working at Slough & Sons, cleaning up after the recently deceased.Clearing away the remains of lost lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things, that can’t be written off as imagination. Nothing is as it seems with the Sloughs... -
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![The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel by Amy Cross]()
The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo ghosts get to choose where they haunt? Do they get to choose what they become once they're dead? When Beth Hayes arrives at Lakeforth Hotel, she's expecting a quiet, sedate and maybe even boring night. What she finds, however, is a crumbling old ruin that has clearly been left abandoned for many years. She wants to turn around and leave immediately, but her boyfriend has other ideas... -
![The Inheritance: An Occult Horror Story by J. Galliano]()
The Inheritance: An Occult Horror Story by J. Galliano
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA novel of a house haunted by an ancient evil. A tale of lies, envy, and curses spanning generations. Mike Gray is still reeling from the sudden death of his father when he inherits Willow House, his father’s childhood home. Keen to move out of the city, Mike decides to move his young family to the small, quaint town, of Fairview. But not all is right at Willow House... -
![On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island by Gage Greenwood]()
On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island by Gage Greenwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey left the island, but the island never left them.Four years after the Keating family endured the darkest experiences of their lives, the children are still fighting to move on. Charlie's anxiety has control of his life. Angela is afraid of the dark. Brian suffers from a drug addiction. Chrissy struggles to remember what happened to them, the details forever haunting the outskirts of her mind... -
![Wormwood by Chad Lutzke, Tim Meyer]()
Wormwood by Chad Lutzke, Tim Meyer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor some kids, Long Lake, Georgia is home. But for fourteen-year-old Baker Gray, it’s just another stop, another town in another state. Because of his mother’s nomadic lifestyle, he’s never had a best friend, never kissed a girl, and he’s certainly never met anyone like Cassandra Larsson—the enigmatic, older girl whose idea of fun blurs the line between right and wrong... -
![The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne]()
The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSo what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered.But the murders were seventeen years ago, back when her name was Sabrina. Now, she’s Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old... -
![The Night Girl: The Complete Series by Amy Cross]()
The Night Girl: The Complete Series by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen she starts a new job at Crestview retirement home, Juliet discovers that something unusual is waiting for her in an abandoned part of the building. At first, she think the mysterious Jennifer Mathis is some kind of ghost. Later, however, Juliet learns that Jennifer has certain powers that could be extremely useful... -
![Remains by Andrew Cull]()
Remains by Andrew Cull
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrief is a black house.How far would you go? What horrors would you endure if it meant you might see the son you thought you'd lost forever?Driven to a breakdown by the brutal murder of her young son, Lucy Campbell had locked herself away, fallen deep inside herself, become a ghost haunting room 23b of the William Tuke Psychiatric Hospital... -
![Gumdrop Angel: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #8) by Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener]()
Gumdrop Angel: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #8) by Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... A string of bad luck you can't seem to shake... for Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, it's an all too familiar feeling. Repulsed by her spoiled stepsister's lavish birthday party, Angel exacts a hasty and ill-fated revenge... -
![The City by S.C. Mendes]()
The City by S.C. Mendes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChinatown, 1910. Violence is nothing new to these streets, but the discovery of three bodies—little more than piles of flesh and organs, the bones stolen—have proven to be the most bizarre murders to date. The police turn to Max Elliot, an unstable homicide detective, who six months earlier lost his wife and daughter under similar circumstances... -
![Christmas Dinner of Souls by Ross Montgomery]()
Christmas Dinner of Souls by Ross Montgomery
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's a dark and lonely Christmas Eve in the dining room of ancient Soul's College. The kitchen boy, 11-year-old Lewis, has helped prepare a highly unusual meal, made with unrecognisable ingredients, cooked by a mysterious chef. And then the guests arrive ... and carnage ensues. They are ex-students of Soul's College, and they are all completely demented... -
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![The Third Parent by Elias Witherow]()
The Third Parent by Elias Witherow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door.Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told... -
![The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler]()
The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Infused with cosmic, culinary dread and seasoned with dark humor, The Nothing That Is reads like Anthony Bourdain riffing on Lovecraft. Winkler’s engaging style and hypnotic prose will consume you whole, and if that doesn’t whet your appetite, there’s an exploding graveyard... -
![Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin]()
Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA taut, powerful psychological thriller following a mother who must confront a sudden and terrifying change in her daughter after the abrupt death of their babysitter.Charlotte’s daughter Stella is sensitive and brilliant, perhaps even a genius, but a recent change in her behavior has alarmed her mother... -
![Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams]()
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over... -
![Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron]()
Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre. Bring a flashlight and a book of matches. Where we’re going, there’s not a speck of light... -
![The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine]()
The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTen terrifying tales that will give you shivers...from the master of horror, R.L. StineRead the spine-tingling story of a babysitter who loves evil tricks...the terrifying tale of a boy who dared to lie down in the tomb of an ancient mummy...the ghastly story of two boys just dying to have the scariest Halloween ever—and more.These are the original stories that inspired the hit TV show R.L... -
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Terminal by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man--with a surprising jolt of the supernatural . . . Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life... -
![Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano]()
Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death--but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules...Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed... -
![100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio, Charles Dickens]()
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio, Charles Dickens
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions... -
![A Dark Breed by Patrick McNulty]()
A Dark Breed by Patrick McNulty
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Jacksons family is teetering on the edge of emotional and financial ruin. With the threat of uprooting his entire family for greener pastures Nick needs a win, but he’ll settle for a vacation. Even if it means driving through a horrific blizzard to an all expenses paid cabin in the Colorado mountains... -
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![The Bank of the River by Michael Richan]()
The Bank of the River by Michael Richan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteven is anticipating a quiet sabbatical at a new home. Instead, knockings and grisly apparitions begin to haunt him, relentlessly tormenting him at night. With a recent divorce and a son in college, he is left alone to deal with the ghosts lurking in the shadows of his house. Steven is determined to find a rational explanation... -
![The Dark Hour by K.J. Young]()
The Dark Hour by K.J. Young
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Deliciously creepy!”—Barbara Taylor Sissel, bestselling author of The Truth We BuryMark Norman can’t catch a break—until he’s hired as a live-in home health aide for two elderly siblings who live at Alden Manor, a run-down mansion mired in the past. His charges, former stage magicians Roy and Alma Walgrave, give off an eerie vibe, but they are also wealthy and careless with their money... -
![The Accidental Witch by Jessica Penot]()
The Accidental Witch by Jessica Penot
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPhaedra Michaels is a small town psychologist who is beginning to lose hope. Two of her patients at the local hospital in Dismal, Alabama have just killed themselves, she’s still reeling from her divorce and what turned out to be a disastrous marriage, and her father has died, leaving her without any notion of who her real mother is... -
![The Unleashed by Danielle Vega]()
The Unleashed by Danielle Vega
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the terrifying sequel to The Haunted , Hendricks discovers that even though Steele House is gone, the hauntings in Drearfield are far from over -- and it's up to her to stop them. After everything that went down at Steele House, Hendricks just wants her life to return to normal. Prom is coming up and the school is in full preparation mode... -
![The Carnival Ghost by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne]()
The Carnival Ghost by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA traveling carnival is on its way to Sweet valley, and Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield can't wait to ride the roller coaster, have their fortunes told, and try their luck at the games. But when they get there some odd things happen to the twins. A fortune-teller warns Jessica to stay away from the carnival... -
![18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA chilling compilation of some of Edgar Allen Poe's best-loved stories, edited by Vincent Price and Chandler Brossard and with an introduction by Vincent Price, including:The Black Cat - The Fall of the House of Usher - The Masque of the Red Death - The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - The Premature Burial - Ms... -
![The Restless Ones: A Novel by Abe Moss]()
The Restless Ones: A Novel by Abe Moss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere’s no rest for the wicked… or the dead they’ve left behind.It’s been four years since the Hartnett House Massacre – four years since Whitley Adams rescued her sister, Nora, from a nightmare she herself still struggles to escape.When a documentary filmmaker expresses interest in telling their story, Whitley’s sister believes it could be the answer to all their troubles... -
![The Library of Souls by Richard Denney, Richard Cardenas]()
The Library of Souls by Richard Denney, Richard Cardenas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBe careful what you check out... Ever since he could remember Simon Santiago could see and talk to the dead. When his parents are killed in a train accident, he is sent to live with his estranged con man of an uncle. Soon Simon is put on as his uncle's assistant in a Ghost Expelling agency and carries out the hard work for his uncle: getting rid of the ghosts... -
![In the Still of the Night: The Supernaturals II by David L. Golemon]()
In the Still of the Night: The Supernaturals II by David L. Golemon
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the world of The Supernaturals, one of Riffle’s Ten Best Haunted House Books of All Time, In the Still of the Night, a supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author of The Event Group series David L. Golemon, will make your Halloween extra spooky this year... -
![Nothing Hidden Ever Stays by H.R. Mason]()
Nothing Hidden Ever Stays by H.R. Mason
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA two-hundred-year-old curse. A tangled thread of mental illness. A growing list of Ross family women dying young. The house where it all began, Desolate Ridge, holds all the secrets.Abandoned at a hospital when she was only three years old, Aubrey Ross grew up as a ward of the state, passed from one foster family to the next... -
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![The Girl in the Basement by Ray Garton]()
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 he’s 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... -
![The Haunting of Pico by Patrick Kampman]()
The Haunting of Pico by Patrick Kampman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPico, Texas is full of secrets, as Chris discovers when his family unwittingly moves into the town’s haunted house. As an Asian adoptee relocating from a big city, Chris worries about fitting into a small-town high school still using a Rebel soldier for its mascot. But, to his relief, the attitudes of the town are changing, and soon he has friends, a job, and a cute new neighbor... -
![Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked by Christa Carmen]()
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked by Christa Carmen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA young woman’s fears regarding the gruesome photos appearing on her cell phone prove justified in a ghastly and unexpected way. A chainsaw-wielding Evil Dead fan defends herself against a trio of undead intruders. A bride-to-be comes to wish that the door between the physical and spiritual worlds had stayed shut on All Hallows’ Eve... -
![The Haunting of Emily Stone by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Emily Stone by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“The haunting of Emily Stone was a hoax. There was no ghost, it was just a money-grabbing old woman and an easily-manipulated little girl. End of story.”Twenty-four years ago, Robert Slocombe thought he had proof that ghosts were real. British newspapers filled their pages with photos of little Emily being tormented by what seemed to be a malevolent spirit... -
![House of Illusions by Ruby Jean Jensen]()
House of Illusions by Ruby Jean Jensen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmy and Jodi hardly remembered their father who lived and worked in a carnival, but now they were going to live with him. This could be great fun! Jodi soon went exploring, got lost in the House of Mirrors, and there discovered a mysterious talisman. Her father asked that she check with India, the carnival owner, on what to do with it...Categorized as:
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![If I Die Before I Wake by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne]()
If I Die Before I Wake by Francine Pascal, Jamie Suzanne
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe conclusion to the Frightening Four miniseries!On a hill on the outskirts of Sweet Valley sits a beautiful old Victorian house. It stood empty until a few weeks ago, when a big family moved in... the perfect clients for Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield's new baby-sitting service..
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