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  • She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster. After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child—this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter would spark an obsession...
  • The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lifelong legacy. A strange ability. A haunted island.Daisy’s heart breaks when Greg Bregoli, head of Bregoli Publishing, passes away, four years after she became a member of the Bregoli family. Then she learns that Greg has left everything—the business, the island, and the Bregoli Estate—to her. Competition leans in from all sides, but none so daunting as Byron Barnett, Daisy’s previous boss...
  • This Happened to Jessica by Michele Pariza Wacek

    This Happened to Jessica by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    How many more are going to die because you refuse to remember? Becca would like nothing better than to put the past behind her and focus on making Redemption her home. But what do you do when the past refuses to stay buried? Becca still can't remember the night sixteen-year-old Jessica disappeared from a party, never to be seen again...
  • 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...
  • John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    The Haunting of Rachel Harroway by J.S. Donovan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In 1983, a family of four was murdered in their nineteenth century Queen Anne manse. There were no witnesses, no real investigation, and no survivors. The discovery of a serial killer's burial ground rocks the peaceful town of Highlands, North Carolina. Rachel Harroway, a tragic detective with the ability to see the dead, and her brilliant atheistic partner, Jenson Peak, are put on the case...
  • 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...
  • After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For six long years, Max has avoided Draven, her hometown that holds the remnants of a ghastly accident, but when her brother dies, she is drawn back into the clutches of her haunted past.In the wake of her family's shattered happiness, Max is caught in a nightmarish whirlwind of horrors that defy the laws of our world...
  • 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...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a famous artist is kidnapped, the only one who can save him has a body no one can see, and a voice few can hear.Angel, spirit, or ghost—the Keeper doesn’t know exactly what he is. But he knows he needs to protect Michael Delacroix, a famous artist who is kidnapped and locked in a windowless room deep beneath a Napa Valley vineyard...
  • Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 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...
  • The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE OWLMEN - NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES! IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU... Ellie Blake is recovering from a mental breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor. However, there is disquiet in the village...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Haunting of Whitecrest Estate by Hazel Holmes

    The Haunting of Whitecrest Estate by Hazel Holmes

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a small town, rests a hallowed estate shrouded in secrecy…Mystery and horror surround a long-abandoned estate, seemingly forgotten by the town. What was thought to be a new beginning for Julia soon devolves into an endless nightmare of hidden secrets and a troubled past best left unturned...
  • 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 Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home..
  • Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two families. 100 years apart. A sinister haunting...It was supposed to be the dream house for Adam, Catherine, and their daughter, Bella. But dream houses can hold secrets. Settling in to their new home, the family realise they are not the only inhabitants of Abberton House.A dark past continues to haunt the idyllic Yorkshire home, and those who remain want Adam and Catherine to know the truth...
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone in Ashton, Colorado, knows that January House is haunted. Tucked away on an isolated hillside, the place has seen grisly murders and unsolved disappearances. An artists’ commune took up residence there in the 1970s, creating a controversy that still divides the town. Now, a reclusive painter has died in the crumbling house. The police say it’s natural causes...
  • The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind...
  • Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman’s curiously vintage gown is an infant, as cold and at peace as its mother. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She’s seen her before...
  • Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daniel Price has just had the breakthrough of his life when his novel cracks the best seller list. He and his wife, Nicole, decide to move into the majestic Nightingale House on the shores of Willow Lake, in the town of Kingsbrook, Maine. But Daniel's world is shattered when Nicole is killed in a car crash, and he must raise their eight year-old daughter, Caitlyn, on his own...
  • Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head...
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
  • Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger

    Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What's drawn four damaged people back to haunted land? The answer could destroy them all in a gripping short story about trapped memories and the lies we tell ourselves.Matthew, Claire, and Mason haven't been back to Merle House since the summer they were sixteen. They tried for years to put their history behind them, to forget the mystery of the girl who vanished so long ago...
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
  • The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias

    The Devil's Prayer by Luke Gracias

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A nun commits suicide in front of thousands in Spain. In Australia, Siobhan Russo recognises that nun as her mother, Denise Russo, who disappeared six years ago. In search of answers, Siobhan travels to the isolated convent where her mother once lived...
  • Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen

    Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Winner of the 2015 Drunken Druid Award (Ireland) for high literary merit.Nominee for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award (HWA) in the First Novel category.In a suburb on Boston’s North Shore, a catatonic little girl is found behind a dumpster. She is a mystery...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark-fantasy  fae
  • House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You know, don’t you, that it’s not my soul the Devil wants, it’s yours?Two years ago the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics.Now something is trying to lure the Pipers back to Fenton House...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

    Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who can she trust? What is the truth? Every decision has consequences. What you thought you knew about ghosts is wrong. Sometimes they can walk among the living. In Onyx Webb, the silk of time weaved between lives is generations apart. Follow a billionaire playboy who’s hit rock bottom in 2010, a girl off to prom in 1979, and Onyx Webb in 1906 on her sixth birthday...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • From Away by Phoef Sutton

    From Away by Phoef Sutton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sammy Kehoe, his sister, Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, are all each other have left since the car accident that killed the rest of their family. When they visit their beloved old family home on remote Fox Island, Maine, Sammy and Charlotte each have relationship sparks with island locals...
  • The Well by Peter Labrow

    The Well by Peter Labrow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped. Missing. Cursed. Fourteen-year-old Becca Richards and her stepbrother have fallen to the bottom of an ancient well. Their parents are away; they won't be missed for days. The predatory man who had been stalking Becca now switches his attentions to her best friend. Two women who know where Becca is trapped are desperate that she should never escape...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  hauntings  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gothic
  • Rising Fears by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rising Fears by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the town of Rising. A place where everyone knows everyone else. A place where no one locks their doors. A place where everyone's worst fears...are about to come true...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Kindle Bestseller, Now Available On All Platforms"A tormented father must decide whether he's seeing the ghost of his dead son or visions brought on by psychosis in this thriller . . . featuring a riveting protagonist haunted by his own guilt." - Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review)An empty house. A bereaved father. Alone with his loss, Ian Colmes has driven away everyone he loves...
  • 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...
  • Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Elusive online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the case of Arla Macleod, who bludgeoned her family to death, in another episode of the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger

    Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Is it a hoax, or is it something unspeakably real? In this short story about evil games and spiraling secrets, whatever bargain you strike, there's a price to be paid.Mason Brandt dropped out of seminary and found a job at a spiritual center offering guidance to troubled teens. Mason was on himself years ago - a suspect in a young girl's disappearance. When a female student is found murdered...
  • Fog Descending by Lisa Unger

    Fog Descending by Lisa Unger

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A grief-stricken spiritualist thought his faith in life after death was broken. Until the ghosts of his past come calling in this short story of believing in what can’t be seen.Driven by an uncanny mystery from his youth, Ian Randall became a “spiritual cleanser,” ridding disturbances from homes. But his belief in the beyond was challenged by his wife’s death...
  • Night After Night by Phil Rickman

    Night After Night by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A spooky supernatural thriller by the author of the Merrily Watkins seriesLiam Defford doesn't believe in ghosts. As the head of a production company, however, he does believe in high-impact TV. On the lookout for his next idea, he hires journalist Grayle Underhill to research the history of Knap Hall—a Tudor farmhouse turned luxury hotel, abandoned by its owners at the height of its success...
  • Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin

    Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one knows your darkness like your own Shadow.Nothing has been normal for Teddy, not since discovering the harsh identity of the monster he had been living with his whole life—his own father. Teddy and his mother leave that behind to start over in a small Indiana township. But as Teddy begins to learn of humanity's monsters, he unveils an otherworldly evil he calls "The Shadow...
  • Lay Me to Rest by E.A. Clark

    Lay Me to Rest by E.A. Clark

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some secrets never stay buried for long…Devastated by the death of her husband, Annie Philips is shocked to discover she is pregnant with his unborn child. Hoping for a fresh start, she travels to a remote stone cottage in Anglesey, amidst the white-capped mountains of North Wales.She settles in quickly, helped by her mysterious new neighbour, Peter...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli

    The Dead Letters by Tom Piccirilli

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Five years ago, Eddie Whitt’s daughter Sarah became the victim of a serial killer known as Killjoy, and Whitt vowed to hunt him down—no matter what the cost. But the police have given up. And Killjoy has stopped killing…and in some bizarre act of repentance has begun kidnapping abused infants and leaving them with the parents of his original victims...
  • Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker

    Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler's life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities...
  • A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne

    A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued...
  • The Asylum Novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, & The Warden by Madeleine Roux

    The Asylum Novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, & The Warden by Madeleine Roux

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  abuse  book  fiction  gothic
  • House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Meg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she's been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made...
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