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  • Different Seasons by Stephen King

    Different Seasons by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    From the Magical Pen of Stephen King, Four Mesmerizing Novellas…“Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption”An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge…the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Shawshank Redemption...
  • The Shining by Stephen King, Campbell Scott

    The Shining by Stephen King, Campbell Scott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 89 ratings
    First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family...
  • Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know.In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker...
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    The Cabinet of Dr. Leng by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Agent Pendergast faces his latest challenge in this next installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series by acclaimed authors Preston and Child, the second in the Leng Trilogy.Following the events of Bloodless, FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast and Constance Greene return. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s...
  • The Institute by Stephen King

    The Institute by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window...
  • Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Watchers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods.That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life...
  • Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

    Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover...
  • The Taking of Peggy Martin by Karen Glista

    The Taking of Peggy Martin by Karen Glista

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The setting is East Texas, where Peggy, a young nurse, works at an institution for the criminally insane. After her husband Danny is mysteriously killed in a car accident, she convinces herself that it was murder… and she knows the murderer by name… Jasper Johnson...
  • The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie was afraid of the man in the shadows. He terrified her, but he would always disappear when someone else came. But one day in June 1984, she didn't escape. He took her. When a young woman is found draped over a gravestone in a chilling murder, police officer Annie Graham experiences a familiar sense of dread...
  • The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    The Mercy of Snakes by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A series of suspicious deaths in a retirement home draws Nameless into the confidence of a terrified former resident—and into the dark heart of a shocking conspiracy. In part five of the Nameless series, it’s time to hunt.Oakshore Park is Michigan’s most exclusive assisted-living community. Presided over by two killer angels of mercy, it’s also the go-to facility in assisted dying...
  • End of Watch by Stephen King

    End of Watch by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers—In End of Watch, the diabolical “Mercedes Killer” drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don’t figure out a way to stop him, they’ll be victims themselves...
  • The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

    The Bachman Books by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Omnibus collection of four early Bachman novels (Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man) and the essay "Why I Was...
  • 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...
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    crime  dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
    Categorized as:
    dark  thriller  spooky  suspense  horror  fiction  mystery  audiobook
  • Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world...
    Categorized as:
    crime  thriller  suspense  spooky  dark  paranormal  horror  mystery
  • Figment by Cameron Jace

    Figment by Cameron Jace

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After her encounter with the Cheshire Cat, Alice Wonder can hardly tell reality from imagination. But when kids have their head chopped off and stuffed in watermelons all over the city, it's clear that another Wonderland Monster has arrived, possibly scarier than the Cheshire...
  • 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...
  • Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Come with Me by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee.Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence--and her ghost--Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • Photographing the Dead by Dean Koontz

    Photographing the Dead by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A self-styled artist is getting away with murder in Death Valley. If all goes well, so will Nameless. In part two of the Nameless series, the relentless avenger is haunted by nightmares of the past and visions of what’s to come.Palmer Oxenwald’s hunting ground is the Mojave wasteland. His victims are random tourists and hikers. His trophies are cherished photographs of the damage he’s done...
  • Devoted by Dean Koontz

    Devoted by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From Dean Koontz, the international bestselling master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him.Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters...
  • Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as a TV series by Starz with the producers of Breaking Bad...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

    Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger..." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922." the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tales from Stephen King...
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar, Harsh Nayyar

    Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar, Harsh Nayyar

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi - and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband...
  • Most Likely to Die by Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton

    Most Likely to Die by Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "New York Times" bestselling authors Lisa Jackson, Beverly Barton, and Wendy Corsi Staub join forces to create a thrilling novel about love, revenge, and the dark secrets three women hold to a terrifying murder. . .A Killer Who Gets Away With Murder Once. . .It's been twenty years since the night Jake Marcott was brutally murdered at St. Elizabeth High School...
  • Red Rain by Dean Koontz

    Red Rain by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In a town where the corrupt are protected, a bereaved mother seeks retribution for an arsonist’s deadly crimes. Only Nameless can help ease the burden of her grief—and satisfy her rage—in part four of this thrilling series.After a suspicious house fire, Regina Belmont lost her two children, was left disfigured, and was abandoned by her gutless husband...
  • Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers-- a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York and the darkest bayous of Louisiana-- he is also forced to dig further into Helen's past...
  • The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz

    The Praying Mantis Bride by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series.Lucia—current last name, Rickenbah—has made a fortune by marrying rich men who tend to drop dead. But the superstitious blonde believes in more than money and murder...
  • Finders Keepers by Stephen King

    Finders Keepers by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    Wake up, genius. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising...
  • Later by Stephen King

    Later by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn...
  • Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Thr3e by Ted Dekker, Rob Lamont

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The nightmare has just begun... your world has changed forever. “Evil is beyond the reach of no man.” “But can a man remove himself beyond the reach of evil?” Kevin asked. “Indeed,” Dr. Francis said. “Can man step beyond evil’s reach? I think not. Not in this lifetime.” “Then all men are condemned to a life of evil,” Kevin said. “A lifetime struggle with evil, not a life of evil,” Dr...
  • FantasticLand: A Novel by Mike Bockoven, Angela Dawe

    FantasticLand: A Novel by Mike Bockoven, Angela Dawe

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where ““Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror...
  • Intensity by Dean Koontz, Kate Burton

    Intensity by Dean Koontz, Kate Burton

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old woman whose deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival, and whose adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-respect and safety...
  • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel...
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    crime  dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  thriller  adult  audiobook
  • The Whisper Man by Alex North

    The Whisper Man by Alex North

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town: Featherbank.But Featherbank has a dark past...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  thriller  abuse  adult
  • Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns...
  • 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...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  thriller  dark  paranormal  horror  mystery  audiobook
  • The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

    The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew...A classic of alienation and horror, The Birds was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world...
  • Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn't seen in years …CHILDRENThey met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal...
  • 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...
  • The Drift by C.J. Tudor

    The Drift by C.J. Tudor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  paranormal  suspense  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

    Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    In the predawn hours, in a distressed American city, hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They are tired and cold and desperate. Emerging from the fog, invisible until it is too late, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded...
  • Carrie by Stephen King

    Carrie by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 81 ratings
    A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is..
  • We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  paranormal  spooky  thriller  dark  horror  mystery  fiction
  • I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years...
  • The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

    The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity.Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow...
  • Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

    Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the dazzling new thriller from the master of dark suspense, the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man with greatness. So long as he is ready. So long as he is, above all, afraid.Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it...
  • Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

    Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge...
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