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The Crane Diaries: Homecoming by Apryl Baker
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew Orleans is a city known for its paranormal history—and it’s the place Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has come home to. She hopes she can start over in New Orleans, where her ability to see ghosts isn't so freaky... -
![The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker]()
The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI Am Death. I Am Darkness. I Am Creation. These are the simple truths Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has run from for the last two years, but the situation she finds herself in will not let her flee her past anymore. It’s barreling toward her at the speed of a bullet. Mattie finds herself back in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the trial of Dan’s mother... -
![Stolen Paradise by Mila Young, Harper A. Brooks]()
Stolen Paradise by Mila Young, Harper A. Brooks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese monsters rule the city... and I've become their newest obsession.I've been caught in a war between the three most powerful gangs in the city... and I'm trapped with the most dangerous of them all.The Kings.With each passing day, they lurk closer, their darkness pulling me a bit deeper. They push me, demanding everything I have when my world is falling apart... -
![Devil's Door by Lee Mountford]()
Devil's Door by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHalloween night, 1982. Many people were brutally killed or simply vanished at the Blackwater Hotel—formerly Perron Manor. The events of that night have always remained a mystery.Until now...Ray and Rita Pearson, along with their daughter, Chloe, move into the hotel to help with its renovation and grand opening. All under the watchful eye of the mysterious owner, Marcus Blackwater... -
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![Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart]()
Soul's Gate by James L. Rubart
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Every now and then we get a break from reality. A glimpse into the other world that is more real than the reality we live in 99 percent of our days. The Bible is about a world of demons and angels and great evil and even greater glory.”What if you could travel inside another person’s soul?To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds... -
![Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart]()
Raven: The Balance: Book Two by Nick Shamhart
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRaven is the second book in The Balance series - a collection of paranormal thrillers dealing with the unseen world of balancing powers.Too often life is viewed in terms of good and evil, black or white, and the balance point tipping in either direction is ignored... -
![Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight]()
Moon Magic by Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst published in 1938 and 1956, neither Sea Priestess nor Moon Magic have been out of print and are enduring favorites among readers of esoteric fiction. New packages will update these classic novels and introduce them to a new generation of readers... -
![Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás]()
Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA queer retelling of Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with a little love story in between –In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself... -
![Possession by Lee Mountford]()
Possession by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA haunted cathedral. A possessed priest.Sarah Pearson and her team are sent on their first assignment together—to investigate a case of possession in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.Father Hus, a respected priest, has reportedly succumbed to possession from a supernatural entity. On top of that, there are stories of a ghostly and bloody monk wandering the halls at night... -
![Between by Mary Ting]()
Between by Mary Ting
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAs the alkins head back to Crossroads, Claudia leads her normal life; but not for long. Having a special soul, Claudia attracts danger, and she soon finds out who Gamma asked to watch over her. The Twelve, known as Divine Elders on Earth, are very much involved when they find out that Aliah, one of the God's first angels, escaped from the Abyss when the gates were opened by Aden... -
![The Omen by David Seltzer]()
The Omen by David Seltzer
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsNow updated, this classic tale of the antichrist who comes to Earth in the form of a young boy is available in time for 20th Century Fox's contemporary remake of the 1976 classic film, starring Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, and Mia Farrow, scheduled for release on June 6, 2006. Reissue... -
![Demonic by Jeff Strand]()
Demonic by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of PRESSURE and AUTUMN BLEEDS INTO WINTER, comes a new novel of unrelenting terror.Corey is falling in love with his co-worker Quinn. This is a problem. Not only because Quinn is married, but because her husband is a serial killer known as the Toledo Trasher, who has been forcing her to participate in his savage crimes... -
![The Devil's Evidence by Simon Kurt Unsworth]()
The Devil's Evidence by Simon Kurt Unsworth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA new case of unsolvable murders brings Hell to Heaven in the explosive sequel to The Devil’s Detective.Hell is burning out of control. Thomas Fool, Hell’s first Information Man tasked with investigating the endless stream of violence in Hell, has been promoted to the head of the newly expanded Information Office... -
![Blood Colony by Tananarive Due]()
Blood Colony by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAcclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals - a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years - facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic... -
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![Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook]()
Lucifer's Flood by Linda Rios Brook
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The sensation of falling was terrifying…we tumbled out of the realm of the heavenly light into perpetual darkness. We had not seen darkness before--not like this anyway... A strange man shows up at the office of language expert Samantha Yale with a mysterious scroll written in an even more mysterious language... -
![Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt]()
Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Graves is a miserable man. Every day he comes home from his dream job to a stale marriage. On the day he finally summons the courage to tell his wife, Eve, he wants a divorce she has exciting news for him – she’s pregnant. Nick is a spiteful man. He purchases his dream home in an ideal location far away from family, friends, and coworkers... -
![Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone]()
Shadow Unleashed by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen you’re fated to fall, rising up to howling glory is the last thing you’d ever expect. My birth — like that of many Shadowborns — was a mistake. A demon hybrid of wolf and dusk, I started life as a dead shifter walking with little hope of survival.Every day death tries to claim me, but somehow I keep living, only to end up in the dangerous hidden depths of Shifter Syndicate... -
![Swarm and Steel by Michael R. Fletcher]()
Swarm and Steel by Michael R. Fletcher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo escape the hell she created, a woman must team up with a novice warrior and return to her homeland in this gritty epic fantasy where delusions are literally made real.Zerfall awakens in an alley, wounded and unable to remember her past. Chased by an assassin out into the endless wastes of the desert, she is caught, disfigured, and left for dead... -
![A Warm Place to Call Home by Michael Siemsen]()
A Warm Place to Call Home by Michael Siemsen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrederick is a demon living life to the fullest ... Except, it's other people's lives.UNPAID READERS ARE SOMEHOW SAYING:★★★★★ “Prepare yourself to root for what’s wrong and to hope for the worst” ★★★★★ “Draws you in from the outset…” ★★★★★ “I love him! He’s a jerk! I love him!” ★★★★★ “…couldn’t put it down until the last page was turned.” ★★★★★ “…a moving story, and all-too-real... -
![Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa]()
Dark Phoenix by Karina Espinosa
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow far would I go for freedom?Lucifer’s mark has a control on my life and the only way out is sacrificing a friend. When Michael gives himself up for my freedom, it comes with consequences.The angels find out what Michael has done to save my life, and it is now my turn to save his. With a bargain struck, it’s a race against the clock to put an end to this once and for all.It’s me against Lucifer... -
![Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa]()
Phoenix Rise by Karina Espinosa
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor someone who can’t die, it felt as if I were already dead.He took everything from me and I don’t have the energy or fight in me to get it back. Not that I could. What he took is long gone and never coming back.The pain of what he did—what I did—will haunt me for the rest of my life. That is until I met a certain angel in the cell next to mine and I knew I couldn’t give up yet... -
![Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield]()
Armed In Her Fashion by Kate Heartfield
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1328, Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras -- humans mixed with animals or armour, forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows.Margriet de Vos learns she's a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. He didn't come back for her... -
![Moonfall by Tamara Thorne]()
Moonfall by Tamara Thorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMoonfall, the picturesque community nestled in the mountains of Southern California, is a quaint hamlet of antique stores and craft shops run by the dedicated nuns of St. Gertrude’s Home for girls. As autumn fills the air, the townspeople prepare for the festive Halloween Haunt, Moonfall’s most popular tourist attraction... -
![I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III]()
I Knocked Up Satan's Daughter: A Demonic Romantic Comedy by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJonathan Vandervoo lives a carefree life in a house made of legos, spending his days building lego sculptures and his nights getting drunk with his only friend-an alcoholic sumo wrestler named Shoji. It's a pleasant life with no responsibility, until the day he meets Lici. She's a soul-sucking demon from hell with red skin, glowing eyes, a forked tongue, and pointy red devil horns.. -
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![The Monk by Antonin Artaud, Matthew Gregory Lewis]()
The Monk by Antonin Artaud, Matthew Gregory Lewis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs wide and eclectic as Surrealist artist Antonin Artaud's portfolio is, it contains only one work of fiction: a reworking of Matthew Lewis' story of sexual obsession: The Monk, of 1794. Unlike traditional translations, Artaud's version simply used the text as a starting point as he discarded entire chapters and stamped his own distinctive identity on the work... -
![Witch by Patrick Logan]()
Witch by Patrick Logan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo food, no money, no way to make a living... how far would you go to make sure that you and your daughter are fed? After her husband's death, Anne LaForet is alone... alone to raise her young daughter in an area of the swamp that is too foul to grow anything. Anne is no criminal, but circumstances force her to resort to theft... -
![Twisted Sacrament by Zoe Blake, Alta Hensley]()
Twisted Sacrament by Zoe Blake, Alta Hensley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDark. Depraved. Sacrilegious. Each shocking story from these bestselling, dark authors will deform a holy sacrament into a sensually wicked taboo. There is no sanctuary, no light - only darkness - a deep, clawing horror. The blood of the innocent will be shed in a twisted perversion of all you hold dear. You will search in vain for a happy ending. This is your only warning... -
![A Taste of Magic by McKenzie Hunter]()
A Taste of Magic by McKenzie Hunter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a fleeting moment, I had magic. Powerful magic. But the Dark Prince’s enemy stole it from me, making them the most powerful being in the world. Their primary goal is to destroy everything close to the Dark Prince, and that includes me... -
![Hallows Fright: A Halloween Romance by Dakota Wilde]()
Hallows Fright: A Halloween Romance by Dakota Wilde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNightmare Acres is for the dark, the depraved, and the lost. Vampires, demons, ghosts, and witches...All the frights of the night stalk the grounds at Nightmare acres, hiding their true idnenities from the humans who’ve come to their cursed playground... -
![Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready]()
Requiem for the Devil by Jeri Smith-Ready
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in modern-day Washington, D.C., Requiem for the Devil depicts the end of the Devil's ten-billion-year career. For the first time in his existence, Lucifer falls in love, and this event threatens to transform his identity and perhaps even his destiny. Gianna O'Keefe is the woman who drags him out of his ancient despair and points him toward possible salvation... -
![The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson]()
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young... -
![The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining, Elizabeth Albright]()
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories by Peter Haining, Elizabeth Albright
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanded with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead--from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side... -
![Nightmare by Robin Parrish]()
Nightmare by Robin Parrish
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGhost Town is the hottest amusement park in the country, offering state-of-the-art chills and thrills involving the paranormal. The park's main ride is a haunted mansion that promises an encounter with a real ghost. When Maia Peters visits during her senior year of college, she's not expecting to be impressed... -
![Awakening by Catrina Burgess]()
Awakening by Catrina Burgess
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’ll do anything for vengeance, even confront death itself. Born a healer, nineteen-year-old Colina has been taught to fear dark magic. But now vengeance and survival are her only goals, and she seeks the help of the Death Dealers—dark mages who wield the death arts, drawing their power from the spirits of the unsettled dead.Colina asks a death dealer named Luke for help... -
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![Little Eve by Catriona Ward]()
Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist.Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle... -
![The Crowsmoor Curse by Jan McDonald]()
The Crowsmoor Curse by Jan McDonald
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0076DHC8M.A Mike Travis Paranormal investigation in haunted CornwallThe dead of Crowsmoor are light sleepers.Some say they sleep with one eye open, keeping watch over the restless ones... -
![The Dark Path by Luke Romyn]()
The Dark Path by Luke Romyn
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVOTED ONE OF THE TOP 10 HORROR NOVELS OF 2009.TOP 20 BEST SELLING HORROR ON AMAZON.#1 BEST SELLING HORROR ON FICTIONWISE."The 21st Century's Newest Master-of-Horror... Rivaling both Stephen King and Thomas Harris, without doubt, the edgy and provocative Luke Romyn is destined to emerge as the 21st century's newest Master-of-Horror... -
![White Pines by Gemma Amor]()
White Pines by Gemma Amor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman, returning to her roots. A town, built on sacred land. A secret, cloaked in tradition and lore. Welcome to White Pines.Don't get too comfortable.This is the new cosmic-folk-Celtic-cult-horror novel from Gemma Amor, the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura, Cruel Works of Nature and Till the Score is Paid... -
![The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp]()
The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFilled with characters as menacing as they are memorable, this chilling twist on vampire fiction packs a punch in the bestselling tradition of ’Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.Asmodeus “Sax” Saxon-Tang, a vainglorious and well-established antiques dealer, has made a fortune over many years by globetrotting for the finest lost objects in the world... -
![Tricked by Nora Ash]()
Tricked by Nora Ash
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSecond instalment in the serial ‘Demon’s Mark’. He had tricked her. Tricked her into trusting his professional façade and beguiling promises, and tricked her into spreading her thighs with lies and deceit. Barely recovered from Dr... -
![The Hungry Ones by Chris Sorensen]()
The Hungry Ones by Chris Sorensen
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt the outskirts of Maple City sits the Crossroads Motel, a throwback to the days when the motor lodge was king. Two years ago, the motel was the site of an act so brutal that its buildings were left to rot.Jessie Voss, however, sees promise in the Crossroad's bare bones and buys it up, determined to breathe new life into the place... -
![Interview with the Devil by Michael Harbron]()
Interview with the Devil by Michael Harbron
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Interview with the Devil' is a chilling masterpiece that captivates and terrifies in equal measure. Joseph Banbury's journey is brilliantly conceived, forcing us to confront our deepest fears and beliefs. Truly amazing." - Tom Holland (Fright Night, Chucky)Scrubs Magazine's 2024 Top Read, "THE BEST HORROR BOOK THIS CENTURY... -
![God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe]()
God's Demon by Wayne Barlowe
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLucifer's War, which damned legions of angels to Hell, is an ancient and bitter memory shrouded in the smoke and ash of the Inferno. The Fallen, those banished demons who escaped the full wrath of Heaven, have established a limitless and oppressive kingdom within the fiery confines of Hell... -
![Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin]()
Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSex, drugs, satanism, rock and roll and the 1960s. Irwin is a writer of immense subtlety and craftmanship, and offers us a vivid and utterly convincing portrait of life on the loopier fringes of the Sixties. Satan Wants Me is black, compulsive and very, very funny... -
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![Blood at Dusk by Brenna Harlow]()
Blood at Dusk by Brenna Harlow
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill she forgive him of his sins, or fight their bond until her last dying breath?Kora was left alone when the world crumbled, and the bloodsucking monsters invaded.The vampires killed her family, her friends; everyone she had ever loved.She waited for the moment they would enter her hideaway and snuff out her miserable existence for good... -
![Sorrow's Point by Danielle DeVor]()
Sorrow's Point by Danielle DeVor
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot All Exorcists are Equal....One is Marked.When defrocked ex-priest, Jimmy Holiday, agrees to help an old friend with his sick daughter, he doesn’t expect the horrors that await him. Blackmoor, his friend’s new residence, rests upon the outskirts of the town of Sorrow’s Point... -
![Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe]()
Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo by Miyuki Miyabe
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn old Edo, the past was never forgotten. It lived alongside the present, in dark corners, and in the shadows. In these tales, award-winning author Miyuki Miyabe explores the ghosts of Japan, and the spaces of the living world they inhabit. Written with a journalistic eye and a fantasist’s heart Apparitions bring the restless dead, and those who encounter them, to life... -
![Death of the Body by Rick Chiantaretto]()
Death of the Body by Rick Chiantaretto
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI grew up in a world of magic. By the time I was ten I understood nature, talked to the trees, and listened to the wind. When the kingdom of men conquered my town, I was murdered by one of my own—the betrayer of my kind. But I didn't stay dead.I woke to find myself in a strange new world called Los Angeles... -
![The Devil's Blade by Amy Cross]()
The Devil's Blade by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrawn to a mysterious church in the heart of the city, photographer Kate Logan soon realizes that dark forces are at work. Her pictures show figures that shouldn't be there, figures that hint at the church's true nature. But by the time she understands what she's uncovered, it might be too late for Kate to escape... -
![The Dark Ones by Bryan Smith]()
The Dark Ones by Bryan Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA group of misfit teens who call themselves "The Dark Ones" inadvertently awaken a demon who unleashes a wave of violence and terror on their small town. And only the Dark Ones know how to stop it...
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