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The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsMara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah... -
![The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas]()
The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA child who does not know her name…In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor... -
![The Haunting of Winchester Mansion by Alexandria Clarke]()
The Haunting of Winchester Mansion by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the small town of Black Bay, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop an overlooking bluff. When Bailey and Bodhi Taylor move in and begin renovations, the house seems perfect. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Bailey sees a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye... -
![Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan]()
Touching Evil by Kay Hooper, Alyssa Bresnahan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThis is the story of Seattle police artist Maggie Barnes, whose remarkable artistic talents are the focus of an even more extraordinary psychic gift that she is determined to keep secret: a gift that has allowed her to work with crime victims, to feel what they feel, to create perfect portraits of their attackers... -
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![Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper]()
Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFear has never been so close...New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil.Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood... -
![Ashes Beneath Her by J.R. Erickson]()
Ashes Beneath Her by J.R. Erickson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOrla has a gift, an ability to sense things she touches: memories, traumas… murders. On a sunny day in 1975, she sets off on a bike ride into the picturesque countryside and vanishes. She is not the first young woman to go missing and she will not be the last.Ashes Beneath Her is the third novel in the stand-alone Northern Michigan Asylum Series... -
![Jessamine by Shani Struthers]()
Jessamine by Shani Struthers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone."Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together... -
![The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek]()
The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe shocking conclusion to the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why... -
![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 ratingsAt 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... -
![Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz]()
Deadly Little Voices by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHigh school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead... -
![Ghost by Elle Andrews Patt]()
Ghost by Elle Andrews Patt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one believes her. Yet. No one believes six-year-old Billie Mae knows how she died. Archivist Andrea Kelley's best friend, police detective William Taka, doesn't believe Andrea is actually conversing with a ghost. And Andrea can’t believe Taka has been doubting her sanity, that she’s scared for the safety of a little girl’s ghost, and that she’s really discovered the trail of a serial killer... -
![Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott]()
Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLost Girl - Readers' Favorite Award Finalist in Paranormal FictionRenowned sculptor Allison Weathers doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a tragic twist of fate leads her to the small mountain town of Dawson Mills, Tennessee, she soon learns that the dead don't always stay silent. Shadows begin to shift in the rambling, old Victorian farmhouse she's purchased. Voices come from nowhere... -
![Tanners Dell by S.E. England, Sarah E. England]()
Tanners Dell by S.E. England, Sarah E. England
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the hypnosis of violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains--Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fianc�, D.I... -
![The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross]()
The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms... -
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![Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 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... -
![Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi]()
Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour 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... -
![Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper]()
Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHIS KILLER DREAMS IN SHADES OF DEATH... He’s the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any fear of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator... -
![House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski]()
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsYears ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command... -
![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 ratingsHe 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... -
![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... -
![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 ratingsAnn 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 Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts]()
A Grave Calling by Wendy Roberts
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere had been no attempt to bury the dead girl, naked except for the white ribbon tied to her wristTwenty-five-year-old Julie Hall has a unique ability: when she takes up a dowsing rod, she finds not water but bodies. To Julie, it's a curse, not a gift, and one she rarely uses—she prefers her quiet life in a trailer, with her grandfather and her dog for company... -
![Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy]()
Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey were watching...and waitingAt twelve, Maggie had been thrown out of more boarding schools than she cared to remember. "Impossible to handle," they said nasty, mean, disobedient, rebellious, thieving anything they could say to explain why she must be removed from the school.Maggie was thin and pale, with shabby clothes and stringy hair, when she arrived at her new home... -
![The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power]()
The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrust no one. Especially your neighbors.Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. But her story doesn’t end there... -
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![The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb]()
The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHaunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death...Categorized as:
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![Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham]()
Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdam’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... -
![নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed]()
নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsমিসির আলি সিরিজের বই। "নিশীথিনী" হচ্ছে "দেবী" এর দ্বিতীয়... -
![The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates]()
The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSometimes 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... -
![Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne]()
Sleep With The Lights On by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight... -
![Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger]()
Love the Way You Lie by Lisa Unger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat'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... -
![In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub]()
In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before the murderous force residing there makes both she and her friend's daughter its next victims... -
![The Blake Soul by I.C. Camilleri]()
The Blake Soul by I.C. Camilleri
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJosh Blake wakes up to the sound of the chilling scream echoing inside his head. His childhood nightmares are haunting him again. But why return now after all those years of oblivion? He sets out to investigate and he changes the natural course of events, rewriting destiny and creating a whole new world for himself and for those around him... -
![A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat]()
A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest.The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said... -
![The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark]()
The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMore than Ghosts haunt you in his ghost story.Edward Meyer is returning back to his home town after the tragic loss of his wife. This move is rather ironic since it was the tragic loss of his parents that forced him away in the first place. When he returns, he learns a deep family secret that goes beyond the spirits that roam the town... -
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![Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen]()
Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner 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... -
![Splintered by Tal Bauer]()
Splintered by Tal Bauer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there... -
![School for Reluctant Witches by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac]()
School for Reluctant Witches by Auburn Tempest, Carolina Mac
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTake the best blend of action/adventure, urban fantasy, and witch magick, add in a dash of murder and mayhem, some New Orleans flavor, and you're left with a fun, rollicking read you won't want to put down. Mystere LeJeune isn't only a witch--she's THE witch. Her family's magick roots weave deep into the rich soil and boggy swamps of the New Orleans paranormal community... -
![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 ratingsWho 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... -
![Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury]()
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer... -
![Out of Sight by K.C. Wells]()
Out of Sight by K.C. Wells
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDetective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter have a new cold case to tackle, and new leads to research in the hunt for Gary’s brother’s killer. Their life in Boston has settled into a comfortable rhythm... -
![Haven by Kay Hooper]()
Haven by Kay Hooper
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a breathtaking new thriller of a young woman's homecoming - to a town of menacing whispers, bad dreams, and dangerous secrets...Another nightmare, in the woods this time. Different: She was running. Trying to escape. But the same ending. Always the same ending... -
![Ghost Story by Peter Straub]()
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn 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... -
![Lineage by Joe Hart]()
Lineage by Joe Hart
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA LIFE FILLED WITH ANGUISH Pain, horror, fear- These are the things that bestselling novelist Lance Metzger's life have been comprised of. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and the abandonment of an apathetic mother. In turn, his only refuge became his writing... -
![Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger]()
Circling the Drain by Lisa Unger
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs 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... -
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![Fog Descending by Lisa Unger]()
Fog Descending by Lisa Unger
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 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 ratingsA 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... -
![The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich]()
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud by Max Ehrlich
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDr. Peter Proud’s ordinary life as a professor in California is threatened by recurrent dreams that all end the same: with his murder in a lake at night by a mysterious woman named Marcia... -
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314 book 3 by A.R. Wise
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAlma Harper and her friends have been struggling to figure out the puzzle of lies weaved in the town of Widowsfield. They've escaped the grasp of The Watcher, but now The Skeleton Man is free as well, and no one's certain what he's capable of. The Watcher in the Walls is forced to craft new lies, and weave a new nightmare in Widowsfield, but he longs for the return of the Harpers... -
![The Redwood Asylum by L.A. Detwiler]()
The Redwood Asylum by L.A. Detwiler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead do talk ... if you’re brave enough to hear their sinister secrets.In a thick forest sits a forgotten stone building, The Redwood Asylum. Once inside, the criminally insane, the darkly disturbed, and the eternally confused residents learn one thing very quickly: they are at the mercy of ruthless evil in many forms... -
![Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca]()
Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the morning, Bram finds the bones of a murdered child. At noon, the murdered child begs for his help. And by nightfall, they have killed a man together and set off into the afterlife, where nothing is what it was, and death is only the beginning of punishment. An eerie story about the nature of death and the self, Midnight Picnic inhabits an American landscape made strange and unfamiliar...
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