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  • The Trailwalker by J.L. Bryan

    The Trailwalker by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The old campground in the mountains has a shrouded history wrapped in legend. Located by the mysterious mounds of a vanished people, it was once a popular summer destination for children, but closed long ago under tragic circumstances.Josh and Allison Conner have moved out from the city, inspired to create a retreat for children in need, a place to build skills and character...
  • The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    The Lodge by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    More than a century ago, the Sea Islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Cumberland and Jekyll to escape the icy winters of New York...
  • House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    House of Whispers by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The luxurious Lathrop Grand Hotel is a Savannah institution that has entertained guests for more than a century and a half, offering some of the finest accommodations in the city. Famously haunted, the hotel draws tourists from around the world eager to encounter its numerous ghosts...
  • Secrets in the Dark by Darcy Coates

    Secrets in the Dark by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Even as Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building against ravenous hollow ones, they face something far worse: Clare's sister has made contact, but she's trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of miles separate Clare from Beth. The land between them is infested with monsters, and the roads are a maze of dead ends...
  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  mystery
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dark magic seeks to rise even as the dust settles...It's been more than a year since Jess and Hannah Ballard fought to return the power of the Gateways where it rightfully belongs, and the Durupinen world is slowly adjusting to its altered relationship with the spirit world...
  • Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

    Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He’s also—and this is the most interesting thing—not dead...
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  ghosts  hauntings
  • Half-Boys and Lost Girls by Tim McGregor

    Half-Boys and Lost Girls by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A reluctant psychic tries to shut out the ghosts forever only to find that the dead won't let her go. John Gantry's remains have vanished from the morgue, leaving Detective Mockler with another unsolved case on his hands. Kaitlin, suffering from post traumatic stress, is haunted by visions of her former ghost-hunting friends...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  angels  book  demons  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • 44 Gilmore Street by Shani Struthers

    44 Gilmore Street by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “We all have to face our demons at some point.” Psychic Surveys – specialists in domestic spiritual clearance – have never been busier. Although exhausted, Ruby is pleased. Her track record as well as her down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach inspires faith in the haunted, who willingly call on her high street consultancy when the supernatural takes hold. But that’s all about to change...
  • The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes

    The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Left alone at Marlow House with Sadie and Max, Walt expects Danielle and Lily to return by the end of the week. When they don’t, he begins to wonder what happened to them. The ghost of Marlow House doesn’t scare six-year-old Evan MacDonald. When the child sneaks into the house in the middle of the night, seeking Walt’s help, the resident spirit learns something has happened to Danielle and Lily...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  crime  fiction
  • City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A malevolent force lurks beneath the streets of Scotland...Jess and Hannah Ballard's determination to protect the Gateways brings them to Edinburgh's Old Town, where a strange phenomenon threatens to disturb the delicate balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Spirits who wish to cross over are vanishing, and it is up to the Ballard sisters to discover why...
  • Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Terminal by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ellie Jordan and her apprentice Stacey investigate a house in an elaborate planned community that was only half-built before it went bankrupt, leaving an instant ghost town with only a few residents. The entity haunting this house is a banshee that feeds on sadness and misery...
  • San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    San Francisco Night by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  demons  fiction
  • The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson

    The Last Christmas by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack is back.Wilson never said he was through with Repairman Jack. He said he was through turning in a new novel every year. He also said when a story came along that was right for Jack, he’d write it. The Last Christmas is that story. It’s late December between Ground Zero and Fatal Error, a winter of discontent for Jack who’s perhaps spending too much time hanging at Julio’s...
  • Mother's Day, the Krewe, and a Really Big Dog by Heather Graham

    Mother's Day, the Krewe, and a Really Big Dog by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A short Krewe story, approximately 7,000 words, and told from a different perspective, and with a different take on the Krewe!Angela Hawkins is being stalked—right before her first Mother’s Day. But unbeknownst to the stalker, the stalker is being stalked in turn.The situation might be deadly, Jackson is worried...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  animals  book  dogs  fiction  ghosts
  • A Lovely Drop by Darynda Jones

    A Lovely Drop by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A woman who claims to do the impossible…Andrea Grace comes from a long line of women who can do the impossible: They can eavesdrop on the past. But ever since her mother’s suspicious death, Andrea has led a half-life, guarding herself from those who would kill to get their hands on her...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Nightmare by Stephen Leather

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  demons  fiction
  • Nightworld by F. Paul Wilson

    Nightworld by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Terror spreads throughout the world as the days grow shorter and the nights longer. As scientists rush to discover why the sun is rising later and later each day, an ancient evil waits to be reborn. Soon the vampire called Rasalom and the spiritual warrior Glaeken will fight the final battle...
  • The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth...
  • Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Fire & Rain by John F.D. Taff

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    John F.D. Taff's highly-anticipated epic supernatural thriller, The Fearing, begins with Book One: Fire & Rain where humanity faces a series of catastrophes spawned by a worldwide event that unleashes all of mankind's greatest fears.In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end...
  • Forbidden Highway by Catie Rhodes

    Forbidden Highway by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lost treasure. The return of a dangerous adversary. You can run from destiny—but you can’t hide. Psychic medium Peri Jean Mace sets out to solve the mystery of the Mace Treasure once and for all. But a frightening new truth about her psychic gifts opens a forbidden highway she doesn’t want to travel. Then a brutal psychopath from her past returns, hell-bent on destroying her...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  female-mc  fiction  ghosts
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • Haunt Sweet Home by Jarica James

    Haunt Sweet Home by Jarica James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the Spirit Vlog team, home is wherever the haunts take them. But when they visit Lincoln’s family to recover from their ordeal at Realms of Discovery, they can’t resist the allure of small-town charm...
  • Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott

    Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lost 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...
  • Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A short story (apprx. 10,000 words) in which Angela Hawkins and Jackson Crow are called upon to help a friend in need . . .Strange baskets are arriving on Eliza Andrews' doorstep and a strange face is appearing in her window...
  • Big Easy Evil by Heather Graham

    Big Easy Evil by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Halloween in the Big Easy . . . Does evil really exist? Michael Quinn and Danni Cafferty are far too familiar with the question. At the death of her father, Danni inherited his house and shop on Royal Street in New Orleans—and much more than she ever anticipated, including a book kept by her family for generations on how to combat the most unusual forces...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • In Your Dreams by Robert Sanborn

    In Your Dreams by Robert Sanborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He moved to the Witch City to start a new life, but everything about Salem feels eerily familiar. Henry Trank is scared. Terrified by nightmares plaguing him since his arrival in Salem, he decides he's had enough. But when he records himself screaming out the last thoughts of a dying woman as he sleeps, he ends up wishing he'd left his GoPro in the closet...
  • Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Sinners on Sunset by Debra Dunbar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The tax demons want their pound of flesh. Or fifty-two thousand dollars.Unable to pay what she owes, Eden is forced to fight a never-ending stream of bounty hunters while she tries to clear her name and find the cop who set her up...
  • Crescent Moon by James Fahy

    Crescent Moon by James Fahy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when your world is turned upside down?When you discover your father had a direct hand in the genocide of much of the world’s human population?Phoebe Harkness’ life has changed forever. Thirty years after a cataclysmic world war that eviscerated one third of the human population, a new sub-species of vampire-like drones has set its teeth to the survivors of humanity...
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Welcome to the Spookshow by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Drifting through life while her peers move on with careers and marriage, Billie Culpepper fears she will never discover what she was meant to do with her life. Fate intercedes when she's injured during a pursuit between a mysterious Englishman and the police detective determined to apprehend him...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  book  fiction  ghosts  horror  magic  mystery
  • Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, Alexander Cendese

    Fear City by F. Paul Wilson, Alexander Cendese

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rage, terror, and redemption: these are the stones upon which F. Paul Wilson builds the concluding chapter of Repairman Jack: The Early Years, the prequel trilogy focusing on the formative years of Wilson's globally popular supernatural tropubleshooter.The strands of Jack's life, established in the first two books, Cold City and Dark City, are now woven into a complete pattern...
  • Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Dark City by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dark City is the second of a new prequel trilogy, Repairman Jack: The Early Years by F. Paul Wilson.It's February 1992. Desert Storm is raging in Iraq but twenty-two-year-old Jack has more pressing matters at home. His favorite bar, The Spot, is about to be sold out from under Julio, Jack's friend...
  • Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Leading up to the highly anticipated arrival of Odd Apocalypse this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in Odd Interlude, a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz! Here is the spine-tingling 70-page first installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure.  THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT...
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  audiobook  book  crime  dark  fiction  ghosts
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • The Scene by R.M. Gilmore

    The Scene by R.M. Gilmore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Havoc ensues when journalist Dylan Hart takes on the story of a lifetime. Exsanguinated hookers? Vampires in real life? What more could the public want? As the death toll rises, Dylan discovers she's put herself on the killer's radar and will have to fight to survive...
  • The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone.Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world’s most famous paranormal investigator...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  demons  fiction  ghosts  horror
  • Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  book  crime  fiction  horror  killer  mystery
  • The Third Eye of Jenny Crumb by Martina Dalton

    The Third Eye of Jenny Crumb by Martina Dalton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jenny Crumb appears to have the perfect life. She’s smart, beautiful, and... normal. But, on the inside, she struggles to keep a dark secret from her friends and family. Jenny is psychic—and she fears that if people find out, she’ll be labeled as a loser and a freak. Jenny falls in love with the handsome new guy in school...
  • Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Letting go is not an option.In the coastal town of Atlas Cliffs, seventeen-year-old Drew Harlow has a secret. She can see the dead. She’s always seen them, and they’ve always left her alone.Until now.Drew’s final year of high school should have been fun. It should have been carefree. It would have, if not for the accident that took the life of her boyfriend, Shane...
  • The Threshold by R.L. King

    The Threshold by R.L. King

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Evil Enters Through Darkest DoorwaysIt's been less than a month since Alastair Stone discovered a monstrous supernatural conspiracy to take over our world one mind at a time.The battle in San Francisco struck a major blow—but it didn't eliminate the threat.Not even close...
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  ghosts  horror
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