Books like 'Silent Stalker'
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Whispers in the Mist by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClare and Dorran may still be alive against all odds, but relief is only temporary. Dorran is sick, and rapidly worsening. Clare fears the only way to save him lies in the mysterious Evandale Research Station, supposedly one of the few remaining human refuges. But the station is three days' journey away, and Clare isn't certain their small group can endure that long... -
The Works of Edgar Allen [sic] Poe: Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsP. F Collier & Son published a five volume collection of Poe's work in hardback in 1903. This is volume 1, with a frontspiece in color from a painting by Arthur E. Becher.contains:Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation, by W.H.R.Life of Poe, by James Russell LowellDeath of Poe, by N. P... -
The Devil's Den by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1540, newly married and pregnant Isobel Devlin vanished from a tiny island in Lancashire, never to be seen again.In 2020, leaving London for the first time since the pandemic began, Nicole Rayburn and Kyle Walsh head to a guesthouse in the Lake District for a much-needed holiday...Categorized as:
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The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContents:The Devil in the BelfryLionizingX-ing a ParagraphMetzengersteinThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor FetherHow to Write a Blackwood ArticleA PredicamentMystificationDIddlingThe Angel of the OddMellonta TautaThe Duc de L'omeletteThe Oblong BoxLoss of BreathThe Man that was Used UpThe Business ManThe Landscape GardenMaelzel's Chess PlayerThe power of WordsThe Colloquy of Monos and... -
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John Saul: Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels: Suffer the Children; Punish the Sinners; Cry for the Strangers by John Saul
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Saul: Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels: Suffer the Children; Punish the Sinners; Cry for the... -
The Shadow Over Innsmouth And Other Stories Of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross between a fish and a frog, which lives in the seaside village of Innsmouth... -
Mania by Naomi Loud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI have starved for as long as I have been sentient.Collecting soul after soul, I fed. I gorged. Then he arrived, and suddenly, I understood what it truly meant to feel. Jealousy. Greed. Obsession.It tasted like him. Intoxicating. Addicting. I had to have my fill of him. Control him. Keep him. And I did. And we were happy. Trapped. But happy. Until she arrived. Her soul replete with mortal toil... -
Calling Back the Dead: A Northern Michigan Asylum Novel by J.R. Erickson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century. But that hasn’t kept the darkness at bay. Stories about the cursed house trickle out. Violent deaths, strange sightings, and always the chilling sound of a little girl’s song permeates the murky halls. Today, Kerry Manor is restored to its original grandeur... -
The Antagonist by Jonas Saul
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVivian has sent Sarah to Kelowna, British Columbia, to antagonize a member of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When she arrives, Barry Ashford, the RCMP officer Sarah is supposed to irritate, has just saved a woman from a suicide attempt. To the media and the public, Barry Ashford is a hero... -
The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn the banks of the Skeleton River in a remote part of North Carolina lies the small town of Starlight. Once known for its tobacco fields and rural charm, Starlight has seen better days. Now most of the stores on Main Street are boarded up, and many of the residents have left town for good... -
Perron Manor by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDescriptionPerron Manor—a place evil calls homeSisters Sarah and Chloe inherit a house they could never have previously dreamed of owning. It seems too good to be true.Shortly after they move in, however, the siblings start to notice strange things: horrible smells, sudden drops in temperature, as well as unexplainable sounds and feelings of being watched... -
Halloween by Richard Curtis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsBased on the screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Tricked by his cunning ... Treated to his savagery ... Annie, Linda and Laurie ... fresh, pretty, ready to be taken ... stalked by a sadistic power who has returned to claim new victims, on this ... the most frightening night of the year... -
Key to Midnight / Shattered / House of Thunder by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates brings you the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels, which have been praised for their fast-paced plots and brilliant twists. As a bonus, you also get a digital copy of the runaway bestseller The Taste of Fear, which has garnered more than 500 five-star reviews... -
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The Only One Left by Riley Sager
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAt seventeen, Lenora HopeHung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it... -
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it... -
Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years the abandoned MacKenzie mansion remained hidden in rural Wisconsin. Rumors and stories of apparitions, odd noises, accidents, and strange deaths in or near the property were enough to convince the townsfolk it was haunted and they stayed away... -
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Stephen Hand
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn August 20th 1973, police were dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County, Texas. Within the confines of a cryptic residence discovered the butchered remains of 33 victims. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh masks of his victims, the killer became forever known as 'Leatherface'... -
A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home.. -
The Stars We Walked Upon by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCarrie Jo Stuart's dream catching has gotten out of control and threatens to wreck her happy home. She decides to tell her husband a secret that changes everything, but Ashland has ghosts of his own. Ashland's childhood friend Detra Ann Dowd battles a frightening supernatural being but travels across time to receive help from an unexpected ally... -
The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLet Sleeping Ghosts LieTwelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old says he talks to Ashley by the pond. He does dangerous, deadly things because, he says, "Ashley dared me to... -
The River of Souls by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. . Matthew Corbett, professional “problem solver,” has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball.What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation... -
Click-Clack the Rattlebag by Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNarrated by Neil Gaiman."Click-Clack the Rattlebag" is your Halloween treat from Neil Gaiman and Audible, free through October 31. It's not available anywhere else, and for a limited time, each download from Audible benefits educational charities at DonorsChoose.org... -
The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the author's The Book of Counted Sorrows, being the mind-bending, heart-stopping, bowel-freezing, spleen-tickling history of the most dangerous book of poetry ever written, including the text of the cursed book itself, with the prayer that God will protect you from a spontaneous head explosion (and even worse potential fates) if you dare read it... -
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The People Next Door by Keri Beevis
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Hooked from the start . . . absolutely brilliant. Wish I could rate it higher . . . Just wow!" --Amazon reviewer, five starsHer new house has a mysterious past--and her new life in the English countryside is about to take a dark turn . . .When Ellie and Ash move into a beautiful old house in rural Norfolk, England, they believe they've found their perfect home... -
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours... -
December by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood. On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again...In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history. The experience almost destroys them. Years later, the original group is forced to return to the abbey, to confront the old evil they discovered... -
Level 3: The Black Cat and Other Stories Book & MP3 Pack by David Wharry, Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsClassic / British English Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at night! Book and MP3 pack... -
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Essays by Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Laura Lippman, Lisa Scottoline, and Thirteen Others by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“A wonderful treat for the Poe connoisseur, or a perfect introduction to his works.”—Charlotte Observer In the Shadow of the Master is an exceptional collection of classic stories from the lord of literary darkness himself—the inimitable Edgar Allan Poe—accompanied by enthralling essays from twenty of his bestselling acolytes and admirers... -
Unrest by Michelle Harrison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Elliott hasn’t slept properly for months. Ever since the accident that nearly killed him, a shadowy figure has made its presence felt – a figure only he can see. Elliott is convinced his near death experience has enabled him to contact the dead... -
Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience... -
Carnival Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance by Selena Winters
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe problem with stalking a predator? Sometimes, they decide to keep you.I study killers for a living. I analyze their methods, dissect their psychology, and share their darkest deeds with my podcast listeners, but I’ve never encountered anyone like Remy.When I spotted him at the carnival, I knew he was different... -
Wife of the Left Hand by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAvery Dufresne had the perfect life--a rock star boyfriend, a high-profile career in the anchor chair on a national news program. Until a dangerous threat brings her perfect world to a shattering stop. Avery loses everything but when she emerges from the darkness she finds she has a new ability--a supernatural one... -
The Secret of Cypriere Bayou by Jana Deleon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA MANSION OF HORRORS DEEP IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...For Olivia Markham, laMalediction is the ideal setting in which to complete her work. But something is sending a chill up the usually fearless author's spine. There are the unearthly noises, the sliding panels, the hidden passageways...and John Landry, the sexy caretaker who seems less than welcoming... -
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House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou know, don’t you, that it’s not my soul the Devil wants, it’s yours?Two years ago the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics.Now something is trying to lure the Pipers back to Fenton House... -
Hinton Hollow Death Trip by Will Carver
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFive days in the history of a small rural town, visited and infected by darkness, are recounted by Evil itself. A stunning high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of Good Samaritans and Nothing Important Happened Today. 'Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain... -
Classics of the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman... -
Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: There is an earlier printing with a different cover using the same ISBN available on Goodreads here... -
Animosity by James Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAndrew Holland is a bestselling horror writer. While none of Andy's neighbors has any interest in reading his macabre books, they're pleased to have a celebrity author living among them. Then, one morning, Andy finds the body of a child several hundred feet from his front door. A little girl who has been raped and murdered. And everything changes on Poinsettia Lane. Andy's neighbors turn on him... -
Husk by J. Kent Messum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.LIFE GOES ONFor a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...MAKING A LIVINGRhodes is a 'Husk'... -
Light Up the Dark by Suki Fleet
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor two years Nicky has wandered the dark empty corridors of the overgrown Thorn Hall, unseen and untouched, feeling like a ghost. His only company, the cold man who promised to keep him safe from harm, Lance. But when Lance dies, Nicky’s assurance of safety disintegrates and his world suddenly becomes a lot more real and a lot more dangerous. Scared to leave the house, Nicky longs for daylight... -
Dark Shadows: Wolf Moon Rising by Lara Parker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first all-new Dark Shadows novel in years, written by Lara Parker, one of the stars of the cult classic TV show!When a portrait is lost that has maintained Quentin Collins's youthful appearance for over a century—and has also kept his werewolf curse at bay—Quentin begins to dread the full moon... -
The Well by Peter Labrow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrapped. Missing. Cursed. Fourteen-year-old Becca Richards and her stepbrother have fallen to the bottom of an ancient well. Their parents are away; they won't be missed for days. The predatory man who had been stalking Becca now switches his attentions to her best friend. Two women who know where Becca is trapped are desperate that she should never escape... -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: W... -
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The Blood House by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventy-five years ago, a family of three disappeared from their remote English home. Blood was left smeared all over the floors and walls, but despite an extensive search, their bodies were never found. Now the house is ready to kill again. On the run from his creditors, Owen Richards moves his wife and daughter out to the same house... -
The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenny couldn’t believe her luck when they first arrived at Oak Tree House, the grand country estate where she would be spending the week to celebrate her sister’s 30th birthday along with her mum and aunt. Guarded by two gigantic oak trees, the empty house stands alone within Oakdene, a quiet and desolate village... -
Bad News by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA missing girl. A man with a past. And a reporter who'll do anything to uncover the truth. When she's fired from her job at a TV station, Maggie Carter sets out to prove that she's got what it takes... -
Teru Teru Bozu by Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKamu pernah mendengar tentang teru teru bozu?Atau kamu menggantung satu boneka itu di depan jendela kamarmu? Tentunya kamu tahu untuk apa benda itu ada di sana. Namun aku yakin, kamu tidak pernah menyangka cerita mengerikan apa yang bisa teru teru bozu hamparkandi hadapanmu. Kamu mungkin akan terkesiap ketika tahu teru-teru bozu di sekolahku punya kisah yang berbeda... -
Wickingham Way by S.R. Grey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Maddy Fitch discovers there's a hit out on the love of her life--the handsome, but often secretive Adam Ward--she concludes life with such a powerful man may never be normal. But who wants normal? Not Maddy--mystery writer and sometimes-sleuth... -
The Ghost Illusion by Kat Martin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a twisty page-turner for fans of Lisa Jewell and Melinda Leigh, New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin melds psychological thriller and ghost story as one woman’s daring search for the truth tests the dividing line between life and death.If you need help, we are here for you.Eve St...
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