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Maison De Fous by Nova Kane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSequel to A La FolieThis is a PITCH BLACK EROTIC HORROR. Please mind the trigger warnings. Are you ready for the show to begin?Cirque Du Desir : The Dark Harvest - A Night of chaos, carnage and contentment.Coming soon to a town near you... -
![Wicked Games: A Prequel Dark Horror Romance Novella by P.H. Nix, Celeste Night]()
Wicked Games: A Prequel Dark Horror Romance Novella by P.H. Nix, Celeste Night
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA black envelope with silver filigree, a house long abandoned by residents, and a tragedy covered up in the bayou. What did these three things have in common?HarperWhen I received an invitation to the House of Horrors at the once beautiful Toussaint Manor, unease had filled every fiber of my being. And like the dumbass I was, I still went... -
![Psycho by Robert Bloch]()
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual life. Alfred Hitchcock too was captivated, and turned the book into one of the most-loved classic films of all time the year after it was released.Norman Bates loves his Mother. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think... -
![Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho will survive the storm?It was a blizzard for the ages. Two, massive snow storms strike back-to-back, causingchaos in the Hudson Valley.Anna, and her two children, are without power and the temperature is plummeting. Theirsituation seems bleak, but a break in the storm gives them a chance at salvation. Anna flees herhome, hoping to find safety in a local hotel, but what she finds is madness... -
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![Halloween by Richard Curtis]()
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... -
![Friday the 13th by Simon Hawke]()
Friday the 13th by Simon Hawke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was going to be a fun summer at Camp Crystal. The young counselors were getting ready for it while they joked about the scary rumors attached to the isolated camp.But evil was waiting in the shadows as the sun set. The laughter turned to screams...the easy living to agonized dying. For the light had gone and the wind was howling and it was--Friday the 13th... -
![Red Station by Kenzie Jennings]()
Red Station by Kenzie Jennings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A home station where a traveler will be welcomed with a piping hot meal and a downy bed.It is a refuge for the weary. A beacon for the lost.A place where blood and bones feed the land.For four stagecoach passengers......a doctor in search of a missing father and daughter......a newlywed couple on the way to their homestead.....Categorized as:
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![The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Stephen Hand]()
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'... -
![Katie by Michael McDowell]()
Katie by Michael McDowell
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKATIE KILLED FOR KICKS AND CASHEver so nimble at bashing heads with her little hammer, Katie Slapes was her parents' joy and certain fortune. As the cellar filled with corpses, the family coffers filled with cash.Pretty young Philo Drax didn't have a family anymore. Katie had finished off her grandfather and her mother, and promised to put Philo out of her misery very soon now... -
![Night Shoot by David Sodergren]()
Night Shoot by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA group of desperate student film-makers break into Crawford Manor for an unauthorised night shoot. They have no choice. Their lead actress has quit. They’re out of time. They’re out of money.They’re out of luck.For Crawford Manor has a past that won’t stay dead, and the crew are about to come face-to-face with the hideous secret that stalks the halls... -
![The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan]()
The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClayton Carter and Chastity Harrison embark on a gruesome killing spree across Southern California, always staying one step ahead of the authorities while slaughtering their victims. Homicide Detective Harvey Skinner, frustrated by his failure to catch them, decides to use an unconventional method to punish Clayton and Chastity... -
![Mind of a Killer by Dan Padavona]()
Mind of a Killer by Dan Padavona
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDare to enter a killer’s mind. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in an idyllic lake community. In over his head, the local sheriff calls upon the Behavior Analysis Unit’s best profiler, Scarlett Bell, to find the murderer. Is a serial killer stalking Coral Lake? Now Scarlett faces a killer unlike any she’s encountered. Bloodthirsty. Cunning. Insane... -
![Headhunter Reimagined (Special X) by Michael Slade]()
Headhunter Reimagined (Special X) by Michael Slade
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIT BEGAN WITH HORROR. THEN IT GOT WORSE.There were still traces of extraordinary beauty in the woman's brutally violated body--but there was no way of knowing how beautiful she had been.Her head was missing.She was the first--but there were more to come.Many more.A killer was loose and no woman was safe.. -
![Trapped by R.L. Stine]()
Trapped by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome kids in the sixties used to party in the tunnels under Shadyside High, until something left a bunch of people dead. But that's just a story, right? Besides, exploring the tunnels is more fun than being stuck in Saturday detention. Too bad there's no turning back--because in the tunnels there's no one around to hear your screams... -
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![Halloween II by Jack Martin]()
Halloween II by Jack Martin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is Halloween night in Haddonfield, Illinois. Six gunshots pierce the silence of this normally quiet town. Neighborhood kids trick-or-treating on the street stare as a man plunges off a balcony. A doctor form the county mental hospital rushes from the house... -
![Witching Hour Theatre by Jonathan Janz]()
Witching Hour Theatre by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a cool October night at the Starlight Cinema, an all-night horror movie triple feature is about to begin: Witching Hour Theatre. It's the one exciting thing in Larry Wilson's life, and he loses himself in the atmosphere of the old place: the crowd, the screams, the popcorn and the blood. But when the second feature ends, only thirteen moviegoers remain... -
![Quake by Richard Laymon]()
Quake by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratings'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King.Twenty minutes before the quake hit, Stanley was ogling Sheila through his living-room window. Now he may be able to do more than just ogle ... Sheila's trapped in her ruined house and her husband and daughter are stranded on the other side of the city... -
![The Navajo Nightmare by David Sodergren, Steve Stred]()
The Navajo Nightmare by David Sodergren, Steve Stred
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSaddle up for twice the terror inTHE NAVAJO NIGHTMARE!Charles Andersson is a killer. Or at least, he was, once. Now he lives a quiet life with his family, until a gang of crooks take everything from him and Charles must make a diabolical pact... -
![The Thicket by Noelle W. Ihli]()
The Thicket by Noelle W. Ihli
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWould you recognize a real scream on Halloween?That’s the question haunting Norah Lewis.She can’t shake the guilt that’s stalked her since the night her brother was murdered. She heard —and ignored—his last screams. Just like everyone else at the Thicket, a haunted attraction in tiny Declo, Idaho.But as Halloween approaches, Norah’s personal tragedy is overshadowed by a media circus... -
![Chopping Spree by Angela Sylvaine]()
Chopping Spree by Angela Sylvaine
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPlease note this edition is out of print. A new, expanded edition is available from this author.Eden Hills, Minnesota is famous for one thing—its '80s inspired Fashion Mall. When high school junior, Penny, lands a job at one of its trendy stores, she notices her teen coworkers all wear a strange symbol they won’t explain... -
![Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III]()
Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFriday the 13th meets Visitor Q. Apeshit is Mellicks love letter to the great and terrible B-horror movie genre... -
![Darkness, Tell Us by Richard Laymon]()
Darkness, Tell Us by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt started as a game. Six college kids at a party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board. The board that Corie had hidden in the back of her closet and sworn never to touch again. Not after what happened last time. Not after Jake's death...They were only playing around, but the Ouija board worked all right. Maybe too well... -
![How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans]()
How to Survive a Slasher by Justine Pucella Winans
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight meets Scream in this YA slasher that turns classic horror tropes on their heads.There’s a reason CJ Smith’s hometown of Satterville is known as Slasherville: it was the site of not one, but two Friday the 13th-style massacres. CJ’s dad survived the first attack; only CJ survived the second... -
![Urban Gothic by Brian Keene]()
Urban Gothic by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNo one gets out alive! When their car broke down in a dangerous inner-city neighborhood, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter inside an old, dark row home. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until help arrived. They were wrong... -
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![Blood Games by Richard Laymon]()
Blood Games by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey meet up for one week every year: Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene—five former co-eds in search of thrills and adventure. Just like they enjoyed together at college. This time it's Helen's choice. Helen, the fat girl with a taste for horror, the brainy one with a fear of being caught alone in the shower by an unknown assailant with a sharp knife and a taste for blood.. -
![Little Nightmare by Melissa McSherry, Dana LeeAnn]()
Little Nightmare by Melissa McSherry, Dana LeeAnn
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI watch the monster, learning his ways. Tonight, I will cave, succumbing to darkness.The moment I saw her in that café, I knew Cara was mine. She can deny it all she wants, but I saw the way her body betrayed her, felt the way her pulse quickened. She craves me, even if she won’t admit it.Now, my girl is right where she belongs—under my control... -
![The Count Of Eleven by Ramsey Campbell]()
The Count Of Eleven by Ramsey Campbell
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJack Orchard seems a normal family man - apart, perhaps from his excessive interest in numerology. When he gets into deep trouble, both he and his wife seem close to cracking. Then, by chance, he receives a chain letter promising good fortune, but things get even worse... -
![My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones]()
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her forJade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her... -
![Allhallow's Eve by Richard Laymon]()
Allhallow's Eve by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The Sherwood house has been deserted since the horrific killing of a local family in the sleepy town of Ashburg. When invitations to a mysterious party to be held there are sent out, nobody is particularly surprised - after all, everyone wants to party in a house of death on Allhallow's Eve... -
![The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones]()
The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.Aerial View: A suburban town in Texas. Everyone's got an automatic garage door opener. All the kids jump off a perilous cliff into a shallow river as a rite of passage. The sheriff is a local celebrity. You know this town. You're from this town.Zoom In: Homecoming princess, Lindsay...
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