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  • Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King

    Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Stephen King is a unique and powerful writer without equal for millions of horror fans. His incredible narrative drive ensnares the reader in a web of everyday surroundings, believable situations and recognizable characters that are eventually caught up in a terrifying noose of monumental evil...
  • Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Zero In by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    This could be the most important mission of Nameless’s life. Because it’s putting him on a collision course with his own past and the nation’s future.The target: a fortified redoubt in the golden hills of California, the hub of a new world order that’s unthinkably close at hand. The time has come for Nameless to face its designer: the nihilist mastermind behind the One Solution...
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    suspense  dark  paranormal  fiction  mystery  audiobook  horror  crime
  • She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A haunting tale of suspense, rendered with the masterful skill only Barker could muster. After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child—this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter would spark an obsession...
  • Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Corkscrew by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A terrorist attack in the news leaves Nameless reeling from a disturbing vision. But it’s not a glimpse of the future. It’s a recovered memory that’s opening a window into his mysterious past.Uncharacteristically forthcoming—and unexpectedly personal—Nameless’s handlers have no choice but to emerge from the shadows. The indoctrinating factions of his visions are growing in number...
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    suspense  dark  paranormal  fiction  audiobook  horror  mystery  crime
  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
  • Grave Matter by Karina Halle

    Grave Matter by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Horror Romance meets science fiction in this dark and delicious gothic psychological thriller by NYT bestseller Karina Halle, perfect for fans of Gothikana, Ninth House, and Mexican Gothic. Aspiring mycologist Sydney Denik is getting a second chance...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  spooky  romance  horror  gothic  sci-fi
  • The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    The Lost Soul of the City by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A gun. A mission. No memories. Nameless is back to hunt down an architect of chaos in #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s return to a landscape of hard-won justice.In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence...
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    suspense  paranormal  dark  fiction  audiobook  horror  mystery  crime
  • Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

    Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover...
  • John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world...
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    dark  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike

    Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Let me tell you about the night I experienced true evil. It started with a gaze. She was eye fucking the shit out of me." Michael is at the tail end of his bachelor party vacation with his buddies and has had enough of all the gambling and flirtatious prostitutes. Then he meets Isabelle, a foreigner herself, and Michael is smitten. But even evil can come in a beautiful package...
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
  • The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall

    The Children in the Lake: A Story You Will Never Forget by Mark Edward Hall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1925 three children vanish without a trace in Arrowhead Lake. Nearly a century later there are those who still report seeing the children swimming beneath the surface like elusive dolphins. After losing her husband in a violent car crash, Rachel King and her two young sons venture to Arrowhead Lake to heal...
  • 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 ratings
    Following 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...
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    paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  cults  demons
  • Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world...
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    suspense  spooky  dark  paranormal  horror  mystery  fiction  crime
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four 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...
  • Final Hour by Dean Koontz

    Final Hour by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original novellas leading in to Ashley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of suspense from Dean Koontz!   Just by touching others, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the darkest secrets they keep. The troubling talent has made the Southern California surfer wary of casual contact...
  • Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as a TV series by Starz with the producers of Breaking Bad...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The 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 Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a famous artist is kidnapped, the only one who can save him has a body no one can see, and a voice few can hear.Angel, spirit, or ghost—the Keeper doesn’t know exactly what he is. But he knows he needs to protect Michael Delacroix, a famous artist who is kidnapped and locked in a windowless room deep beneath a Napa Valley vineyard...
  • The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE OWLMEN - NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES! IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU... Ellie Blake is recovering from a mental breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor. However, there is disquiet in the village...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  ghosts
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    What Lies Below by Barbara Taylor Sissel

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone has nightmares. One woman is living hers… Gilly O’Connell’s nightmares aren’t just bad dreams; they’re glimpses of terrifying realities to come. Gilly has spent her entire life trying to suppress the foreboding visions. So when a dismissed premonition leads to her husband’s murder, she buries the guilt and pain of the unsolved crime in the only way she knows how—she runs from it...
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    paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  family
  • Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two families. 100 years apart. A sinister haunting...It was supposed to be the dream house for Adam, Catherine, and their daughter, Bella. But dream houses can hold secrets. Settling in to their new home, the family realise they are not the only inhabitants of Abberton House.A dark past continues to haunt the idyllic Yorkshire home, and those who remain want Adam and Catherine to know the truth...
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind...
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    dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns...
  • নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মিসির আলি সিরিজের বই। "নিশীথিনী" হচ্ছে "দেবী" এর দ্বিতীয়...
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
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    suspense  dark  paranormal  horror  mystery  audiobook  crime  fiction
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes 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...
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    dark  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit...
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    suspense  paranormal  spooky  dark  horror  mystery  fiction  lgbtq
  • Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen

    Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Winner 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...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  dark-fantasy  fae
  • The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

    The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line between humanity and monstrosity.Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of New Haven. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The Scarecrow...
  • 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 ratings
    Who 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...
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    dark  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  ghosts
  • Sasquatch by K.T. Tomb

    Sasquatch by K.T. Tomb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Deep in the woods of Texas, can Lux Branson find a creature that may not even exist? In SASQUATCH, bounty hunter and expert tracker Lux Branson is hired by cryptozoologist Dr. Stevens to find a legendary creature that he believes lurks in the Piney Woods...
  • Soul Thief by Mark Edward Hall

    Soul Thief by Mark Edward Hall

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Brotherhood of the Order is one of the oldest and most mysterious organizations on earth. Its primary mission is to protect one of the most carefully guarded secrets in human history, an object so enigmatic and powerful that in the wrong hands it could wreak havoc upon the earth. In the right hands it just might have the power to save humanity from its own destructive impulses...
  • The Third Parent by Elias Witherow

    The Third Parent by Elias Witherow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door.Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told...
  • The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

    The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six.Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill...
  • Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

    Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A taut, powerful psychological thriller following a mother who must confront a sudden and terrifying change in her daughter after the abrupt death of their babysitter.Charlotte’s daughter Stella is sensitive and brilliant, perhaps even a genius, but a recent change in her behavior has alarmed her mother...
  • Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Thrum by Meg Smitherman

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems...
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    paranormal  suspense  spooky  dark  romance  horror  sci-fi  fantasy
  • Duma Key by Stephen King

    Duma Key by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir...
  • Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

    Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre. Bring a flashlight and a book of matches. Where we’re going, there’s not a speck of light...
  • Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Kindle Bestseller, Now Available On All Platforms"A tormented father must decide whether he's seeing the ghost of his dead son or visions brought on by psychosis in this thriller . . . featuring a riveting protagonist haunted by his own guilt." - Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review)An empty house. A bereaved father. Alone with his loss, Ian Colmes has driven away everyone he loves...
  • Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

    Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine.A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil...
  • Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Elusive online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the case of Arla Macleod, who bludgeoned her family to death, in another episode of the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series...
  • The Broken Room by Peter Clines, Timothy Andrés Pabon

    The Broken Room by Peter Clines, Timothy Andrés Pabon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Absolutely brilliant!” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times best-selling author)The new supernatural thriller from New York Times best-selling author Peter ClinesYou can still owe the dead.Hector was the best of the best. A government operative who could bring armies to a halt and nations to their knees...
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    dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Survivor Type by Stephen King

    Survivor Type by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Survivor Type is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the 1982 horror anthology Terrors, edited by Charles L. Grant, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew.This is a graphic adaptation of the short story, adapted and illustrated by Max Miller...
  • Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Ghost Stories by Henry James

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche...
  • Rovers by Richard Lange

    Rovers by Richard Lange

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this “utter triumph and delight” from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll ). Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims...
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    paranormal  suspense  dark  spooky  horror  fiction  vampires  fantasy
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