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  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Five months after the events in THE CREEPING SHADOW, we join Lockwood, Lucy, George, Holly, and their associate Quill Kipps on a perilous night mission: they have broken into the booby-trapped Fittes Mausoleum, where the body of the legendary psychic heroine Marissa Fittes lies. Or does it? This is just one of the many questions to be answered in Book 5 of the Lockwood & Co. series...
  • The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One, two, the ghosts are coming for you… Three, four, better salt your door… Five, six, death and hatred mix… Seven, eight, help will come too late… Nine, ten, never reap again…Seventeen year old, Mattie Hathaway, has enough on her plate without having to deal with the latest teenage ghost drama. The ghosts of eight murdered girls are out for her blood. They blame Mattie for their deaths...
  • Leave the Window Open by Victoria E. Schwab

    Leave the Window Open by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A free story from Wesley’s POV, set a few hours after the end of The Unbound...
  • The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood & Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • The Ghost Files 2 by Apryl Baker

    The Ghost Files 2 by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At seventeen, Mattie Hathaway has survived her mother attempting to kill her, multiple foster homes, and a serial killer. Oh, and she sees ghosts on a regular basis too. You’d think Fate would give her a break right? Umm…nope, not Mattie.Dan Richards is the only person in the entire world Mattie trusts, but then the boy goes and breaks her heart...
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    friendship  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  crime  demons  fiction
  • 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...
  • 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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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • 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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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • 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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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  psychics
  • 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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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • 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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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • 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...
  • Dead Push by Tim O'Rourke

    Dead Push by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When two enemies push back together!“…Most of them just sit as if waiting for someone to join them on their impending journey. Others are rushing for their train as if late for some important meeting. They can’t wait to board one of those trains below ground...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    The Garden by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The PEEPs team (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) has finally taken on a paying investigation. The owner of an isolated mansion wishes to donate the lease of the property to be used as an abuse shelter. There’s only one problem, it’s haunted. From the maids perpetually making up the beds to a banshee screaming in the upper hall, this house is more than hot with activity, it’s boiling...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nonie Broussard is a medium—a closet medium. After losing her job at a local T-shirt factory, Nonie has to find a way to make ends meet. Not easy in a small town like Clay Point, LA. Two opportunities come her way, however, neither of them easy for someone with her abilities...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  drama  epic  fiction
  • Blue Moon by James Ponti

    Blue Moon by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Molly is ready for more nonstop, undead action in this follow-up to Dead City, which Kirkus Reviews described as “a fast-paced read for those who like their zombies with just a little fright.”When Molly Bigelow discovered that zombies shared New York with humans, she didn’t think life could get more shocking...
  • The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ghost removal specialist Ellie Jordan must face a dangerous, shape-shifting entity that she and Calvin have encountered once before, with tragic results. The spirit has the power to reach into the minds of living and feed on their fears, taking the shape of their worst nightmares, and it has awoken in search of new victims...
  • Deep and Dark and Dangerous  (A Ghost Story) by Mary Downing Hahn

    Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story) by Mary Downing Hahn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Just before summer begins, 13-year-old Ali finds an odd photograph in the attic. She knows the two children in it are her mother, Claire, and her aunt Dulcie...
  • NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    NOLA by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Favors, be careful asking for them, because they have to be repaid. Repaying her debt Gerald Shem has sent Mia to New Orleans, Louisiana to be part of a team of sensitives and psychics who were coming together to aid in the crossing of lost spirits. Mia assumed that she was just replacing a team member that had fallen ill, but there is more at stake in the Big Easy than it appears...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Checking Out PEEPs Lite 9.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    Things that Go Bump in the Night by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ladies and Gentlemen, The Jewel Theater proudly presents for your reading enjoyment “Things that Go Bump in the Night,” starring Cherry O’Kelly, a burlesque performer whose career was cut short in her prime. A consummate professional, Cherry doesn't let a little thing like death get in the way of a good bump and grind...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Ice and Steel PEEPs 9.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re back. PEEPs Lite – More story, less filling. Some stories just need to be told; anyway, that’s what the voices in my head keep telling me. As I prepare for the next full length “Haunted Series” novel (available in the Spring of 2014), I can’t help wanting to tell you a couple stories in between. These novellas fall after “Something Old,” the ninth novel in the “Haunted Series...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never forget that there are things in the first push of a thunderstorm that are dangerous to you: hail, plow winds, and Wanderers. These spirits cross the plains with the weather fronts. They are looking to feed off of the energy of creatures, living and dead, who have been foolhardy enough to be caught outside in the rain. The driving rain of Illinois can stop a lot of things too...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Cid by Alexie Aaron

    Cid by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Summer has arrived and, with it, an opportunity for Cid Garrett (paranormal investigator for PEEPS) to make some cash as a carpenter. His colleague Jesse Holden has hooked him up with a fill-in position on a multimillion dollar renovation on an isolated 1920s southern mansion called Hidden Meadow...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  supernatural
  • The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s summertime and Mia needs a break. The Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners are offered a stay at Price Hills Resort, a ski lodge with a hundred and four rooms, located at the top of one of the best non-mountainous ski runs in Wisconsin. Of course, it’s not the right season for fun in the snow, and this isn’t a vacation...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    To Stop a Shadow by Carrie Pulkinen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trent's heart may belong to Tina, but a shadow demon is after his soul…Trent Austin is a successful, big-city lawyer. The last thing he needs is the burden of a run-down house in the suburbs. But when his crazy uncle dies and leaves his estate to Trent, he soon learns he's inherited a lot more than a Victorian mansion...
    Categorized as:
    friendship  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  demons
  • The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unfinished business, we all have it. Projects left undone, a garden yet to be weeded, an email needing to be sent. In Mia’s case, it’s Cold Creek Hollow. It has been two years since the horrors there were successfully dealt with...
  • Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    Old Bones by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every family has a few skeletons in their closet.Meeting the future in-laws has Mia in a panic. She’d rather face a hoard of marauding ghosts than make polite conversation with the 150 relatives and friends that have arrived to check her out."If you are reading this then I, Giuseppe Basso, am dead. I have been murdered...
  • Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    Puzzle by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A group of teenage boys enter an abandoned middle school with larceny on their minds. The tables are quickly turned when an entity of great power locks them in and forces them to play his puzzle games. Dave (Sand Trap), who is violently tossed out because he can see the ghost, calls Mia for help, fearing police involvement...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    The Siege by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dropping temperatures herald the coming of the holidays in northern Illinois. There are trees to be trimmed and packages to be wrapped. Mia is taking it easy while the PEEPs struggle with an infestation of poltergeists. Meanwhile, Big Bear Lake braces for the approach of the first winter storm. Two feet of snow is expected...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s do-it-yourself season and the DIY projects are in full swing with enthusiastic homeowners tearing down walls, sanding old floors and waking up ghosts. “It should be called DYI for do-yourself-in,” Mia commented as the calls for PEEPs flood the switchboards and crash their computers. Or did something else crash them? Meanwhile, Angelo searches for the soul of his lost friend...
  • Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    Mind Fray by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On a quiet street in the suburbs of Chicago sits an ordinary ranch home built in the sixties. Inside, a young couple rests comfortably until there is a scratch at the door…Something inhabits the Madisons’ home. It feeds off of memories and produces hallucinations that will isolate and confuse the ghost hunters until it can get its hands them...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  hauntings  horror
  • Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent...
  • Re-Vamped! by Sienna Mercer

    Re-Vamped! by Sienna Mercer

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The secret is out--cheerleader Olivia and vampire Ivy are twins!ow that Ivy and Olivia have told their friends that they're twins, they have to come clean to their adoptive parents. But Ivy's dad doesn't even want to meet Olivia!When the vampire officials realize Olivia knows the truth about vampires, they demand that she pass three tests to prove she's worthy of sharing the secret...
  • The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    The Counseling by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kendall has just discovered who Emily really is, lost her boyfriend, and nearly died doing the thing she loves most--ghost hunting. It's time to take a break and try to reconcile all the changes she's going through. So Kendall heads to the Sierra Mountains, where there's a camp especially for young people with gifts such as hers. It's a time for reflection and self-discovery...
  • Dark Days by James Ponti

    Dark Days by James Ponti

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Molly’s up against the undead—and the fate of Manhattan is in her hands—in the third and final book of the Dead City trilogy, which Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins says “breathes new life into the zombie genre.”Molly and the Omegas fight to contain the storm unleashed by Operation Blue Moon...
  • Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The forever rebellious Clothilde’s gravestone only mentions her first name and date of death. A small bump in the ground next to her grave marks former police officer Robert’s last resting place.And in thirty years, no visitors for either of them.Confined within the cemetery borders and yearning for closure to move on, the two ghosts can’t go after the people who killed them...
  • The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    The Strangers by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Olive thought she'd uncovered all the house's secrets. She was wrong.It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street...and something dear to Olive goes missing...
  • The Second Spy by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    The Second Spy by Jacqueline West, Lexy Fridell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Olive's third adventure, what lurks below the house could be as dangerous as what's hidden inside . . . Some terrifying things have happened to Olive in the old stone house, but none as scary as starting junior high. Or so she thinks. When she plummets through a hole in her backyard, though, she realizes two things that may change her mind: First, the wicked Annabelle McMartin is back...
  • Noir Poison: N? 5 - Loup-Garou de Minuit by Clare Hutton

    Noir Poison: N? 5 - Loup-Garou de Minuit by Clare Hutton

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Poison Apple Books: Thrilling. Bone-chilling. These books have bite!Marisol and her mom move from the city to rural Montana for a few months, and stay with family friends and their twin children, Jack and Hailey. Marisol loves looking at the stars so far away from city lights, but she feels creeped out by the woods right by their house...
  • Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    May Bird has always been a bit. . . different. While most of her classmates were riding their bikes, she was running around the West Virginia woods, dressed as a warrior princess with her hairless cat at her side...
  • The Black Reckoning by John Stephens

    The Black Reckoning by John Stephens

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The final book in the bestselling Books of Beginning trilogy that began with "The Emerald Atlas," which the "New York Times" called "a new Narnia for the tween set...
  • Into the Pit by Scott Cawthon

    Into the Pit by Scott Cawthon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Millie think they know the answer to...
  • 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...
  • The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After the devastating loss the team experienced on their last investigation, Midas is hesitant to return to the paranormal field. However, a desperate phone call from a local fire chief and a terrifying experience at an old Mobile fire station draws the leader of Gulf Coast Paranormal back to find answers for the chief and the firefighters...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  hauntings  horror  mystery
  • 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...
  • Let Her Rest by J.R. Erickson

    Let Her Rest by J.R. Erickson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Let Her Rest is the seventh stand-alone novel in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series The sprawling grounds of the Northern Michigan Asylum are rich with dark secrets. Many have run from the horrors, but the land remembers...
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