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Bane County: Returning Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor nearly two decades, life in the small rural town of Silver Canyon had been peaceful and serene. People went about their daily lives as usual, completely oblivious to the inescapable horror that loomed on the horizon. All but a select few of Bane County’s residents had forgotten the macabre occurrences of the past... -
![Bane County: Hungry Moon by J.R. Rice]()
Bane County: Hungry Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBane County is an Ongoing Saga . . .Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror Series with 100s of 5-Star Reviews... -
![Bane County: First Moon by J.R. Rice]()
Bane County: First Moon by J.R. Rice
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBane County is an Ongoing Saga . . .Mystery, Suspense, an edge-of-your-seat Thriller with characters you’ll fall in love with. An old-school, heart-pounding, coming-of-age Horror series with 100s of 5-Star Reviews. Autumn had been a very troubling time for the residents of Bane County, and the arrival of winter and the holiday season was a welcome diversion... -
![Circus Creeps by Aiden Pierce]()
Circus Creeps by Aiden Pierce
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Sinner’s Sideshow, the most obscene, blood-pumping, skin-crawling creep show this side of Hell. As a circus brat, show biz is in my blood. And as a half-succubus, I was made for Sinner’s Sideshow—the only circus made to entertain the most depraved of monsters.When I’m plunged into a dark world of death, darkness, and corpse-ridden carnivals, I meet them…The demonic ringmaster... -
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![The Ghost in the Hall by K.M. Avery]()
The Ghost in the Hall by K.M. Avery
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomething is very wrong with the Fitzwilliam estate... It was supposed to be a regular séance job. But from the minute I met an angry ghost in the hall, I knew there wasn’t going to be anything ordinary about this house or its dead residents. First of all, there were way too many of them. Second, some of them had been helped along from living to dead... -
![Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey]()
Beware The Boogerman by D. Glenn Casey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fine men and women of the Prattville Sheriff’s Department have a very specific job, one that most law enforcement officers would never have to deal with. Hopefully.They have to look after the peace and quiet in a small town that has the unfortunate nickname “Monster Town... -
![Apex Predator: Wolf Moon by D.A. Roberts]()
Apex Predator: Wolf Moon by D.A. Roberts
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey exist in myth and legend dating back to the earliest history of man. Different cultures have different names for the same creature, which has haunted the dark places of our collective psyche. Loup Garou, Werewolf, Lycanthropes, Rougaru, Michigan Dogman, The Beast of Land Between the Lakes, Oolonga-Doglalla, Shunka Warak'in, Skinwalker... -
![Stolen Paradise by Mila Young, Harper A. Brooks]()
Stolen Paradise by Mila Young, Harper A. Brooks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese monsters rule the city... and I've become their newest obsession.I've been caught in a war between the three most powerful gangs in the city... and I'm trapped with the most dangerous of them all.The Kings.With each passing day, they lurk closer, their darkness pulling me a bit deeper. They push me, demanding everything I have when my world is falling apart... -
![Lady and the Wolf by Hendrix ., S.A. Cross]()
Lady and the Wolf by Hendrix ., S.A. Cross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“She is his curse, the one thing that Athea created to be Konstantin’s downfall, and inside, Van holds a monster who is falling for it.” Walking among humans are beings far different from their own. However, both their worlds are more intertwined than it seems. Revered as a god by his own kind, Van Volkov holds one of the four remaining Lycans, Konstantin...Categorized as:
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![Their Blood by Brea Alepoú]()
Their Blood by Brea Alepoú
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Four vampires and one werewolf. A perfect match made in hell.It never failed. Karter was the storm that could destroy even the calmest seas. He’d tried to change, swore he would be better, but it was inevitable. He would screw something up and they'd get rid of him, or he would push them too far... -
![Crocuta Crocuta by Adrienne Wilder]()
Crocuta Crocuta by Adrienne Wilder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a god, what could be closer to heaven than living in a safe haven like Sanctuary, with an endless supply of ambrosia, delivered by the beautiful bodies of the Doxies in Alton’s harem? But unlike the majority of the gods in Sanctuary who are less than human, Cerberus isn’t exotic or fantastical. His appearance, his…habits…have become the horror stories whispered on the lips of Doxies... -
![Species Unknown: A Novel of The Watch by Dan Carlson]()
Species Unknown: A Novel of The Watch by Dan Carlson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTerror lurks in the pine forests of the Black Hills on South Dakota’s border with Wyoming, but this is no ordinary serial killer. Bigger, stronger and more cunning than any other predator in the woods, this murderer has only existed in legends and the nightmares of the few to survive an encounter … until now. Dr... -
![High Moor 3: Blood Moon by Graeme Reynolds]()
High Moor 3: Blood Moon by Graeme Reynolds
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe war has begun... As the humans make their move against the werewolf threat in their midst, and civil war threatens to break the pack apart, John and Marie struggle to free the only person who can unite the werewolf factions against their common enemy: Marie’s brother, Michael. However, their efforts may be for nothing... -
![Purgatory by Adrienne Wilder]()
Purgatory by Adrienne Wilder
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBound Gods Book Seven PURGATORY This is a part of an ongoing series and not a stand-alone book. Reading these books out of order isn’t advised. **** Purgatory is where gods go to die, imprisoned for their violent crimes, sentenced to never see the light of day again. Trapped within the stone catacombs are impossible, dangerous, barely human gods. Gods of legend... -
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![Hunter Trials by Caroline Peckham]()
Hunter Trials by Caroline Peckham
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Mercy Helsing is convicted and sent to an Immortal prison deep in the Arctic Circle, she doesn't expect to survive longer than a day.Thrown into the depths of the icy fortress, she's forced to fight for her life again and again in terrifying trials. But Dødstårn is nothing like she expected, and she soon finds unlikely friends amongst the fierce convicts... -
![Dead Wolf Rising by Rory Miles]()
Dead Wolf Rising by Rory Miles
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat do you do when your friend turns out to be a ghost and you accidentally send them to the Underworld?You try to bring them back to life. Or at least, that’s what I do.We may have defeated our enemy, but not before she struck a final blow. We refuse to let her win though. My men, my pack, and I will find peace. We will get our happily ever after and we will get our friend back... -
![The Lord of the Sabbath by Mariana Palova]()
The Lord of the Sabbath by Mariana Palova
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe abyss watches him. Nightmares hunt him. And now, a battle begins.Terrifying creatures, unseen to all around him, have tormented Elisse since he was a little boy. These “night terrors” and the cruel life as a young Westerner in a refugee camp have left him isolated and alone... -
![Blackwater 6: The Rain by Michael McDowell]()
Blackwater 6: The Rain by Michael McDowell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs the Caskey family and their town of Perdido rode the crest of prosperity in the 60s, matriarch Elinor had good reason to be proud of her domain. But slowly, silently, unimaginable horrors were creeping into their midst.At the height of revelry, at the peak of chaos, in the fearful silence of blackest night, preternatural horror pounced upon the Caskeys... -
![Children of Anubis by Tim Waggoner]()
Children of Anubis by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSam and Dean Winchester have spent their lives on the road, battling every kind of supernatural threat. Over the years, after dozens of bloody adventures, they have faced everything from the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters, angels and fallen gods... -
![Ghostbusters: Tobin's Spirit Guide by Erik Burnham]()
Ghostbusters: Tobin's Spirit Guide by Erik Burnham
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis dynamic in-universe book takes fans inside the world of Ghostbusters like never before. In the first Ghostbusters movie, Tobin’s Spirit Guide is a comprehensive supernatural encyclopedia used by our heroes to research ghouls and ghosts... -
![Stray Fears by Gregory Ashe]()
Stray Fears by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElien Martel is a survivor, but surviving, he’s beginning to discover, isn’t the same thing as living. In the house he shares with his much older boyfriend, Elien spends his days trying to stay as far away from living as possible. Living, he has learned, means that sooner or later you’ll get hurt... -
![Blood and Rain by Glenn Rolfe]()
Blood and Rain by Glenn Rolfe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGilson Creek, Maine. A safe, rural community. Summer is here. School is out and the warm waters of Emerson Lake await. But one man's terrible secret will unleash a nightmare straight off the silver screen. Under the full moon, a night of terror and death re-awakens horrors long sleeping... -
![Crimson Painted Snow by Brea Alepoú]()
Crimson Painted Snow by Brea Alepoú
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dark MM retelling of Snow White. If Snow White had a harem of demon wolves instead of dwarves. Driven away from claiming his title as the rightful heir to the coven of witches, Prince Snoe has made a new home for himself in the forest. When his peaceful life is once more disturbed by the stepfamily who wishes to see him dead, Snoe decides it’s time to fight back... -
![Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres]()
Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNaomi Queen swore to herself she’d never get involved with criminals. She didn’t want any part of the world that raised her because she knew the trouble the malicious underground could bring. But all that changes when she witnesses a murder between a gang of mermen shifters.Swept into the maelstrom of the paranormal criminal underbelly wasn’t exactly high on her to-do list... -
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![Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer by Brian Lumley]()
Necroscope: The Plague-Bearer by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean--a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home... -
![Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu]()
Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs it ever possible for the undead to find true love? You'll find no definitive answer here. Be aware of this much though: When werewolves and vampires clash; there can be no winners.When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria... -
![Hunt the Wood by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza]()
Hunt the Wood by Anna Fury, Amy Pennza
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m not a powerful witch, just a fortune teller making ends meet. But when my grandmother, the leader of the Rathmore Coven, summons me, I have no choice but to answer her call. To reach her, I must cross the Wood, the realm of Wotan, lord of the hunt. Rumors of his cruelty and brutality precede him, but nothing prepares me to meet the monster face to face.Because Wotan is more than a monster... -
![The Monster Menagerie: An Anthology for Monster Lovers by Lyonne Riley]()
The Monster Menagerie: An Anthology for Monster Lovers by Lyonne Riley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Monster Menagerie, all bets are off and everything is on the table.This anthology features six original short stories by Lyonne Riley, author of the Trollkin Lovers series. Some are pure spice, while others spin a tale of love and romance around these fearsome monsters and their human mates. The anthology features creatures of all sorts, including mermen, orcs, and even dryads...Categorized as:
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![Crow's Fate by Kim Fielding]()
Crow's Fate by Kim Fielding
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can’t fly away from destiny.Crow Rapp assumes he’ll spend his life growing corn in rural Illinois, like the grandparents who raised him. But during a visit to a traveling carnival, he encounters a handsome stranger named Simeon Bell—and receives a prophecy of a horrifying future... -
![Hide & Seek by Beatrix Hollow]()
Hide & Seek by Beatrix Hollow
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMonsters--gills, wings, fur, and creatures not resembling a human at all. Things that I didn’t know existed crave me… and they’ve been hoping I’d find them. From the dark, haunted cave comes a man's plea. He’s a stuck climber in a hidden chamber inside the mountain. But as we travel to his rescue, things continue to deteriorate... -
![Pest by Anna Willett]()
Pest by Anna Willett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe takes your dreams, and then your life...A NAIL-BITINGLY SCARY SUSPENSE THRILLERSightings of a strange girl on the outskirts of the small Australian town of Thorn Tree coincide with the outbreak of a deadly sickness.The girl appears in people’s nightmares, beckoning them into nothingness.Maggie’s café lies at the heart of the town, and she quickly becomes embroiled in the unfolding events... -
![The Hunter from the Woods by Robert McCammon]()
The Hunter from the Woods by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The Hunter from the Woods" marks the much-anticipated return of Michael Gallatin, the lycanthropic hero of Robert McCammon's 1989 classic, "The Wolf's Hour." These all-new, interlinked stories offer a full measure of McCammon's trademark narrative excitement, and comprise a fascinating composite portrait of a unique fictional creation...Categorized as:
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![A Very Armitage Christmas by Eliot Grayson]()
A Very Armitage Christmas by Eliot Grayson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings’Tis the season…for zombies?It’s two days before Christmas, and the Armitage pack’s getting ready for the holiday. Nate’s decorating the driveway with dozens of light-up candy canes (well, bullying Ian into doing it for him, but details). Matthew’s sitting through yet another endless pack council meeting.And Arik’s raising revenants in the herb garden... -
![Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers]()
Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade... -
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![Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres]()
Queenie & the Krakens by Aleera Anaya Ceres
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNaomi Queen swore to herself she'd never get involved with criminals. She didn't want any part of the world that raised her because she knew the trouble the malicious underground could bring. But all that changes when she witnesses a murder between a gang of mermen shifters.Swept into the maelstrom of the paranormal criminal underbelly wasn't exactly high on her to-do list... -
![Grounded by Serenity Ackles]()
Grounded by Serenity Ackles
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith the power of electricity coursing through me, I’d be powerful if someone could keep me grounded.Elementals are the rarest of all supernatural creatures, but with all the raw power in them, they are also the most unstable. The most dangerous.I should know.I am one... -
![Beneath the Loch by S.D. Simper]()
Beneath the Loch by S.D. Simper
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeneath the Loch: A Novella: A Dark Lesbian RomanceAs a child, Mairi made a deal with a young fae - a kiss in exchange for gills.Now, betrothed to a man she hardly knows, Mairi is desperate to escape her fate. When she finds that same fae at the river's edge, she's offered a proposal that makes her skin grow cold . . . and her blood run hot.Romance meets horror in this lesbian fairytale... -
![Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink]()
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![Blackwater IV: The War by Michael McDowell]()
Blackwater IV: The War by Michael McDowell
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWartime in Perdido jolted the sleepy little Alabama town as new people entered the community. Outsiders would invade the comfort of the wealthy Caskeys and take their daughters.This, though, was the part of the master plan of Elinor Caskey, who would see the fasmily flourish amidst the deatruction and death she administered in a fashion more awesome than the war itself... -
![Demon Road by Derek Landy]()
Demon Road by Derek Landy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Full of Landy’s trademark wit, action and razor-sharp dialogue, DEMON ROAD kicks off with a shocking opener and never lets up the pace in an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America... -
![Charmed and Dangerous by Jordan Castillo Price, Rhys Ford]()
Charmed and Dangerous by Jordan Castillo Price, Rhys Ford
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMagic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you’ll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection—not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors... -
![Blackwater V: The Fortune by Michael McDowell]()
Blackwater V: The Fortune by Michael McDowell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsUnder Elinor's guidance, the Caskey family prospered after the war, not knowing that a dark infernal force was growing in their midst. And Frances, Elinor's favorite daughter, never understood her strange yearning for the Perdido River....until the day her babies were born.Elinor presided over the secret birth, the triumph of her life... -
![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... -
![God of Monsters by Adrienne Wilder]()
God of Monsters by Adrienne Wilder
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is nothing stronger than the heart of a Doxie, and at the same time, there is nothing more fragile. And when it breaks? The shards cut deep, and the wound never heals. Just when you thought the betrayal couldn’t go any deeper, it reaches all the way to Purgatory. Warning: The ending of this installment is HFN but abrupt... -
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![Starling and the Cavern of Light by Aisling Fowler]()
Starling and the Cavern of Light by Aisling Fowler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPhoenix and her friends vow to save Ember from all but certain doom in this final unmissable chapter in the sweeping series that New York Times bestselling author B. B. Alston called “the best kind of children’s fantasy story... -
![The Ancestors by Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due]()
The Ancestors by Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDEAD.Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey's "The Patriarch," a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new life...BURIED.The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A... -
![Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow]()
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsParis, 1914. American adventurer Sam Carter boards the Orient Express, departing France in style after an impulsive decision to desert the Foreign Legion. British diplomat Lucas Avery is already nursing a drink in the smoking car, resenting his assignment to the distant Ottoman Empire... -
![Blood Wolf by Steve Feasey]()
Blood Wolf by Steve Feasey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTrey Laporte believed he was the last werewolf. But he’s found his pack, and they’re more dangerous and wild than he'd ever guess. If they are monsters, does that make him one, too? Back in London, Trey’s vampire guardian, Lucien, is battling his own darkness. Meanwhile, Lucien’s daughter, Alexis, is trying to hold off a Necrotroph that is after her father... -
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Big Bad by Lily Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDemondale, Callifornia, 1999...Like Sunnydale, but whole lot more evil. Step into this alternate reality, where chaos reigns supreme. The Mayor’s sun-shade has created permanent darkness over Sunnydale, fully opening the Hellmouth once and for all. Now the newly christened Demondale has become a safe haven for vampires, beasts, and all types of ruffians. It's never been better to be bad... -
![Tribute to the Alpha by Cara Wylde]()
Tribute to the Alpha by Cara Wylde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe war between humans and shapeshifters must end. There has been too much bloodshed, and it’s time for the factions to sign a peace treaty. But there is one man, one wolf warrior, who does not want peace. Not even when humans would be forced to provide shifters with brides to bear them heirs. Ruarc Bloodmoon is not interested in a willing human bride. All he wants is power...
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