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The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dark secret, a secluded island, and nowhere to run.When author Daisy Dawkins hits a wall of writer's block, she seeks out a retreat at the infamous Coyote Island, home of the reclusive publishing guru Greg Bregoli. Upon her arrival at Bregoli Estate, strange things begin happening to Daisy, but none of the other writers seem to notice the estate's odder qualities... -
![Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill]()
Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short story by New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill.Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He’s also—and this is the most interesting thing—not dead... -
![The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff]()
The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn unforgettable, high-stakes, laugh-out-loud funny novel, The Witchstone blends the merciless humor of The Good Place with the spellbinding fantasy of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black stone... -
![The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols]()
The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor the first time ever, three bestselling Dean Koontz novels—The Servants of Twilight, Darkfall, Phantoms—are available in hardcover and complete in this single volume. Koontz's novels are spine-chilling and terrifying stories about ordinary people caught in nightmarish situations... -
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![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 ratingsA collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover... -
![The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman]()
The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt appears that the unlovely village of Underhowle is home to a serial killer. But as the police hunt for the bodies of more young women, Rev. Merrily Watkins fears that the detective in charge has become blinkered by ambition. Meanwhile, Merrily has more personal problems, like the anonymous phone calls, the candles and incense left burning in her church, and the alleged angelic visitations... -
![Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.]()
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?” Featuring stories by: Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R... -
![The Dog at the Door by Raven Snow]()
The Dog at the Door by Raven Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRowen Greensmith and her new husband have finally done it. They’ve moved out of the Greensmith home and into a house of their own. It’s the house of Rowen’s dreams, a place she fell in love with the moment she laid eyes on it. Things are going great. Lainswich is getting ready for their annual marathon. Her aunts are opening a New Age store... -
![Breaking News and Breaking Hearts by Raven Snow]()
Breaking News and Breaking Hearts by Raven Snow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGreensmith Investigations specializes in the little things. Mostly they expose cheating spouses, low priority stuff real detectives wouldn’t bother with. Rowen doesn’t mind spreading her time between her husband’s agency and the local paper she runs with her cousins. Life is good. Maybe a little too good. Rowen is getting bored... -
![The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy]()
The Devil and Mrs. Davenport by Paulette Kennedy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil mines the subtle horrors of 1950s America in a gripping novel about a woman under pressure—from the living and the dead. The first day of autumn brought the fever, and with the fever came the voices. Missouri, 1955... -
![Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman]()
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth... -
![A Pink Potion Gone Wrong by Vella Day]()
A Pink Potion Gone Wrong by Vella Day
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unlucky witch. A talking pink iguana. A frustrated ghost needing to know who killed him.Welcome back to Witch's Cove where the people--with the exception of a few random law breakers--are friendly and the sun always shines. If you want to talk to a dead relative, learn about your future, or need a spell created just for you, you've come to the right place... -
![Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander]()
Charleston Green by Stephanie Alexander
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it's that everyone in Charleston is a little crazy--even if they're already dead.Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she's always avoided dead people... -
![The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates]()
The Vengeful Dead by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHow far will she go to save the damned?Keira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat to Artec, a powerful corporation intent on trapping the tortured dead for profit. They've been tracking her for years and now, finally, there's nowhere left for her to run.Artec fears Keira and everything she's capable of... -
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![Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss]()
Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before... -
![Hexes and Exes by Raven Snow]()
Hexes and Exes by Raven Snow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings have been going well for Rowen Greensmith. She’s moved back home with her family in Lainswich. She runs The Lainswich Inquirer— a surprisingly successful publication. She’s never been happier. Sure, her boyfriend Eric spends a lot of time away, but she still adores him. Sure, her family is still a lot to handle, but they’re still her favorite people in the world... -
![Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson]()
Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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... -
![It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell]()
It Came from the Trees by Ally Russell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe legend of Bigfoot gets a bone-chilling update in this scary story about a young girl and her scout troop who are willing to brave the woods to find her missing friend when no one else will. Perfect for fans of Daka Hermon and Claribel A. Ortega!The wilderness is in Jenna’s blood... -
![The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Bridget Collins, Susan Stokes-Chapman]()
The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Bridget Collins, Susan Stokes-Chapman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly tales.The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries... -
![The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie]()
The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSunshine Griffith can communicate with ghosts. Even more amazing—to herself; her boyfriend, Nolan; and her adoptive mom, Kat—she’s recently learned she’s a luiseach, one of an ancient race of creatures who have lived among humans for centuries, protecting them from dark spirits and helping them move on to the afterlife... -
![The Awakening of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel]()
The Awakening of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSunshine Griffith can communicate with ghosts. Even more amazing, she recently discovered—with the help of her would-be boyfriend, Nolan—that she’s a luiseach, one of an ancient race of creatures who have lived among humans for centuries, protecting them from dark spirits and helping them move on to the afterlife... -
![Full Throttle by Joe Hill]()
Full Throttle by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA 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...Categorized as:
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![If It Bleeds by Stephen King]()
If It Bleeds by Stephen King
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsIf it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas —Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds— each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider.News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'...Categorized as:
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![আমিই মিসির আলি by Humayun Ahmed]()
আমিই মিসির আলি by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsমিসির আলি খুব সাধারণ একজন মানুষ। সাধারণ এবং বিশেষত্বহীন। থাকেন একা। নিজে রেঁধে খান। রোজই এক তরকারি। চাল-ডাল এবং সবজির খিচুড়ি । রান্না তেমন ভালো হয় না, তারপরেও খুব তৃপ্তি করে খান। তাঁর গান শোনার খুব শখ ছিল। একবার কিছু টাকা পেয়ে বেশ দামি ক্যাসেট প্লেয়ার কিনেছিলেন। যেদিন কিনলেন তা পরদিনই ক্যাসেট প্লেয়ারটা চুরি হয়ে গেল। চোর কী মনে করে যেমন ক্যাসেটগুলি নেয় নি। এখন মাঝে মাঝেই তাঁকে দেখা যায়-... -
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![GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd]()
GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPerhaps the scariest book you will ever read.... Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career... -
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Family Business by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything.But then she gets a new job: working at Slough & Sons, cleaning up after the recently deceased.Clearing away the remains of lost lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things, that can’t be written off as imagination. Nothing is as it seems with the Sloughs... -
![Remember Me Lib/E by Chelsea Bobulski]()
Remember Me Lib/E by Chelsea Bobulski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this eerie and suspenseful YA, a teen girl discovers what connects her to the hotel she calls home as horrifying visions lead her to the truth.Nell Martin is moving again, this time to the Winslow Grand Hotel, built in 1878. As Nell is settling in, strange things begin to happen... -
![The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel by Amy Cross]()
The Ghosts of Lakeforth Hotel by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo ghosts get to choose where they haunt? Do they get to choose what they become once they're dead? When Beth Hayes arrives at Lakeforth Hotel, she's expecting a quiet, sedate and maybe even boring night. What she finds, however, is a crumbling old ruin that has clearly been left abandoned for many years. She wants to turn around and leave immediately, but her boyfriend has other ideas... -
![On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island by Gage Greenwood]()
On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island by Gage Greenwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey left the island, but the island never left them.Four years after the Keating family endured the darkest experiences of their lives, the children are still fighting to move on. Charlie's anxiety has control of his life. Angela is afraid of the dark. Brian suffers from a drug addiction. Chrissy struggles to remember what happened to them, the details forever haunting the outskirts of her mind... -
![The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne]()
The Mean Ones by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSo what if Sadie hears talking dead animals and a strange, comforting male voice in her head? The therapist insists these are just symptoms of PTSD. It makes sense considering that she hid under the bed and watched as her best friends were slaughtered.But the murders were seventeen years ago, back when her name was Sabrina. Now, she’s Sadie: a perfectly normal 29-year-old... -
![Dark Carnival by Nancy K. Duplechain]()
Dark Carnival by Nancy K. Duplechain
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"I noticed countless eyes following me. They belonged to shop-keeps closing up for the night, the homeless watching me from their makeshift beds, call girls pretending to wait for their next tricks on the corners, but all the while, wary of my every move. I didn’t belong here and they knew it... -
![Remains by Andrew Cull]()
Remains by Andrew Cull
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGrief is a black house.How far would you go? What horrors would you endure if it meant you might see the son you thought you'd lost forever?Driven to a breakdown by the brutal murder of her young son, Lucy Campbell had locked herself away, fallen deep inside herself, become a ghost haunting room 23b of the William Tuke Psychiatric Hospital... -
![Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne]()
Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA long-ago crime continues to menace the present in this spine-chilling tale of supernatural suspense. When Michael Flint is asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, he is intrigued. Leo Rosendale’s childhood was blighted by a macabre tragedy in the grim Deadlight Hall – a tragedy that occurred towards the end of World War II, involving a set of twins who vanished... -
![The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler]()
The Nothing That Is by Kyle Winkler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Infused with cosmic, culinary dread and seasoned with dark humor, The Nothing That Is reads like Anthony Bourdain riffing on Lovecraft. Winkler’s engaging style and hypnotic prose will consume you whole, and if that doesn’t whet your appetite, there’s an exploding graveyard... -
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![Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams]()
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele, Erin E. Adams
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation.A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over... -
![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 ratingsIt’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... -
![Whispers of Blackwell House by Amélia Cognet]()
Whispers of Blackwell House by Amélia Cognet
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDon’t stare at the paintings. They might stare back.Reeling from grief and a recent breakup, River is desperate for a fresh start. When she sees a listing for a housemaid job in an isolated mansion, she leaps at the chance to get away.Despite being instructed to never speak to the rich family living within the mansion, she can’t ignore Dorian Blackwell... -
![The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine]()
The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night by R.L. Stine
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTen terrifying tales that will give you shivers...from the master of horror, R.L. StineRead the spine-tingling story of a babysitter who loves evil tricks...the terrifying tale of a boy who dared to lie down in the tomb of an ancient mummy...the ghastly story of two boys just dying to have the scariest Halloween ever—and more.These are the original stories that inspired the hit TV show R.L... -
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Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOn a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death--but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules...Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed... -
![100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio, Charles Dickens]()
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio, Charles Dickens
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert Barr, and many others who know well how to manipulate a reader's emotions... -
![The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs]()
The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder, Johnny Dixon's best friend Fergie steals an enchanted book from the library, and slowly falls under the spell of evil sorcerer Jarmyn Thanatos...Categorized as:
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![Death or Ice Cream? by Gareth P. Jones]()
Death or Ice Cream? by Gareth P. Jones
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJust in time for Halloween, this young adult novel features thirteen linked short stories set in the mysterious town of Larkin Mills. Filled with odd tales, a wry wit, and creepy adventures this book will have you sleeping with the lights on, so grab a scythe and get ready for a frightful read... -
![The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds]()
The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for crying out loud. It's a dog's name. Any pooch is preferable, but a chocolate Labrador is the pinnacle. The best of the best. The dream of all dreams.When Rex's B-Day for Me-Day finally arrives, his parents surprise him with a box. A box with holes... -
![A Dark Breed by Patrick McNulty]()
A Dark Breed by Patrick McNulty
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Jacksons family is teetering on the edge of emotional and financial ruin. With the threat of uprooting his entire family for greener pastures Nick needs a win, but he’ll settle for a vacation. Even if it means driving through a horrific blizzard to an all expenses paid cabin in the Colorado mountains... -
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![The Bank of the River by Michael Richan]()
The Bank of the River by Michael Richan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteven is anticipating a quiet sabbatical at a new home. Instead, knockings and grisly apparitions begin to haunt him, relentlessly tormenting him at night. With a recent divorce and a son in college, he is left alone to deal with the ghosts lurking in the shadows of his house. Steven is determined to find a rational explanation... -
![The Hollow Gods by A.J. Vrana]()
The Hollow Gods by A.J. Vrana
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA perfect story for contemporary fantasy readers who love their narratives razor-sharp and their secrets dark and deadly. Black Hollow is a town with a dark secret. For centuries, residents have foretold the return of the Dreamwalker—an ominous figure from local folklore said to lure young women into the woods and possess them... -
![The Promise by Donna Boyd]()
The Promise by Donna Boyd
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"I saw the only woman I ever loved almost destroyed by my secrets. But it was the telling of them, in the end, that brought her to ruin."From the journals of Matise DevoncroixHannah Braselton North has abandoned civilization to spend her life in the Alaskan wilderness. And now she holds in her hands the supposed "memoirs" of one Matise Devoncroix... -
![The Dark Hour by K.J. Young]()
The Dark Hour by K.J. Young
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Deliciously creepy!”—Barbara Taylor Sissel, bestselling author of The Truth We BuryMark Norman can’t catch a break—until he’s hired as a live-in home health aide for two elderly siblings who live at Alden Manor, a run-down mansion mired in the past. His charges, former stage magicians Roy and Alma Walgrave, give off an eerie vibe, but they are also wealthy and careless with their money... -
![The Accidental Witch by Jessica Penot]()
The Accidental Witch by Jessica Penot
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPhaedra Michaels is a small town psychologist who is beginning to lose hope. Two of her patients at the local hospital in Dismal, Alabama have just killed themselves, she’s still reeling from her divorce and what turned out to be a disastrous marriage, and her father has died, leaving her without any notion of who her real mother is... -
![The Unleashed by Danielle Vega]()
The Unleashed by Danielle Vega
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the terrifying sequel to The Haunted , Hendricks discovers that even though Steele House is gone, the hauntings in Drearfield are far from over -- and it's up to her to stop them. After everything that went down at Steele House, Hendricks just wants her life to return to normal. Prom is coming up and the school is in full preparation mode...
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