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Bloodline Secrecy by Lan Chan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA wraith from supernatural legend walks into a shifter banquet and tries to kill the alpha. Of course I'm the idiot who gets in the way and cops the blame. I am still Alessia Hastings. My world is still insane.It's semester two at Bloodline Academy and these are the things I know:1. They still can't figure out what's wrong with my magic. At least they've ruled out I'm not a demon.2... -
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... -
Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories by Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThis carefully crafted ebook: “Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker... -
Whitechapel Rising by Anthony M. Strong
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a work crew restoring a Mayfair home make a shocking find. A secret basement room walled up since Victorian times. The Whitechapel murderer's lair. And inside, a corpse that has waited in silent darkness for over a hundred years. But it won't stay that way. -
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Takedown by John O'Brien
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Dice Are Cast... Death Watches and WaitsThe sanctuary walls were breached and through them poured screaming hordes of night runners. About to be overrun, the survivors formed a last stand against the thousands that threatened to end their existence... -
Reckoning by John O'Brien
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsBlood had been spilled... Retribution is at hand... Greg rescues several survivors from the clutches of a fanatical group only to find a mysterious force behind him. With only a small team accompanying him, he flees into the night with the force following. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues. Leonard finds their home port lying in ruins... -
Whitstable by Stephen Volk
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1971. A middle-aged man, wracked with grief, walks along the beach at Whitstable in Kent... A boy approaches him and, taking him for the famous vampire-hunter Doctor Van Helsing from the Hammer movies, asks for his help. Because he believes his stepfather really is a vampire.. -
Bloodline Sorcery by Lan Chan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlood might be thicker than water, but my blood only spells trouble. It’s a new semester at Bloodline Academy but I’m the same old Sophie Mwansa. I’m still the low-magic kitchen witch at the bottom of the totem pole. The rare human in a school full of shifters, Nephilim, Fae and vampires. And they look at me like I’m their worst nightmare... -
A Drop of Anguish by Stacey Trombley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI might be a magicless human, but I won't be easy prey.Everyone at Shadow Hills Academy thinks they know who I am. Canadice Montgomery, a weak magicless human whose only claim to power was her relationship with the demon prince, Jarron.The girl who's so desperate for power, she'd be willing to kill her peers in a deadly competition... -
Pop Art by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy...Categorized as:
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Bunker Dogs by Gage Greenwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDon't just fear what you're hiding from, fear what you're hiding with. Cassie's night of babysitting goes to hell when bombs explode in the distance, planes fly overhead at low altitudes, and alerts on her phone tell her to seek shelter. Luckily, the boy she babysits tells her his father has a bunker in the yard... -
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis volume contains the first six scripts from the first season of the television programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These scripts are the shooting drafts, and contain production notes, cut dialogue and different scenes... -
Voluntary Committal by Joe Hill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . -
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Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”Beware the one who got away . . -
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the fertile mind of Brian Lumley: Weird heroes and weirder worlds!Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!Vampires. Elder Gods. Nightmares. Mysterious elixirs. Wines capable of transporting the drinker-literally-to another world. Fossils that dream of rending flesh between their teeth. These wonders, and many more, spring from the fertile imagination of Brian Lumley... -
Dracula by Tania Zamorsky, Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDracula, that compelling creature of the night, continues his neck-biting ways in a version of the novel that children will devour. Moving from Transylvania to London, the timeless vampire serves up thrills and chills as he imprisons and terrorizes the innocent Jonathan Harker, and then goes after his fiancee, Mina, and her friend Lucy. From creepy, insect-eating Renfield to Dr... -
Classics of Horror: Dracula & Frankenstein by Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDRACULA is an 1897 epistolary novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was 1st published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel & invasion literature... -
Vampire: The Masquerade Revised by Mark Rein-Hagen, Phil Brucato
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey stalk in the shadows, moving gracefully and unseen among their prey. They are the blood-drinking fiends of whispered legends - Kindred, Cainites, the Damned. Above all, they are vampires. Their eternal struggle, waged since the nights of Jericho and Babylon, plays itself out among the skyscrapers and nightclubs of the modern world... -
American Supernatural Tales by S.T. Joshi, Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs Stephen King will attest , the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation’s brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P...Categorized as:
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Drifters by John L. Campbell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe survivors of the Omega Virus make a desperate effort to find the living. But the walking dead aren’t done with them yet…Helicopter pilot Vladimir Yurish is a man of his word. The last thing he wants is to abandon the safety of the U.S.S. Nimitz and his newly adopted son Ben... -
With Teeth by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor a group of middle-aged friends, the trip into the forest was supposed to be simple. All they had to do was find a place to set up their criminal enterprise, and all of their financial problems would be solved. But now, night is falling, and with the darkness comes something else. Something fast. Something ferocious. Something... with teeth... -
Down in the Hollow by Timothy Hobbs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt all begins with a decapitated head found at the bottom of a dark well. Bertram Stone is a former Texas Ranger running from the changes of an ever-evolving world. Horses were being replaced by cars. Laws were changing how Bertram could deal justice. Wanting to live out his golden years in peace, Stone flees to the quiet town of Hamilton, Texas where he becomes the local sheriff... -
A Dose of Agony by Stacey Trombley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe final installment of the Shadow Hills Relentless series.They say the games have only just begun, but I'm here to end them once and for all.A civil war is brewing in the Under World, lead by the same villain who stole my sister from me. Jarron must return to his world for damage control, leaving me alone at Shadow Hills Academy again... -
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From Dusk Till Dawn: A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe screenplay of Tarantino's film "From Dusk until Dawn," this is the story of two kidnappers who use a lapsed preacher and his two teenage children as human shields in their escape to Mexico. Mayhem ensues when they encounter a group of creatures who exist only from dusk until dawn... -
Dracula and Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis e-book publication is unique which includes compilation of two classics, Dracula and Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker. A new table of contents with working links has been included by a publisher. This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors... -
One Last Kiss by R.L. Stine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEleanor Rawlin just wants to live a normal life, but her father is obssessed with killing the vampires who murdered her mother... -
By the Pale Moonlight by Jennifer Hendren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMakenna Wilhelm knows all of her friends have their quirks, but when Ty shows up naked in her yard one morning, she finds it beyond weird. Stranger still are the deep gashes across Ty’s chest and his sudden ability to hear and smell things that no human should.During a moonlit night, Ty’s secret is revealed... -
The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1 by Richard Chizmar, Stephen King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Cemetery Dance, the award-winning showcase for today's greatest masters of dark fiction, comes a stunning short story anthology of dark dreams, forbidden fantasies, and waking nightmares... -
Storberry by Dan Padavona
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDo You Miss the Days when Vampire Novels were Scary?Haunted by the demons of his childhood, Evan Moran returns to Storberry, Virginia, to find a greater evil threatens the town. Across town, teenager Jen Barrows is frightened by the strange noises which come from her garage crawlspace after nightfall, despite the assurances of friend Tom Kingsley that there is nothing to fear... -
Teeth of Beasts by Marcus Pelegrimas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHorrible things move through the shadows of our world--bloodsuckers, Full Bloods and mongrel beasts, shapeshifters and minor freaks. For centuries creature hunters known as Skinners have protected humankind. But who protects the Skinners . . . from madness?Unbeknownst to the human population, a pestilence is raging through an unseen community of low-level monstrosities... -
Mar negro by Bernardo Esquinca, Miguel Ángel Álvarez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings¿La vida en la Tierra sólo puede evolucionar, o también mutar en criaturas amenazantes, propias de la prehistoria y el horror? ¿Es el amor motivo suficiente para traer a un hombre de regreso de la muerte? ¿Pueden los juguetes infantiles convertirse en mensajeros de furiosas maldiciones?En esta colección de cuentos, Bernardo Esquinca abre interrogantes cuyas respuestas se encuentran al otro lado... -
Knead to Know by Liz Schulte
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMaggie Edwards can’t sleep, eat, or die—but, she can bake. However, just before the Halloween grand opening of her bakery, a pesky reporter witnesses an accident in her kitchen and gets a little too close to the truth. If she can’t convince him to keep quiet, not only will she lose her chance at happiness, but they both could lose their lives... -
Beautiful Familiar by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stormy night. A broken down car on a remote Scottish moor. A woman trapped miles from nowhere, who finally spots a light in the distance. Yet even as she makes her way toward Strathfield Castle, Catherine Meadows has no idea that her arrival is anticipated. Strathfield is home to one of the last great vampires... -
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HOLLOW by Celina Myers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMia feels stuck. The only talents she has ever had - the ability to see ghosts - dried up when she was a child. She knows there must be something more for her out there, but what? Then one day a tragic series of events kills her and she soon discovers she has been turned into a vampire. She must choose between two vampire families - and two unexpected loves... -
Invaders by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThree great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation... -
Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales by Bram Stoker
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMenacing tales from one of the masters of horror fictionAlthough Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre... -
Arctic Storm by John O'Brien
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat would happen if a viral agent was released on American soil? How would local agencies react? How would the military respond? What if it was one of their own? Would they own it or attempt to cover it up? If a major operation was jeopardized because of the release, would that alter any of the decisions? A potent viral agent, created to destabilize a region for forces to move in and clean up,... -
The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his first collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt introduced the world to his singular voice--a poetic, resonant force of darkness and unique terrors. He returns with The Inconsolables, a chilling selection of stories sure to brighten this star of literary horror...Categorized as:
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The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories by Alan Ryan, Fritz Leiber
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee... -
Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages... -
The Reckoning by Carsten Stroud
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe astonishing final installment in the page-turning trilogy that Stephen King calls “an authentic work of American genius.” Niceville has an almost unearthly beauty when the sun tops the ancient nearby mountain called Tallulah’s Wall and bathes it in soft Southern light...Categorized as:
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Don't Scream: 60 Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI picked up a hitchhiker. Now I’m not sure I’ll get home alive. I finally bought my own Airpods. I hear something terrifying when I wear them. Today, I looked in the mirror... for the first time in 10 years. Do NOT read a book called “Goodnight, Precious” to your children. DON’T SCREAM brings you 60 terrifying tales for your darkest nights... -
Hellhound by Nancy Holzner
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey call it Deadtown: the city’s quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders—but Victory Vaughn, Boston’s only professional demon slayer, isn’t exactly human…Boston’s zombies have suddenly become inexplicably violent—horror movie-style—resulting in a catastrophic all-out battle against humans... -
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Guide to the Sabbat by Justin Achilli
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShadows of the Elders War The Sabbat are depraved monsters, reveling in their Damned state and herding the kine about them like cattle. Or so it would seem to the uninitiated. In truth, the Sabbat wage a secret war on the elders, struggling night after night to free themselves from the tyranny of the dread Antediluvians and the Jyhad itself... -
The World on Blood by Jonathan Nasaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNasaw's stunningly original novel introduces readers to a group of contemporary "blood addicts" in Northern California who have for the last 20 years--under the leadership of charismatic and cheerfully immoral multi-millionaire James Whistler and erstwhile intelligence officer and horror novelist Nick Santos--been satifying their boundless thirst for blood... -
The Darkening by Paul Antony Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING EXTINCTION POINT SERIES "Where has everyone gone?" That's the question fifteen-year-old Annabelle 'Birdy' Finch is asking. As a hundred-year storm descends on Los Angeles, Birdy's not the only one looking for answers to the city's vanishing population. A wheelchair-bound Army veteran watches the world from his apartment window, and what he sees terrifies him... -
Vampire Express (Choose Your Own Adventure, #31) by Tony Koltz
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou're on a vampire hunt in deepest Romania with your uncle Andrew and your friend Nina. You're riding horseback toward an eerie castle when a thick fog rolls in. Suddenly you're surrounded by wolves! Your uncle races ahead- but Nina is thrown off her horse and disappears into the fog. What should you do?If you decide to stay and look for Nina, turn to page 54... -
Whiteout by Gabriel Dylan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘She sat us all down and told us a story. About things that lived in the woods. Things that only came out at night.’For Charlie, a school ski trip is the perfect escape from his unhappy home life. Until a storm blows in and the resort town is cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped on the mountain, the students wait for the blizzards to pass, along with mysterious ski guide Hanna... -
Clanbook: Malkavian Revised by Ethan Skemp, Jess Heinig
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Circle of ChaosThe childer of Malkav bear two curses: undeath and madness. From emotionless sociopaths to raving lunatics and everything in between, the Malkavians nonetheless command startling insight...
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