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Psycho by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe story was all too real-indeed this classic was inspired by the real-life story of Ed Gein, a psychotic murderer who led a dual life. Alfred Hitchcock too was captivated, and turned the book into one of the most-loved classic films of all time the year after it was released.Norman Bates loves his Mother. She has been dead for the past twenty years, or so people think... -
![Go Down Hard by Ali Seay]()
Go Down Hard by Ali Seay
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if a victimized woman decided to be a silent guardian angel for other women and turn the tables on predatory men? What if she stumbled into the hunting grounds of a cocky serial killer while looking for her own private murder den? What if a confident killer met his match in the form of a jean-clad, whiskey-swigging stranger in an hour glass-shaped package - and she made him want things -... -
![Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Only Psychos by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho will survive the storm?It was a blizzard for the ages. Two, massive snow storms strike back-to-back, causingchaos in the Hudson Valley.Anna, and her two children, are without power and the temperature is plummeting. Theirsituation seems bleak, but a break in the storm gives them a chance at salvation. Anna flees herhome, hoping to find safety in a local hotel, but what she finds is madness... -
![The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Housemates by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTEN DAYS, TWELVE COMPETITORS, TWO MILLION POUNDS IN CASH.What at first appears to be a wonderful opportunity for Damien Banks turns out to be the worst nightmare he can imagine. Trapped inside a house with eleven strangers, and a booming voice known only as ‘The Landlord’ controlling his every move, Damien will be forced to compete not only for the money, but for his life... -
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![The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan]()
The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClayton Carter and Chastity Harrison embark on a gruesome killing spree across Southern California, always staying one step ahead of the authorities while slaughtering their victims. Homicide Detective Harvey Skinner, frustrated by his failure to catch them, decides to use an unconventional method to punish Clayton and Chastity... -
![Headhunter Reimagined (Special X) by Michael Slade]()
Headhunter Reimagined (Special X) by Michael Slade
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIT BEGAN WITH HORROR. THEN IT GOT WORSE.There were still traces of extraordinary beauty in the woman's brutally violated body--but there was no way of knowing how beautiful she had been.Her head was missing.She was the first--but there were more to come.Many more.A killer was loose and no woman was safe.. -
![The Killing Kind by Bryan Smith]()
The Killing Kind by Bryan Smith
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA group of college friends are ready for a week of partying at their rented beach house. They didn't count on a pair of homicidal maniacs crashing the party... -
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The App by Stuart James
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe App...Once you're in, they'll never let you leave.Whatever happens, don't download The App.* It will come in the form of a link. Maybe in your DM's on a social media account, the junk folder of your emails or a WhatsApp message from a friend.* You'll be enticed by the chance of winning one hundred thousand pounds on offer every Friday, wired straight into the winner's bank account... -
![Monster by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray]()
Monster by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. There are scenes of domestic abuse. But hidden underneath it all is also a chilling story. Please do not purchase this book if you are easily shocked, disgusted or offended. This book is not for you... -
![Clown by Matt Shaw]()
Clown by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA new psychological horror from Matt Shaw - author of Porn, Sick Bastards, Rotting Dead F*cks and The Happy Ever After series - Clown tells the tale of a mild-mannered fifty year old entertainer.By day he likes nothing more than to hear the screams of children enjoying his gags and tricks at their parties but - when he gets home - his mask slips and the real monster is revealed... -
![Brother by Ania Ahlborn]()
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBrotherfollows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional—and deeply disturbing—traditions.Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on their door... -
![Pedo Island Bloodbath by Duncan Ralston]()
Pedo Island Bloodbath by Duncan Ralston
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou are cordially invited to join jet-setting financier/philanthropist Emory Jackman and his very special guests at the world's most exclusive party on Little Pearl Island! Everyone who's anyone wants to be seen at one of Emory Jackman's legendary parties, from royalty to politicians, tech billionaires to Instagram models.But something sinister is happening on Little Pearl... -
![Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect by P.D. Alleva]()
Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect by P.D. Alleva
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarnivals, Cannibals, and Clowns. Oh My!Wanna go for a ride?Meet Jigglyspot, a five-foot tall half human half warlock carnival clown who spends his free time moonlighting as a drug dealing pimp and lackey for demonic entities who prey on the weak and vulnerable, casting their dark shadow across humanity through manipulation, and fear... -
![The Summer I Died: The Roger Huntington Saga, Book 1: Volume 1 by Ryan C. Thomas]()
The Summer I Died: The Roger Huntington Saga, Book 1: Volume 1 by Ryan C. Thomas
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSo much screaming. When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they're going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain... -
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![Dismember by Daniel Pyle]()
Dismember by Daniel Pyle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe summer he turned seven, Dave Abbott survived a gruesome mountainside car accident that left the rest of his family mangled and dead.Now, after living twenty-three years with the twisted backwoodsman who pulled him from the wreckage, Dave is carrying out a plan to replace each of his lost loved ones with members of nearby, unsuspecting families... -
![The Island by Matt Shaw]()
The Island by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTen contestants were sent to a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, where they'd be left to fend for themselves for a number of weeks, as part of a new reality television show. After a quick weekend learning basic survival skills, these people were dumped on the island's shoreline with basic rations, basic tools and equipment they could use to document their journey... -
![Island by Richard Laymon, Dean Koontz]()
Island by Richard Laymon, Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWhen Rupert Conway set out on a cruise with seven other people, he planned to swim a little, get some sun and relax. He certainly didn't plan to get shipwrecked. But after the yacht blew up, that's what happened - he and his shipmates were stranded on a deserted island. Luckily for them, the island has plenty of fresh water and enough food to last until they get rescued... -
![Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke]()
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOn a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half-blind away from the scene of an atrocity. She is the sole survivor of a nightmare that claimed her friends, and even as she prays for rescue, the killers — a family of cannibalistic lunatics — are closing in... -
![Dark Mountain by Richard Kelly, Richard Laymon]()
Dark Mountain by Richard Kelly, Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTwo families have come to the California mountains expecting a fun weekend camping trip. What they will find instead is terror in the form of a violent psychopath and his mother, a powerful witch... -
![Cuts by Richard Laymon]()
Cuts by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMany people have a hobby that verges on obsession. Albert Prince's obsession happens to be cutting people, especially pretty girls. There;s nothing he loves more than breaking into a strangers house and letting his imagination and his knife run wild. Alberts on the run now, heading cross-country, but he's not about to stop having fun.Categorized as:
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![Whisper Island by Carissa Ann Lynch]()
Whisper Island by Carissa Ann Lynch
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSix of us are going to the island. Only one of us will make it back. That one of us will be me. For friends Riley, Sam, Mia and Scarlett, their trip to Whisper Island was meant to be a once in a lifetime adventure – just four young women, with everything to live for…But as soon as they arrive things start to go wrong... -
![Final Girls by Riley Sager]()
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsTen years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie–scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to—a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls... -
![Blood Games by Richard Laymon]()
Blood Games by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey meet up for one week every year: Helen, Cora, Vivian, Finley and Abilene—five former co-eds in search of thrills and adventure. Just like they enjoyed together at college. This time it's Helen's choice. Helen, the fat girl with a taste for horror, the brainy one with a fear of being caught alone in the shower by an unknown assailant with a sharp knife and a taste for blood.. -
![My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones]()
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her forJade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her... -
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![Allhallow's Eve by Richard Laymon]()
Allhallow's Eve by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King The Sherwood house has been deserted since the horrific killing of a local family in the sleepy town of Ashburg. When invitations to a mysterious party to be held there are sent out, nobody is particularly surprised - after all, everyone wants to party in a house of death on Allhallow's Eve... -
![Beware by Richard Laymon]()
Beware by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe supermarket shouldn't have been shut. It wasn't normal for Elsie to quit early, or for the guard dog to end up like hamburger meat, or for Elsie herself to feature on the butcher's slab, neatly wrapped and jointed... -
![Summer Rental by Rektok Ross]()
Summer Rental by Rektok Ross
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMEAN GIRLS meets SCREAM in this heart-pounding psychological thriller about a group of friends stranded on an island with a serial killer on the loose. Riley March and her friends are headed to ritzy, remote Palm Key Island for one last blow-out party weekend before college... -
![The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix]()
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021A Good Morning America Buzz Pick"The horror master...puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes... -
![Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones]()
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsStephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or...
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