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Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper... -
![Sociopath by Victor Methos]()
Sociopath by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE MURDER OF A FEDERAL AGENT...Retired detective Jon Stanton is enjoying his new life when a single call shatters his peace: one of his oldest friends, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been murdered in a small town in Utah. Investigating a double homicide, Stanton believes he had gotten too close to the killer and paid the ultimate price... -
![Ramonst by A.F. Knott]()
Ramonst by A.F. Knott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion... -
![Diesel by M. Merin]()
Diesel by M. Merin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHot on the trail of a major human trafficking ring, Diesel sinks deeper and deeper into the darkness of that world the more he unearths the digital footprints of those responsible for the kidnapping and death of members of his MC Family... -
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![Reckoning by Jeff Menapace]()
Reckoning by Jeff Menapace
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife in the swamp just got wilder… “The Swamp Massacre.” That’s what the media dubbed it. A family on a boat tour through the Florida Everglades. Abducted by the infamous Roy family. Forced to endure hell. Five years later, an aspiring filmmaker and her friends are keen on making a documentary about the incident... -
![John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul]()
John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world... -
![Odd Man Out by James Newman, Aaron Dries]()
Odd Man Out by James Newman, Aaron Dries
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Black Mountain Camp for Boys. Summer of ’89. It is a time for splashing in the lake and exploring the wilderness, for nine teenagers to bond together and create friendships that could last the rest of their lives.But among this group there is a young man with a secret — a secret that, in this time and place, is unthinkable to his peers... -
![J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath]()
J.A. Konrath Horror Trilogy - Three Thriller Novels by Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree complete horror novels by the master of chills, J.A. Konrath. A F R A I D WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907...Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now...A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed... -
![The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim]()
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing... -
![A Long December by Richard Chizmar]()
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
![Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck, Deena Warner]()
Prodigal Blues by Gary A. Braunbeck, Deena Warner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author Gary A. Braunbeck comes Prodigal Blues, his first foray into non-supernatural horror.After he finds himself stranded at a truck stop in Missouri, Mark Sieber gets one of the biggest shocks of his life when he recognizes the face of a little girl on a Missing poster as belonging to the same little girl he saw only a few minutes before... -
![ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray]()
ART by Matt Shaw, Michael Bray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWARNING: The following book has some scenes which some readers may find distressing. This novel is intended for a mature audience only. Martin Andrews is in a rut. Tired of the daily grind of life as a police officer and with a heavily pregnant wife, he is disillusioned, desperate to give his unborn child a chance in a world in which he has lost all faith... -
![What Good Men Do by Jonathan Butcher]()
What Good Men Do by Jonathan Butcher
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe powerful sequel to the indie horror hit What Good Girls Do.Several months after Elizabeth first emerged from the squalid basement in which she was born, the horrific consequences of her escape are still being felt - and not just by Elizabeth and her traumatised ex-neighbour Serenity.Closeby, blood-hungry men are plotting an unthinkable revenge... -
![Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward]()
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched vacation of his youth, of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town where they spent their summers... -
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![Dead Girl Blues by David Sodergren]()
Dead Girl Blues by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a young woman dies in Willow Zulawski’s arms, it sets in motion a chain of events that will push her to the brink of madness.A mysterious video is the only clue, but as Willow digs deeper into the murky world of snuff movies, those closest to her start turning up dead. Someone out there will stop at nothing to silence her... -
![My Pretties by Jeff Strand]()
My Pretties by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA novel of terror from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of PRESSURE. A serial kidnapper is preying upon women. He abducts them, then locks them in one of the cages dangling from the ceiling in a soundproofed basement. There, he sits quietly and just watches them, returning night after night, hoping he'll be in the room at the moment his beautiful captives finally starve to death... -
![The Scour by Richard Swan]()
The Scour by Richard Swan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen years before the events of The Justice of Kings, Vonvalt and Bressinger investigate the imprisonment of a fellow justice for murder... -
![Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan]()
Into the Wolves' Den by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat would you do to protect your family? Keith Klein, a beat cop in the small New Mexico town of Montaño, sets out to find his missing daughters after they vanish on their way home from school. He enlists the help of Gerald Greenwood, an old friend and a private investigator... -
![Wildlife by Jeff Menapace]()
Wildlife by Jeff Menapace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the Everglades, there are sights that should never be seen… Deep in the Florida Everglades, a tragic accident has ignited a deadly feud between two families. Meanwhile, a young writer, his girlfriend and her family take a boat ride into the isolated wilds of the Everglades for research on a new book, only to become unwitting witnesses to a brutal crime... -
![Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana]()
Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. She has everything a girl of sixteen is supposed to want. And she’s sick to death of it. In search of something to pull her out of suicidal thoughts, she decides to lose her virginity, having heard it’s a life-changing event. But Kim doesn’t want to do it the same way the other girls do... -
![La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau]()
La belle et la bête by Simon Rousseau
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLes contes de notre enfance revisités... pour nourrir tous nos cauchemars !Une jeune infirmière traumatisée, obligée de raconter sa terrible histoire aux autorités. Une résidence luxueuse dissimulée au coeur de la forêt boréale et regorgeant d'horreurs innommables... Un prisonnier sauvagement mutilé, incapable de venir en aide à une famille au funeste destin... -
![Through the Eyes of Desperation: The Red Version by Aron Beauregard]()
Through the Eyes of Desperation: The Red Version by Aron Beauregard
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsALL BETS ARE OFFRed has tried to keep his nose clean but the sins of his past still haunt him. They’ve forced him back into the darkness—toward a life he’d hoped to leave behind. Now he has just four days to make things right.The scam seemed safe enough at first, but now Red is six figures in debt, and there's more than just money at stake... -
![Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton]()
Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMeet DS Katie Maguire. With her bright green eyes and short red hair, she looks like an Irish pixie. But she is no soft touch. In this exclusive short story, Ireland's most fearless detective hunts down a priest-killer in county Cork... -
![The City by S.C. Mendes]()
The City by S.C. Mendes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChinatown, 1910. Violence is nothing new to these streets, but the discovery of three bodies—little more than piles of flesh and organs, the bones stolen—have proven to be the most bizarre murders to date. The police turn to Max Elliot, an unstable homicide detective, who six months earlier lost his wife and daughter under similar circumstances... -
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![Midnight Rain by James Newman]()
Midnight Rain by James Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1977... In a small town called Midnight, North Carolina, twelve-year-old Kyle Mackey ventures toward a strange new world called manhood... Kyle's older brother Dan is going away to college. The night before Dan's flight leaves for Florida, Kyle visits what he calls his "Secret Place" -- an old shack in the woods bordering Midnight... -
![Down Time by Barry Lyga]()
Down Time by Barry Lyga
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBilly Dent is the world's most notorious serial killer, but even killers need to go on vacation sometimes. When a mysterious death occurs in the hotel where Billy is staying, his "job" seems to call. Will his vacation truly be down time for him after all?In this prequel novella to the I Hunt Killers trilogy, bestselling author Barry Lyga crafts a creepy, intricately plotted mystery... -
![The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller]()
The Country Club: Members Only by Tim Miller
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeep in the heart of Texas sits The Country Club. At the Club, the super wealthy explore their deepest darkest fantasies and desires. Some of them are too horrific to imagine. Crystal is a blogger who investigates Texas Urban Legends. No one believes the Club actually exists. She sets out to expose the Club and their atrocities to the world... -
![The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross]()
The Return of Rachel Stone by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen years ago, Rachel Stone was snatched from her crib in the middle of the night. Now she's back. Or is she? Called in by concerned family members, private detective Jo Mason has to determine whether Rachel has really returned, or whether she's actually an impostor trying to rob her wealthy family of millions... -
![The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson]()
The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories represent the future of genre-bending fiction from some of our brightest and most original voices... -
![22918 by Kimberly A. Bettes]()
22918 by Kimberly A. Bettes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLester Wine is a serial killer. Having brutally murdered dozens of women, he serves out his final days on death row. As his execution date nears, he recounts his story to a young journalist and budding author, telling every gory detail of his life and of the crimes he committed, all while fantasizing about the chance to do them one more time.*For mature audiences only... -
![The Third Parent by Elias Witherow]()
The Third Parent by Elias Witherow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door.Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told... -
![Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard]()
Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven clues, seven steps closer to a killer . . .Bringing us into a world of unrelenting suspense, Olivia Harvard’s astonishing debut explores the ravages of grief and betrayal through the eyes of a teenage boy coping with a heartbreaking loss and its revelations . . .The unthinkable has happened: Colton Crest is dead. And Elliot, Colton’s best friend, is the one who finds him brutally murdered... -
![The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler]()
The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDarren Tasking is a slick who lives in Great Crown, Florida and considers himself an entrepreneur. Others might refer to him as a criminal or a pimp or an extortionist or all of these things, if they knew what he was doing at night. His income is derived from a number of brothels and gambling parlors that are secreted behind iron doors in what appear to be typical apartment buildings... -
![Savage Keepsakes by Marla York]()
Savage Keepsakes by Marla York
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m not a good man. Never cared to be one.My existence is only darkness and death. The world thinks I shouldn’t be this way, but I am who I am. Turning animals & humans into art is all I’ve ever known. Sending keepsakes of my victims ignites a fire within me, knowing I’m hurting families fuels my passion to continue.I’ve never wanted to be anyone’s hero until Lucy... -
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![Terminal by Brian Keene]()
Terminal by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man--with a surprising jolt of the supernatural . . . Tommy O'Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn't even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life... -
![Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath]()
Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore the events of Jack Kilborn's epic horror novel AFRAID...Before the events of J.A. Konrath's critically acclaimed Jack Daniels thrillers FUZZY NAVEL and CHERRY BOMB...Before the events of Jack Kilborn's and Blake Crouch's #1 ebook bestseller SERIAL...A cop and two killers meet for the ultimate showdown at the TRUCK STOP... -
![The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron]()
The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a gruesome modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns supreme while mercy leads to annihilation. Conrad's sister has vanished while traveling in Mexico... -
![Bring Her Back by Jeff Strand]()
Bring Her Back by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrank knows that he's creepy. There's nothing he can do about it. His creepiness--along with the fact that his father once killed eleven people in an office shooting—has kept him from ever having a girlfriend. When he finally works up the nerve to ask Abigail out on a date, after buying flowers from her every day for the past three months, he's sure she'll say no... -
![The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter by L.A. Detwiler]()
The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter by L.A. Detwiler
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the USA Today and International Bestselling author of The Widow Next Door comes a demented page-turner. If you knew your father’s darkest secret, would you turn him in? What if his secret was connected to you? Ruby Marlowe’s always been a daddy’s girl. Her mother died when she was two, and her single father has ensured she has everything she needs... -
![Night of the Prowler by Jon Athan]()
Night of the Prowler by Jon Athan
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAssist the customers. Stock the shelves. Sweep the floors. Take out the trash. Survive the night.Zoe Doyle, an eighteen-year-old girl saving up for college and her first car, is working the night shift by herself at a secluded gas station for the first time. Her hopes for a normal night quickly diminish as she meets the local creeps, but she perseveres... -
![Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Alfred Hitchcock]()
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven when Alfred Hitchcock was just a tiny tot, his parents sensed there was something, well, odd about him. The only kind of fairy tales that brought a smile to his childish lips had the ogres and dragons winning, and instead of wanting to know about the birds and the bees, he kept asking about the vipers and the vultures... -
![Born To Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas]()
Born To Bleed by Ryan C. Thomas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBorn to Bleed is the exciting sequel to the cult classic, The Summer I Died! It's been ten years since Roger Huntington suffered through the bloody events in Skinny Man's basement. Ten years since the game of chance, the dismemberment, the torture, and the grisly deaths. Roger has moved to California where he now works as a painter and pines after his co-worker, Victoria... -
![Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver]()
Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths … The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed author Will Carver. ‘Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain... -
![Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern]()
Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Vidalis, Expertin für Pathopsychologie am LKA Berlin, hat gerade die Folgen ihrer Hetzjagd auf den Serienkiller "Der Namenlose" verkraftet, als die Hauptstadt von einer neuen, noch perfideren Mordserie erschüttert wird... -
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![My Family by Matt Shaw]()
My Family by Matt Shaw
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME HORROR NOVEL. There is gore. There is bad language. There are scenes of a sexual nature. 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... -
![My Darrling by Krystal McLean]()
My Darrling by Krystal McLean
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novella. To the world, nineteen-year-old Isaac Darrling was nothing more than pure, unsalvageable evil; a sadistic serial killer on a quest for notoriety, fame. To me, he was the love of my life. My obsession. My Darrling, as I called him. This is a story about unconditional love in its rawest—and possibly sickest—form... -
![نصف ميت دفن حيًا by حسن الجندي]()
نصف ميت دفن حيًا by حسن الجندي
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“لماذا لا أرى إنعكاسى فى المرآة ؟؟؟؟ توقفت لدقيقة أنظر للمرآة بنوع من التركيز محاولا تأمل السطح المصقول وهل به مشاكل فى التنظيف !! لا جدوى من ذلك فإنعكاس باب الحمام يظهر بالمرآة ولكن انعكاسى هو الذى يظهر”رواية "نصف ميت دفن حيا" ستجدها مختلفه من البداية كما ان النهاية غير متوقعة ويصعب التكهّن بما تحمله .. أعتقد ان الكاتب لم يرد أن يستنتج القارئ النهاية حتى لو على سبيل المزاح . -
![Endless Night by Richard Laymon]()
Endless Night by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJody is pretty tough for a sixteen-year-old girl. That's the only reason she's still alive - for now. She was sleeping over at her friend Evelyn's house when a group of killers broke in and tried to slaughter everyone. She saw Evelyn spitted on a spear, but Jody managed to escape, along with Evelyn's little brother, Andy. — Simon was one of the killers that gruesome night... -
![Red by Jack Ketchum]()
Red by Jack Ketchum
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man.Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, his best friend in the world... -
![Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King]()
Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWealthy crime-boss Jimmy Dolan brutally murders a woman who is scheduled to testify against him, and her husband spends the next seven years plotting his revenge. Haunted by the voice of his dead wife, he will stop at nothing to exact his vengeance and allow his wife to rest in peace...
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