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  • The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

    The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    No longer need the Edgar Allen Poe enthusiast search through scattered volumes in order to enjoy his tales and poetry. The Modern Library Giant series provides the ideal solution for the problem of gathering every story and poem written by Poe between the covers of a single book...
  • Drift by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Drift by L.T. Ryan, Brian Christopher Shea

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    They killed the wrong girl. Rachel Hatch will make them pay. New from USA Today & Amazon two-million copy bestselling author L.T. Ryan with Brian Shea. Ex-Army criminal investigator Rachel Hatch is a drifter. No home. No commitments. Until her sister's drowning drags her back to the town she left fifteen years ago...
  • Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters.Now Nick’s saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume...Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands...
  • The Puppeteer and The Poisoned Pawn by Brandi Elise Szeker

    The Puppeteer and The Poisoned Pawn by Brandi Elise Szeker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Skylenna's world stops revolving around Dessin as she learns of a new secret he's been hiding. Plagued with betrayal, anger, and paralyzing waves of confusion, Skylenna must put her feelings aside and focus on saving DaiSzek from the Vexamen Breed. But after tragedy strikes, she embarks on a journey alone to learn the dark, epic secrets of her past. The lost memories of her childhood...
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    secrets  suspense  adult  book  dark  dystopia  fiction  horror
  • The Complete Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

    The Complete Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written--poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition...
  • Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young

    Anybody's Daughter by Pamela Samuels Young

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Based on the real-life horrors faced by thousands of girls, award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young takes readers deep inside the disturbing world of child sex trafficking in a fast-paced thriller that educates as much as it entertains. Thirteen-year-old Brianna Walker is ecstatic. She's about to sneak off to meet her first real boyfriend—a boyfriend she met on Facebook...
  • John Saul: Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels: Suffer the Children; Punish the Sinners; Cry for the Strangers by John Saul

    John Saul: Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels: Suffer the Children; Punish the Sinners; Cry for the Strangers by John Saul

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    John Saul: Three Terrifying Bestselling Novels: Suffer the Children; Punish the Sinners; Cry for the...
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    suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  supernatural
  • The Taking of Peggy Martin by Karen Glista

    The Taking of Peggy Martin by Karen Glista

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The setting is East Texas, where Peggy, a young nurse, works at an institution for the criminally insane. After her husband Danny is mysteriously killed in a car accident, she convinces herself that it was murder… and she knows the murderer by name… Jasper Johnson...
  • Stand by Me by Raynold Gideon

    Stand by Me by Raynold Gideon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From Different Seasons The Body, as a media tie-in for the movie starring River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell...
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    suspense  teens  book  children  classics  family  fiction  horror
  • Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Absolute Fear by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Every Serial Killer... A serial killer is stalking the streets of New Orleans. The victims are killed in a ritual fashion, a series of numbers tattooed into their bodies. There are no clues, no connections except one: a crumbling old asylum that was once the scene of unspeakable madness--and is now the calling card of a new kind of fear. Is Searching For..
  • Harvest by Tess Gerritsen

    Harvest by Tess Gerritsen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    * This is an updated cover of this Kindle edition. *For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit...
  • The Antagonist by Jonas Saul

    The Antagonist by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vivian has sent Sarah to Kelowna, British Columbia, to antagonize a member of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When she arrives, Barry Ashford, the RCMP officer Sarah is supposed to irritate, has just saved a woman from a suicide attempt. To the media and the public, Barry Ashford is a hero...
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    suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  supernatural
  • The Loner by J.A. Johnstone

    The Loner by J.A. Johnstone

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Most people have no idea that successful young businessman Conrad Browning is the son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan. And that's one secret he plans to keep--until his beautiful wife, Rebel, was kidnapped by a group of deadly bandits...
  • Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Gangland by Chuck Hogan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of the most infamous unprosecuted mob bosses in American history, and the hidden crime that will bring down an empire.In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader...
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    north-america  usa  suspense  illinois  urban  fiction  crime  mystery
  • Don't Tell A Soul by D.K. Hood

    Don't Tell A Soul by D.K. Hood

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The floor was stone cold on her bare skin. Her heart pounded in her chest. ‘Not a soul knows where I am,’ she thought as she took in the darkness around her. And then she heard his footsteps…When a body is found stuffed into a barrel at a garbage dump, covered in long red lacerations, Detective Jenna Alton and her new deputy, David Kane, rush to the scene...
  • The Witch's Key by Dana E. Donovan

    The Witch's Key by Dana E. Donovan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Circumstances surrounding an unexplained spike in deaths among homeless men have Tony Marcella suspecting paranormal forces are again at work in the town of New Castle. But things get complicated when his investigation is stifled by his hopeless infatuation with a witch who just may be at the heart of the mystery...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Inferno Park by J.L. Bryan

    Inferno Park by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carter was only twelve when he witnessed the disaster that killed more than a hundred people at Starland Amusement Park. Five years later, Carter’s hometown is no longer a busy Florida panhandle resort, but a slowly dying town full of empty motels and attractions rusting behind chains and padlocks.Now something evil stirs in the ruins of the old amusement park..
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    north-america  suspense  usa  book  fiction  florida  ghosts  horror
  • The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set by Jeremy Bates

    The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set by Jeremy Bates

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates brings you the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels, which have been praised for their fast-paced plots and brilliant twists. As a bonus, you also get a digital copy of the runaway bestseller The Taste of Fear, which has garnered more than 500 five-star reviews...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  anthologies  fiction  horror  mystery  politics
  • Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod

    Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lyn works at an isolated roadside diner. When a retired combat veteran stages an assault there her world is turned upside down. Surviving the sniper’s bullets is only the beginning of Lyn's nightmare. Navigating hostilities, she establishes herself as the disputed leader of a diverse group of people that are at odds with the situation and each other...
  • Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Unknown by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune continue their search for the evil Books of the Bound. But in the meantime, the young men in Sebastian’s social circle start dying.Though the deaths look like self-administered poisonings, Sebastian soon comes to realize a killer is at work. And not just any murderer, but one wielding the dark power of the Book of Bone...
  • Ugly As Sin by James Newman

    Ugly As Sin by James Newman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nick Bullman was a wrestling superstar. His alter ego, The Widowmaker, was the monster heel all the marks loved to hate.Now, after a brutal encounter with two psychotic fans left his face horribly disfigured, he's just a monster.Yanked from the spotlight and thrust into the shadows, these days Nick tries to live the life of an average Joe. He avoids mirrors. He's angry. He's alone...
  • Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Dead Suite by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crime scene cleaner Sadie Novak has been blessed with the gift of second sight. But with ghosts of murder victims always popping up when she’s trying to work, her blessing sometimes seems more like a curse… With business slow, her mortgage payment looming, and her relationship with on-again off-again boyfriend Zack somewhere in limbo, Sadie could use a drink and a little rejuvenating R&R...
  • An Unquiet Grave by P.J. Parrish

    An Unquiet Grave by P.J. Parrish

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Not Every Soul Rest in PeaceIn a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. But as they do, a terrifying secret begins to emerge...
  • The House of Long Shadows by Ambrose Ibsen

    The House of Long Shadows by Ambrose Ibsen

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The house at 889 Morgan Road has been empty almost thirty years. Maybe it should have stayed that way. Kevin Taylor is an internet-famous handyman on a mission: Find a house and renovate it in thirty days. By flipping a derelict house in a month's time and chronicling the entire thing on video for his online subscribers, he seeks to impress a handful of network TV producers and become a star...
  • Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

    Schrader's Chord by Scott Leeds

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debut about cursed vinyl records that open a gateway to the land of the dead.I told you they were real.After his estranged father’s mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral...
  • Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Don't Scream by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don't Tell A Soul. . . In a remote, heavily wooded area near the Berkshires of Massachusetts, Rachel Lorant died on her birthday. But she didn't die alone. That night, her four sorority sisters make a solemn, trembling pledge. They will never reveal what has just happened in those woods--ever. Instead, they will take their terrible secret to their graves. . . Don't Think About The Past. .
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  family
  • The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “Take her out back and finish her off.”She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.And that she must run.In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare...
  • Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass

    Flesh and Bone by Jefferson Bass

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton founded Tennessee's world-famous Body Farm—a small piece of land where corpses are left to decay in order to gain important forensic information. Now, in the wake of a shocking crime in nearby Chattanooga, he's called upon by Jess Carter—the rising star of the state's medical examiners—to help her unravel a murderous puzzle...
  • The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz

    The Book of Counted Sorrows by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the author's The Book of Counted Sorrows, being the mind-bending, heart-stopping, bowel-freezing, spleen-tickling history of the most dangerous book of poetry ever written, including the text of the cursed book itself, with the prayer that God will protect you from a spontaneous head explosion (and even worse potential fates) if you dare read it...
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    suspense  horror  fiction  mystery  fantasy  book  adult
  • You'll Never Know by Caleb Stephens

    You'll Never Know by Caleb Stephens

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson races against the clock in this pulse-pounding thriller packed with riddles, danger, and the desperate fight to save his family, perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain.They took his wife. They took his child. He only has hours to find them … or they’re dead.Grant Wilson has never been happier...
  • Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doc Ford wrestles more than one kind of demon, in the stunning novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author. Many dangers lurk in the deep-the worst of them are human. Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends...
  • In Silence by Erica Spindler

    In Silence by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Avery Chauvin returns to her Louisiana hometown after her father's suicide, she discovers clippings of a fifteen-year-old murder and learns about recent disappearances and murders that lead her to start an investigation...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Deathtrap by Ira Levin

    Deathtrap by Ira Levin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Seemingly comfortably ensconced in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl, a successful writer of Broadway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a "dry" spell which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds...
  • Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Outbreak by Robert Tine

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on the film of the same name starring Dustin Hoffman, this is the story of a doctor fighting a virus created by the British secret service in Africa. He begins to notice that people in the US are dying of a similar mysterious illness. As he begins to investigate he uncovers foul play...
  • Wormwood by Chad Lutzke, Tim Meyer

    Wormwood by Chad Lutzke, Tim Meyer

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For some kids, Long Lake, Georgia is home. But for fourteen-year-old Baker Gray, it’s just another stop, another town in another state. Because of his mother’s nomadic lifestyle, he’s never had a best friend, never kissed a girl, and he’s certainly never met anyone like Cassandra Larsson—the enigmatic, older girl whose idea of fun blurs the line between right and wrong...
  • The Ghost of Molly Holt by Amy Cross

    The Ghost of Molly Holt by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Molly Holt is dead. There's nothing to fear in this house." When three teenagers set out to explore an abandoned house in the middle of a forest, they think they've found the location where the infamous Molly Holt video was filmed. They've found much more than that... FROM THE AUTHOR OF ASYLUM, HAUNTED AND THE NIGHT GIRL. Tim doesn't believe in ghosts, but he has a crush on a girl who does...
    Categorized as:
    secrets  suspense  adult  book  death  fiction  ghosts  hauntings
  • The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium by F. Paul Wilson

    The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium by F. Paul Wilson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This novella was expanded from "Freak Show," the nigh impossible to find anthology F. Paul Wilson edited back in 1992. It was originally published as a 500-copy collector's edition that sold out on publication. With copies of the limited going for over $100 on the aftermarket, the author decided to make inexpensive paperback and ebook editions available to his readers...
  • Animosity by James Newman

    Animosity by James Newman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Andrew Holland is a bestselling horror writer. While none of Andy's neighbors has any interest in reading his macabre books, they're pleased to have a celebrity author living among them. Then, one morning, Andy finds the body of a child several hundred feet from his front door. A little girl who has been raped and murdered. And everything changes on Poinsettia Lane. Andy's neighbors turn on him...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Bad News by Amy Cross

    Bad News by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A missing girl. A man with a past. And a reporter who'll do anything to uncover the truth. When she's fired from her job at a TV station, Maggie Carter sets out to prove that she's got what it takes...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  thriller
  • Teru Teru Bozu by Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie

    Teru Teru Bozu by Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kamu pernah mendengar tentang teru teru bozu?Atau kamu menggantung satu boneka itu di depan jendela kamarmu? Tentunya kamu tahu untuk apa benda itu ada di sana. Namun aku yakin, kamu tidak pernah menyangka cerita mengerikan apa yang bisa teru teru bozu hamparkandi hadapanmu. Kamu mungkin akan terkesiap ketika tahu teru-teru bozu di sekolahku punya kisah yang berbeda...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Night Bird by Brian Freeman

    The Night Bird by Brian Freeman

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Homicide detective Frost Easton doesn’t like coincidences. When a series of bizarre deaths rock San Francisco—as seemingly random women suffer violent psychotic breaks—Frost looks for a connection that leads him to psychiatrist Francesca Stein. Frankie’s controversial therapy helps people erase their most terrifying memories…and all the victims were her patients...
  • Fatal by Michael Palmer

    Fatal by Michael Palmer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • With Red Hands by Stephen Woodworth

    With Red Hands by Stephen Woodworth

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Natalie Lindstrom was once one of an elite group of investigators with the power to interview the dead victims of violent crime. But now Natalie has had enough. Enough of the violence. Enough of the darkness that has already gotten too close to her five-year-old daughter...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Big Driver by Stephen King

    Big Driver by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Now a Lifetime original movie, Stephen King's haunting story about an author of a series of mystery novels who tries to reconcile her old life with her life after a horrific attack and the one thing that can save her: Revenge.Tess Thorne, a famous mystery writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing engagement...
  • La otra bella durmiente by Phillip Margolin, Eduardo Iriarte

    La otra bella durmiente by Phillip Margolin, Eduardo Iriarte

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After a serial killer murdered the parents of Ashley Spencer and left Casey Van Meter in a coma, Ashley wonders why her quiet, loving family was targeted by a madman and decides to go into hiding in Europe. Returning years later to bear witness when the suspect is finally apprehended and tried, her pain also resurfaces in a true crime novel written by Miles Van Meter, Casey's twin brother...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  audiobook  book  crime  family
  • The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari

    The Skin Gods by Richard Montanari

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Richard Montanari's The Echo Man.With the breakneck pacing and intricate plotting of his most recent novel, The Rosary Girls, Richard Montanari established himself as one of the most exciting suspense writers working today...
  • Shadowland by Meg Cabot, Jenny Carroll

    Shadowland by Meg Cabot, Jenny Carroll

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 60 ratings
    Suze is a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help...
  • Kill Night by Victor Methos

    Kill Night by Victor Methos

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this moody short story, bestselling author of The Secret Witness Victor Methos weaves a psychological legal thriller about one lawyer’s quest for a fair trial when the only suspect is his client...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  usa  suspense  utah  audiobook  fiction  mystery  crime
  • A Man to Die For by Eileen Dreyer

    A Man to Die For by Eileen Dreyer

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    St. Louis Trauma nurse Casey McDonough thinks her life is interesting enough. Her best friend still drops acid, her ex-husband is a cross-dressing psychiatrist, and her mother has turned the third floor of the family home into the Chapel of Eternal Vigilance. Then, things begin to really go wrong when OB/Gyn Dr. Dale Hunsacker arrives...
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