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Phase of Fate by Coralee June
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐.I was the average daughter. The troublemaker. The side character in my sister, Monaโs, story. My sister was a Prodigy, endowed with exceptional skills and bonded with a guardian. In a world where all leaders, scientists, and artists are selected and pledged to shifters, she was born for greatness... -
![The Ghost and the Medium by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J McIntyre]()
The Ghost and the Medium by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J McIntyre
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Marlow House reopens as a bed and breakfast, one of its first guests is Danielleโs former mother-in-law, who Danielle has not talked to since moving to Oregon.The mother-in-law brings with her one of the countryโs top mediums. Or as Danielle calls him, one of the countryโs top con-men... -
![Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight]()
Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 4 by Nicholas Knight
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDiscover that the Highway to Hell really is paved with good intentionsSupernatural, the hit show from The CW, continued its streak of critical praise and ratings gold as the fourth season upped the stakes for Sam and Dean Winchester and introduced another potent supernatural element into the mix - angels... -
![Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell]()
Chaos Volume 2: Books 4-6 by Claire Farrell
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBooks 4-6 in the Chaos series (including bonus novella, Kings). Usurper Itโs been a year since Cara returned to the human realm with her daughter, and the fae have come knocking again. The game of kings is still being played, power is the ultimate prize, and Scarlet is an asset every court wishes to acquire... -
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![Synergy by Jamie Magee]()
Synergy by Jamie Magee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCharlie continues down her path in SYNERGY - the third book of the SEE series. SYNERGY begins with Charlie coming to grips with a string of horrific nightmares; visions in which she is surrounded by death. Ashes fall from the skies and cover the ground. Is this a piece of her past? A terrible future? And still Charlie stands by her love... -
![Tales from the Gateway: A Companion Novel to the World of the Gateway by E.E. Holmes]()
Tales from the Gateway: A Companion Novel to the World of the Gateway by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsExperience the world you love as you've never seen it before... From best-selling author E.E. Holmes comes a collection of short stories that will take you on an unforgettable journey into the lives of your favorite characters from The Gateway Trilogy and The Gateway Trackers. Go back in time and explore Fairhaven Hall with Karen and Elizabeth when they were just Apprentices... -
![The Alternative Lives of Aiden Anderson: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story by Shawn Inmon]()
The Alternative Lives of Aiden Anderson: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAiden Anderson got off to a tough start in life. He had a small family to begin with and they were all gone by the time he turned sixteen.He did his best to shake off his grief and go on to a successful life as a musician. He was talented, but just missed the big time. When he dies in a car crash, he couldn't be more surprised to open his eyes in his grandmother's kitchen in 1961... -
![Redefined by Jamie Magee]()
Redefined by Jamie Magee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a desperate search for silence in the closing chapters of Synergy Charlie battled her ultimate fear and left the only sanctuary she has ever known. She has paid a devastating price for that fateful move. She lost her foundation... -
![The Witch's Handbook to Trapping Demons by Amy Boyles]()
The Witch's Handbook to Trapping Demons by Amy Boyles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an inspector from Magical Protective Services threatens to take away Andie Taylorโs two-year-old daughter, Andie is ready for a knock down, drag-out fight. But when that same inspector winds up dead, one of the townโs supernatural citizens is quickly blamed... -
![Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch]()
Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I cowered away from him, unable to formulate a coherent sentence. Questions ran through my mind though none made it past my lips. I wondered how this could be happening, what he wanted, and what major injustice I'd brought against the universe to bring a fate such as this upon me.Perhaps being born was reason enough... -
![Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElise Morgan is about to find out that the sins of the father come back to haunt you. Running from Abel Hale seemed like a good idea at the time. Now as the only living soul in her cramped dorm room, Elise thinks maybe she's made a very bad mistake. Naked Girl, who has waited patiently, wants to tell her story. Elise's mom and Abel's mom want to be heard. And Kim Forrester.. -
![Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon]()
Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat secrets lie hidden beyond the City of the Blind? Far beneath the streets of Briar Hills lies an enormous temple of stone. Ancient secrets are buried within its wallsโฆalong with countless and unspeakable horrors. Now the time has come for the temple to finally fulfill its awesome purpose... -
![Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike]()
Diablo Snuff: A Foreign Evil by C.C. Genovese, Carver Pike
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Let me tell you about the night I experienced true evil. It started with a gaze. She was eye fucking the shit out of me." Michael is at the tail end of his bachelor party vacation with his buddies and has had enough of all the gambling and flirtatious prostitutes. Then he meets Isabelle, a foreigner herself, and Michael is smitten. But even evil can come in a beautiful package... -
![Forty-Four Book Twelve by Jools Sinclair]()
Forty-Four Book Twelve by Jools Sinclair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere's a bad moon on the rise for Abby Craig. Nothing is as it seems. And it's going to take more than Southern hospitality to survive the night. A lot more... -
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![Katarina by Sue Fineman]()
Katarina by Sue Fineman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree psychic sisters taken from their abusive mother as children reunite at their grandmotherโs funeral. They inherit the family fortune, including the old mansion on the river in Florida. The estate called River Oaks is haunted by the ghosts of ancestors and family slaves. Katarina, a teacher, lived on a ranch in Arizona... -
![Rio Grande Night: The 11th Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller by Stephen Leather]()
Rio Grande Night: The 11th Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings... -
![The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock]()
The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSummerleigh's Renovations Aren't Making Every One Happy Will the ghost of Mariane McIntyre scare everyone away? A flurry of appearances by the long-dead Lady In White prompts Jerica and Jesse to get to the bottom of her murder... -
![The Haunting of Grant Mansion by Marie Wilkens]()
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![Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu]()
Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the night of the Hungry Ghost Moon, when spirits can briefly return to the living world, Jodi Wu and her best friend sneak into Portlandโs Chinese Garden and Ghost Museum. Kneeling before the pond where Jodiโs toddler drowned one year before, they leave food offerings and burn joss paperโand Jodi prays that Ellaโs ghost will return for the night... -
![Faces of Beth by Carver Pike]()
Faces of Beth by Carver Pike
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Andrew meets Beth at the Myles-Bend State Mental Hospital, he knows she has issues. She checked herself into the place because of her problems, but he canโt help falling in love with her anyway. Heโs willing to put up with her constant mood swings and all the baggage she brings into the relationship...Categorized as:
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![Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would you do to save a loved one?Robertโs mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robertโs friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price... -
![Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz]()
Lightning / The Face of Fear / The Vision by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCONTENTS: LIGHTNING THE FACE OF FEAR THE... -
![Still Bleeding by Stephen Leather]()
Still Bleeding by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA short story by the bestselling author of the Jack Nightingale series. Supernatural detective Nightingale is called in to investigate a case of stigmata. A young girl is bleeding from her hands and feet and claims to be talking to the Virgin Mary. But Nightingale soon realises that all is not as it seems - and the girl is in mortal danger... -
![The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross]()
The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEleven-year-old Lonnie James has gone missing. Only one man remembers that he ever existed in the first place.After launching a huge manhunt to find the missing boy, Sheriff Tom Curtis is shocked when everyone quickly forgets who they're looking for. Even Lonnie's parents suddenly have no idea that had a son... -
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![The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon]()
The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlbert Cross emerges from the terrifying labyrinths of the Temple of the Blind with a broken arm and a burdened heart, only to discover that he and his friends must now climb to the summit of a mountain engulfed in fire... -
![The Haunting of Hardstone Jail by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Hardstone Jail by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the notorious Hardstone Jail is reopened after many years of neglect, nobody cares about the ghost stories. They just want somewhere to put more prisoners.But a ghost has been waiting patiently at Hardstone. The ghost of a little girl walks the corridors, seeking revenge for something that happened a century ago. And anyone who looks into her eyes will be dead within days... -
![The Soul Auction by Amy Cross]()
The Soul Auction by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsโI saw a woman on the beach. I watched her face a demon.โ Thirty years after her mother's death, Alice Ashcroft is drawn back to the coastal English town of Curridge. Somebody in Curridge has been reviewing Alice's novels online, and in those reviews there have been tantalizing hints at a hidden truth. A truth that seems to be linked to her dead mother... -
![Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels]()
Don't Scream 3: 30 More Tales to Terrify by Blair Daniels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI hear a train outside my window. Every night, it gets closer. I got called to landscape a strange garden--that blooms in the middle of December. I visited the Titanic shipwreck. There's something down there no one should see... DONโT SCREAM 3 brings you 30 more terrifying tales for your darkest nights... -
![Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Bev Vincent, Ali Seay]()
Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories by Bev Vincent, Ali Seay
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBetween April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first time, these are the stories they were writing at the time of their disappearances.Reader caution is advised. Advance readers of this anthology have reported nausea, feelings of anxiety, paranoia and hallucinations after reading the texts included... -
![American Coven by Amy Cross]()
American Coven by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe kidnapped three women and held them in his basement.He thought they couldn't fight back.He was wrong...Snatched from the street near her home, Holly Carter is taken to a rural house and thrown down into a stone basement. She meets two other women who have also been kidnapped, and soon Holly learns about the horrific rituals that take place in the house... -
![Intercepts by T.J. Payne]()
Intercepts by T.J. Payne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJoe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.All the test subjects went violently insane.But the research continued.Today it has been perfected.Almost perfected... -
![Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt]()
Ritualistic Human Sacrifice by C.V. Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNick Graves is a miserable man. Every day he comes home from his dream job to a stale marriage. On the day he finally summons the courage to tell his wife, Eve, he wants a divorce she has exciting news for him โ sheโs pregnant. Nick is a spiteful man. He purchases his dream home in an ideal location far away from family, friends, and coworkers... -
![Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector]()
Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBased on the motion picture written by Tom Holland.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire's next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo, Evil Ed... -
![The Prettiest Girl in the Grave by Kristopher Triana]()
The Prettiest Girl in the Grave by Kristopher Triana
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of international horror sensation Gone to See the River Man comes a new tale of terror that will drag you to the darkest corners of the soul.Some girls are fearful, others are brave. One girlโs a princess, the next one, a slave. But all girls are equal, when theyโre down in this cave, until just one is left standingโThe Prettiest Girl in the Grave.Itโs only supposed to be a game... -
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![They Feed by Jason Parent]()
They Feed by Jason Parent
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe night uncovers all we wish not to see. A troubled man enters a dusky park before sunset. A young woman follows, hidden in shadow. Both have returned to the park to take back something the past has stolen from them, to make right six long years of suffering, and to find justice or perhaps redemption - or maybe they'll settle for some old-fashioned revenge... -
![The Grass Monkey and Other Dark Tales by Scott Langrel]()
The Grass Monkey and Other Dark Tales by Scott Langrel
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to Shallow Springs, Virginia. It's not a nice place to visit, and an even worse place to live. Evil dwells in the mountains and lakes surrounding the town. Creatures more ancient than the Appalachian Mountains themselves lurk in the shadows and prey on the unsuspecting... -
![The Bookshop From Hell by David Haynes]()
The Bookshop From Hell by David Haynes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHorror is what Dan Law enjoys.He loves to read horror novels as a way to escape from his teaching job, from his loneliness, from the everyday dullness of life in Silver Lake. Thatโs what Dan lives for.When a new bookstore opens in town, every visitor receives a free book of their own. A book that tells their own personal storyโฆa story they have to follow to the brutal end... -
![Strange Little Horrors and Other Stories by Amy Cross]()
Strange Little Horrors and Other Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA little girl plays a prank on her sister, only to have the tables turned once she's alone.A ghost finds herself haunted by the living in a seaside cottage.A widow tries to keep up with her online reviews, even as her daughter begins to exhibit worrying behavior.Running from a deadly pandemic, a woman heads to a remote farmhouse and encounters an infuriating ghost... -
![The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories by Amy Cross]()
The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman watches from a high window as her brother approaches the house... A little girl realizes that her family's new home is trying to warn her about something... A teenager with a debilitating mental health problem starts hearing a scratching sound, coming from the attic... The Ghost of Longthorn Manor and Other Stories is a collection of short horror stories by Amy Cross... -
![Last Wrong Turn by Amy Cross]()
Last Wrong Turn by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you're out late at night and you see her face, it's already too late. Lost on a rural English road, Penny and her husband are involved in a sudden, violent car crash. Waking up tied to a metal table in a remote farmhouse, Penny quickly discovers that she's the latest victim of a strange, deadly family... -
![Private Demons by Robert Masello]()
Private Demons by Robert Masello
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucien Calais sold his soul to escape the killing fields of Cambodia. Now he owns a vast, highly successful, international conglomerate in America. But his success has come at a very high price. For Lucien has a private demon worse than anyone's--with a hunger all too real, all too hungry for human souls. A cut above the pack.--Rave Reviews... -
![I Just Want You To Be Happy by Amy Cross]()
I Just Want You To Be Happy by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA ghost story about love, loss and a dying woman's last words to the husband she must leave behind. Desperate to find a room she can rent, Hazel answers an advert placed by reclusive widower Michael Emery. When she visits Michael's home, Hazel is given a shocking offer: she can live there rent-free, with no bills to pay, provided she agrees to spend one night with him in his bed each week... -
![Ten Chimes to Midnight: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Amy Cross]()
Ten Chimes to Midnight: A Collection of Ghost Stories by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA train pulls into an abandoned station late at night. But what's waiting, out on the platform, for the passengers? A woman returns to her childhood home, seeking revenge against the spirit that killed her entire family. But will she be given the chance? An angry husband confronts a faded old magician... -
![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... -
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![Lineage by Joe Hart]()
Lineage by Joe Hart
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA LIFE FILLED WITH ANGUISH Pain, horror, fear- These are the things that bestselling novelist Lance Metzger's life have been comprised of. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and the abandonment of an apathetic mother. In turn, his only refuge became his writing... -
![A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene]()
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs night falls, five demonice, shadowy figures descend on small Brinkley Springs to feed as they have for centuries, in a feast of carnage and murder. Before the night is through the town will be decimated. Terror--and blood--will run in the streets... -
![Horror House of Perversion 2: The Slaughtered Lambs by Carl John Lee]()
Horror House of Perversion 2: The Slaughtered Lambs by Carl John Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome back to the house for wronged womenโฆRock band โThe Slaughtered Lambsโ are in town.When young fans Swallow and Kasey are invited to the bandโs official afterparty, they believe it will be the greatest night of their lives.They are wrong.They donโt know what horrors lie in store for them, or what relentless, brutal depravity awaits behind the closed doors of the mysterious Slaughterhouse... -
![Horror in the Woods by Lee Mountford]()
Horror in the Woods by Lee Mountford
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFinding that desecrated body was only the beginning....For Ashley and her three friends, it was supposed to be an adventure-filled weekend. A chance to get away from the hustle-and-bustle of city life and experience the peaceful tranquillity of nature.But when they ventured into those woods, their trip turned into a horror far beyond what they could have ever imagined... -
![The Wicked by James Newman]()
The Wicked by James Newman
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAN ANCIENT EVIL RISES...BURNS...KILLS...After a fire consumes the Heller Home for Children, the residents of Morganville, North Carolina thought they knew evil...They were wrong... -
![The Scream by John Skipp, Craig Spector]()
The Scream by John Skipp, Craig Spector
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRock 'n' Roll. Hell. Two great tastes that taste great together. Long before Elvis gyrated on the Sullivan Show or the Beatles toiled the smoky red-light bars of Hamburg, music has been sowing the seeds of liberation. Or damnation. With each new generation the edge of rebellion pushed farther. Rhythms quickened. Volume increased. Lyrics coarsened...
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