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Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsA woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family.A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved... -
![Misery by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King]()
Misery by Robin Waterfield, Stephen King
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSimplified adaptation with language-learning materials.[Penguin Readers Level 6]Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes' favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When she finds Paul injured after a car crash and takes him home she learns that he has decided to end the series by killing off Misery... -
![Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare 2 by Joe Oliveto]()
Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare 2 by Joe Oliveto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDid you love reading classics like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as a child? Then you'll love the second entry in the Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare series... -
![Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews]()
Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis volume features the first novels in three thrilling V.C. Andrews' series: "Heaven, Dawn, " and "Ruby"--an unprecedented hardcover collection--complete and unabridged--at an inviting price! Available... -
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![Vicious Little Darling: A Dark Stalker Romance by Teresa Wolf]()
Vicious Little Darling: A Dark Stalker Romance by Teresa Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ve killed more women than I can count. But this one is different.I always start by stalking them. I follow them home, break into their rooms… like a predator ambushing unsuspecting prey. The thrill of the hunt makes me feel alive.But Ember isn’t scared of me. She’s a fighter… and when I break into her room in the dead of night, she relishes every touch... -
![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.. -
![Copiii întunericului by Lavinia Călina]()
Copiii întunericului by Lavinia Călina
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Tu cât de mult te poți ascunde de magie?”Roxana și Nicol, două adolescente cu personalități aparent diferite, devin cele mai bune prietene după o noapte în care viața li se va schimba complet. Împărtășind același secret, ele vor încerca timp de mai mulți ani să ducă împreună o existență cât mai banală, cotidiană, pentru a se ascunde de cei care le doresc, probabil, moartea... -
![Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky]()
Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this award-winning American Gothic novel, two estranged friends, Percy and Johnny, reunite at the haunting estate of Rhinebeck where Johnny’s aunt Alice died reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead.Stumbling upon her letters and journals, they discover that her story is not what they’ve been told—not at all. Everyone has a secret, and nothing is what it seems... -
![My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach]()
My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis book is the product of a sick mind; a product of the "Southern Madman." There are 104 Fantasies inside that are not based in reality, interspersed with 70 Short Stories of somewhat sane thought of heavy opinion. The theme of the Fantasies is Law and Order and the author and the good guys always win. In a few places, it is quite tame... -
![The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman]()
The Vanished Bride of Northfield House by Phyllis M. Newman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsEngland, 1922. Times are hard. Anne Chatham is a clever, modest young woman with little money, no prospects for marriage, and a never-shared secret—she can see spirits. Anne finds employment as a typist at Northfield House, the grand country manor of the Wellington family. Her employer, the wheelchair-bound Mr. Wellington, is kindly. His haughty wife is not... -
![Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]()
Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley by Nick Dear, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll I ask is the possibility of love!Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, and increasingly desperate and vengeful, he determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal... -
![El cielo de la selva by Elaine Vilar Madruga]()
El cielo de la selva by Elaine Vilar Madruga
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLa selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alto de los precios a cambio. Su voracidad no termina nunca y aquellos que viven bajo su control deben entregarle a sus hijos como parte de un cíclico tributo caníbal... -
![The Hawk is Dying by Harry Crews]()
The Hawk is Dying by Harry Crews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverybody wanted something from George Gattling. They wanted sex and new seat covers, money and confessions, a little bit of love and a lot of answers. That's why George liked his hawk. All it asked of him was an opportunity to kill... -
![The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson]()
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it... -
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![House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne]()
House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Kate Vavasour wakes in the hospital, she remembers nothing of the family gathered around her, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do—but these memories are not hers. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall more than 400 years earlier... -
![This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau]()
This is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contemporary Horror, follows the gut-wrenching journey of Miller and her estranged mother, Sylvie, who have always had a tense relationship. After Miller's father dies, she agrees to a girls' vacation away from the city to reconnect with the only family she has left... -
![The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin]()
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThis volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past... -
![A Bouquet of Czech Folktales by Karel Jaromír Erben]()
A Bouquet of Czech Folktales by Karel Jaromír Erben
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsErben compiled and wrote A Bouquet based on his studies of Slavic folktales and folk songs. First published in 1853, it is dotted with murder and mayhem : graves opening and the dead walking the earth, the animate becoming the inanimate and vice versa, ogres and monsters of lake and wood, human transformations reminiscent of Ovid's Metamorphoses... -
![Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine]()
Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the three million copy bestselling author of Lady of Hay comes the big new novel by the bestselling author of Whispers in the Sand is a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years.The parish of Manningtree and Mistley has a dark history... -
![Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of the poems by the famous American writer.Al Araaf --Alone --Annabel Lee --Bells --Bridal ballad --City in the sea --Coliseum --Conqueror worm --Dactylic couplet --Deep in earth --Dream --Dream-land --Dreams --Dream within a dream --Eldorado --Elizabeth --Enigma --Eulalie --Evening star --To F --To F-SS... -
![Veronica's Room by Ira Levin]()
Veronica's Room by Ira Levin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThriller New Revised EditionCharacters: 2 male, 2 femaleInterior SetThis chilling mystery thriller by the author of Rosemary's Baby explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, madness and murder. Students Susan and Larry find themselves as guests enticed to the Brabissant mansion by it's dissolute caretakers the lonely Mackeys... -
![The Vines of Yarrabee by Dorothy Eden]()
The Vines of Yarrabee by Dorothy Eden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was her aristocratic beauty, her fine English breeding, and her impeccable social sense that first drew Gilbert to Eugenia and made him think of her as the perfect mistress of Yarrabee, the great plantation and vineyard he had wrested from the wilderness... -
![The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy]()
The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it.Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, Arkansas, the small town they all fled after high school graduation. Each is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter that reads, You promised... -
![Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers]()
Alraune by Hanns Heinz Ewers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIllustrated English translation of Hanns Heinz Ewers' decadent novel, Alraune, the second volume in his Frank Braun trilogy: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Alraune, and Vampire... -
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![The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier]()
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Monte VeritàVictorThe BirdsThe Apple TreeThe Little PhotographerKiss Me Again, StrangerThe Old... -
![My Bones and My Flute: A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner by Edgar Mittelholzer]()
My Bones and My Flute: A Ghost Story in the Old-Fashioned Manner by Edgar Mittelholzer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly when he is on board the steamer halfway to their remote destination up river in Guyana does Milton Woodsley realize that there is more to Henry Nevinson’s invitation to spend time with his family in their jungle cottage. Milton, an artist, thinks he has been invited to do some paintings for Nevinson, a rich businessman... -
![Devil's Sonata by Elizabeth Edmondson]()
Devil's Sonata by Elizabeth Edmondson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBeauregard Abbey is an elite boarding school in the wilds of North Yorkshire – a school built in the ruins of a monastery renowned for corruption and the study of dark magic until its destruction by Henry VIII five centuries ago... -
![Arianna Rose: The Gathering by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci]()
Arianna Rose: The Gathering by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReeling from loss and the sudden appearance of her supernatural powers, Arianna Rose is drawn to a new town and sets about starting over.She quickly learns, however, that peace has no place in her life, and that the town she’s moved to is the center of an evil uprising so great, it it threatens the very fabric of her existence... -
![The Blood House by Amy Cross]()
The Blood House by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventy-five years ago, a family of three disappeared from their remote English home. Blood was left smeared all over the floors and walls, but despite an extensive search, their bodies were never found. Now the house is ready to kill again. On the run from his creditors, Owen Richards moves his wife and daughter out to the same house... -
![Makeup by Robert McCammon]()
Makeup by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSmall-time thief Calvin Doss has bungled a job. He was supposed to steal Jean Harlow’s makeup case. But by accident, he made off with a case that belonged to a B-list horror actor from the 1940s. Little does Calvin know, the makeup case contains more than just the usual pastes and powders... -
![El niño que comía lana by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade]()
El niño que comía lana by Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUn niño traumatizado por la desaparición de su cordero empieza a comer lana, que vomita en forma de bolas; un ama de cría sueña con emigrar a América mientras mantiene la leche utilizando a un perrito; a un marqués le proporcionan dentaduras postizas de dudosa procedencia; a un niño le extirpan las amígdalas y acaban convertidas en trofeo; una anciana toma una decisión inaudita tras la muerte de... -
![Secret Whispers by V.C. Andrews]()
Secret Whispers by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere's no place like home...On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, shy wallflower Semantha Heavenstone is caught in a whirl of scandal and betrayal. Now, she's returned to the grand Kentucky mansion where painful memories of her mother and her older sister, Cassie, are as potent as newly mown bluegrass... -
![Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert]()
Ratman's Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRatman's Notebooks is a 1968 horror novel by Stephen Gilbert. Written as a series of diary entries, it tells the story of a reclusive man who discovers he can train rats to do his bidding. Initially, he uses this for some innocent, yet creepy fun.Then he graduates to using them for thievery and finally murder... -
![NIGHT STALKER by Carol Davis Luce]()
NIGHT STALKER by Carol Davis Luce
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Night Stalker – a dandy read – tense, original…Add Carol Davis Luce to your list of writers not to be overlooked.” – Tony Hillerman author of Talking GodThings were looking up for Alexandra Carlson. She had finally gotten her life back together again... -
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![The Forbidden Heart by V.C. Andrews]()
The Forbidden Heart by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Forbidden series continues in this thrilling e-novella, as Emmie must reinvent herself in Paris after her older sister, a high-priced escort, suddenly disappears.Emmie risked everything to track down her long-lost older sister, only to be left behind in Paris after Roxy finds love and escapes from her life as a high-class escort... -
![Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed by Joseph Nassise, Del Howison]()
Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed by Joseph Nassise, Del Howison
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn authorized, all-original horror anthology set in the world of Clive Barker's cult film masterpiece, NightbreedClive Barker's Nightbreed has been controversial since the moment it was released in a version edited by the studio and roundly condemned by Barker, who wrote and directed the movie... -
![Forms of Heaven: Three Plays by Clive Barker by Clive Barker]()
Forms of Heaven: Three Plays by Clive Barker by Clive Barker
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThough each of these three plays evokes a different world, they share a vision of how imagination enriches and transforms our lives. From the haunted and bitersweet humor of Crazyface to the politically charged landscapes of Paradise Street and on to me erotic fantasy of Subtle Bodies, Barker demonstrates yet again why he is among the most popular and treasured of contemporary writers... -
![Sian's Solution by Dale Mayer]()
Sian's Solution by Dale Mayer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis 9k word short story was originally published in 2011 as part of the Entangled anthology - sold to raise money for Breast Cancer awarenessSometimes the depth of love is only understood when it is lost forever...When a vampire discovers the human man she loves has been captured and hung in a blood farm, she goes against her own kind and risks everything to save him... -
![The Claiming by Ike Hamill]()
The Claiming by Ike Hamill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt wasn’t her fault. It wasn’t Lizzy’s fault that she saw the cloaked people out in the yard. It wasn’t her fault that she was drawn by the moonlight to watch them as they advanced on the house. And it definitely wasn’t her fault when people began to die. Lizzy didn’t want the strange dreams where she saw how they were killed. Even her sister was starting to suspect her... -
![The Curse of the Langfords by Amy Cross]()
The Curse of the Langfords by Amy Cross
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor hundreds of years, there have been rumors of a mysterious family that once dominated England. Some say that the Langfords were the power behind the thrones of some of the country's greatest monarchs... -
![Ghost Brothers of Darkland County by Stephen King, John Mellencamp]()
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County by Stephen King, John Mellencamp
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe perfect gift for fans of Stephen King and John Mellencamp—the libretto of their acclaimed Southern Gothic supernatural musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, with hand-written notes on the development of the play, plus two CDs and a DVD featuring the songs and interviews with Stephen King, John Mellencamp, and Musical Director, T Bone Burnett... -
![Fiona by Catherine Gaskin]()
Fiona by Catherine Gaskin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDesperate for work, Fiona McIntyre goes to the West Indies as governess of her young cousin. However the passions of the white masters and their restless slaves, on the brink of emancipation, are at boiling point. As hurricane winds and forbidden drums sweep the island, all secrets are laid bare... -
![Vantage Point by Sara Sligar]()
Vantage Point by Sara Sligar
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSuccession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive Gothic suspense novel about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families.The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, status, power. They’re also famously cursed. Clara and her brother Teddy grew up on a small island in Maine in the shadow of their parents’ tragic deaths, haunted by rumors and paparazzi... -
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![The Haunting of Seafield House: Trapped by Caroline Clark]()
The Haunting of Seafield House: Trapped by Caroline Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDOWNLOAD FOR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED. Gail wants to create some memories – if she survives the night in Seafield House it is something she will never forget. Gail Parker never believed in ghosts and yet she knows her boyfriend does. Jesse saw ghosts as a child and has spent the last decade trying to reconnect with spirits... -
![The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories by Bernardo Esquinca, Mariana Enríquez]()
The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories by Bernardo Esquinca, Mariana Enríquez
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 'The Secret Life of Insects', a forensic entomologist tries to solve the murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' becomes concerned by his wife's strange behavior, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fascination with octopi... -
![The Star of Solomon by Aleksandr Kuprin]()
The Star of Solomon by Aleksandr Kuprin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSo many dream of limitless power and fulfillment of all wishes. Wise men, alchemists and philosophers spend decades looking for this great secret... -
![Hidden Leaves by V.C. Andrews]()
Hidden Leaves by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe truth could not be revealed — until now....After the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world — and shatters the life she's known in glitzy Palm Beach, Florida. At last, Willow learns the identity of her real father, and unearths his secret love affair with her real mother... -
![Family Storms by V.C. Andrews]()
Family Storms by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the eye of the storm . . . Living on the streets with her destitute mother, selling knickknacks and trinkets just to survive, Sasha Porter dreams of someday having a normal life, with a real house and family... -
![Midnight Flight by V.C. Andrews]()
Midnight Flight by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHEY LIVED ON THE WILD SIDE.NOW THESE BAD GIRLS ARE PAYING THE PRICE. At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr...
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