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The Numbing by Flint Maxwell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Supernatural Apocalypse NovelEvil awaits.After the devastating events on Prism Lake, Grady and the other survivors head south, hoping to find safety in one of the rumored "Cities of Light."But as they embark on their journey, they quickly discover the monsters aren't the only things out in the snow they must fear.They may not even be the worst things.. -
Red Station by Kenzie Jennings
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is a house overlooking the vast, rolling plains. A home station where a traveler will be welcomed with a piping hot meal and a downy bed.It is a refuge for the weary. A beacon for the lost.A place where blood and bones feed the land.For four stagecoach passengers......a doctor in search of a missing father and daughter......a newlywed couple on the way to their homestead.....Categorized as:
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12 Steps: A Novel of Suspense by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA rainy night. A storm incoming. A group of alcoholics trying to stay clean. But staying clean is impossible when you have blood on your hands. Justice will always catch up with you. Adam lost his entire life to alcohol, but tonight he is one year sober. While he never expects to ever again be happy, he is at least back in control of his life... -
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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Island of the Dolls by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE CREEPIEST ISLAND ON EARTHDeep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder... -
Night Shoot by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA group of desperate student film-makers break into Crawford Manor for an unauthorised night shoot. They have no choice. Their lead actress has quit. They’re out of time. They’re out of money.They’re out of luck.For Crawford Manor has a past that won’t stay dead, and the crew are about to come face-to-face with the hideous secret that stalks the halls... -
The Cabin by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"There are stories about this place. It's said that something really bad happened here once, in the room where we're standing right now." When Anna arrives in Norway to visit a long-lost friend, she expects to spend a calm, relaxing weekend at a remote cabin. Soon, however, she learns that some of the other guests are not what they seem, and the cabin itself has a dark history... -
Do Not Disturb by Jon Athan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn their way to Las Vegas for a pair of bachelor’s and bachelorette's parties, Colton and Lacey run into some car trouble. They find shelter at Motel Ace, located in Middle-of-Nowhere, Nevada. They’re welcomed by a quiet clerk and they meet a cast of interesting travelers. They expect a quiet, romantic night at a dingy motel as they wait for the mechanic... -
Relentless by Christopher Artinian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSal had woken up with no recollection of the night before a few times but never like this … in a forest … alone … confused … scared.She scoured her surroundings, desperate for some clue as to how she’d ended up here. Fragments of conversations, snapshots of memories were all she could scramble together.But, suddenly, none of it mattered.A stranger.A warning.And the hunt is on... -
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... -
Black Canyon by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE NEW FACE OF EVILBlack Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado boasts one of the most beautiful and deepest canyons in the United States. For twelve-year-old Brian Garrett, a weekend camping trip in the park promises to be an opportunity to bond with his aloof parents... -
Halloween Kills: The Official Movie Novelization by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe official novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Halloween, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor... -
Tastes Like Candy: A Slasher Novel by Ivy Tholen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEveryone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and her friends are the lucky ones. Eight girls will break into the Poison Apple Carnival after hours for a scavenger hunt, then at sunrise they’ll gather for a celebration in honor of their upcoming senior year.But someone else has another game planned... -
The Venue by T.J. Payne
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Rollicking dark, twisted fun!" Welcome to THE VENUEWhere the super rich can get away from it all. ...and get away with anything they want.You're invited to Caleb Hunt's wedding! Sure, you haven't spoken since you two had a falling out in high school, but Caleb has gotten over that. He's a forgiving person. It was all a misunderstanding. He credits you with turning him into the man he is today... -
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Halloween: The Official Movie Novelization by John Passarella
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith's Grove State Hospital... -
The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn LA Times Best Book of the Year The product of a long line of hunters, shamans, and healers, Diana Jackman grew up surrounded by wilderness. A natural-born tracker, she and seven other hunters have gathered in the remote and treacherous snow-covered tundra of northern British Columbia in pursuit of white-tail deer. And while the group may be isolated, they are not alone... -
The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana, Ryan Harding
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe employees of the Freshway grocery store aren’t too happy about having to do an overnight shift, but they’re about to be even unhappier. Their rival store, Devil’s Food, is about to lay siege upon them with extreme prejudice. This is no ordinary grocery chain. Devil’s Food is run by a cult of murderous Satanists committed to killing the competition—literally... -
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... -
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...Categorized as:
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Quake by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratings'If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat' Stephen King.Twenty minutes before the quake hit, Stanley was ogling Sheila through his living-room window. Now he may be able to do more than just ogle ... Sheila's trapped in her ruined house and her husband and daughter are stranded on the other side of the city... -
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
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... -
Paradise Club by Tim Meyer
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Paradise. Sandy beaches. Crystalline waters. An all-inclusive resort with virtually everything you can think of. A true idyllic paradise. An event is taking place at Paradise Club that wasn’t on the brochure: a dangerous game pitting the hotel’s guests against a gang of bloodthirsty maniacs... -
Helltown by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNO ONE LEAVES ALIVESince the 1980s there have been numerous reports of occult activity and other possibly supernatural phenomenon within certain villages and townships of Summit County, Ohio - an area collectively known as Helltown... -
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Darkness, Tell Us by Richard Laymon
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt started as a game. Six college kids at a party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board. The board that Corie had hidden in the back of her closet and sworn never to touch again. Not after what happened last time. Not after Jake's death...They were only playing around, but the Ouija board worked all right. Maybe too well... -
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... -
The Resort by Bentley Little
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWelcome to The Reata, an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona desert. Please ignore the strange employees and that unspeakable thing in the pool. And when guests start disappearing, pretend it isn't happening. Enjoy your stay, and relax. Oh...and lock yourself in after dark... -
Urban Gothic by Brian Keene
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNo one gets out alive! When their car broke down in a dangerous inner-city neighborhood, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter inside an old, dark row home. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until help arrived. They were wrong... -
Camp Slasher by Dan Padavona
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLost in the dark woods. Stalked and butchered. Head severed and tossed into the bushes. She is the first to die. The body count will grow. Slasher horror in the vein of Friday the 13th, Halloween, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A group of young counselors set out to rebuild Camp Black Bear. But a bloodthirsty killer stalks the woods. Now two counselors must survive the night in the forest... -
The Haunting by Natasha Preston
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pounding, twisty read! Haunted by the past . . .Penny's trying to forget about her ex, Nash. His father was arrested for the brutal murder of four teenagers on Devil's Night last year. Penny's parents have forbidden her to have anything to do with Nash or his family... -
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare, Jesse Vilinsky
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsQuinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning.Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half... -
The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved by Joey Comeau
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMartin is going to Bible Camp for the summer. He's going to learn archery and swimming, and he's going to make new friends. He's pretty excited, but that's probably because nobody told him that this is a horror novel... -
Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom by Brian Olsen
Rated: 3.47 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLibrarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00DLJDRU2Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead... -
Slumber Party by Christopher Pike
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHodder&Stroughton rp paperback vg In stock shipped from our UK... -
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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... -
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAt Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street.Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake... -
Solstice: A Tropical Horror Comedy by Lorence Alison
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Part teen drama, part horror story... Readers will want to finish in one sitting." —Kirkus ReviewsA music fest goes wrong in Lorence Alison's comic YA thriller Solstice as selfie-mad concert-goers wake up to realize their tropical island fantasy is a deadly nightmare... -
A Night to Die For by Lisa Schroeder
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Night Of meets Carrie when a boy finds a girl's body in the ditch on prom night...and becomes the primary suspect in her murder.All Mario wants is one normal night before he graduates. He's spent most of high school riding solo and gaming with his only friend, Lucas... -
Campfire by Shawn Sarles
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBe careful what stories you tell around the campfire... they just might come true. Fans of Scream and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will devour this chilling horror debut.While camping in a remote location, Maddie Davenport gathers around the fire with her friends and family to tell scary stories... -
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... -
The Rules by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguié
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNarrated by alternating unreliable narrators, this dark thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. It's Saw meets I Know What You Did Last Summer.Junior Robin Brisset has no idea what she's in for when she accepts an invitation to one of Callabrese High's most exclusive parties... -
The Serial Killers Club by Jeff Povey
Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Just a place for serial killers to come and go, to reveal their stories, and to get off on knowing like-minded psychopaths. Hey, it's like all minority groups—there really is nowhere to meet these days."When our unlikely hero stumbles into the path of a serial killer, he has no choice but to defend himself—and ends up killing the killer...
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