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  • Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

    Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Andy Gage was born in 1965 and murdered not long after by his stepfather. . . . It was no ordinary murder. Though the torture and abuse that killed him were real, Andy Gage's death wasn't. Only his soul actually died, and when it died, it broke in pieces. Then the pieces became souls in their own right, coinheritors of Andy Gage's life. . .
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    drama  ghosts  21st-century  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Vol. 7 by Eiji Mikage

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the final volume of The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria, Kazuki makes his last stand against O to fulfill his vow to bring back the "zeroth" Maria-the real Maria. But what does fate have in store for them..
  • Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

    Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden was declared officially dead in 1995...
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    drama  ghosts  horror  mystery  fiction  crime  audiobook  suspense
  • The Ghost of Crowford School by Amy Cross

    The Ghost of Crowford School by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The year is 1988, and the old Crowford School building is about to be knocked down. Before that happens, however, three schoolchildren are determined to discover the truth about an old legend...
  • 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 ratings
    New 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...
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    ghosts  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark  fiction  horror
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
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    ghosts  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  gothic  horror  mystery
  • The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Before you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find…The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of clearing his house...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  crime  family  female-mc
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain

    The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A newcomer to a small town must contend with a 17th century poltergeist intent on murder Five years after the death of his wife, MacAoidh Armstrong moves into a smallholding in southern Scotland with the intention of living a self-sufficient existence. Although he’s heard the steading has a reputation for being haunted, the pragmatic Highlander does not believe in ghosts...
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    ghosts  adult  book  fiction  gothic  horror  paranormal  psychological
  • Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Night Gallery is one of three books written by Rod Serling based on stories he created for the 1970 television series by the same name. Similar to his Stories From The Twilight Zone books, he novelized six of the show’s scripts for this volume, including They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar, which was nominated for an Emmy award...
  • The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a famous artist is kidnapped, the only one who can save him has a body no one can see, and a voice few can hear.Angel, spirit, or ghost—the Keeper doesn’t know exactly what he is. But he knows he needs to protect Michael Delacroix, a famous artist who is kidnapped and locked in a windowless room deep beneath a Napa Valley vineyard...
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    drama  ghosts  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book  crime  dark
  • Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the autumn of 1968, the bodies of six brothers were found hanging from Hollyhead's billboard dressed in white, flowing gowns. Their killer was never identified.Twelve years later, another death has occurred. Will Metlocke, an author with seemingly psychic abilities, is called back to his hometown by his estranged father in a plea to help solve the murders...
  • Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two families. 100 years apart. A sinister haunting...It was supposed to be the dream house for Adam, Catherine, and their daughter, Bella. But dream houses can hold secrets. Settling in to their new home, the family realise they are not the only inhabitants of Abberton House.A dark past continues to haunt the idyllic Yorkshire home, and those who remain want Adam and Catherine to know the truth...
  • Strangers by Dean Koontz

    Strangers by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Six strangers are unaccountably seized by nightmares, attacks of fear, and bouts of uncharacteristic behavior. The six begin to seek each other out as puzzling photographs and messages arrive, indicating that the cause may lie in a forgotten weekend stay at an isolated Nevada motel. Koontz has topped a fine roster of horror and suspense novels with an almost unbearably suspenseful page-turner...
  • Forgotten Bones by Vivian Barz

    Forgotten Bones by Vivian Barz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An unlikely pair teams up to investigate a brutal murder in a haunting thriller that walks the line between reality and impossibility.When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they're quick to pin the crime on a convicted felon who lives nearby. But when it comes to murder, Officer Susan Marlan never trusts a simple explanation, so she's just getting started...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  epic
  • The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb

    The End of Temperance Dare: A Novel by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Haunting and atmospheric, The End of Temperance Dare is another thrilling page-turner from the author reviewers are calling the Queen of the Northern Gothic.When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists’ retreat, she knows nothing of Cliffside Manor’s dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a “waiting room for death...
  • Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart.The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing.When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter's funeral...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  cozy  crime  family
  • নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মিসির আলি সিরিজের বই। "নিশীথিনী" হচ্ছে "দেবী" এর দ্বিতীয়...
  • Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn

    Do You Realize? by Kevin A. Kuhn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    George is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crisis, but George gets a quirky, philosophical physics professor named Shiloh...
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
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    drama  ghosts  romance  mlm  dark  paranormal  lgbtq  horror
  • The Two Sams: Ghost Stories by Glen Hirshberg

    The Two Sams: Ghost Stories by Glen Hirshberg

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With this unique collection, acclaimed author Glen Hirshberg breathes new life into an age-old literary tradition. In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night...
  • What Lies Below by Mark Lukens

    What Lies Below by Mark Lukens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHAT LIES BELOW Genre: mystery/thriller, short novel Pam has been having recurring nightmares lately, and there's something buried in those nightmares ... a terrible secret trying to surface. Pam was eight years old when her mother left her without a note or a goodbye, leaving her alone to live with her domineering father, a world-famous psychiatrist...
  • The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor

    The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted. Table of ContentsForeword by James D...
  • The Cabin II: Asylum by Matt Shaw

    The Cabin II: Asylum by Matt Shaw

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The hugely anticipated follow-up to Matt Shaw's best-selling horror story 'The Cabin'."I sat up and rested my back against the soft padded wall. I wonder whether the padding on the wall is to stop me from hurting myself, as they had explained when I first got here, or to drown the sounds of my banging and screaming as I beg for them to let me out; not that they ever will...
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    ghosts  adult  book  creepy-children  dark  death  fiction  horror
  • In Her Shadow by Mark Edwards

    In Her Shadow by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Isabel’s life seemed perfect. Successful business, beautiful house, adoring husband. And then she was dead.For four years Jessica has never doubted that her sister Isabel’s death was an accident. But when Jessica’s young daughter seems to know long-forgotten details about her aunt’s past, Jessica can’t shake the feeling that there’s a more sinister truth behind the tragedy...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  family
  • Duma Key by Stephen King

    Duma Key by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir...
  • The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright

    The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Outstanding Debut Novel from an Author to Watch Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown...
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    drama  ghosts  21st-century  adult  audiobook  book  christian  crime
  • Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death...
  • The Door to December by Richard Paige, Dean Koontz

    The Door to December by Richard Paige, Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand...
  • The Haunting of Shadow Hill House by Caroline Clark

    The Haunting of Shadow Hill House by Caroline Clark

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A move for a better future becomes a race against the past. Something dark lurks in Shadow Hill House and it is waiting. DOWNLOAD FOR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED After her husband lost his job Jenny moves her family to the remote and beautiful Shadow Hill House. It is to be a new start. A safe place for daughter Abby to grow up and a new business teaching art for her...
  • Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca

    Midnight Picnic by Nick Antosca

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the morning, Bram finds the bones of a murdered child. At noon, the murdered child begs for his help. And by nightfall, they have killed a man together and set off into the afterlife, where nothing is what it was, and death is only the beginning of punishment. An eerie story about the nature of death and the self, Midnight Picnic inhabits an American landscape made strange and unfamiliar...
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    ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror  mystery  paranormal
  • The Writhing: A Horror Novel by Abe Moss

    The Writhing: A Horror Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You never truly know your neighbors, or what goes on behind closed doors. Sometimes it's better not to. Sometimes the truth is downright haunting. Alex watches from her bedroom window as the small, secluded town of Amberton sleeps: a bright, pleasant town with a dark, disturbing secret. Helen, her foster mother, is gone all hours of the night with no explanation...
  • The Spider by Amy Cross

    The Spider by Amy Cross

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two years after the death of his wife, Edward Moss moves back to their remote rural cottage. An old man now, Edward simply wants to spend his final years surrounded by his beloved books. He wants no company and no visits. He wants to be left alone. But there's something else in the cottage with Edward. On his first night, he spots a spider crawling across the wall...
  • Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

    Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instang of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and swithc you into a new and terrifying world...
  • The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp, Jesús Cañadas

    The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp, Jesús Cañadas

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Jack Sparks died while writing this book.It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed...
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    drama  ghosts  21st-century  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Naoko by Keigo Higashino

    Naoko by Keigo Higashino

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Naoko, a major bestseller and film in Japan, is a poignant and wily take on gender relations from a master of the detective story. Expertly and seamlessly interweaving the real and the unreal, Naoko involves a regular guy whose world is rocked when his wife dies in a bus accident. His young daughter survives, but seems to be inhabited by her mother’s personality...
  • Twisted Roots by V.C. Andrews

    Twisted Roots by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The perfect family...and the perfect nightmare. TWISTED ROOTS From the outside, Hannah Eaton seems to live a charmed life in wealthy Palm Beach, Florida, with her mother, Willow, a renowned psychologist, and her stepfather. But deep inside, she is miserable and lonely. She's been abandoned by her father, a pretentious lawyer whose family wants nothing to do with her...
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    drama  ghosts  book  classics  epic  family  fiction  gothic
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz

    Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men...
  • Ghost Dance by Mark T. Sullivan

    Ghost Dance by Mark T. Sullivan

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When struggling filmmaker Patrick Gallagher fishes a mutilated corpse out of a river, his retreat from life takes a sinister turn. After destroying his own career, Patrick had hoped to lick his wounds in the quiet of a small New England town, but the ghostly secrets of Lawton, Vermont prove all too ominous to allow for serenity...
  • The Haunting of Brynlee House: Based on a Real Haunted House by Caroline Clark

    The Haunting of Brynlee House: Based on a Real Haunted House by Caroline Clark

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on a real haunted house - Brynlee House has a past, a secret; it is one that would be best left buried. Emma has been hiding for a year. Hiding from an abusive ex who broke more than her bones. Now it is time to start again, and she has been left an old house in which to make a new beginning...
  • Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart

    Perfect Circle by Sean Stewart

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    William ""Dead"" Kennedy has problems. He's haunted by family, by dead people with unfinished business, and by those perfect pop songs that you can't get out of your head. He's a 32-year-old Texan still in love with his ex-wife. He just lost his job at Pet-Co for eating cat food. His air-conditioning is broken, there's no good music on the radio, and he's been dreaming about ghost roads...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  book  contemporary  dark  dark-fantasy  family
  • Birdbox by Michael Louis Calvillo

    Birdbox by Michael Louis Calvillo

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Four young siblings. An ancient evil that has been waiting billions of years for its opportunity to reign over the earth. Oscar, Esteban, Manny and Isabel are as different as brothers and sisters can be. They argue, and the brothers even fight, but their unquestioned love for each other is about to be tested in unimaginable ways. The Birdbox has finally been opened after many centuries...
  • Sunset by Stephen King

    Sunset by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    'Did you maybe leave the oven on? Or forget to turn off the gas under your patio barbeque? What about the lock on your back door? Did you remember to give it a twist? Things like that are so easy to forget, and someone could be slipping in right now...'Now: just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, that's when reality grows thin...
  • The Death Chamber by Sarah Rayne

    The Death Chamber by Sarah Rayne

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Calvary Gaol, standing bleak and forbidding on the Cumbrian hillside, exerts a curious hold over Georgina Grey. For her family's history is closely bound up in its dark and terrible past. It's there that her great-grandfather worked as a prison doctor in the 1930s; where his involvement in a bizarre experiment would change the course of his life forever...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  book  crime  fiction  gothic  historical
  • The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin

    The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    WINNER OF SWEDEN’S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARDOn the idyllic island of Öland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island’s woodlands, glens, and beaches...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  espionage
  • No One's Home by D.M. Pulley

    No One's Home by D.M. Pulley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For fans of The Haunting of Hill House comes a dark tale of a mansion haunted by a legacy of tragedy and a family trapped by lies.Margot and Myron Spielman move to a new town, looking for a fresh start and an escape from the long shadow of their past. But soon after they buy Rawlingswood, a foreclosed mansion rumored to be haunted, they realize they’re in for more of the same…or worse...
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    drama  ghosts  adult  audiobook  book  crime  family  fiction
  • Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Olivia by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    About The Author: About the Author Born on June 6, 1924 in Portsmouth, Va., Virginia Cleo Andrews was one of three children of William Henry and Lillian Lilnora. Her father was a career Navy man who later opened a tool-and-die business and her mother was a telephone operator. As a child, Andrews read voraciously and also excelled in art...
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    drama  ghosts  abuse  book  classics  contemporary  dark  epic
  • Hideaway by Dean Koontz

    Hideaway by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    He was clinically dead after the accident—but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life.But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic's, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him...
  • The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling

    The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  horror  gothic  fiction  mystery  dark  psychological  thriller
  • The House That Jack Built by Graham Masterton

    The House That Jack Built by Graham Masterton

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    After Craig Bellman, a successful young New York lawyer, is horribly injured in a street mugging, he and his wife, Effie, retreat to the Hudson Valley to restore his health and save their relationship. When they discover a derelict old mansion, Valhalla, Craig becomes fascinated by it...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  adult  book  dark  fiction  haunted-places  horror  paranormal
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