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  • The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas

    The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A child who does not know her name…In 1903 fishermen find a wrecked boat containing a woman, who has been badly beaten, and a young girl. An ambulance is sent for, and the two survivors are taken to All Hallows, the imposing asylum, hidden deep on Dartmoor...
  • Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Jessamine by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The dead of night, Jess, I wish they'd leave me alone."Jessamin Wade's husband is dead - a death she feels wholly responsible for. As a way of coping with her grief, she keeps him 'alive' in her imagination - talking to him every day, laughing with him, remembering the good times they had together...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  historical  horror
  • The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Bregoli Estate by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A lifelong legacy. A strange ability. A haunted island.Daisy’s heart breaks when Greg Bregoli, head of Bregoli Publishing, passes away, four years after she became a member of the Bregoli family. Then she learns that Greg has left everything—the business, the island, and the Bregoli Estate—to her. Competition leans in from all sides, but none so daunting as Byron Barnett, Daisy’s previous boss...
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
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    gothic  suspense  family  hauntings  ghosts  horror  fiction  mystery
  • Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott

    Lost Girl by Anne Francis Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lost Girl - Readers' Favorite Award Finalist in Paranormal FictionRenowned sculptor Allison Weathers doesn't believe in ghosts. But when a tragic twist of fate leads her to the small mountain town of Dawson Mills, Tennessee, she soon learns that the dead don't always stay silent. Shadows begin to shift in the rambling, old Victorian farmhouse she's purchased. Voices come from nowhere...
  • 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  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston

    Blue Labyrinth by Douglas Preston

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Special Agent Pendergast-one of the most original, compelling characters in all of contemporary fiction-returns in Preston and Child's new exhilarating novel Blue Labyrinth.A long-buried family secret has come back to haunt Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast...It begins with murder. One of Pendergast's most implacable, most feared enemies is found on his doorstep, dead...
  • 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 Broken Girls by Simone St. James

    The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A breakout suspense novel from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare.Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted...
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home..
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    family  ghosts  gothic  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book
  • 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...
  • Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Angel Eyes: The Haunting of January House by A.N. Willis

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone in Ashton, Colorado, knows that January House is haunted. Tucked away on an isolated hillside, the place has seen grisly murders and unsolved disappearances. An artists’ commune took up residence there in the 1970s, creating a controversy that still divides the town. Now, a reclusive painter has died in the crumbling house. The police say it’s natural causes...
  • The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power

    The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trust no one. Especially your neighbors.Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. But her story doesn’t end there...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt thirty-five years before, in this new atmospheric suspense novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls.Upstate NY, 1982. Every small town like Fell, New York, has a place like the Sun Down Motel...
  • Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Daughters of the Lake by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents’ home on Lake Superior to pull herself together—only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the shallows. Tucked in the folds of the woman’s curiously vintage gown is an infant, as cold and at peace as its mother. No one can identify the woman. Except for Kate. She’s seen her before...
  • 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  family  ghosts  gothic  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daniel Price has just had the breakthrough of his life when his novel cracks the best seller list. He and his wife, Nicole, decide to move into the majestic Nightingale House on the shores of Willow Lake, in the town of Kingsbrook, Maine. But Daniel's world is shattered when Nicole is killed in a car crash, and he must raise their eight year-old daughter, Caitlyn, on his own...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels

    Shattered Silk by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Killer Lurks In her quaint vintage clothing boutique in picturesque Georgetown, Karen Nevitt' s laces and white linens seem so innocent. Her aunt' s aged friends have even ransacked their attics to help the novice entrepreneur launch her business...
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before the murderous force residing there makes both she and her friend's daughter its next victims...
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
  • The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr...
  • The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark

    The Ghosts of Miller's Crossing by David Clark

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    More than Ghosts haunt you in his ghost story.Edward Meyer is returning back to his home town after the tragic loss of his wife. This move is rather ironic since it was the tragic loss of his parents that forced him away in the first place. When he returns, he learns a deep family secret that goes beyond the spirits that roam the town...
  • House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    House Of Mirrors by Ben Cheetham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    You know, don’t you, that it’s not my soul the Devil wants, it’s yours?Two years ago the Piper family fled Fenton House after their dream of a new life turned into an unspeakable nightmare. The house has stood empty ever since, given a wide berth by everyone except ghost hunters and occult fanatics.Now something is trying to lure the Pipers back to Fenton House...
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    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime
  • From Away by Phoef Sutton

    From Away by Phoef Sutton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sammy Kehoe, his sister, Charlotte, and her four-year-old daughter, Maggie, are all each other have left since the car accident that killed the rest of their family. When they visit their beloved old family home on remote Fox Island, Maine, Sammy and Charlotte each have relationship sparks with island locals...
  • The Well by Peter Labrow

    The Well by Peter Labrow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped. Missing. Cursed. Fourteen-year-old Becca Richards and her stepbrother have fallen to the bottom of an ancient well. Their parents are away; they won't be missed for days. The predatory man who had been stalking Becca now switches his attentions to her best friend. Two women who know where Becca is trapped are desperate that she should never escape...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  hauntings  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • 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  family  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

    Not a Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’s about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre. Bring a flashlight and a book of matches. Where we’re going, there’s not a speck of light...
  • 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...
  • Lineage by Joe Hart

    Lineage by Joe Hart

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A 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...
  • 314 book 3 by A.R. Wise

    314 book 3 by A.R. Wise

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alma Harper and her friends have been struggling to figure out the puzzle of lies weaved in the town of Widowsfield. They've escaped the grasp of The Watcher, but now The Skeleton Man is free as well, and no one's certain what he's capable of. The Watcher in the Walls is forced to craft new lies, and weave a new nightmare in Widowsfield, but he longs for the return of the Harpers...
  • The Redwood Asylum by L.A. Detwiler

    The Redwood Asylum by L.A. Detwiler

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The dead do talk ... if you’re brave enough to hear their sinister secrets.In a thick forest sits a forgotten stone building, The Redwood Asylum. Once inside, the criminally insane, the darkly disturbed, and the eternally confused residents learn one thing very quickly: they are at the mercy of ruthless evil in many forms...
  • Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase

    Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall.Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers ..
  • 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  family  ghosts  gothic  suspense  book  classics  epic
  • Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker

    Something I Keep Upstairs by J.D. Barker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For a haunted house to be born, somebody has to die.In the sleepy coastal town of New Castle, New Hampshire, seventeen-year-old Billy Hasler's life is about to take a terrifying turn. When his best friend David Spivey inherits a mysterious house on a nearby island, it seems like the perfect place to spend their final summer before heading off to college. No parents. No police. No responsibilities...
  • A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne

    A Dark Dividing by Sarah Rayne

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Journalist Harry Fizglen is sceptical when his editor asks him to investigate the background of Simone Anderson, a new Bloomsbury artist. But once he's met the enigmatic Simone, Harry is intrigued...
  • The Asylum Novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, & The Warden by Madeleine Roux

    The Asylum Novellas: The Scarlets, The Bone Artists, & The Warden by Madeleine Roux

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three chilling novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling novel Asylum, which Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut." For the first time, these three terrifying stories will appear together with new found photographs perfect for new readers or diehard series fans looking for new clues and insights into the thrilling world of Asylum...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  suspense  abuse  book  crime  fiction
  • House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    House of Many Shadows by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Meg Rittenhouse fears she is losing her mind. The doctors tell her the strange and disturbing hallucinations she's been experiencing ever since her accident are all in her head, and that, with a little rest, the haunting visions will vanish. But accepting an invitation to stay with her cousin in the country may be the worst decision Meg has ever made...
  • Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Be Buried in the Rain by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation—the site of so many painful childhood memories—to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke...
  • Asylum by Amy Cross

    Asylum by Amy Cross

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "No-one ever leaves Lakehurst. The staff, the patients, the ghosts... Once you're here, you're stuck forever."After shooting her little brother dead, Annie Radford is sent to Lakehurst psychiatric hospital for assessment. Hearing voices in her head, Annie is forced to undergo experimental new treatments devised by a mysterious old man who lives in the hospital's attic...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction
  • The Thin Place by C.D. Major

    The Thin Place by C.D. Major

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “I devoured this novel in a single sitting. The Thin Place will stay with you long after you turn the final page.” –Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of After the End She has to know the truth about Overtoun Estate, but there is a reason it has stayed buried for so long...
  • The Crying Child by Barbara Michaels

    The Crying Child by Barbara Michaels

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trapped between madness and imagination...From the moment she arrived on King's Island, Joanne McMullen knew that her sister's grief over losing her child had driven her dangerously close to madness. Jo grew anxious when Mary confided that she heard a thin, insistent wail that rose up beyond the dark Maine woods...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • 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...
  • A House of Bells by J.T. Croft

    A House of Bells by J.T. Croft

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells.1918. Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and more desperate. But when she’s offered a strange job from an eccentric medium, she never could have imagined what she was signing up for...
  • Haunted by Kat Martin

    Haunted by Kat Martin

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this spine-tingling tale the New York Times bestselling author melds love story with historical mystery as past meets present in Jerome, Arizona.1898: Robbery, prostitution, and violence are commonplace in the fabulously rich copper mining city of Jerome.  But a brutal murder sets the stage for a series of strange events that will echo far into the future...
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