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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... -
![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... -
![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... -
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![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... -
![Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman]()
Friends of the Dusk by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA medieval legend spawns an unhealthy cult, and a terrifying 13th case for Merrily Watkins When autumn storms blast Hereford, centuries-old human bones are found among the roots of a tree blown down on the city's Castle Green... -
![To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman]()
To Dream of the Dead by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe village of Ledwardine has never been flooded in living memory, but as the river continues to rise with December rains, within days it will be an island. Electricity has been cut and the church is serving as a temporary mortuary for two people who drowned... -
![All of a Winter's Night by Phil Rickman]()
All of a Winter's Night by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt begins in the fog, with a bleak village funeral. In the early hours of the following morning, Merrily Watkins and her daughter Jane are made aware that Aidan Lloyd, son of a wealthy farmer, will not be resting in peace. A rural tradition is displaying its sinister side as an old feud re-ignites... -
![Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom, ะัะพะผ]()
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom, ะัะพะผ
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger โ only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abitha fights for what little freedom she can grasp onto, while trying to stay true to herself and her past... -
![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 Deceiving by Ninie Hammon]()
The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe monster demon is BACK! ...and heโs had twenty-six years to plot his revenge. More horrifying than any Hollywood-animated, computer-generated, mechanical unreality, the winged demon called an efreet will do anything to get what he wants. Pronounce that: An-y-thing Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the monster returns determined to kill them... -
![The Fabric of Sin by Phil Rickman]()
The Fabric of Sin by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCalled in secretly to investigate an allegedly haunted house with royal connections, Merrily Watkins, deliverance consultant for the Diocese of Hereford, is exposed to a real and tangible evil. A hidden valley on the border of England and Wales preserves a longtime feud between two old border families as well as an ancient Templar church with a secret that may be linked to a famous ghost story... -
![The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman]()
The Prayer of the Night Shepherd by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt Stanner Hall, a Victorian mansion-turned-hotel, Ben Foley hosts murder-mystery weekends and strives to prove that his hotel is the house on which Arthur Conan Doyle based his immortal Baskerville Hall. As the days shorten and the weather worsens, Foleyโs dabbling uncovers more than he can handle... -
![The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman]()
The Cure of Souls by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs high summer bakes the rich earth of north-east Herefordshire, dark shadows gather around a converted hopkiln where the last owner was savagely murdered. Though the local vicar dismisses claims by its current occupants that the place is haunted, their story is soon splashed over a Sunday newspaperโand Merrily Watkins is directed by the Bishop of Hereford to defuse this situation... -
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![The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman]()
The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt appears that the unlovely village of Underhowle is home to a serial killer. But as the police hunt for the bodies of more young women, Rev. Merrily Watkins fears that the detective in charge has become blinkered by ambition. Meanwhile, Merrily has more personal problems, like the anonymous phone calls, the candles and incense left burning in her church, and the alleged angelic visitations... -
![The Best Ghost Stories Of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood]()
The Best Ghost Stories Of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSelected from the entire body of Algernon Blackwoodโs work, this collection contains some of his finest writing. Blackwoodโs ability to create and sustain an atmosphere of unrelieved horror is witnessed in โThe Willowsโ, a starkly terrifying tale of another dimension impinging on our own. In contrast, โThe Other Wingโ, is a chilling but delicate evocation of the mysteries of childhood... -
![The Haar by David Sodergren]()
The Haar by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsโI donโt fear death... but they do.โMuriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of Witchaven all her life. She was born there, and she intends to die there.But when an overseas property developer threatens to evict the residents from their homes and raze Witchaven to the ground in the name of progress, all seems lostโฆ until the day a mysterious fog bank creeps inland... -
![The Green Man's Foe by Juliet E. McKenna]()
The Green Man's Foe by Juliet E. McKenna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen you do a good job for someone, thereโs a strong chance theyโll offer you more work or recommend you elsewhere. So Daniel Mackmain isnโt particularly surprised when his bossโs architect brother asks for his help on a historic house renovation in the Cotswolds. Except Danโs a dryadโs son, and he soon realises thereโs a whole lot more going on... -
![The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein]()
The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Events at Poroth Farm is a horror novella written by T.E.D Klein, in which Jeremy, a college lecturer, takes a summer vacation in Gilead, New Jersey, to prepare for a course on Gothic literature he'll be teaching in the upcoming semester. He rents an outbuilding from Mennonite couple Sarr and Deborah Poroth, and at first his holiday is happy and productive, but then odd things begin to happen... -
![Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren]()
Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a mountain, forgotten and atrophying in the perpetual gloom.Forty-seven residents are all that remain.There's nothing to do there, nothing to see, except for a solitary grave near the top of the mountain. MAGGIE WALL BURIED HERE AS A WITCH reads the faded inscription... -
![The Haunted Dolls' House by M.R. James]()
The Haunted Dolls' House by M.R. James
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvil comes with many different faces. A macabre human drama is re-enacted in a Gothic dolls' house one night; a whistle awakens a force of unspeakable malevolence; an ancient curse is passed from person to person; a grisly crime is avenged from beyond the grave; the tomb of a Swedish count will not rest quietly . M. R... -
![Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones by Richard Gleaves]()
Sleepy Hollow: Bridge of Bones by Richard Gleaves
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"My earliest memory is of discovering my grandfather's severed head." The HEADLESS HORSEMAN has risen and rides. JASON CRANE is the Horseman's target. But Jason must stay and fight, to protect those he loves. For Sleepy Hollow is falling to evil. Now Jason Crane lives under a tyrannical guardian. Jason Crane must descend into fearful darkness. And Jason Crane has an appointment with death.. -
![The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E.F. Benson, Richard Dalby]()
The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson by E.F. Benson, Richard Dalby
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContents:Room in the tower --Dust-cloud --Gavon's eve --Confession of Charles Linkworth --At Abdul Ali's grave --Shootings of Achnaleish --How fear departed from the long gallery --Caterpillars --Cat --Bus-conductor --Man who went too far --Between the lights --Outside the door --Terror by night --Other bed --Thing in the hall --House with the brick-kiln --"And the dead spake-" --Outcast... -
![The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman]()
The Secrets of Pain by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe elite warriors of the Hereford-based SAS know all about pain and the enduring of it. Syd Spicer, ex-SAS trooper, has found himself back the Regimentโthis time as its chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in or out of uniform... -
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![The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca]()
The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBut there was no Goldilocks in his story. There were only the Wolfs, who lived together in a cave above a town. Big Wolf, Middle Wolf, and Little Wolf. Big Wolf was a brute. Little Wolf was timid. Middle Wolf was the peacemaker... -
![The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman]()
The Remains of an Altar by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1934, the dying composer Sir Edward Elgar feebly whistled to a friend the theme from his Cello Concerto and said, "If you're walking on the Malvern Hills and hear that, don't be frightened. It's only me... -
![The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler]()
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018... -
![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... -
![Witch Wood by John Buchan]()
Witch Wood by John Buchan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSet against the religious struggles and civil wars of seventeenth century Scotland, John Buchan's Witch Wood is a gripping atmospheric tale in the spirit of Stevenson and Neil Munro.As a moderate presbyterian minister, young David Sempill disputes with the extremists of his faith, as all around, the defeated remnants of Montrose's men are being harried and slaughtered... -
![The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by Thomas Ligotti]()
The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing his best and most characteristic works... -
![The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron by Ross E. Lockhart, Justin Steele]()
The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron by Ross E. Lockhart, Justin Steele
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech...and we love you... -
![Quiet Killing by Morgan James]()
Quiet Killing by Morgan James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the second Promise McNeal mystery, Quiet Killing, Atlanta transplant to the Western North Carolina Mountains, fifty-something Promise, her fiddle-playing lover Daniel, and his slightly-Goth daughter, Susan, are back for more mayhem. After her great grandfather, January McNeal, haunts her dreams, Promise delves into family history from the early 1900s... -
![The Man in the Moss by Phil Rickman]()
The Man in the Moss by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPerfectly preserved in black peat, the Man in the Moss is one of the most fascinating finds of the century. But for the isolated community of Bridelow, his removal is a sinister signโa danger to the ancient spiritual tradition. In the weeks approaching the Celtic feast of the dead, tragedy strikes again and again in Bridelow... -
![Gather Her Round by Alex Bledsoe]()
Gather Her Round by Alex Bledsoe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn critically-acclaimed Alex Bledsoeโs latest Tufa novel, a monster roams the woods of Cloud County, while another kind of evil lurks in the hearts of menLove and tragedy are not strange bedfellows among the Tufa. Young Kera Rogers disappears while hiking in the woods by Needsville... -
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![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... -
![The Ghosts of Tullybrae House by Veronica Bale]()
The Ghosts of Tullybrae House by Veronica Bale
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE PATH TO HER DESTINY LIES IN SOLVING A CENTURIES-OLD MYSTERY Emmie Tunstall is in over her head. Not yet thirty, and sheโs been hired as curator at Tullybrae House. A three-hundred year old manor in the Scottish Highlands, Tullybrae has more antique and historically significant artefacts than a museum. It will fall to Emmie to inspect, research and catalogue every last one... -
![Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein]()
Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour unusually literate horror novellas, by the former editor of "The Twilight Zone" magazine... -
![The Man With No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn]()
The Man With No Shadow by Bonnie Quinn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThis book is the physical edition of a series of posts from Redditโs r/nosleep subreddit, containing the first major storyline of โHow to Survive Campingโ. It is largely unaltered, with only minor edits for readability in print form.Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled โHow to Survive Your Camping Experience... -
![Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson]()
Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsKnock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life.Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse... -
![Curfew by Phil Rickman]()
Curfew by Phil Rickman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the border between England and Wales lies the tiny town of Crybbe, not picturesque enough for the tourist trade, quietly sliding into decay. Max Goff means to change all that. Goff has made millions in the record business, but his heart is in New Age philosophy. He has learned that Crybbe was once a spiritual center of sorts, surrounded by ancient standing stones that were emblems of power... -
![The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke]()
The Ghost Woods by C.J. Cooke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLook out for C.J. Cooke's atmospheric new novel . . . In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folkloreโold stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who was not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives in 1965, one of a string of young women sent to Lichen Hall to give birth... -
![Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt]()
Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings*2017 Crawford Award shortlist**2016 Shirley Jackson Award nominee for Single-Author Collection*In his striking debut collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt shows why he is a powerful new voice in horror and weird fiction... -
![The Cold Calling by Will Kingdom]()
The Cold Calling by Will Kingdom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife isn't easy for Detective Inspector Bobby Maiden. Death is even harder. When Maiden is revived in hospital after dying in a hit and run incident, his memories are not the familiar ones of bright lights and angelic music, only of a cold, harsh place, he has no wish to revisit - ever... -
![Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill]()
Mist Over Pendle by Robert Neill
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAgainst a background of witchcraft in 17th-century rural Lancashire, ROBERT NEILL has woven an extraordinary novel of the power of evil.. -
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![Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction by Matthew M. Bartlett]()
Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction by Matthew M. Bartlett
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinister old men in topcoats gathered at corners and in playgrounds. A long-dead sorcerer returning to obscene life in the form of an old buck goat. Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk, where winged leeches blast angry static, where black magic casts a shadow over a cringing populace... -
![The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean]()
The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome ghosts never leave us.SHORTLISTED FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2021'A wild rural gothic with some slick plotting . . . the perfect novel for our phantom present' Guardian'Outstanding . . -
![Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror by Mitchell Lรผthi]()
Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror by Mitchell Lรผthi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in 12th-century Jerusalem, Pilgrim follows the treacherous journey of a German knight and his companions as they return home after seven arduous years battling for God in the Holy Land. Within this sprawling tale lies a tapestry of medieval horror, intertwining history and folklore, encompassing both a metaphysical and literal odyssey... -
![Search and Rescue Woods by Kerry Hammond]()
Search and Rescue Woods by Kerry Hammond
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSearch and Rescue Woods is an eight-part Creepypasta by Kerry Hammond, published on Reddit under the username searchandrescuewoods. It was originally posted to the Nosleep subreddit in August of 2015, with its final update being in December of that year. Currently, a novelization is in progress... -
![The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder]()
The Screaming Season by Nancy Holder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third novel in the bone-chilling Possessions series by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Holder.The gutsy heroine of Possessions and The Evil Within returns for another year of boarding school at the haunted Marlwood Academy. Lindsay wakes to find herself strapped down in the infirmary. She had a breakdown and might have tried to kill her nemesis Mandy or Mandy's boyfriend, Troyโor both... -
![Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell]()
Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA brilliant collection of stories by one of the masters of horror. Not all companions are friendly. There are many that you most definitely do not want to see. When Elaine was working late at the office, she thought she was all alone. But something sinister was in the elevator shaftโฆworking its way to her floor...
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