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Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsStephen King is a unique and powerful writer without equal for millions of horror fans. His incredible narrative drive ensnares the reader in a web of everyday surroundings, believable situations and recognizable characters that are eventually caught up in a terrifying noose of monumental evil... -
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Kaleidoscope by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNameless is wrestling with more violent visions of the future when his next mission comes with the assurance, This one will be easy. It’s a promise that leaves Nameless dangerously unprepared.It seems straightforward enough: Get a foot in the door by posing as a potential investor in a lucrative underground business—then bring the place down from the inside. There’s more here than meets the eye... -
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![Snatched by the Sandman by Emily Shore]()
Snatched by the Sandman by Emily Shore
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf you use TW's as a shopping list and love "WTF did I just read?" books that will give you trauma until you need therapy...or an exorcism, this book is for you.ZENYAA skeletal king saving me from faceless beings in another dimension is not the wildest part of my day. I follow the walking bone daddy into his fortress where I learn he is Nyxion, the God of Nightmares, and he has big plans for me... -
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![Rejected Gambit by Avery Stone]()
Rejected Gambit by Avery Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe stares into your eyes with nothing but hate, forced to acknowledge the truth of your brilliant strategy. Your first move puts you in the lead, but will you achieve checkmate?Being appointed leader of the Grandmasters should be another check in your column of wins, but instead, the news triggers something dangerous, because those who surround you want nothing but bloodshed... -
![The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek]()
The Evil That Was Done by Michele Pariza Wacek
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe shocking conclusion to the award-winning Secrets of Redemption series. It’s happening again—people are disappearing. And just like before, the finger is pointed at Becca. She knows how it looks … and that she’s being set up. Someone is following her. Sneaking into her house. Planting evidence to make her look guilty. The problem is, she has no idea why... -
![Ghost by Elle Andrews Patt]()
Ghost by Elle Andrews Patt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one believes her. Yet. No one believes six-year-old Billie Mae knows how she died. Archivist Andrea Kelley's best friend, police detective William Taka, doesn't believe Andrea is actually conversing with a ghost. And Andrea can’t believe Taka has been doubting her sanity, that she’s scared for the safety of a little girl’s ghost, and that she’s really discovered the trail of a serial killer... -
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The Second Reality by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat are dreams? They are the mind processing the images, memories and emotions that each of us experience. They are unique to the individual and no two persons can ever experience the same dream. Or so Doctor Charlotte Henson thought when she started treating the enigmatic and charming Michael. The Second Reality. A beautiful tale of love conquering all... -
![Vigor Mortis: Volume 1 by Natalie Maher]()
Vigor Mortis: Volume 1 by Natalie Maher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCasting necromancy without ever learning how isn't supposed to be possible. A starving orphan girl named Vita is somehow managing it anyway, and she's not sure if this is going to be the solution to her life's problems or a horrifying, spiraling mess into problems she can't even conceive... -
![Grave of Words by Kathryn Ann Kingsley]()
Grave of Words by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEmber is a mortal in a world of demigods and monsters. But she is Under’s only hope at survival.Under is besieged by flesh-eating corpses bent on destruction and commanded by an immortal madman out to destroy the world. And the only thing between him and his goal of utter annihilation...is Ember.In a terrible twist of fate, the deranged King of Poison has become her prisoner... -
![Abandoned Grace: An Interview with Devin Andersen by Marissa Honeycutt]()
Abandoned Grace: An Interview with Devin Andersen by Marissa Honeycutt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs an author, I know that characters often take on lives of their own. But what would you do if you received a phone call from someone you thought only existed in the pages of your book? That is exactly what happened to me, Marissa Honeycutt, author of The Life of Anna... -
![Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher]()
Vigor Mortis: Book 2 by Natalie Maher
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs Vita's humanity slowly drips away, monsters fallen from an island above spread throughout her home. While she fights fellow horrors outside the city's walls, her family suffers threats from within them. Yet surely, there's no problem enough power can't solve... and if there's one thing eating souls is good for, it's power... -
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Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection... -
![Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe]()
Left To You by Daniel J. Volpe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat would you do to save a loved one?Robert’s mother, Helen, is ravaged with cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losing the last member of his family. Robert’s friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tells him an unholy story and leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, the salvation comes with a steep price... -
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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... -
![Master of My Heart by Marissa Honeycutt]()
Master of My Heart by Marissa Honeycutt
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen life goes wrong, can it ever be made right? Five years ago... Sabrina left Boston anticipating her stay back home to be full of joy and hope. Instead, she became the leading role in her own living hell. Nothing more than a shadow of her former self, she escapes a malevolence determined to break her, and returns to Boston, trying to regain a semblance of the girl she once was... -
![Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories by Shirley Jackson]()
Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories by Shirley Jackson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAcclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House—classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe—Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty... -
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Figment by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter her encounter with the Cheshire Cat, Alice Wonder can hardly tell reality from imagination. But when kids have their head chopped off and stuffed in watermelons all over the city, it's clear that another Wonderland Monster has arrived, possibly scarier than the Cheshire... -
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Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFour brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride... -
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White Silence by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings*The first instalment in the new, gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.* "I don't know who I am. I don't know what I am." Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn’t want to see them and she definitely doesn’t want them to see her... -
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Thunderbird by Chuck Wendig
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the fourth installment of the Miriam Black series, Miriam heads to the southwest in search of another psychic who may be able to help her understand her curse, but instead finds a cult of domestic terrorists and the worst vision of death she’s had yet. Miriam Black is being developed as a TV series by Starz with the producers of Breaking Bad... -
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Riven by Jane Alvey Harris
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhich reality would you choose? Seventeen year-old Emily's dad is in prison for securities fraud and her mom's strung-out on pain meds, leaving Emily to parent herself and her younger brothers and sister... -
![Clive Barker's the Midnight Meat Train Special Definitive Edition by Clive Barker]()
Clive Barker's the Midnight Meat Train Special Definitive Edition by Clive Barker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1984 the Books of Blood by Clive Barker were published and quickly gained a following worldwide. Literary eminences like Stephen King noticed early on the creativity and powerful prose throughout the Books of Blood, bringing Clive Barker's stories to the forefront of horror fiction... -
![Marlene's Revenge by Christopher Coleman]()
Marlene's Revenge by Christopher Coleman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTerror. Danger. Power. The witch has returned and no one is safe.Almost a year has passed since Anika and Gretel's horrifying night in an abandoned cannery in the Back Country, and the subsequent beginning of their quest to the Old Country for answers to the mysteries of Orphism... -
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Stormrage by Skye Knizley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man, hung from a light-post in the center of Death Alley. Nude, tortured, headless and left for half-vampire Detective Raven Storm to find, it's her most challenging case to date... -
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Kissed by Fire by Danielle Annett
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew Rule: If it has sharp teeth, don’t trust it.Getting bit hurts like hell.As Friend of the Pack, I should be untouchable, protected by the most influential group in the Pacific Northwest. But someone is unleashing rogue vampires to hunt me down, and I'm determined to find out why.But on my hunt for answers, the unimaginable happens... -
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![Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells, Kirby Heyborne]()
Over Your Dead Body by Dan Wells, Kirby Heyborne
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsJohn and Brooke are on their own, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest - but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind... -
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A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsView our feature on Marjorie Liu’s A Wild Light.For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside her grandfather's dead body with no memory of what happened, Maxine begins to fear that the darkness has finally consumed her... -
![Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz]()
Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHigh school juniors Camelia and Ben have discovered a powerful bond: They both possess the power of psychometry, the ability to see the future through touch. For Ben, the gift is a frightening liability. When he senses a strong threat or betrayal, he risks losing control. Camelia's gift is more mysterious. When she works with clay, her hands sculpt messages her mind doesn't yet comprehend...Categorized as:
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![The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates]()
The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSometimes 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... -
![The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan]()
The Bones of Others by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSome monsters live in your head. Not this one.Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice... -
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Hannahwhere by John M. McIlveen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of the 2015 Drunken Druid Award (Ireland) for high literary merit.Nominee for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award (HWA) in the First Novel category.In a suburb on Boston’s North Shore, a catatonic little girl is found behind a dumpster. She is a mystery... -
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Splintered by Tal Bauer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything 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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![Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson]()
Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life which offer the gimlet eye and delightful social critique that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.In this brilliant volume, nothing is quite as it seems...Categorized as:
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![In the Devil's Own Words by Elizabeth Wixley, E.M.G. Wixley]()
In the Devil's Own Words by Elizabeth Wixley, E.M.G. Wixley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNote: Alternate/new cover for ASIN# B00B8XQF66.Moving house has become a way of life for fifteen year old Isobel Miller; her father is an Army Major, her mother, a middle aged, pregnant, chain smoking alcholic! but the move to the village of Langham could be the straw that broke the camels back! To the truculent teenager it might as well have been to 'Timbuktu'... -
![Children of Chaos by Greg F. Gifune]()
Children of Chaos by Greg F. Gifune
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a torrential downpour, Phil, Jamie and Martin-three teenage boys-encounter a strange and enigmatic man covered in horrible scars who will change their lives, their destinies and the very fate of their souls forever. When their encounter mistakenly leads to murder, they realize this eerie stranger may not have been a man at all, but something much more.. -
![Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz]()
Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho can she trust? What is the truth? Every decision has consequences. What you thought you knew about ghosts is wrong. Sometimes they can walk among the living. In Onyx Webb, the silk of time weaved between lives is generations apart. Follow a billionaire playboy who’s hit rock bottom in 2010, a girl off to prom in 1979, and Onyx Webb in 1906 on her sixth birthday... -
![Night Walker by Aaron L. Speer, Jessica Augustsson]()
Night Walker by Aaron L. Speer, Jessica Augustsson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA young woman named Alexandra "Alex" Hensley discovers Sydney is hiding a very dark secret, a revelation that will challenge all she knows and endanger all she loves. Sinister forces, charged with keeping the secret for over two hundred years discover her knowledge and set out to fulfill their duty.The truth will not set you free... -
![Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke]()
Julia's House Moves On by Ben Hatke
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJulia's house is restless.Julia and her family of lost creatures are ready to move on. But where will they go? And how will they get there?Don’t worry—Julia has a plan for that! Julia always has a plan. But when Julia's plans all fail...What's left for her?Julia and her house full of fantastic friends are back for another sweet adventure from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Ben Hatke... -
![The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett]()
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism, named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine, heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent... -
![Bruises on a Butterfly by Chad Lutzke]()
Bruises on a Butterfly by Chad Lutzke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he's built in the middle of a Michigan cornfield. But when a cosmic discovery late one night warps reality into a mutating nightmare, it's up to loyal friends to fix what they can… and bury what they can't.A dark coming-of-age tale that melds Colour Out of Space with Stand By Me."Nobody writes about broken people like Chad Lutzke... -
![Spirits That Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman]()
Spirits That Walk in Shadow by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRoommates Jaimie Locke and Kim Calloway are each looking to find a new life at college. It’s Jaimie’s first time Outside—away from her large, complicated family and their magical traditions—and she wants to learn what nonmagical life is like. Kim is anxious to escape the depression that’s been dragging her down since last year so she can make new friends and create the art she loves... -
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Destroyed by Eva Dresden
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBroken and damaged, Quinn refuses to be destroyed.She rages against the bond Tobias Kahler forced her to complete between them, denying the pull of her claim set into his soul that fateful day. Struggling against the power of his will, she won’t become the smiling, placid thing he attempts to mold her to be... -
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![Exorcist Falls by Jonathan Janz]()
Exorcist Falls by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChicago is gripped by terror. The Sweet Sixteen Killer is brutally murdering young women, and the authorities are baffled.When the police are called to an affluent home in the middle of the night, they learn that a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy has attacked his family... -
![One Little Nightmare by Dawn Darling]()
One Little Nightmare by Dawn Darling
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA paranoid schizophrenic with a dark passenger lurking in the shadows.A broken Siren who would give anything to end her curse.A mystery girl with the traumas of her past written on her body.Pandora's Box has been opened, and to reclaim their identities they will have to determine what is real, what is fantasy, and face the darkness within... -
![Black Fairy Tale by Otsuichi]()
Black Fairy Tale by Otsuichi
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBestseller in Japan, this Otsuichi's YA novella defies genre categorization. Dark fantasy at its Japanese best. With bonus material including author's afterword.A raven who has learned to speak from watching movies befriends a young girl whose eyes were ruined in a freak accident... -
![Darkhaven by A.F.E. Smith]()
Darkhaven by A.F.E. Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAyla Nightshade never wanted to rule Darkhaven. But her half-brother Myrren – true heir to the throne – hasn’t inherited their family gift, forcing her to take his place.When this gift leads to Ayla being accused of killing her father, Myrren is the only one to believe her innocent... -
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Wild Children by Richard Roberts
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBad children are punished. Be bad, a child is told, and you’ll be turned into an animal, marked with your crime.The Wild Children are forever young, but that, too, can be a curse.Five children each tell a different story of what they became:One learns that wrong can be right, and her curse may be a blessing.Another is so Wild he must learn the simplest lesson, to love someone else... -
![Like Death by Tim Waggoner]()
Like Death by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaunted by his own past, a writer investigating the disappearance of a young girl instead finds an impossible world of darkness and evil--a world where the dividing line between the living and the dead is blurred. Original...
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