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  • The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

    The Magnus Archives: Season 1 by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal...
  • The Quiet House by Lily Morton

    The Quiet House by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Levi Black has mostly recovered from the events of a year ago. The only lingering effects are that he’s much more well known in York than he’d like to be, and he’s a lot more cautious about walking around his house naked. However, those events brought him the capricious and fascinating Blue, so he’s not complaining...
  • The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

    The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. When Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation... Maddy did it...
  • Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz

    Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K. Ritz

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to be one of them. One night he buys a journal, its pages blank. The woman who sells him the journal extracts his promise to record his deeds for study. “Lo, the steps of your life mark the journey of your soul...
  • As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the terrifying final installment of the Bad Girls Don't Die series, Alexis battles a more powerful ghost than she's ever faced before... and one whose fate is tied to hers in ways she couldn't possibly imagine...
    Categorized as:
    bullying  dark  family  paranormal  spooky  suspense  audiobook  book
  • Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Cold Shadows by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paranormal investigator Ellie Jordan faces a difficult new case. Her new clients are a family haunted by multiple ghosts and a poltergeist that wrecks their home at night. Their seven-year-old son's invisible friends may not be imaginary at all, but the restless spirits of dead children...
  • The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    The Witches of Santo Stefano by Wendy Webb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An investigative journalist uncovers the haunting secret history of her own ancestors in a bewitching novel by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Lake.When Cassie Graves discovers her husband’s affair, it’s enough to chip away at the foundation of her life. But after researching her family’s Italian ancestry, it completely crumbles beneath her...
  • Black Opal by Catie Rhodes

    Black Opal by Catie Rhodes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Note: This novella is the second installment in the Peri Jean Mace series. The print version is approximately 180 pages. Please be aware before purchasing that this is a short novel. "I knowed you'd be coming." The voice came from next to my arm, male but high and reedy. "You here to make things right, ain't you?" Not according to Peri Jean Mace...
  • Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

    Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A haunting ghost story about navigating grief, growing up, and growing into a new gender identityIt's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare...
  • Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Long Lost by Jacqueline West

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated to the town by the long-dead heiress...
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four 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...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 63 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar...
  • Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rule Four and Five by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is book two of three. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  grief  lgbtq  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult
  • The In-Between by Rebecca Ansari

    The In-Between by Rebecca Ansari

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cooper is lost. Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door, who won’t stop staring at him.So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction...
  • Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

    Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.Anna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive...
  • Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide...
  • Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Livre de sang by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist...
  • Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

    Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in this standalone fantasy.Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.Meet Dodger, his twin...
  • Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Full Throttle by Joe Hill

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns...
  • Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

    Bad Cree by Jessica Johns

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics...
  • The First Three Rules by Adrienne Wilder

    The First Three Rules by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is book one of three. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
    Categorized as:
    bullying  dark  family  grief  lgbtq  paranormal  suspense  abuse
  • Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Ryan Douglass, Kalynn Bayron

    Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror & Delight by Ryan Douglass, Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible, exclusively featuring queer authors of color putting fresh spins on classic horror tropes and tales.No matter its name or occasion, Halloween is more than a Hallmark holiday, it’s a symbol of transformation...
  • Passenger by Andrew Smith

    Passenger by Andrew Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Best friends Jack and Conner can’t stay away from Marbury. It’s partly because of their obsession with this alternate world and the unresolved war that still wages there. But it’s also because forces in Marbury—including the darkest of the dark, who were not revealed in The Marbury Lens—are beckoning the boys back in order to save their friends . . . and themselves...
  • A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn

    A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Wild and ambitious . . . [with] something ablaze at its core. It burns.” ― The New York Times Book ReviewA Tiny Upward Shove is inspired by Melissa Chadburn's Filipino heritage and its folklore, as it traces the too-short life of a young, cast-off woman transformed by death into an agent of justice―or mercy.Marina Salles’s life does not end the day she wakes up dead...
  • An Inner Darkness by Ally Blue

    An Inner Darkness by Ally Blue

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All hell's about to break loose. Literally. Bay City Paranormal Investigations Book 5. After more than a year as a couple-and plenty of bumps along the road-Sam Raintree and Dr. Bo Broussard are finally settling into life together. Bo has come to terms with his sexuality, their business is thriving, and Sam has begun to accept his role as a step-parent of sorts to Bo's sons, Sean and Adrian...
  • The Bloodline by C.S. Feldman

    The Bloodline by C.S. Feldman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years of questioning her sanity, Kat Delancey reluctantly returns to the old family manor as its legal owner hoping desperately to silence the doubts in her mind and leave the home’s tragic past behind her once and for all...
  • Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Feast While You Can by Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    For readers of Nightbitch and We Ride Upon Sticks, this strange and sexy novel of queer love in a small town is an unsettling reminder that the horrors of modern life are monsters ready to possess us all.In the valley at the intersection of three towering mountains sits Cadenze, an ugly, remote town with little to its name...
  • Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Hallowed Eve by Suza Kates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Something terrible happened in Pine Creek.Eve Taylor must return home for her grandmother’s funeral but has every intention of making it a short visit. Too many memories live in the small town where she grew up, memories of a Halloween best forgotten. Trey Rainwater has been waiting for Eve. He knows she’ll be staying for longer than she’d planned and has every intention of making sure she does...
  • The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    The Night Visitor by Dianne Emley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In bestselling author Dianne Emley’s chilling new paranormal thriller, a beautiful woman’s romantic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an otherworldly visitor seeking justice.   Gorgeous and successful, Rory Langtry seemed to have it all. Daughter of a movie star and sister of a supermodel, Rory was engaged to sexy artist, Junior Lara...
    Categorized as:
    family  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney

    The Memory Eater by Rebecca Mahoney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief, trauma, and memory, from the author of The Valley and the Flood.For generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget...
  • Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

    Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother’s name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer...
  • Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

    Small Spaces by Katherine Arden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classicAfter suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books...
  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

    The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers—even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms...
  • All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue, Stefanie Caponi

    All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue, Stefanie Caponi

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears. After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school...
  • Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

    Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A romantic cabin getaway doesn’t go exactly as planned. High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of animals, the cries of children, and the mad babble of a hundred mournful voices. A dark figure looms near the windows in the dead of night, whispering to Faye...
  • Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

    Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    'Gripping . . . You won't put it down' Sunday TelegraphA shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool...
  • Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

    Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Alex Stern returns in another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite…Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren’t just accidents...
  • A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

    A Dark and Starless Forest by Sarah Hollowell

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When her siblings start to go missing, a girl must confront the dark thing that lives in the forest—and the growing darkness in herself—in this debut YA contemporary fantasy for fans of Wilder Girls.Derry and her eight siblings live in an isolated house by the lake, separated from the rest of the world by an eerie and menacing forest...
  • The Archived by Victoria E. Schwab

    The Archived by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself...
  • The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

    The Tricksters by Margaret Mahy

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While gathered together for the Christmas holiday, a large New Zealand family and their various guests find their lives suddenly invaded by three fascinating, but sinister brothers...
  • Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw

    Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NEW ORLEANS FANG FEST, 1995. MINA'S HAVING A SUMMER TO DIE FOR.17-year-old Mina, from England, arrives in New Orleans to visit her estranged sister, Libby. After growing up in Whitby, the town that inspired Dracula, Mina loves nothing more than a creepy horror movie. She can't wait to explore the city's darkest secrets - vampire tours, seedy bars, spooky cemeteries, disturbing local myths..
  • The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    The Final Rule by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This is the last book in this trilogy. All books are full-length novels and must be read in order. All books are available now. The My Brother's Keeper Trilogy The town of Gilford has a Big and Terrible secret hidden in the ground. Infecting those it touches. Exploiting their darkness. Consuming their souls. It’s hungry. It’s vile. It’s evil. And it wants out...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  lgbtq  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult  angst
  • A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

    A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family."Mom seems off."Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places―and people―you didn’t expect.The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon...
  • Death Shall Come by Simon R. Green

    Death Shall Come by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ishmael Jones is faced with a dead body and a missing mummy in this highly entertaining, genre-blending mystery. Death shall come on swift wings to whoever desecrates this tomb ..
  • Mister Magic by Kiersten White

    Mister Magic by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show -and discover the secret of its enigmatic host -in this dark supernatural thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on...
  • Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant

    Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses. They didn't expect actual mermaids...
  • Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

    Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A ghost-hunting reality TV crew gain unprecedented access to an abandoned and supposedly haunted mansion, which promises a groundbreaking thirteenth episode, but as they uncover the secret history of the house, they learn that “reality” TV might be all too real — in Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie's latest heart pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense...
  • Trespass Against Us by Leon Kemp

    Trespass Against Us by Leon Kemp

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut is told in dual timelines, following a group of teens as they visit an abandoned school for troubled youth and then return two years later to confront the supernatural evil they awoke there...
  • All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman

    All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody, Christine Lynn Herman

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Blood Moon rises. The Blood Veil falls. The Tournament begins.Every generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death.The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world--one thought long depleted...
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