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Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAs alluring as it is unsettling, award-winning author CG Drews’ debut YA psychological horror will leave readers breathless and hesitant to venture deeper into the woods.Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him... -
![Stara Słaboniowa i Spiekładuchy by Joanna Łańcucka]()
Stara Słaboniowa i Spiekładuchy by Joanna Łańcucka
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWy to, Słaboniowa, zawsze tak zakręcicie, że człowiek sam nie wie, w co wierzyć, i widzi rzeczy, których nie ma.W mroźny zimowy wieczór stara kobieta staje przy drewnianym płocie i jak co dzień spogląda bystrym okiem na rodzinną wieś. Gdzieś z nieprzeniknionych ciemności nadciąga zło, jakiego jeszcze mieszkańcy Capówki nie doświadczyli... -
![Hookah by Cameron Jace]()
Hookah by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts... -
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Circus by Cameron Jace
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLadies and gentlemen, boys and girls... There is a loose rabbit with a ticking bomb in the streets of the London. Come closer, you won'd believe your eyes... Alice & the Pillar follow a set of clues, meticulously weaved by the most mysterious Wonderland Monster of all. Here is the Maddest Show on Earth ... The Circus! Where Alice's most unexpected secret will be revealed... -
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![Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds]()
Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA #1 New York Times bestseller!From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots! and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third in this hilariously spooky series about a young rabbit and his peculiar encounters—featuring a sinister crayon!Jasper Rabbit has a he is NOT doing well in school. His spelling tests? Disasters. His math quizzes? Frightening to behold... -
![The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm]()
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their "Children's and Household Tales" in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world... -
![Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter]()
Sourdough and Other Stories by Angela Slatter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWelcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other... -
![Carrion by Amarah Calderini]()
Carrion by Amarah Calderini
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a world devastated by plague, Willa has spent her life on the run, both from the mysterious illness that destroys the ability to dream and a secret that would get her imprisoned forever.But when an unknown power calls her to the top of a high rise one night, there is no outrunning it... -
![Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman, Mike Resnick]()
Who Fears the Devil? by Manly Wade Wellman, Mike Resnick
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him... -
![Deep Web by Chrissy Peebles]()
Deep Web by Chrissy Peebles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dreaded night, of the first full moon in January, has finally arrived. Will Taylor survive when evil threatens to destroy her life forever? Taylor relocates back to Big Bear Lake not trusting the people who signed a treaty to keep her safe. Being with her family and friends is wonderful, but knowing that she is a sacrifice is beyond unsettling... -
![Mania by Naomi Loud]()
Mania by Naomi Loud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI have starved for as long as I have been sentient.Collecting soul after soul, I fed. I gorged. Then he arrived, and suddenly, I understood what it truly meant to feel. Jealousy. Greed. Obsession.It tasted like him. Intoxicating. Addicting. I had to have my fill of him. Control him. Keep him. And I did. And we were happy. Trapped. But happy. Until she arrived. Her soul replete with mortal toil... -
![Until the World Falls Down by Jordan Lynde]()
Until the World Falls Down by Jordan Lynde
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer freedom or her heart…in forty-eight hours, she'll lose one forever.When a brutal betrayal leaves twenty-eight-year-old Nell heartbroken, she makes a desperate plea for love—offering anything in exchange... -
![And They Were Never Heard From Again: A Yarnsworld Tale by Benedict Patrick]()
And They Were Never Heard From Again: A Yarnsworld Tale by Benedict Patrick
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe woods are not safe. Especially at night. Felton takes his younger brother for a walk through the Magpie King’s forest, hoping to change his life for the better. Things do not go as planned. And They Were Never Heard From Again is set in Benedict Patrick’s Yarnsworld, and is the perfect introduction to the world readers are calling a ‘delightfully weird, dark fairytale’... -
![Sleep and Spirit by Courtney Thorne]()
Sleep and Spirit by Courtney Thorne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the only female born into a royal family in over four hundred years, freedom was never going to be an option.Gifted with the elements of all five kingdoms, Aurelia had never known a minute of peace. No Virium was ever meant to hold all five elements and now they war inside her, keeping her from rest... -
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![And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste]()
And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe by Gwendolyn Kiste
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed best friend carries a grudge from beyond the grave... -
![Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti]()
Grimscribe: His Lives and Works by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrimscribe: His Lives and Works is Thomas Ligotti's second collection of short tales... -
![Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones]()
Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies by John Langan, Stephen Graham Jones
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJohn Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with a new book of stories.An aspiring actress goes to an audition with a mysterious director. An editor receives the last manuscript of his murdered friend. A young lawyer learns the terrible connection between her grandfather and an ancient race of creatures... -
![Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood]()
Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural by Algernon Blackwood
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTales include The Doll, Running Wolf, The Little Beggar, The Occupant of the Room, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Valley of the Beasts, The South Wind, The Man Who Was Milligan, The Trod, The Terror of the Twins, The Deferred Appointment, Accessory Before the Fact, The Glamour of the Snow, The House of the Past, The Decoy, The Tradition, The Touch of Pan, Entrance and Exit, The Pikestaffe... -
![My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino]()
My Throat an Open Grave by Tori Bovalino
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLabyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away to the Lord of the WoodGrowing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn’t at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy... -
![The Bayou by Arden Powell]()
The Bayou by Arden Powell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratings"Eugene didn’t know if he believed in the devil beyond the wicked things people did of their own accord, but if the devil had a face, it would look like Johnny Walker’s."Small-town Louisiana, 1935.When Eugene was twelve, a girl from town disappeared. Everyone said the gators must have got her when she strayed too near the bayou. No foul play, just a terrible accident... -
![Fairytales of the Macabre by Olivie Blake, Aurora Sinclair]()
Fairytales of the Macabre by Olivie Blake, Aurora Sinclair
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce upon a time, a young woman with cleverness to spare takes redemption into her own capable hands; a man's precarious fate, challenged by a careless mistake, is irreversibly twisted; a cheated lover resurrects from her grave to plot a bloody vengeance; a castle born from night presents an irresistible lure... -
![The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe is no stranger to the strange. His tales of mystery and macabre have provoked many a nightmare. If you’ve been wondering how the editors of Canterbury Classics could create a new twist, wait nevermore! Your very own telltale hearts will tick-tick-tick oh-so-fast as you read the four terrifying tales presented here. And just when you think you’re safe, something spooky will pop-up... -
![Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn]()
Bitterthorn by Kat Dunn
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBlumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more...Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald... -
![Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti]()
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSongs of a Dreamer was Thomas Ligotti’s first collection of supernatural horror stories. When originally published in 1985 by Harry Morris’s Silver Scarab Press, the book was hardly noticed. In 1989, an expanded version appeared that garnered accolades from several quarters... -
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![Doll Face by D.J. Krimmer, C Hebert]()
Doll Face by D.J. Krimmer, C Hebert
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDoll FaceShall We Play A Game?Amid the suffocating embrace of night,I stumble upon him, a beacon of light.The Boogeyman, a seductive terror,Whispers haunting promises, cruel and fair.Eyes that glint with otherworldly fire,In his grasp, I’m consumed by dark desire.A love twisted and sickeningly sweet,Tangled in the depths of darkness, where nightmares meet... -
![These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw]()
These Deathless Bones by Cassandra Khaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
![Dark & Darker Still: A Vane and Roc Origin Story by Nikki St. Crowe]()
Dark & Darker Still: A Vane and Roc Origin Story by Nikki St. Crowe
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVane and the Crocodile AKA the Madd Brothers, have been stripped of their titles and their assets after their father’s failed coup of the Darkland Court. Immortal, powerful and monstrous, it doesn’t take them long to make their way back up the ladder, but this time it’s not in the manors and mansions of the Darkland elite, it’s the dark underbelly known as the Umbrage... -
![The Rain Dancers by Greg F. Gifune]()
The Rain Dancers by Greg F. Gifune
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe arrives in darkness, in the middle of a violent downpour...an affable old man with tales to tell... When Will and Betty Colby return to Betty's hometown to settle her late father's affairs and prepare his house for sale, they assume they'll be faced with some cleaning, basic repairs and making runs to the local dump... -
![Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho]()
Zombierella: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first in a funny, deliciously dark, three-part series of twisted classics, written in verse by award-winning poet Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas."Such a fun story with excellent illustrations .. -
![Good Night, Baddies by Deborah Underwood]()
Good Night, Baddies by Deborah Underwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGet to know the softer side of your favorite fairy tale baddies as they return home from a full day of scheming to enjoy a yummy dinner together and help one another get ready for bed.Wolves, today was not so good. You didn’t catch Red Riding Hood. You huffed and puffed without success. But brush your fangs, please, nonetheless. Wicked witches. Evil queens. And big, bad wolves... -
![The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, William F. Nolan]()
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, William F. Nolan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis groundbreaking anthology inaugurates an exciting new annual tradition—a giant collection of the greatest fantasy and supernatural stories published in 1987... -
![Furnace by Livia Llewellyn]()
Furnace by Livia Llewellyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHorror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock... -
![The Three Billy Goats Fluff by Rachael Mortimer]()
The Three Billy Goats Fluff by Rachael Mortimer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrip-trap! Trip-trap! How is Mr. Troll supposed to sleep when the three Billy Goats Fluff keep trip-trapping over his bridge? Twice a day, they loudly cross it to eat the lush green grass in the field by Mr. Troll's home. (The grass makes their fleeces extra fluffy, important for Mother Goat's knitting business.) But when Mr... -
![Scared to Death by Alan Gibbons]()
Scared to Death by Alan Gibbons
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLate one night after a strange journey to Whitechapel in East London, Paul makes a new friend, John Redman—daring and enigmatic, just as Paul longs to be, away from his cloying mother (his only family, so he thinks). Redman immediately charms Paul as well as Jude—a girl they meet on a night on the town. A few days later, Paul learns that Jude has mysteriously died, and Redman has disappeared... -
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![Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes]()
Danse Macabre by Laura M. Hughes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: Older covers for this edition can be found here: 2-Oct-2016; 4-Feb-2016; 9-Oct-2015.The dead beckon and the little girl obeys. Night after night she answers the graveyard’s call, though she dreads her encounters with the creature that dwells there... -
![The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales by Angela Slatter]()
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales by Angela Slatter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stunning, emotional and eclectic collection of fantasy and dark tales. These are the stories told to warn children, entertain adults and beguile all... -
![Breakable Things by Cassandra Khaw]()
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![Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll]()
Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWalker Easterling is a retired actor turned successful screenwriter living in the Vienna of strong coffee, fascinating friends, and mysterious cafes. When he falls in love with Maris York, a beautiful artist who creates cities, his life becomes alive in fantastic and unsettling ways... -
![Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel by David Barnett]()
Withered Hill: A dark and unsettling British folk horror novel by David Barnett
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf you find your way here, you’re already lost.InsideA year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into the isolated Lancashire village of Withered Hill, naked, alone and with no memory of who she is.Surrounded by a thick ring of woodland, its inhabitants seem to be of another world, drenched in pagan, folklorish traditions... -
![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... -
![Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair]()
Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Could you love me?" he whispered. The question stole my breath and burned my lungs in the silence that followed. I wanted to answer, to whisper yes into the space between us, but I was afraid.All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences... -
![Shadows of the Gods by Shay Taylor]()
Shadows of the Gods by Shay Taylor
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Valynth, fourth-borns are forbidden by the gods. Morrigan, as a fourth-born, is a direct violation of their law—one they’ll erase if they discover her.Raised in the shadows of the Nightfall Court, Morrigan has always lived as an outcast. But in a realm drained of magic, she holds a haunting power: the ability to see death before it comes—and to collect the souls it leaves behind... -
![Sredni Vashtar by Saki]()
Sredni Vashtar by Saki
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Sredni Vashtar" is a short story written by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) between 1900 and 1911 and initially published in his book The Chronicles of Clovis. It has been adapted for opera, film, radio and television.The story concerns an unhealthy ten-year-old boy named Conradin, who lives with his strict cousin and guardian, Mrs. De Ropp... -
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![The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw]()
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.“This brilliant novella is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED reviewYou may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince... -
![Where the Woods End by Charlotte Salter]()
Where the Woods End by Charlotte Salter
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a forest filled with treacherous beasts, the thing to be most afraid of is closer than you think in this middle grade horror fantasy.Kestrel, a young huntress, lives in a seemingly endless forest crawling with dangerous beasts... -
![Northwood: A Novella by Maryse Meijer]()
Northwood: A Novella by Maryse Meijer
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so... -
![The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Bear]()
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition by Paula Guran, Elizabeth Bear
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption... -
![The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant]()
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant continue this critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories... -
![Vault of Glass by Candace Robinson]()
Vault of Glass by Candace Robinson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome see it... Some don't...People in the town of Deer Park, Texas are vanishing. There is a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault, that appears overnight. Perrie Madeline's best friend and ex-boyfriend are among the missing. Perrie, along with her friend August, go on a pursuit to search for them in the mysterious museum...
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