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  • Spirit Prophecy by E.E. Holmes

    Spirit Prophecy by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Two sisters, haunted by more than their past... Just weeks after discovering each other’s existence, Jess and Hannah Ballard arrive at Fairhaven Hall, where they will learn the clandestine ways of the Durupinen, an ancient sect of women who control the Gateways between the worlds of the living and the dead...
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    family  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  book  fiction  horror  magic
  • Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dark magic seeks to rise even as the dust settles...It's been more than a year since Jess and Hannah Ballard fought to return the power of the Gateways where it rightfully belongs, and the Durupinen world is slowly adjusting to its altered relationship with the spirit world...
  • Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Came Back Haunted by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dex & Perry return in Book #10 of the Experiment in Terror series.A lot can change in three years.For Perry and Dex Foray, it’s been a step in the right direction, a step toward living a normal life. They’re happily married, they have their own media company, they’ve done what they can to leave their sordid and scary past behind them.But something has changed recently...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  adult  age-gap  book  dark
  • Grim by Amy Boyles

    Grim by Amy Boyles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Witcher meets Dresden Files in this action-packed mystery. "I am in love." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"This was a fast and fun read and I cannot wait for the second book in the series!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"I felt so many emotions and am totally going along on this ride." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️It only takes an instant for Grim—monster hunter and emotionally scarred hero—to lose everything.Grim is having a bad year...
  • City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    City of the Forgotten by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A malevolent force lurks beneath the streets of Scotland...Jess and Hannah Ballard's determination to protect the Gateways brings them to Edinburgh's Old Town, where a strange phenomenon threatens to disturb the delicate balance between the worlds of the living and the dead. Spirits who wish to cross over are vanishing, and it is up to the Ballard sisters to discover why...
  • Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”—a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage...
  • Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    Never Forget by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never forget that there are things in the first push of a thunderstorm that are dangerous to you: hail, plow winds, and Wanderers. These spirits cross the plains with the weather fronts. They are looking to feed off of the energy of creatures, living and dead, who have been foolhardy enough to be caught outside in the rain. The driving rain of Illinois can stop a lot of things too...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Cid by Alexie Aaron

    Cid by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Summer has arrived and, with it, an opportunity for Cid Garrett (paranormal investigator for PEEPS) to make some cash as a carpenter. His colleague Jesse Holden has hooked him up with a fill-in position on a multimillion dollar renovation on an isolated 1920s southern mansion called Hidden Meadow...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery  supernatural
  • The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    The Old House by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s summertime and Mia needs a break. The Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners are offered a stay at Price Hills Resort, a ski lodge with a hundred and four rooms, located at the top of one of the best non-mountainous ski runs in Wisconsin. Of course, it’s not the right season for fun in the snow, and this isn’t a vacation...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror  mystery
  • The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    The Middle House: Return to Cold Creek Hollow by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Unfinished business, we all have it. Projects left undone, a garden yet to be weeded, an email needing to be sent. In Mia’s case, it’s Cold Creek Hollow. It has been two years since the horrors there were successfully dealt with...
  • Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Renovation by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s do-it-yourself season and the DIY projects are in full swing with enthusiastic homeowners tearing down walls, sanding old floors and waking up ghosts. “It should be called DYI for do-yourself-in,” Mia commented as the calls for PEEPs flood the switchboards and crash their computers. Or did something else crash them? Meanwhile, Angelo searches for the soul of his lost friend...
  • Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Sand Trap by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Not all sand traps occur on the links. Some may be found on a popular beach or lonely stretch of highway. A sensitive and two ghost hunters walk into a bar. The barman is silent and the barflies long dead. Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not. An active haunt in a derelict biker bar on Route 66 is a dream come true for the PEEPs team until it turns violent...
  • Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Blackthorn Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A woman in black stares at the sea, her body transparent, eyes brimming with tears. Hoping to get a better look at the woman, psychic medium Addison Lockhart leans out over the manor’s windowsill, gasping when she feels an intense pressure pressing down on her back—someone thrusting her forward. She grabs the side of the window to brace herself, but it’s too late. She’s already falling...
  • 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 Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth...
  • The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    The Heir of Death by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elysia Mallory has never embraced her magic, not when doing so comes at the price of her sanity. Her family is cursed with bizarre necromantic gifts that have driven each recipient mad, and she doesn’t want to be another dead branch on the family tree...
  • 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...
  • Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The 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...
  • Secret of McKinley Mansion by K.F. Breene

    Secret of McKinley Mansion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was a dark and stormy night...But then, it was always stormy when she came. Beckoning. Calling to her followers. And follow her they did - never to be seen or heard from again. ~ * ~ * ~
Larkin, MO is not the cute, sleepy town it appears to be. Beneath the quaint façade lurks a secret - a secret everyone knows, but no one will talk about.Everyone knows to keep curfew...
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead...
  • Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss

    Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before...
  • A Ghostly Light by Juliet Blackwell

    A Ghostly Light by Juliet Blackwell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the latest mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Give Up the Ghost, it will take a beacon of ghostly intervention to guide contractor Mel Turner to the truth... Dangerous tides ahead...  When her friend Alicia hires Turner Construction to renovate a historic lighthouse in the San Francisco Bay, Mel Turner can’t wait to get her hands dirty...
  • 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...
  • The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Twisted Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Keira is ready for her life to return to normal. Though, to be fair, normal is a tall ask when your ability to see ghosts has landed you the job of groundskeeper in a small town’s cemetery.When Keira receives an invitation to dinner at Dane Crispin’s crumbling ancestral estate, she knows she can’t refuse. The last living descendant of the Crispin family is reclusive...
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    paranormal  ghosts  spooky  gothic  horror  mystery  fiction  fantasy
  • The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost of Marlow House by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Danielle Boatman inherits Marlow House, she dreams of turning it into a seaside bed and breakfast. Since she's never visited the property, Danielle's not sure what awaits her in Oregon. She certainly doesn't expect to find one of the house's previous owners still in residence...
  • The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Diana and her little brother Georgie have been living in the woods behind the old Willis place, a decaying Victorian mansion, for what already seems like forever. They aren’t allowed to leave the property or show themselves to anyone...
  • Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Leading up to the highly anticipated arrival of Odd Apocalypse this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in Odd Interlude, a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz! Here is the spine-tingling 70-page first installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure.  THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT...
  • The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He'll never let go...Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  hauntings
  • Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to the Kindle bestseller A Soul to StealThe past is always at your heels…Quinn O’Brion and Kate Tassel, two community journalists, tapped into a dark power last Halloween in order to stop a vicious serial killer. But they are still grappling with their new abilities—and wondering if what they unleashed may soon consume them...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Indelible by Lani Woodland

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie...
  • Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross

    Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sisters of Salt and Iron by Kady Cross released on Feb 28, 2017 is available now for purchase...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  paranormal  spooky  abuse  book  bullying  demons
  • Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Discovering by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After finally learning who was behind her mother's death, Calla still doesn't understand why it happened. Somewhere out there, someone seems to share the powerful psychic abilities that allow Calla to see not only into the past, but to the Other Side-someone who apparently doesn't want to be found...
  • Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Shadow Mirror by Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unsettling. There's no better word to describe Miranda Barnes's ability to hear the cries of the dead, feel the wind move her hair when they run by, and - dare she look into a mirror - see the reflection of a ghostly woman behind her. There's only one person to turn to for support: Etienne. As sexy as he is mysterious, Miranda can't help but be drawn to him. He believes her; he wants to help her...
  • I So Don't Do Spooky by Barrie Summy

    I So Don't Do Spooky by Barrie Summy

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone’s out to get Sherry’s stepmom. . . .Can she save her before it’s too late?Did you know that the main campus of the Academy of Spirits is at a Dairy Queen in Phoenix? Me either. Until now. Some weird stuff has been happening to my stepmother, Paula, and the Academy has asked me, Sherry Holmes Baldwin, to get to the bottom of it. They think someone’s trying to hurt her...
  • Heart Burn by C.J. Archer

    Heart Burn by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Time is running out for Hannah. With her life hanging by a thread and Tate trying to kidnap her, she finds help in an unusual quarter - the man who put the narcoleptic memory block on her as a child. Yet the powerful hypnotist may not be all that he seems...
  • Ghost Huntress Book 2: The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Ghost Huntress Book 2: The Guidance by Marley Gibson

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kendall and her ghost hunting team is the talk of Radisson, Georgia, but one person isn�t so pleased. Courtney Langdon doesn�t appreciate Kendall�s new popularity or her relationship with Jason, Courtney�s ex.So Courtney begins dabbling in the paranormal world. At first it�s all a game to draw attention away from Kendall...
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    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  book  coming-of-age  fiction  horror  magic
  • The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers

    The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Good morning, Psychic Surveys. How can I help?"The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born...
  • Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aunt Blythe's house gives Andrew the creeps -- full of dark rooms, creaky noises, and the sound of a woman sobbing somewhere in the shadows. Then, in the middle of the night, Andrew awakens to find a boy standing in his room...a boy who is Andrew's double, except he looks as if he's come from the grave. He wants to follow him -- to a place where he will meet the spirits of long-dead ancestors..
  • The Awakening of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel

    The Awakening of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sunshine Griffith can communicate with ghosts. Even more amazing, she recently discovered—with the help of her would-be boyfriend, Nolan—that she’s a luiseach, one of an ancient race of creatures who have lived among humans for centuries, protecting them from dark spirits and helping them move on to the afterlife...
  • Dead Voices by Katherine Arden, Катрин Арден

    Dead Voices by Katherine Arden, Катрин Арден

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces.Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort...
  • 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...
  • Haunted by Heather Graham

    Haunted by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Love is everywhere. . .When does a gift become a curse?Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house...
  • The Seance by Heather Graham

    The Seance by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A chill falls over Christina Hardy's housewarming party when talk turns to a recent murder that has all the hallmarks of the so-called 'Interstate Killer' murders from fifteen years before. To lighten the mood, the guests drag out an old Ouija board for a little spooky fun--and that's when things become truly terrifying...
    Categorized as:
    family  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

    The Lost Ones by Anita Frank

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some houses are never at peace. England, 1917  Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity to stay with her pregnant sister, Madeleine, at her imposing country mansion, Greyswick – but she arrives to discover a house of unease and her sister gripped by fear and suspicion...
  • The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero

    The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "A must-read for lost souls everywhere." — Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewWith spellbinding verse prose, R.M. Romero channels the spirit of myth into a brilliantly original tale, inspired by her experiences restoring Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe.Magic will burn you up...
  • Playing With Fire by C.J. Archer

    Playing With Fire by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    PRAISE FOR THE WRONG GIRL (BOOK 1 IN THE 1ST FREAK HOUSE SERIES):"It is incredibly well written and pulls you in from page one." ~ Annaleen, Amazon and Goodreads reviewer"This was one fantastic read! A really fascinating story which I couldn't put down, so this is easily a 5 stars...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  spooky  audiobook  book  demons  fiction
  • Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After her tumultuous summer in Lily Dale, Calla has decided to stay, hoping to unearth more about her mother’s untimely death.  As she starts school at Lily Dale High and begins to explore her relationships with Jacy and Blue, her visions begin to occur with greater urgency. There may be a killer on the loose, and he may be after Calla for her role in solving his first victim’s disappearance...
  • The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs

    The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost by John Bellairs

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Collapsed in a weird trance, Johnny Dixon is dying. Professor Childermass and Fergie soon learn the horrifying reason: Johnny is possessed by the spirit of the evil Warren Windrow. In a desperate effort to find a clue that will save Johnny's life, the professor and Fergie race to the gloomy Windrow estate. But demonic forces are waiting for them, and suddenly they're fighting for their own lives...
  • Unrest by Michelle Harrison

    Unrest by Michelle Harrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasn’t slept properly for months. Ever since the accident that nearly killed him, a shadowy figure has made its presence felt – a figure only he can see. Elliott is convinced his near death experience has enabled him to contact the dead...
  • Grave Girl by Amy Cross

    Grave Girl by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Sam Marker ran away from her old life, all she needed was a job and somewhere to live. Anything would do. And then, one fateful day, she saw that the town of Rippon was looking for a new gardener...Unfortunately for Sam, the 'garden' is actually a cemetery, and it just so happens to contain the deadliest grave in the world...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
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