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Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society’s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight... -
![Sociopath by Victor Methos]()
Sociopath by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTHE MURDER OF A FEDERAL AGENT...Retired detective Jon Stanton is enjoying his new life when a single call shatters his peace: one of his oldest friends, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been murdered in a small town in Utah. Investigating a double homicide, Stanton believes he had gotten too close to the killer and paid the ultimate price... -
![Ramonst by A.F. Knott]()
Ramonst by A.F. Knott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion... -
![John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul]()
John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world... -
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![The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim]()
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFeminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying… yet enticing... -
![A Long December by Richard Chizmar]()
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
![December Park by Ronald Malfi, Eric G. Dove]()
December Park by Ronald Malfi, Eric G. Dove
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the occasional bout of mailbox baseball. But in the fall of 1993, children begin vanishing and one is found dead. Newspapers call him the Piper because he has come to take the children away. But there are darker names for him, too . . -
![The Stretch by Stephen Leather]()
The Stretch by Stephen Leather
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAs a big player in the London underworld in the 1990s, Terry Greene has always made a priority of taking care of business personally. Preston Snow was out of line, so the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character... -
![The Edogawa Rampo Reader by Edogawa Rampo]()
The Edogawa Rampo Reader by Edogawa Rampo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Tarō, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan... -
![Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward]()
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched vacation of his youth, of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town where they spent their summers... -
![By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens]()
By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThomas Bishop was twenty-five when he escaped from an institution for the criminally insane. Behind him was a grotesque history of pain, murder and rage. Ahead lay a path of horrifying vengeance that would trigger the most intense manhunt in history... -
![I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper]()
I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison by Dr. Harper
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe highly anticipated sequel to I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School ShooterI've counseled the most chilling criminals... A young inmate who fell in love with a pedophile. A man who intentionally infected strangers with HIV. A patient with an extremely unusual addiction. A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience... -
![The Scour by Richard Swan]()
The Scour by Richard Swan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifteen years before the events of The Justice of Kings, Vonvalt and Bressinger investigate the imprisonment of a fellow justice for murder... -
![Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton]()
Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMeet DS Katie Maguire. With her bright green eyes and short red hair, she looks like an Irish pixie. But she is no soft touch. In this exclusive short story, Ireland's most fearless detective hunts down a priest-killer in county Cork... -
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![Midnight Rain by James Newman]()
Midnight Rain by James Newman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1977... In a small town called Midnight, North Carolina, twelve-year-old Kyle Mackey ventures toward a strange new world called manhood... Kyle's older brother Dan is going away to college. The night before Dan's flight leaves for Florida, Kyle visits what he calls his "Secret Place" -- an old shack in the woods bordering Midnight... -
![Down Time by Barry Lyga]()
Down Time by Barry Lyga
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBilly Dent is the world's most notorious serial killer, but even killers need to go on vacation sometimes. When a mysterious death occurs in the hotel where Billy is staying, his "job" seems to call. Will his vacation truly be down time for him after all?In this prequel novella to the I Hunt Killers trilogy, bestselling author Barry Lyga crafts a creepy, intricately plotted mystery... -
![The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson]()
The New Black by Richard Thomas, Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories represent the future of genre-bending fiction from some of our brightest and most original voices... -
![The Serial Killer's Daughter by Lesley Welsh]()
The Serial Killer's Daughter by Lesley Welsh
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCharmer, liar, father… Killer. Suzanne’s life changes forever the day she receives a visit from Rose Anderson, the woman who has been living with her estranged father, Don. Don is dead, but Rose wants Suzanne to have his possessions – including a series of intimate diaries and a mysterious collection of photographs of women... -
![Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard]()
Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven clues, seven steps closer to a killer . . .Bringing us into a world of unrelenting suspense, Olivia Harvard’s astonishing debut explores the ravages of grief and betrayal through the eyes of a teenage boy coping with a heartbreaking loss and its revelations . . .The unthinkable has happened: Colton Crest is dead. And Elliot, Colton’s best friend, is the one who finds him brutally murdered... -
![The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler]()
The Slanted Gutter by S. Craig Zahler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDarren Tasking is a slick who lives in Great Crown, Florida and considers himself an entrepreneur. Others might refer to him as a criminal or a pimp or an extortionist or all of these things, if they knew what he was doing at night. His income is derived from a number of brothels and gambling parlors that are secreted behind iron doors in what appear to be typical apartment buildings... -
![Savage Keepsakes by Marla York]()
Savage Keepsakes by Marla York
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’m not a good man. Never cared to be one.My existence is only darkness and death. The world thinks I shouldn’t be this way, but I am who I am. Turning animals & humans into art is all I’ve ever known. Sending keepsakes of my victims ignites a fire within me, knowing I’m hurting families fuels my passion to continue.I’ve never wanted to be anyone’s hero until Lucy... -
![Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath]()
Truck Stop by J.A. Konrath
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore the events of Jack Kilborn's epic horror novel AFRAID...Before the events of J.A. Konrath's critically acclaimed Jack Daniels thrillers FUZZY NAVEL and CHERRY BOMB...Before the events of Jack Kilborn's and Blake Crouch's #1 ebook bestseller SERIAL...A cop and two killers meet for the ultimate showdown at the TRUCK STOP... -
![The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron]()
The Light is the Darkness by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsConrad Navarro is a champion of the Pageant, a gruesome modern day gladiatorial exhibition held in secret arenas across the globe. Indentured by a cabal of ultra-rich patrons, his world is one of blood and mayhem, an existence where savagery reigns supreme while mercy leads to annihilation. Conrad's sister has vanished while traveling in Mexico... -
![The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter by L.A. Detwiler]()
The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter by L.A. Detwiler
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the USA Today and International Bestselling author of The Widow Next Door comes a demented page-turner. If you knew your father’s darkest secret, would you turn him in? What if his secret was connected to you? Ruby Marlowe’s always been a daddy’s girl. Her mother died when she was two, and her single father has ensured she has everything she needs... -
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![Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Alfred Hitchcock]()
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me by Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEven when Alfred Hitchcock was just a tiny tot, his parents sensed there was something, well, odd about him. The only kind of fairy tales that brought a smile to his childish lips had the ogres and dragons winning, and instead of wanting to know about the birds and the bees, he kept asking about the vipers and the vultures... -
![Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver]()
Psychopaths Anonymous by Will Carver
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen AA meetings make her want to drink more, alcoholic murderess Maeve sets up a group for psychopaths … The dark, unpredictable, electrifyingly original new thriller from critically acclaimed author Will Carver. ‘Cements Carver as one of the most exciting authors in Britain... -
![Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern]()
Seelenangst: Thriller. by Veit Etzold, Andy Matern
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Vidalis, Expertin für Pathopsychologie am LKA Berlin, hat gerade die Folgen ihrer Hetzjagd auf den Serienkiller "Der Namenlose" verkraftet, als die Hauptstadt von einer neuen, noch perfideren Mordserie erschüttert wird... -
![My Darrling by Krystal McLean]()
My Darrling by Krystal McLean
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novella. To the world, nineteen-year-old Isaac Darrling was nothing more than pure, unsalvageable evil; a sadistic serial killer on a quest for notoriety, fame. To me, he was the love of my life. My obsession. My Darrling, as I called him. This is a story about unconditional love in its rawest—and possibly sickest—form... -
![نصف ميت دفن حيًا by حسن الجندي]()
نصف ميت دفن حيًا by حسن الجندي
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“لماذا لا أرى إنعكاسى فى المرآة ؟؟؟؟ توقفت لدقيقة أنظر للمرآة بنوع من التركيز محاولا تأمل السطح المصقول وهل به مشاكل فى التنظيف !! لا جدوى من ذلك فإنعكاس باب الحمام يظهر بالمرآة ولكن انعكاسى هو الذى يظهر”رواية "نصف ميت دفن حيا" ستجدها مختلفه من البداية كما ان النهاية غير متوقعة ويصعب التكهّن بما تحمله .. أعتقد ان الكاتب لم يرد أن يستنتج القارئ النهاية حتى لو على سبيل المزاح . -
![Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King]()
Dolan's Cadillac by Stephen King
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWealthy crime-boss Jimmy Dolan brutally murders a woman who is scheduled to testify against him, and her husband spends the next seven years plotting his revenge. Haunted by the voice of his dead wife, he will stop at nothing to exact his vengeance and allow his wife to rest in peace... -
![Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum]()
Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings.This landmark collection gathers more than thirty of Jack Ketchum's most thrilling stories. "Gone" and "The Box" were honored with the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Whether you are already familiar with Ketchum's unique brand of suspense or are experiencing it for the first time, here is a book no aficionado of fear can do without... -
![Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, David Purdham]()
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, David Purdham
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOphelia Todd is always looking for a shorter distance between two points, so she just wrinkles the map a little--until she gets caught in one of the wrinkles.Description: 1 audiocassette (78 min.) : analog, Dolby processed... -
![The Glass Man: A Novel by Anders de la Motte, Pontus Sánchez Giménez]()
The Glass Man: A Novel by Anders de la Motte, Pontus Sánchez Giménez
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Leo Asker series, which will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Timesbestselling author), continues with this second installment following wayward detective Leonore Asker on a chilling new murder case. Detective Leonore Asker has just settled in as head of the Department of Lost Souls, a unit for odd cases, when her father contacts her after years of silence... -
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![Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane, Barbie Wilde]()
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell by Paul Kane, Barbie Wilde
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe World’s Greatest Detective Meets Horror’s Most Notorious Villains!Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room... -
![The House of Twelve by Sean Davies]()
The House of Twelve by Sean Davies
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwelve strangers wake up in a strange house with no memory of how they got there, and barely any recollection of who they are. They quickly learn that there is no way out, scarcely enough food and water to go around, and eerie music plays constantly in the background of every room... -
![The Boy In The Woods by Carter Wilson]()
The Boy In The Woods by Carter Wilson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA shocking 30-year-old secret returns to haunt thriller writer Tommy Devereaux in this nerve-shredding tale of suspense In 1981, three fourteen-year-old boys witness a horrific murder in the Oregon woods near their homes. Sucked into becoming accomplices to the subsequent cover-up, they swear never to talk about what happened... -
![The Magician by Sol Stein, Tom Parker]()
The Magician by Sol Stein, Tom Parker
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Magician is a tale of two magicians, of high school extortion and violence, and of a criminal trial in which the guilty go free. Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, The Magician has sold over one million copies."A shark-like bite that won't be easily forgotten. Fast moving, incisive, angry, fine, and dramatic!" (Library Journal) "I cannot recall a novel of this type with greater pleasure... -
![The Midnight Side by Natasha Mostert]()
The Midnight Side by Natasha Mostert
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA phone call from the dead. Lucid dreaming. A ghost manipulating the London stock exchange. And a truly frightening story of love gone wrong. THE MIDNIGHT SIDE is a chilling tale of a seductive woman who, even from the grave, is able to manipulate events to her satisfaction... -
![Steel Valentine by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Steel Valentine by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Even before Morley told him, Dennis knew things were about to get ugly. A man did not club you unconscious, bring you to his estate and tie you to a chair in an empty storage shed out back of the place if he merely intended to give you a valentine. Morley had found out about him and Julie... -
![Housebroken by The Behrg]()
Housebroken by The Behrg
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"It was a kidnapping, but in all the wrong ways. No ransom, no demands; there was nothing they wanted--other than to observe." When Blake Crochet and his family are taken hostage in their own home, they are forced to act out their everyday lives under the observance of two psychotic kidnappers... -
![Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli]()
Such Quiet Girls by Noelle W. Ihli
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsTen children, abducted in broad daylight—and buried alive. Sage and her sister won’t make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that’s only the beginning of the nightmare.New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn’t protect the kids she was supposed to deliver to daycare, just like she couldn’t protect her own daughter three years ago... -
![Satan dans le désert by Boston Teran]()
Satan dans le désert by Boston Teran
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1995. Aux confins du désert californien, Gabi, quatorze ans, est kidnappée par un psychopathe ultra-violent et sa secte satanique. L’insondable scène de carnage laissée par les ravisseurs ne livre aucun indice, la police patine, le sort de la jeune fille semble scellé... -
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![God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran, Eric Holweck]()
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran, Eric Holweck
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDuring Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, embarks on a desperate mission to find her but his only hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood... -
![Nameless by Joe Conlan]()
Nameless by Joe Conlan
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChilling and taut, NAMELESS, introduces a fresh and exciting twist on the deadly game of cat and mouse... -
![The Girl on the Porch by Richard Chizmar]()
The Girl on the Porch by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Chizmar’s great gift is that he knows the people on your block—and he knows their darkest secrets. This guy is gold.” —Stephen King “For some, the impulse lives closer to the surface and instead of fighting it, they embrace it. The worst of them, the truly evil, listen for it…that tantalizing, deceitful voice from somewhere underneath it all... -
![Cold Hands by John Niven]()
Cold Hands by John Niven
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou thought you could leave the past behind. Think again. Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he spends his days writing for the local newspaper, working on a film script, and acting as house-husband... -
![Quad by C.G. Watson, Carrie Gordon Watson]()
Quad by C.G. Watson, Carrie Gordon Watson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEverything led up to this momentthe point when the teasing, the cruelty, the pressure all became too much. And someone finally snapped. Now six students, from six different cliques, are trapped in the student store while a shooter terrorizes their school. The shooter's identity is teased out through the students' flashbacks until the reader breathlessly reaches the final page... -
![What Have We Done by Alex Finlay]()
What Have We Done by Alex Finlay
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this “top-notch mystery thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.A stay-at-home mom with a past.A has-been rock star with a habit.A reality TV producer with a debt.Three disparate lives.One deadly secret...
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