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  • The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A dark secret, a secluded island, and nowhere to run.When author Daisy Dawkins hits a wall of writer's block, she seeks out a retreat at the infamous Coyote Island, home of the reclusive publishing guru Greg Bregoli. Upon her arrival at Bregoli Estate, strange things begin happening to Daisy, but none of the other writers seem to notice the estate's odder qualities...
  • Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    We're waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind...Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins...
  • Undesirable Situations by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Undesirable Situations by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Menopause, mayhem, and murder. Just a normal day for psychic medium Angela Panther.Thirty-five years ago, Genevieve Ryland stepped off the stage of her high school graduation and disappeared without a trace.For years her mother searched for her, hitting dead end after dead end. Now on her deathbed, she asks Angela to find the truth, find out what happened to her daughter...
  • 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...
  • Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Sixteen Souls by Rosie Talbot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts.To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys...
  • 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...
  • 44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Ten by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped between confusing visions and a terrifying ghost, all Abby Craig knows for sure is that she is running out of time. But as a wildfire rages out of control in the mountains west of town, an even larger blaze burns deep within her heart...
  • The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets lie within the walls of Redwood Manor.The murders, alleged curse, and ghost stories have fascinated Carter ever since he moved to Ivy Grove. After attending a Halloween ball at the mansion and meeting a man almost too beautiful to be real, Carter is captivated even more.But the man disappears after that, leaving Carter with nothing but the memory of a kiss...
  • A Frost of Cares by Amy Rae Durreson

    A Frost of Cares by Amy Rae Durreson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Winter Ghost Story Looking for a fresh start, historian Luke Alcott takes on a job cataloguing the archives in an old army training centre. Eelmoor Hall is an old house on a lonely heath and the only other living soul on site is Sergeant Jay McBride, the surly caretaker...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  grief  lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

    Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this evocative and mind-bending psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart.Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend...
  • Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon

    Heart, Haunt, Havoc by Freydís Moon

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Laced with romance, gothic imagery, Catholic mysticism, diaspora, and horror…When lonely transgender exorcist, Colin Hart, finds himself challenged by an unruly haunted house in Gideon, Colorado, he’s kept awake by ghosts, demons, ghouls, and the handsome nonbinary owner of the house, Bishop Martínez...
  • The Red House by Tony Abbott

    The Red House by Tony Abbott

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? After diving into Derek's world in books #1 and #2, readers are in for more spooky, sinister adventure in this latest installment.Derek didn't ask for this.It's bad enough that his brother's body is hosting a dead soul. Then there's that whole business of the evil dead waging war...
  • Dead Voices  (A Bridgeton Park Cemetery Book)  (Volume 2) by Ophelia Julien

    Dead Voices (A Bridgeton Park Cemetery Book) (Volume 2) by Ophelia Julien

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Nick Borja asks his psychic friend, Cassie Valentine, for her opinion on a haunted bed and breakfast, Cassie is left with a slew of questions: Who haunts the mansion, and why? What happened in the small back room that makes it the crux of the haunting? Why has Aaron Jacoby, the caretaker’s young son, become so ill after moving to the premises? Most of all, why is her boyfriend, Michael...
  • Sexting with a Ghost by Ashlynn Mills

    Sexting with a Ghost by Ashlynn Mills

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    DarcyStarting over isn't easy. My boyfriend was abusive, my family controlling, and I lost my studio where I kept most of my work. The new room I'm renting isn't much to look at but the owner said I could use the basement as a new working space. Weird things start to happen the more I go down there and even though I'm the only person in the room, I can't help but get a feeling I'm not alone...
  • Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The ghosts of her family's estate on the coast of Maine never troubled Ava Trumble. When she finally inherits the historic mansion, however, there's a small string attached: Ava has exactly one year to solve a 200-year-old mystery of a missing girl, or lose her family's home..
  • The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. John

    The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. John

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sherry Alston had never been told about her dead half-sister Miranda. So when Sherry came to visit her Aunt Judith, no one could explain the odd things that started to happen...
  • 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...
  • Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Uncertainty by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Last year, Ariel's life was ripped apart. She's finally started to put the pieces together again, and is looking forward to summer break. That's when a dream brings her back to the mysterious Dexter Orphanage...
  • The Nurse by Amy Cross

    The Nurse by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Twenty years ago, something very bad happened in this house. But it's over now. I promise.” When Rachel moves to a new house with her mother, she immediately realizes that something isn't quite right. Although she's blind, Rachel can tell that the stories about the house's past don't add up. And slowly, she starts to worry that someone or something from that past might still be around...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd

    Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For years the abandoned MacKenzie mansion remained hidden in rural Wisconsin. Rumors and stories of apparitions, odd noises, accidents, and strange deaths in or near the property were enough to convince the townsfolk it was haunted and they stayed away...
  • A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    A Ghost Arrives: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every family has its secrets, and every ghost has its reasons.★★★★★ "A creepy, slow burning ghost story with a twist that was dark in so many different ways! Imaginative, creative, and not afraid to deal the punches..." - Amazon ReviewerAfter moving back in with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers that something else has taken up residence in his childhood home..
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Brockden Brown

    American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Charles Brockden Brown

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Joyce Carol Oates has a special perspective on the “gothic” in American short fiction, at least partially because her own horror yarns rank on the spine-tingling chart with the masters. She is able to see the unbroken link of the macabre that ties Edgar Allan Poe to Anne Rice and to recognize the dark psychological bonds between Henry James and Stephen King...
  • The House of Long Shadows by Ambrose Ibsen

    The House of Long Shadows by Ambrose Ibsen

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The house at 889 Morgan Road has been empty almost thirty years. Maybe it should have stayed that way. Kevin Taylor is an internet-famous handyman on a mission: Find a house and renovate it in thirty days. By flipping a derelict house in a month's time and chronicling the entire thing on video for his online subscribers, he seeks to impress a handful of network TV producers and become a star...
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  lgbtq  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Boy in the Smoke by Maureen Johnson

    The Boy in the Smoke by Maureen Johnson

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    On a cold night, Stephen Dene went to the Eton boathouse to perform a desperate act. But someone stopped him along the way, sending his life in a new and decidedly strange direction–leading him to London, to two new friends, and to a world of shadows and mystery...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The September House by Carissa Orlando

    The September House by Carissa Orlando

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings...
  • Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson

    Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Knock Knock, Open Wide weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life.Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse...
  • Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Nightingale House by Steve Frech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daniel Price has just had the breakthrough of his life when his novel cracks the best seller list. He and his wife, Nicole, decide to move into the majestic Nightingale House on the shores of Willow Lake, in the town of Kingsbrook, Maine. But Daniel's world is shattered when Nicole is killed in a car crash, and he must raise their eight year-old daughter, Caitlyn, on his own...
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
  • The Farm by Amy Cross

    The Farm by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One farm. Two tragedies, thirty years apart. And a tortured figure whose presence connects both incidents... In 1979, the Bondalen family farm in Norway is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Family Business by Jonathan Sims

    Family Business by Jonathan Sims

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything.But then she gets a new job: working at Slough & Sons, cleaning up after the recently deceased.Clearing away the remains of lost lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things, that can’t be written off as imagination. Nothing is as it seems with the Sloughs...
  • 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...
  • In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    In The Blink Of An Eye by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new novel of suspense that promises to propel USA Today bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub into the ranks of the masters of the genre.When a medium returns to the small-town home where her childhood friend was killed, she intends to coax the secrets of the house out into the light -- before the murderous force residing there makes both she and her friend's daughter its next victims...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Return to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Return to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ivy Jensen survived the Dark House once, but can she make it out a second time? Two months have passed since Ivy narrowly escaped the Nightmare Elf’s grip, but the memories of Parker, Natalie, Shayla, Frankie, and Garth continue to haunt her. Their killer is still out there—somewhere. The police trail has gone cold, though, and it’s up to Ivy to piece together the clues to find him...
  • Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Since Elise Morgan left her father’s reality television show, Dark and Deadly Things, she put the ghost-hunting life behind her, able to comfortably watch from her couch. Her father has resorted to faking the hauntings that thrill America, but he could never fool Elise. She can see the dead. When the Halloween episode airs live on television, something goes horribly wrong...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  dark  death
  • A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest.The house was supposed to be a fresh start. That's what Libby's mom said...
  • Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young Australian cellist Maisie Fielding is bored with her career and her overpowering, manipulative musical family. Faking a wrist injury, she takes time off to return to England, her mother's home country, to search for her own roots and to find out more about her grandmother, a 'white witch' who settled in a bleak village on the North Yorkshire coast...
  • Bayou Dogs by Tony Abbott

    Bayou Dogs by Tony Abbott

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tony Abbott combines the best of the action, suspense, and humor that has made DROON a hit for almost a decade -- and takes it to the next level in this spooky new middle grade series.Could the road to the afterlife be a two-way street? Derek's brother Ronny isn't himself. No, really. Ronny's body has been taken over by the long-dead soul of a man named Virgil Black...
  • I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  lgbtq  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Be Still, My Love by Deborah J. Hughes

    Be Still, My Love by Deborah J. Hughes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ABOUT BE STILL, MY LOVE:A personal loss throws medium Tess Schafer's beliefs into question and severs her communications with "the other side". Unable to move on with her life, she takes a healing vacation to a haunted resort on the coast of Maine. Her arrival triggers a spike in paranormal activity and the return of her spiritual connection...
  • The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard

    The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ruth Travers has lost a lover, both parents and her job. Now she thinks she might be losing her mind.When death strikes again, Ruth finds herself the owner of a dilapidated Victorian house on the Isle of Skye: "Tigh na Linne", the summer home she shared as a child with her beloved Aunt Janet, the woman she'd regarded as a mother...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

    Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty.Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous she grew up in a haunted house...
  • The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans

    The Otherwoods by Justine Pucella Winans

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Otherwoods is calling. And it won't be ignored.Some would call River Rydell a 'chosen one': born with the ability to see monsters and travel to a terrifying spirit world called The Otherwoods, they have all the makings of a hero. But River just calls themself unlucky...
  • The Haunting of St. Xavier by Carol Lynne, T.A. Chase

    The Haunting of St. Xavier by Carol Lynne, T.A. Chase

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Justice comes to all in time.Although empty for over fifty years, St. Xavier Monastery was still an awe inspiring structure and Jason Bentley thought he'd found the perfect location for his newest resort. Yet once construction begins to bring the magnificent building back to its former glory, odd events begin to occur. While the death of a stonemason shakes Jason, he decides to continue anyway...
  • The Haunting of Hillwood Farm by Kathryn Knight

    The Haunting of Hillwood Farm by Kathryn Knight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After tragedy strikes, Callie Sinclair is left with a gift she never wanted—the ability to communicate with ghosts. But when a desperate widow begs for her help, she reluctantly agrees to investigate the strange occurrences at Hillwood Farm...
  • Haunted: A Bridgeton Park Cemetery Book by Ophelia Julien

    Haunted: A Bridgeton Park Cemetery Book by Ophelia Julien

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Staff ghost story night happens every Thursday at the Poet's Corner Bookstore, but this Thursday will change Cassie's life in ways she could never have imagined. When Michael Penfield walks into the store as the new hire, Cassie is surprised to see her friend from childhood...
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