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  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The truth is out there...The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah...
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results...
  • Born of Fire by A.L. Knorr

    Born of Fire by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger. Right? Saxony Cagney counts herself lucky when she wins a position as an au pair in Venice for the summer. It's her responsibility to take care of two young boys - speak to them in English, make sure they get to their swimming lessons on time. Piece of cake, right? She unexpectedly forms a strong bond with the youngest, Isaia, although its a mystery why...
  • Pyro by A.L. Knorr

    Pyro by A.L. Knorr

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will she give up her greatest secret for the greatest opportunity? Saxony has barely stepped off the plane from her life-altering summer in Venice when friction in her family rises up to meet her...
  • The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey

    The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced...
  • Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lessons by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Camelia Hammond's trying junior year of high school is finally over...but her troubles aren't. After she discovers a painful truth about her family, she escapes to a summer arts program in Rhode Island. Determined to put family - and boyfriend - drama behind her, she throws herself into her artwork.At the arts school, she gets caught up in the case of Sasha Beckerman, a local girl who is missing...
  • The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.There is.She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.She should.She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.She will now.Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.Retribution has arrived...
  • Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore

    Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Food. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse...
  • White Silence by Jodi Taylor

    White Silence by Jodi Taylor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    *The first instalment in the new, gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.* "I don't know who I am. I don't know what I am." Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn’t want to see them and she definitely doesn’t want them to see her...
  • The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells

    The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can......but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war...
  • Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if you could enter a madman's cruel mind as he planned his vicious crimes? What if you could see the terrified faces of his victims ... Psychic Cassie Neill helps the LA police catch killers — until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies...
  • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

    The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 94 ratings
    Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . .
  • Flame Caller by Jon Messenger

    Flame Caller by Jon Messenger

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE EARTH GIVES WAY TO THE SEA,THE SEA BOWS BEFORE THE WIND,THE WIND FEEDS THE FLAME,THE FLAME BURNS THE WORLD OF MAN DOWN TO THE EARTH.White Halls is no longer a sleepy little town. Its houses lie smoldering on their foundations. The residents take refuge in their homes, afraid to leave. And the town’s prodigal son and newest Wind Warrior, Xander Sirocco, has fled...
  • Breath by Jackie Morse Kessler

    Breath by Jackie Morse Kessler

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Contrary to popular belief, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse aren’t just harbingers of doom—they actually keep life in balance. But what happens when their leader and creator, Death, becomes suicidal?Before the first living thing drew its first gasping breath, he was there. He has watched humanity for millennia...
  • The Moment by Sarah Alderson

    The Moment by Sarah Alderson

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A short story from Alex's point of view(Included in the Simon Pulse copy ofLosing...
  • Raven Mask by Winter Pennington

    Raven Mask by Winter Pennington

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I stared down at the lifeless body of a boy whose face was all too familiar..."Following the execution of Lukas Morris, Preternatural Private Investigator Kassandra Lyall told herself that she'd learn more about the local werewolf pack's Alpha female. Just as she begins her investigation, she's interrupted by a phone call from friend and ex-colleague, Detective Arthur Kingfisher...
  • Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

    Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Ukrainian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy with "the potential to be a modern classic" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.Our life is brief . .
  • Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Last fall, sixteen-year-old Camelia fell for Ben, a new boy at school who had a very mysterious gift – psychometry, the ability to sense the future through touch. But just as Camelia and Ben's romance began to heat up, he abruptly left town. Brokenhearted, Camelia has spent the last few months studying everything she can about psychometry and experiencing strange brushes with premonition...
  • A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    A Wild Light by Marjorie M. Liu

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    View our feature on Marjorie Liu’s A Wild Light.For too long Maxine Kiss has felt an inexplicable darkness inside her-a force she channels into hunting the demons bent on destroying the human race. But when she finds herself covered in blood and crouched beside her grandfather's dead body with no memory of what happened, Maxine begins to fear that the darkness has finally consumed her...
  • Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Deadly Little Games by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    High school juniors Camelia and Ben have discovered a powerful bond: They both possess the power of psychometry, the ability to see the future through touch. For Ben, the gift is a frightening liability. When he senses a strong threat or betrayal, he risks losing control. Camelia's gift is more mysterious. When she works with clay, her hands sculpt messages her mind doesn't yet comprehend...
  • Last Call by Tim Powers

    Last Call by Tim Powers

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become the Fisher King, and to keep that power he is determined to kill his son...
  • Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green

    Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Secret Histories Novels combine “witty banter, tough guy standoffs, visceral fight scenes, bad guy atrocities, surprise revelations, and high stakes”* in supernatural adventures that can only come from the imagination of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green.The name is Bond, Shaman Bond...
  • Everville by Clive Barker

    Everville by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years, it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss...
  • Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Brother Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Loop me in, odd one.The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...
  • Book of Orlando by Laura Lascarso

    Book of Orlando by Laura Lascarso

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Henri has a policy of not interfering with human affairs—he’s a courier of souls, no more, no less—until he happens upon a boy who reminds him there is goodness and light amidst the sorrow.Orlando is in a vulnerable situation when Henri intercedes on his behalf and initiates the bond between them...
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  • The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting...
  • Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

    Anima Rising by Christopher Moore

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal...
  • Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent souls who seek out Odd want justice. Occasionally their otherworldly tips help him prevent a crime. But this time it’s different...
  • Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey

    Dead Men's Boots by Mike Carey

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor. A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved...
  • Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Forever Odd by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death...
  • Girl Divided by Willow Rose

    Girl Divided by Willow Rose

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They think she's a monster, but she's their only hope… In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon...
  • Queen of Crazy by Maddison Cole

    Queen of Crazy by Maddison Cole

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Deprived beings with genetic mutations make the best Psychos.Pfft, f£(&*@g humans. Whoever thought genetic testing was a good idea is lucky my ability isn't to travel back in time, because I'd have pinpointed the moment he primed the first needle and strangled the life out of him. Instead I'm stuck here, hated by humans and hunted by the authorities...
  • Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

    Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move...
  • Familiar Magic by M.V. Stott, David Bussell

    Familiar Magic by M.V. Stott, David Bussell

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three butchered witches. An unknown killer. One big mistake: they left the familiar alive.Stella Familiar was created by the London Coven to protect the city from the monsters that lurk in the shadows.She's fought against the darkness for decades, but now something new has come to town. Something that's torn her world apart...
  • Alice by Christina Henry

    Alice by Christina Henry

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll... In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back...
  • Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman

    Full Tilt by Neal Shusterman

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom carnival that traps its customers forever...
  • Darker Things by Rob Cornell

    Darker Things by Rob Cornell

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Craig Lockman—no one had called him that in fifteen years.Not since his days at the Agency. Not since he was trained to kill creatures that were supposed to exist only in nightmares.Yet the teenage girl on his doorstep not only knows his real name, she claims she's his daughter.Before Lockman can learn how the girl found him, he's attacked by a black-ops team of assassins...
  • Catacomb by Madeleine Roux

    Catacomb by Madeleine Roux

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Sometimes the past is better off buried.Senior year is finally over. After all they’ve been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to take one last road trip together, and they’re just not going to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan’s uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice that they are apparently being followed.
  • Odd & True by Cat Winters, Nathalia Suellen

    Odd & True by Cat Winters, Nathalia Suellen

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio...
  • Ripper by Amy Carol Reeves

    Ripper by Amy Carol Reeves

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . ." It's 1888, and after her mother's sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there...
  • The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin

    The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from Russia's most celebrated—and most controversial—novelistVladimir Sorokin is one of Russia's most popular and provocative novelists...
  • The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North

    The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William...
  • After Dark by Haruki Murakami

    After Dark by Haruki Murakami

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    In After Dark—a gripping novel of late night encounters—Murakami’s trademark humor and psychological insight are distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery.Nineteen-year-old Mari is waiting out the night in an anonymous Denny’s when she meets a young man who insists he knows her older sister, thus setting her on an odyssey through the sleeping city...
  • Between the Spark and the Burn by April Genevieve Tucholke

    Between the Spark and the Burn by April Genevieve Tucholke

    Rated: 3.65 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The conclusion to Between the Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, this gothic thriller romance with shades of Stephen King and Daphne du Maurier is a must-read for fans of Beautiful Creatures and Anna Dressed in Blood.Freddie once told me that the Devil created all the fear in the world.But then, the Devil once told me that it's easier to forgive someone for scaring you than for making you cry...
  • The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

    The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 62 ratings
    In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone...
  • The Revelry by Katherine Webber

    The Revelry by Katherine Webber

    Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For fans of Laini Taylor, E. Lockhart, and Holly Black, the chilling story of a girl who goes to a once-a-year-party in the woods... and then must piece together the fantastical things that happened to her after she wakes up with no memory of the night before.Once a year in the woods outside Ember Grove, the Revelry occurs...
  • Premonitions by Jamie Schultz

    Premonitions by Jamie Schultz

    Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TWO MILLION DOLLARS...   It’s the kind of score Karyn Ames has always dreamed of—enough to set her crew up pretty well and, more important, enough to keep her safely stocked on a very rare, very expensive black market drug...
  • The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North

    The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before - a thousand times.It started when I was sixteen years old.A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am.That makes my life difficult...
  • Mind Games by Kiersten White

    Mind Games by Kiersten White

    Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Fia and Annie are as close as two sisters can be. They look out for each other. Protect each other. And most importantly, they keep each other's secrets, even the most dangerous ones: Annie is blind, but can see visions of the future; Fia was born with flawless intuition—her first impulse is always exactly right...
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