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The Lodge by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMore than a century ago, the Sea Islands of Georgia's coastline were the playground of the ultra-wealthy. Carnegies, Morgans, Rockefellers and other aristocrats of the Industrial Age built luxurious southern beach retreats on islands like Cumberland and Jekyll to escape the icy winters of New York... -
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Wicked Bite by Megan Montero
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll power lay with the House of Shade…The only kind of monsters I’d ever seen were the ones who drank too much at my bar. Chaos was a nightly occurrence I’d grown used to…and deep down I liked it. I lived in a city full of ghosts, magic, and the paranormal. A city with a haunted past. The darkness should have terrified me. But the only thing that scared the hell out of me…was love... -
The Bones in the Yard by K.M. Avery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI… have issues.I know. Who’d have thought that a jaded ex-cop elf would have problems with emotional commitment and self-esteem?Yeah, me, too.I’m trying to work on that. I’ve also got a new job, new boss, and a pile of bones I’m trying to identify while not stepping on too many official police-business toes... -
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Devil's Door by Lee Mountford
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHalloween night, 1982. Many people were brutally killed or simply vanished at the Blackwater Hotel—formerly Perron Manor. The events of that night have always remained a mystery.Until now...Ray and Rita Pearson, along with their daughter, Chloe, move into the hotel to help with its renovation and grand opening. All under the watchful eye of the mysterious owner, Marcus Blackwater... -
Imp And The Beast by Stephanie Hudson
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHell.Just do your time, they said.It will be easy, they said.What's a hundred years, sentenced to a prison in Hell?Well, I can tell you, for an Imp like me, it was a pretty long time.Because like most Imps, we were a mischievous sort and that tended to annoy people, say people like the prison guards. Which meant that my time in Hell had just gotten a lot more complicated... -
Haunted by Amber Lynn Natusch
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"I cowered away from him, unable to formulate a coherent sentence. Questions ran through my mind though none made it past my lips. I wondered how this could be happening, what he wanted, and what major injustice I'd brought against the universe to bring a fate such as this upon me.Perhaps being born was reason enough... -
Blood Legacy by C.J. Ellisson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDespite surviving silver poisoning, Vivian isn't out of the fire yet. Rolando is still alive, as is his desire to eliminate all manipulator vampires like her. The streets of Buenos Aires prove to be a tricky hunting ground for Vivian and her husband Rafe, especially when a paranormal serial killer starts leaving bodies behind... -
The Creature on Crenshaw Road by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Pack your mosquito spray, Cassidy. We're going after Bigfoot." Midas, Cassidy and the Gulf Coast Paranormal team take on a new client, one with a disturbing problem. Reports of tree knocks, scratch marks, screams in the woods and even a missing hunter have made Crenshaw Road a frightening place to live... -
Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into.Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman... -
The Ghost of Gabrielle Bonet by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Screaming Woman Haunts the Mobile History Museum Can Cassidy Uncover the Truth About This Entity? Museum curator Carl Fletcher is terrified by a mysterious woman seen haunting the museum... -
The Ghosts of Phoenix No 7 by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the devastating loss the team experienced on their last investigation, Midas is hesitant to return to the paranormal field. However, a desperate phone call from a local fire chief and a terrifying experience at an old Mobile fire station draws the leader of Gulf Coast Paranormal back to find answers for the chief and the firefighters... -
The Maelstrom of the Leaf Academy by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jocelyn Graves left the Leaf Academy after her solo investigation, she was determined to return for another look. Only not by herself. The Gulf Coast Paranormal team accompanies Jocelyn as she faces down her fears at the haunted school... -
Dreams of the Necromancer by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDigging up the past might be digging her own grave.Marguerite went in search of answers. The ones she found led her to only more questions…and down a very dangerous path.Doctor Gideon Raithe claims that she has every right to hate him, and yet all she feels is drawn to him. The Ordo ut Solis, a secret order of holy warriors against the dark creatures of the world, wants her help to contain him... -
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Fierce as a Tiger Lily by Kendra Moreno
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo die is no adventure. . .Tiger Lily knows that better than anyone. Death and the Tribes of Neverland have an intimate relationship, if only because their magic feeds the deity. Tiger has always walked in the darkness, and as a Daughter, she calls Death a friend.But Neverland is in trouble and Tiger finds herself in the middle of darkness she knows and a new insanity she doesn't... -
Mania by Naomi Loud
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI have starved for as long as I have been sentient.Collecting soul after soul, I fed. I gorged. Then he arrived, and suddenly, I understood what it truly meant to feel. Jealousy. Greed. Obsession.It tasted like him. Intoxicating. Addicting. I had to have my fill of him. Control him. Keep him. And I did. And we were happy. Trapped. But happy. Until she arrived. Her soul replete with mortal toil... -
The Legend of the Ghost Queen by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA cemetery tour goes horribly wrong--one of the guests is scared to death! And even stranger--it's not the first time this has happened. A concerned tour guide calls Midas for help, and the Gulf Coast Paranormal team prepares to investigate the potentially paranormal happenings at a cemetery in rural Eight Mile, Alabama... -
Cold Sanctuary by Anthony M. Strong
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe bogeyman is real. In a tunnel deep beneath an Alaskan mountain, a man is brutally murdered. Just one in a series of grisly deaths, it is not long before whispers grow that the Qalupalik, a terrifying creature born from centuries of superstition and fear, has come to wreak havoc on the small coastal town of Shackleton, Alaska... -
Gravestone by Travis Thrasher, Kirby Heyborne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis fear will soon turn to anger…. At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned. And watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death... -
Best Friends Forever by P.J. Night
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKatie’s getting a new BFF—whether she likes it or not—in this scary You’re Invited to a Creepover tale.Katie Walsh is majorly bummed when her BFF moves away. But her hopes soar when the new girl at school, Whitney, befriends her right away and invites her to spend the night at her house for a sleepover. Katie loved sleepovers with her old BFF, so she’s sure she will have a great time... -
Tanners Dell by S.E. England, Sarah E. England
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the hypnosis of violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains--Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fianc�, D.I... -
Great Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingss/t: 21 Short Story Masterpieces plus 34 Narrative & Lyric Poems Born to an unfortunate heritage, orphaned, unsympathetically raised, and then abandoned, Edgar Allan Poe struggled for greatness in an adverse social and economic climate -- a setting not improved by his fiery temperament and caustic criticism of others... -
The Isle of Sin & Shadows by Keri Lake
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis island alone boasts more ghost stories than all of Louisiana combined.And I'm one of them. In the Louisiana swamplands, ghost stories are as much a part of childhood as chasing fireflies and crawfishing. They never much scared me, though, nor the possibility of evil out to do me harm. Until the night I watched shadows come to life and butcher everything I loved... -
Doomsday Match by Jeff Wheeler
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA vacationing family becomes pawns in an ancient ritual designed to bring about a Mayan apocalypse in a riveting thriller by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler.A Mayan prophecy has waited for five centuries to be fulfilled. That time has come. Sacrifices will be made. Let the games begin... -
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Big Game by C.J. Ellisson
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVivian and Rafe venture into the Seat of Darkness, the Tribunal’s base, to uncover who’s plotting against them and why. From a cold, windy island off the southern Argentine coast, to the decadence of Buenos Aires, the group has plenty to keep their attention—seductive twins, deadly games, and a bunch of bloodsucking fiends who hate our much-loved, despotic innkeeper enough to see her dead... -
The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo err is human. To avenge is Divine. Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses dies immediately, and that’s the way she likes it. The poison-lipped youngest daughter of Lunameade’s magical founding family has used her power to annihilate their opposition.Her first husband is in the ground. Her new betrothed is next.But the merry widow has a secret... -
Infernium by Keri Lake
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEven the most powerful love can't save a condemned soulPain is an abyss.How naive of me to think I’d already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out, there are fathomless levels of pain, like a winding labyrinth of doors leading to shadowy figures and long-forgotten secrets... -
The Ghost Lights of Forrest Field by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Gulf Coast Paranormal team heads north on I-65 to investigate reports of a strange blue light appearing outside an old fort. Locals call them ghost lights, and they say these orbs are responsible for the death of a young woman hundreds of years ago. An archaeological dig stirs up the activity, and Midas goes to uncover the truth about the Ghost Lights of Forrest Field... -
The Ghost of Harrington Farm by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Forgotten Soldier Makes a Ghostly Appearance Can the Gulf Coast Paranormal team help him find peace? When Midas and... -
The Witch Cave by Sara Clancy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheir worst nightmares lurk in the darkness…The offspring of four cursed families risked everything to defeat the nightmare that haunts their bloodlines. But when an eerie melody chimes through the trees, they know the Bell Witch has returned. Her harvest of souls has begun, and they are running out of time... -
Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe 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... -
The Harbinger by Ann-Marie Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNOTE: This is not a PNR, Fantasy, Supernatural, or anything of the like. It is a contemporary, cult romance with demon/Satan worship. What do you do when you’ve caught the eye of a psychopath?On the run with no memory, Mia is thrust into an evil, secret society which threatens her very existence... -
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Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural by Henry Mazzeo, Henry James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCollection of 17 tales of the supernatural. These are all in the best tradition of the supernatural story -- authentically eerie, but more about the human spirit than about spooks and specters. Well-known authors are presented here in what, for them, is an unusual manner: a rich vein of British and American imaginative fiction... -
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The Reluctant Goddess (The Montgomery Chronicles) by Karen Ranney
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife was getting stranger instead of easier. Not only was Marcie Montgomery still craving tacos - and any kind of cheesecake - now she was lusting after her knight in confusing armor. Plus, she knew her dog wasn’t exactly a dog... -
Best Seller by Delta James
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe needs a hero. He only wants her.As fiction crashes into reality, the lines blur when the hero from the pages of Sage Matthews' bestselling steamy romance novel, Roark Samuels, emerges to save her from the brink of death... -
Disassembled Creatures by Albany Walker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt all started with a game.It was supposed to be fun, a night with friends. No one was supposed to die, but that’s not what happened.There’s a killer on the loose. People I know are dying, and I think I might be next.We called the boogeyman, and he answered... -
Damián by Alex Mírez
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDamián tiene algo diferente y Padme siempre lo supo.Sangrado nasal, ojeras profundas y un dolor de cabeza constante.¿Por qué siempre había estado aislado? "Damián es diferente".¿Pero qué tan distinto podía ser? Hay algo en él, algo perturbador. Algo que nadie había notado, excepto ella... -
Revelator by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee... -
Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping mix of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. ~In Book One, Cassie, Ethan and Lacey sought their missing friend, Aisha, in the deep of the forest... -
A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsTravis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort, he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. James—a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books—he’s led to a place many believed to be only a legend... -
Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBased on the motion picture written by Tom Holland.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire's next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo, Evil Ed... -
The Rain Dancers by Greg F. Gifune
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe arrives in darkness, in the middle of a violent downpour...an affable old man with tales to tell... When Will and Betty Colby return to Betty's hometown to settle her late father's affairs and prepare his house for sale, they assume they'll be faced with some cleaning, basic repairs and making runs to the local dump... -
Tuesday: A Dark Monster Romance by Adrian Blue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTuesday's Child is Full of GraceDr. Christina Blackwood moved to a small town for a slower pace of life. But when a child goes missing, it throws the community into a panic. All eyes immediately turn to Ashcroft Estate, whose reclusive and mysterious owner is known for fiercely protecting his privacy. But the estate is protecting far more than that. William Ashcroft has a secret... -
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The Hunted by Mike Dellosso, Michael Dellosso
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter learning of the disappearance of his nephew, Joe Saunders returns to his childhood home of Dark Hills. With rumors spreading of a rogue lion roaming the woods, he embarks on a mission to learn the truth. As he peels away the layers of Dark Hills, he discovers a secret that has been shrouded for three generations in a deadly code of silence... -
The Meadows by London Clarke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA decades-old murder. A strange, blood-thirsty cult. And a house full of spirits.It was supposed to be a new beginning, a fresh start in the Shenandoah Valley, where Scarlett’s memories weren’t riddled with drug addiction and rehab. But after purchasing an abandoned house with a checkered past in the hopes of transforming it into a luxury bed and breakfast, strange things start to happen... -
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.'Struggling with money, raising a child alone and fleeing a volatile ex, Jess McMachen accepts a job caring for an elderly patient. Flo Gardner—a disturbed shut-in and invalid. But if Jess can hold this job down, she and her daughter, Izzy, can begin a new life... -
Of Visions & Secrets by Kathryn Ann Kingsley
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe darkness took Emma's brother. Now it yearns to claim her.When Emma Mather's twin brother, Elliot, goes missing from Arnsmouth University, she is determined to stop at nothing to find him. Yet as she follows the clues left behind, she learns that there are far more sinister monstrosities lurking in the shadows of her city than she could have ever imagined... -
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsGeek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . -
The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect .1927: Mary Rourke—a Hollywood studio fixer—is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film...
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