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The Magnus Archives: Season 4 by NOT A BOOK
Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
The Magnus Archives: Season 3 by Jonathan Sims
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe Magnus Archives is a horror audiobook written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims narrates the stories in-character as the main character, Jonathan Sims, the newly-appointed head archivist of the fictional Magnus Institute; an institution based in London centred on research into the paranormal... -
死亡万花筒 Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zi Xu, 西子绪
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings起初的异样,是家里的猫不让抱了。林秋石发现周围的一切都开始变得充满了不协调感。然后某一天,当他推开家中的门,却发现熟悉的楼道变成了长长的走廊。走廊的两头,是十二扇一模一样的铁门。故事由此开始。阮南烛对林秋石说,当你凝视深渊时,深渊也在凝视着你。林秋石听后陷入沉思,然后对着深渊拉下了裤子拉链……阮南烛:“……你把裤子给我好好穿上!”不皮会死病娇攻X一起皮的沉稳受,双皮奶组合,灵异风格升级流。"Kaleidoscope of Death"It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it... -
Soul of the Sentinel by E.E. Holmes
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA mysterious mark, an ancient spirit, and a message from beyond the Aether… After uncovering and destroying a Necromancer plot to take over Skye Príosún, Jess and Finn are united at last and longing to move on with their life together. But the Durupinen world has other plans... -
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Judgment by Delta James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLars Jakobsson, the leader of the Berserker Syndicate controls everything. He is also my only hope.LarsRhys Donovan is mine. The moment I laid eyes on her she became my obsession. We had one fabulous night together before she disappeared from my bed. In the end, she’ll come to me because I marked her and started her transition. And when she does, I’ll demand judgment... -
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four by Jack Townsend
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the new owner of the worst business in history, Jack has a lot on his plate. His self-appointed “biggest fan” wants to finally meet, and won’t take no for an answer. The annoying cultists are back and cultier than ever. Plus, there’s a creature living under the building's crawlspace that must be fed regularly (or else)... -
A Broken Contract by Vanessa Nelson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA promise broken. Her future torn up. But she still has a job to do.Betrayed by her blood family, all Hallie's plans for her future are in ruins. She has no time to lick her wounds as Special Investigator Girard wants her help looking for some members of the elite who have gone missing in Hallie's territory... -
Blackout by Mira Grant
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant — a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all.The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039... -
Hydrous by Amara Rae
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA witch with the gift of water. A fae bred in duty. An immortal world on the brink.NaiyaI’m supposed to lead my coven… but I don’t think there’s anything I can do to stop the vicious wave from crashing down on us. We have enemies on all fronts, including among our own kind, because our mothers mated with other immortals... -
Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’ and Dear Sweet Pea comes a hilarious and spooky middle grade summer-camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp.Magnolia “Maggie” Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight...if she can just get over her stage fright... -
Feed by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsThe year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED...Categorized as:
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The Helios Syndrome by Vivian Shaw
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Devin Stacy, a freelance necromancer, though the National Transportation Safety Board considers him an insightful contingency communication specialist, investigates a plane gone missing under weird circumstances, he finds himself haunted by a dead pilot... -
Beholder by Ryan La Sala
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us"A top-notch horror novel." - Publishers Weekly Starred Review"Ryan La Sala is one of the most exciting, risk-taking authors working in YA. BEHOLDER is, like THE HONEYS, a high-wire act of brilliant invention... -
The Monkey's Paw by Diane Mowat, W.W. Jacobs
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWithout, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire... -
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Dread Wood by Jennifer Killick
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s GoosebumpsIt's basically the worst school detention ever. When classmates (but not mate-mates) Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to school on a SATURDAY, they think things can’t get much worse. But they’re wrong. Things are about to get seriously scary...Categorized as:
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Small Town Monsters by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVera Martinez wants nothing more than to escape Roaring Creek and her parents' reputation as demonologists. Not to mention she's the family outcast, lacking her parents' innate abilities, and is terrified of the occult things lurking in their basement.Maxwell Oliver is supposed to be enjoying the summer before his senior year, spending his days thinking about parties and friends... -
Exposure by Ramona Emerson
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the follow-up to the National Book Award–longlisted Shutter, Navajo forensic photographer Rita Todacheene grapples with a fanatical serial killer—and the ghosts he leaves behind... -
It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic thriller.Shy high school junior Riley Kowalski is spending her winter break on a research trip to Antarctica, sponsored by one of the world’s biggest tech companies... -
Out to Get You: 13 Tales of Weirdness and Woe by Josh Allen
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThirteen ordinary kids. Thirteen ordinary towns. Danger lurks around every corner!Wonderful and weird, compelling and unsettling. - Gary Schmidt, two-time Newbery Honor authorGet ready for a collection of thirteen short stories that will chill your bones, tingle your spine, and scare your pants off. Debut author Josh Allen masterfully concocts horror in the most innocent places, like R.L... -
Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New York Times ), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky... -
Old Soul by Susan Barker
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they’ve both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since...Categorized as:
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The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, one living—hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross and Lucy A. Snyder.Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries—one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living... -
Hatchet Girls by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of Kara Thomas and Courtney Summers comes a supernatural horror that reminds us family can be our saving grace--or our biggest curse. Set one-hundred years after the Borden murders, this propulsive thriller imagines what a similar trial might look like today.When the parents of the richest family in Fall River are found murdered by axe, the town is quick to blame newcomer Vik... -
The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones, Isabella Star LaBlanc
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOnly on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw... -
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The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsReality and imagination collide when an expert puzzle-maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this fantastical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of AngelologyAll the world is a puzzle, and Mike Brink—a celebrated and ingenious puzzle constructor—understands its patterns like no one else... -
In Bloom by Paul Tremblay
Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThere’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Beast You Are. Journalist Heidi Cohen is in Cape Cod investigating the sources of recurring toxic algae blooms along the coast. A local named Jimmy has his own theory for her... -
Dandadan, Vol. 5 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his “family jewel,” so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they’ll believe in and what they won’t... -
Guardian: Zhen Hun, Vol. 1 by Priest
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsZhao Yunlan is Chief of the Special Investigations Department: a secret group of uniquely skilled individuals who investigate strange happenings in modern-day Dragon City. Although laid-back and cheeky to those who don't know him, this tenacious and cunning man fits well into his role of the Guardian... -
Dandadan, Vol. 12 by Yukinobu Tatsu, 龍幸伸
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his “family jewel,” so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they’ll believe in and what they won’t... -
[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 8 by Aka Akasaka, 赤坂アカ
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter a major revelation, the flames of vengeance have died down in Aqua’s heart. At the same time, B Komachi is set to have their first music video (and boost their YouTube channel). Aqua is also headed to a vacation with the cast of the 2...
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