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  • The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    The One Who Eats Monsters by Casey Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Long ago, before history broke in half, elder gods exiled the vengeful deity Erynis to a far corner of Earth. When Ryn is found weakened after saving the life of an innocent villager, the U.S. military mistakes the battered immortal for a feral teenager and places her in New Petersburg, a decaying city full of monsters...
  • Morning Trap by Vanessa Nelson

    Morning Trap by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beneath the unrelenting sun of Accanter's summer, an ugly conspiracy is underway.A desperate mother asks Watch Officer Thea March for help. Her daughter has gone missing. No one else at Thea's Watch Station will help the mother.More bad news follows when a body is found. A young man who had gone missing some time before and whose death her superior officer wants to write off as natural causes...
  • Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Crowbones by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this engrossing and gripping fantasy set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, an inn owner and her friends must find a killer-before it's too late...
  • H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection with Accompanying Facts by H.P. Lovecraft

    H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection with Accompanying Facts by H.P. Lovecraft

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection. Classed as one of the greatest American horror fiction writers of our time, you can now have H.P Lovecraft's work all in one kindle download (with easy navigation). Over 2,000 kindle pages long! (2,195) 62 Short Stories and 5 Novellas. This collection is unabridged, and appears as he first intended it. (And how the editors at the time first published it)...
  • Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two by Jack Townsend

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nightshift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an annoying new dayshift manager is far from the worst of his problems...
  • Assassin's Noon by Vanessa Nelson

    Assassin's Noon by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One dead man. A fortified house full of innocent people.One of the city's wealthiest and most powerful residents is found dead in his own home. Murder is suspected, but the house was supposed to be absolutely secure against any intruder. Thea is faced with a hostile group of household servants inside the house and demands for swift justice outside its walls...
  • Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

    Bloodline by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal murderer strikes, leaving Whyborne and his lover Griffin no choice but to take the case...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Only Ashes Remain by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market.There’s only one way to keep herself safe...
  • Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    an alternate cover edition can be found hereIntroverted scholar Percival Endicott Whyborne has spent the last few months watching his lover, Griffin Flaherty, come to terms with the rejection of his adoptive family. So when an urgent telegram from Christine summons them to Egypt, Whyborne is reluctant to risk the fragile peace they’ve established...
  • When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer

    When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Dexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who is determined to take down the black market once and for all in the conclusion to the trilogy that started with the critically acclaimed Not Even Bones.Nita finally has Fabricio, the boy who betrayed her to the black market, within her grasp...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    lgbtq  dark  paranormal  romance  sci-fi  mystery  time-travel  mlm
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Kate Harker isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.August Flynn once yearned to be human. But no longer. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.The war has begun.The monsters are winning.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Monster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they’ve got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert...
  • Gargantis by Thomas Taylor

    Gargantis by Thomas Taylor

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the second fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea, Herbert and Violet team up to solve the mystery of the Gargantis — an ancient creature of the deep with the power to create life-threatening storms.There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause...
  • This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    This Book Is Full of Spiders by David Wong, Jason Pargin

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Originally released as an online serial where itreceivedmore than 70,000 downloads,John Dies at the End has been described as a"Horrortacular", an epic of "spectacular" horror that combines the laugh out loud humor of the best R-rated comedy, with the darkest terror of H.P. Lovecraft. The book went on to sell an additional60,000 copies in all formats...
  • The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco

    The Shadowglass by Rin Chupeco

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    In the highly anticipated finale to the Bone Witch trilogy, Tea’s life—and the fate of the kingdoms—hangs in the balance Tea is a bone witch with the dark magic needed to raise the dead. She has used this magic to breathe life into those she has loved and lost…and those who would join her army against the deceitful royals...
  • The Spook's Mistake by Joseph Delaney

    The Spook's Mistake by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As danger increases in the County, Tom is sent far north by his master to be trained by Bill Arkwright, another Spook. Arkwright lives in a haunted mill on the edge of a treacherous marsh and his training methods prove to be harsh and sometimes cruel. But he has toughened up many previous apprentices and now he must do the same for Tom and prepare him for the gravest dangers of his life...
  • The Spook's Sacrifice by Joseph Delaney

    The Spook's Sacrifice by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    As the Spook's apprentice Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most dangerous of the old gods, the Ordeen, is about to return there, bringing slaughter and devastation. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is still loose and if he and the Ordeen join forces, a new age of darkness will descend...
  • The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

    The Heart Forger by Rin Chupeco

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In The Bone Witch, Tea mastered resurrection―now she's after revenge...No one knows death like Tea. A bone witch who can resurrect the dead, she has the power to take life...and return it. And she is done with her self-imposed exile. Her heart is set on vengeance, and she now possesses all she needs to command the mighty daeva...
  • Attack of the Fiend by Joseph Delaney

    Attack of the Fiend by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    "I see your future clearly. Your master will be dead, and you will be alone. It would be better if you had never been born."Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who banishes boggarts and drives away ghosts. But now a new danger is threatening Tom's world. The witches are rising and the three most powerful clans are uniting in order to conjure an unimaginable evil...
  • Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper

    Among Gods and Monsters by S.D. Simper

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    "Look at you, as sweet as springtime, your heart and soul both. Would you destroy all of that to bring about your lost love's return?" The dead lay gone but not forgotten. War has sparked in the demonic realm of Sha’Demoni, ignited by the wrath of a vengeful goddess seeking recompense for her daughter’s death – and she deems Flowridia responsible...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Beware the darkness and the light.They will steal your soul in day or night.In summer's warmth or winter's coldYour life will end when the Vours take hold.In the fearscape no one can hear you cry,And in its depth your soul will die.Reggie Halloway thought she was finished with the Vours - the demons who had possessed her brother, Henry - forever...
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    dark  magic  paranormal  action-adventure  book  death  demons  family
  • Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Our Dark Duet by Victoria E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.KATE HARKER isn't afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she's good at it.AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.THE WAR HAS BEGUN.THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in...
  • Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Cloaked by Vanessa Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world itself in peril. Arrow’s sleep is being disturbed by nightmares that she cannot remember when awake. Her days are spent trying to build her new, simple, life in the human world and helping the shape-changers track down the last conspirators that tried to destroy the Erith. But the Erith want her help one last time...
  • The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change...
  • The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  spooky  dark  horror  fiction  suspense  mystery  animals
  • Slashback by Rob Thurman

    Slashback by Rob Thurman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    I stopped and let them circle me, first because it was intriguing and, second, because, honestly, what could they do? Only knives, but all armed, and that made them even more interesting. Interesting. Fun.Playtime…Taking on bloodthirsty supernatural monsters is how Caliban and Niko Leandros make a living...
  • Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire

    Imaginary Numbers by Seanan McGuire

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The ninth book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.Sarah Zellaby has always been in an interesting position...
  • House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    House of Secrets by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sophie and Joseph’s escape from Northwood is short-lived. The beast survived, and attached itself to Joseph’s young cousin, Elise. Garrett writes to beg for their help. Joseph and Sophie travel to meet him at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town.The house offers a small hope: its original owner had dedicated her life to researching the monster that possesses Elise...
  • Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney

    Night of the Soul Stealer by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke.Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected visitor...
  • A New Darkness by Joseph Delaney

    A New Darkness by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A chilling new trilogy from the author of the internationally bestselling The Last Apprentice series! Tom Ward is an apprentice no longer—now he is a fully fledged spook battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. This three-book arc will introduce brand-new readers to Joseph Delaney’s haunting world, and delight longtime fans...
  • The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey

    The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiancé to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, and which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness...
  • Curse of the Bane by Joseph Delaney

    Curse of the Bane by Joseph Delaney

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, deal with the dark. Together they rid the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts. But now there's some unfinished business to attend to in Priestown...
  • Smoke on the Water by Craig Halloran

    Smoke on the Water by Craig Halloran

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The unexpected never rests … Now that she's no longer an FBI agent, Sidney is restless. She drops Megan off at Grandma and Grandpa's so she can have some adult time, and then she goes to the shooting range. An old guy called Big Jake out-shoots her and then saves Sid from two huge goons who smell like the Drake. And then Big Jake turns up dead...
  • The Source of Magic by Marisa Mills, Drake Mason

    The Source of Magic by Marisa Mills, Drake Mason

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I can speak to demons. The punishment is death. The mission: put on a dress, pretend to be a lady, and infiltrate the academy of mages to steal a journal from the forbidden archives. The problem: I’m no mage and I’ve never worn a dress in my life. But it’s not like I have a choice...
  • The Teras Trials by Lucien Burr

    The Teras Trials by Lucien Burr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teras ravage England. Only London is safe. In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards. Cassius Jones is nineteen and ready for the University...
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    lgbtq  dark  magic  paranormal  romance  fantasy  horror  gothic
  • imPerfect Magic by C.N. Rowan

    imPerfect Magic by C.N. Rowan

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After hundreds of years of dying, you'd think I would've perfected it by now... One moment I'm a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated...The next, I'm waking up in the nearest corpse. Stuck in a cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny.Fast forward eight hundred years, and you might think I’ve learned a thing or two. Nope...
  • In the Blood by Nancy A. Collins

    In the Blood by Nancy A. Collins

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vampire and vampire-hunter Sonja Blue is back, taking out her rage on the demonic blood-drinkers who hide among the living. But her hunt is attracting attention: Morgan, the monster who remade her 20 years ago wants to bring his beloved daughter to heel, and Sonja has found her existence entwined with that of a mortal man...
  • The Stone Child by Dan Poblocki

    The Stone Child by Dan Poblocki

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What if the monsters from your favorite horror books were real?Eddie Fennicks has always been a loner, content to lose himself in a mystery novel by his favorite author, Nathaniel Olmstead. That’s why moving to the small town of Gatesweed becomes a dream come true when Eddie discovers that Olmstead lived there before mysteriously disappearing thirteen years ago...
  • Eidolon by Jordan L. Hawk

    Eidolon by Jordan L. Hawk

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Griffin Flaherty wants nothing more than to create a perfect Valentine’s Day for his lover, Dr. Percival Endicott Whyborne. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, an evening at the theater, and a romantic interlude at home should do the trick. But a new client with an urgent case puts Griffin’s plans in jeopardy...
  • It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

    It Devours! by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God...
  • Demon Road by Derek Landy

    Demon Road by Derek Landy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant.Full of Landy’s trademark wit, action and razor-sharp dialogue, DEMON ROAD kicks off with a shocking opener and never lets up the pace in an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America...
  • The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith

    The Spook's Tale and Other Horrors by Joseph Delaney, Patrick Arrasmith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This is 3 stories inside, one about Alice and grimmalkin and those two that hav been published with 3 additional stories in the stort story collection as Spooks`s Stories witches (uk) or A Coven of witches (us) but with the additions World book day story Spooks`s tale included in this edition.The Last Apprentice series follows the terrifying adventures of the Spook's apprentice, Thomas Ward...
  • The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala

    The Dead of Summer by Ryan La Sala

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Stephen King meets Holly Jackson by way of We Were Liars in this action-packed story of queer horror from the acclaimed author of The Honeys!Two days before...Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor's Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer...
  • Charmed and Dangerous by Jordan Castillo Price, Rhys Ford

    Charmed and Dangerous by Jordan Castillo Price, Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you’ll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection—not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors...
  • October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween by Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish

    October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween by Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala * Steve Rasnic Tem * Elizabeth Engstrom * Thomas Ligotti * Gary A. Braunbeck * Jack Ketchum * Thomas F. Monteleone * Hugh B...
  • Black House by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Black House by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI...
  • Signatures of the Dead by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam

    Signatures of the Dead by Faith Hunter, Khristine Hvam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jane Yellowrock, her best friend Molly Trueblood, an earth witch, police detective Paul "Brax" Braxton, and Molly's husband Evan go after a blood-family of rogue-vampires who killed a local family.(In the anthologies Strange Brew, Have Stakes, Will Travel, and Cat o'Nine Tales...
  • 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...
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