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  • 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...
  • Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Lake Silence by Anne Bishop

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In this thrilling and suspenseful fantasy, set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Others series, Vicki DeVine and her lodger, the shapeshifter Aggie Crowe, stumble onto a dead body . . . and find themselves enmeshed in danger and dark secrets.Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly...
  • Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Ghost by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ash Grove is a fine place to die. Blythe has accepted her fate and is tired of running. Who would miss her anyway? She attends her new and eccentric town’s month long Halloween masquerade for one last party before meeting her end. But what will she find...and what will find her? A man in a skeleton mask is watching... and he’s not the only one...
  • The Gulp by Alan Baxter

    The Gulp by Alan Baxter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it. The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there...
  • Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand

    Wolf Hunt 2 by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    George and Lou used to be thugs for hire. Now they're living in a shack in Costa Rica, hiding from the crime lord who wants them dead. Their last job, to deliver him a werewolf in a cage, went...badly. But they can't hide out forever, and when they're finally captured, it seems as if George and Lou's ultimate fate will involve being doused in gasoline and set aflame...
    Categorized as:
    humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  crime  death  fiction
  • Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells

    Nothing Left to Lose by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Dan Wells continues his acclaimed John Wayne Cleaver series, popular with fans of DexterHi. My name is John Cleaver, and I hunt monsters. I used to do it alone, and then for a while I did it with a team of government specialists, and then the monsters found us and killed almost everyone, and now I hunt them alone again.This is my story...
  • Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland

    Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues by Diana Rowland

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Angel Crawford is finally starting to get used to life as a brain-eating zombie, but her problems are far from over. Her felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie hunters are popping up, and she’s beginning to wonder if her hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. Yeah, that’s right—the zombie mafia...
  • Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury

    Hold Back the Tide by Melinda Salisbury

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From internationally bestselling, acclaimed author Melinda Salisbury comes a darkly seductive story of murder, betrayal, love, and family secrets in a small town in the Scottish Highlands.Here are the rules of living with a murderer.One: Do not draw attention to yourself.Of course, when you live with a murderer, this is impossible. Even the subtlest of spectres is bound to be noticed...
  • 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town...
  • Come for a Spell by Kat Blackthorne

    Come for a Spell by Kat Blackthorne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I betrayed my coven for monster lust.I’m a passion witch, he’s an ox-skull demon, can I make it any more obvious? Ok, that’s the shorter version of this quick and dirty tale. The Moon Halo Coven always told me to stay in the light. But being good is so boring and this darkness in the woods pleases me like a champ...
  • White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland, Daniel Dos Santos

    White Trash Zombie Apocalypse by Diana Rowland, Daniel Dos Santos

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Our favorite white trash zombie, Angel Crawford, has enough problems of her own, what with dealing with her alcoholic, deadbeat dad, issues with her not-quite boyfriend, the zombie mafia, industrial espionage and evil corporations. Oh, and it’s raining, and won’t let up...
  • Jillian Cade:  (Fake) Paranormal Investigator by Jen Klein

    Jillian Cade: (Fake) Paranormal Investigator by Jen Klein

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ally Carter’s megabestselling Gallagher Girls series meets Veronica Mars with a paranormal twist when Jillian Cade’s (fake!) private eye service unearths far more than she bargained for. Jillian Cade doesn’t believe in the paranormal, unlike her famous father, a professor and expert on the occult...
    Categorized as:
    humor  book  comedy  contemporary  demons  fiction  high-school  horror
  • Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

    Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Zora Novak has been framed.When someone burns down the home of the school janitor and he dies in the blaze, everyone in Addamsville, Indiana, points a finger at Zora. Never mind that Zora has been on the straight and narrow since her father was thrown in jail. With everyone looking for evidence against her, her only choice is to uncover the identity of the real killer...
  • The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex

    The Vampire of Ropraz by Jacques Chessex

    Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Silky prose in this harrowing account of crime and punishment.”—Kirkus Reviews“Using spare, effective prose, Chessex brilliantly renders both the inhospitable winter landscape of the mountains and the harshness of a society that makes monsters of its victims...
    Categorized as:
    vampires  20th-century  abuse  adult  book  cannibalism  crime  fiction
  • Puerta al Infierno by Stefan Kiesbye

    Puerta al Infierno by Stefan Kiesbye

    Rated: 3.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Shirley Jackson meets The X-Files in this riveting novel of supernatural horrorThe village of Hemmersmoor is a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition: There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention...
  • 30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 by Steve Niles

    30 Days of Night, Vol. 1 by Steve Niles

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The only hope for the town is the Sheriff and Deputy, husband and wife who are torn between their own survival and saving the town they love...
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