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  • The Crane Diaries: Homecoming by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: Homecoming by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New Orleans is a city known for its paranormal history—and it’s the place Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has come home to. She hopes she can start over in New Orleans, where her ability to see ghosts isn't so freaky...
  • The Crane Diaries: The Red Church by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: The Red Church by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the swamps of New Orleans sits an old church. Its history is steeped in blood and death. For over a century, this abandoned church has inspired fear, and the rumors of the creatures that inhabit it have kept the locals away. The church has been sold, but work on the property has stalled...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  friendship  horror
  • The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: Stained by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I Am Death. I Am Darkness. I Am Creation. These are the simple truths Emma Rose Crane, AKA Mattie Hathaway, has run from for the last two years, but the situation she finds herself in will not let her flee her past anymore. It’s barreling toward her at the speed of a bullet. Mattie finds herself back in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the trial of Dan’s mother...
  • Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    Grave Mistake by Nikki Landis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes vengeance isn't enough.There are times when a man is forced to choose the wrong side of the law.When everything is stripped away and ruthless, cold revenge is all that remains.They call me Wraith for a reason.When people need to disappear, I'm the one that's called in.I move through the shadows and strike without mercy...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  dark  suspense  ghosts  romance  contemporary  biker  crime
  • Sisters of Mercy: Spookshow 8 by Tim McGregor

    Sisters of Mercy: Spookshow 8 by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Embarking on a new chapter in life, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper, works overtime to open her own bar. Excited at the prospect of her new business, she's also well aware that most bars fail in their first six months. There's no margin for error here. Across town, Detective Mockler, investigates two gruesome homicides linked to an alleged curse that mimics the signs of the stigmata...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction
  • The Haunting of Silver Creek Lodge by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Silver Creek Lodge by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a small town rests an old lodge with a big secret. Maxine Finch and Simon York, a recently married couple with little money, use their limited honeymoon funds to buy a foreclosed inn in the tiny snowy town of Silver Ridge, Colorado, but when strange things start happening in the middle of the night, Maxine and Simon wonder if their investment is a dangerous mistake...
  • Fire Devil by J.L. Bryan

    Fire Devil by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ellie's pursuit of a possessed friend and her own worst enemy takes her across the United States into forgotten corners of the countryside through haunted hotels, ghost towns, and strange highways, and toward the site of a horrific fire haunted by hundreds of spirits...
  • Legion by Shani Struthers

    Legion by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legion is the sixth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!What if evil won't let go?Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Eternal Maze PEEPs Lite 3.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Eternal Maze PEEPs Lite 3.1 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PEEPs Lite – more story, less filling. Plagued with my characters’ constant chatter in my head, I’ve decided to tell a few stories in between the novels of the Haunted series. Each novella will deal with one haunt investigated by the PEEPs (Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners) team with Mia and Murphy along for the ride. The novellas start after "Sand Trap," the third book in the series...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Homecoming PEEPs 3.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Homecoming PEEPs 3.2 by Alexie Aaron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mike, the face of Paranormal Entity Exposure Partners (PEEPs) has led with his Hollywood jaw, projecting his good looks, while hiding a very important secret from his colleagues. He’s been haunted since he was a child. This may have been the impetus behind him co-founding PEEPs, but it has also kept him from enjoying a good night’s sleep...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • The Housekeeper: A Christmas Ghost Story by Leona Grace

    The Housekeeper: A Christmas Ghost Story by Leona Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With only a few days left before Christmas, Fiona Cameron prepares to leave Fitzwilliam Hall for the last time. All hope of staying in her childhood home are gone, as are the chances of finding the one man who could have saved the Hall...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  book  fiction
  • The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene, Keith Minnion

    The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene, Keith Minnion

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Girl on the Glider is Brian Keene's take on the traditional, old-fashioned ghost story. This might be Keene's most personal — and powerful — work to date. This book is a must-have for every Keene fan, along with fans of classic horror tales told with a new twist...
  • The Haunting of University Park by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of University Park by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jamie Layton has a secret.Running from her past, Jamie Layton takes a new job as a nanny to two volatile, rebellious children at a stately mansion in a reclusive area of town. Rumors fly about the mysterious death of the children’s father, and when strange things happen at night, Jamie and the children must confront the horrors that haunt the house...
  • The Monster Museum by J.L. Bryan

    The Monster Museum by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just outside the small but colorful mountain resort town of Foxboro, Tennessee lies Dr. Weirdman's Mountain Museum of Monsters, Curiosities, and Ancient Mysteries. A tourist draw for earlier generations it offered travelers the amusement of touring unusual underground caves, and pseudo-scientific exhibits ranging from strange creatures to the supposed artifacts of lost civilizations...
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    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Halloween 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...
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    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  demons
  • Haunted: End of Days by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: End of Days by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The final book in the Haunted saga.Sarah Pearson has returned home. Back to the place it all started for her. There… the darkness waits, intending to use her to usher in the End of Days.And it succeeds.While the world falls into chaos and the dead start to walk the earth, David Ritter, Reverend Quinn, and Ralph Cobin face a race against time to pull the world back from the brink...
  • Mother Death by Lee Mountford

    Mother Death by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ‘They struggle and plead and take their last breath, with that horrible old lady: Mother Death, Mother Death.’One of the most famous hauntings in British history took place at a house on South Hill Estate. There, the spirit of Mary Kane was said to have returned from the grave in search of more children.But that was a long time ago. No further activity has been reported since the 1980s… until now...
  • Bones by Andrew Cull

    Bones by Andrew Cull

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    'Bones' brings together four chilling ghost stories by award winning writer-director Andrew Cull. Four monsters collected in paperback for the first time. 'Did You Forget About Me?'"He had written to me a month or so before he died. I'd ignored the letter the same way I'd ignored all the others...
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • By the Light of His Lantern: A Novel by Abe Moss

    By the Light of His Lantern: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A nightmarish tale of revenge, anguish, and human connection, BY THE LIGHT OF HIS LANTERN is thrilling, chilling, and heartfelt in equal measure... Naked in the sand, Lewis coughs seawater from his lungs. Disoriented, he blinks his eyes, rubs them for good measure, but the result is the same. The sky is as black as the beach below it. In this place, the sun and moon and stars are long dead...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon

    Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What secrets lie hidden beyond the City of the Blind? Far beneath the streets of Briar Hills lies an enormous temple of stone. Ancient secrets are buried within its walls…along with countless and unspeakable horrors. Now the time has come for the temple to finally fulfill its awesome purpose...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke

    Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In his confession, Ben McCloud told Detective Chief Inspector John Walker about the four murders that took place at Black Hill Farm. But what about the others? There are two sides to every story and this is Andy’s. 'Andy's Diary' the second book in the paranormal romance series: ‘Black Hill Farm’. For young adults aged 16 years and over...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now the prime suspect in a high-profile murder investigation, Abby Craig flees the only place she has ever called home and is forced to live on the run as a fugitive in the shadows of the American Southwest.But Abby soon discovers that she isn't alone. A mysterious stranger is plaguing her every step. A stranger with a dark past who has plans for her...
  • The Roses of Mobile by M.L. Bullock

    The Roses of Mobile by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carrie Jo returns to Seven Sisters but the happy homecoming is short-lived. The spiritual atmosphere has shifted and the dream catcher quickly discovers that all is not well. As Carrie Jo's dream catching gift becomes much more complicated, she makes mistakes...and some of them trigger a cascade of unhappy events...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  historical  horror
  • Katarina by Sue Fineman

    Katarina by Sue Fineman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three psychic sisters taken from their abusive mother as children reunite at their grandmother’s funeral. They inherit the family fortune, including the old mansion on the river in Florida. The estate called River Oaks is haunted by the ghosts of ancestors and family slaves. Katarina, a teacher, lived on a ranch in Arizona...
  • The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock

    The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Summerleigh's Renovations Aren't Making Every One Happy Will the ghost of Mariane McIntyre scare everyone away? A flurry of appearances by the long-dead Lady In White prompts Jerica and Jesse to get to the bottom of her murder...
  • The Haunting of Grant Mansion by Marie Wilkens

    The Haunting of Grant Mansion by Marie Wilkens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

    Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth...
  • The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the banks of the Skeleton River in a remote part of North Carolina lies the small town of Starlight. Once known for its tobacco fields and rural charm, Starlight has seen better days. Now most of the stores on Main Street are boarded up, and many of the residents have left town for good...
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    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gothic
  • Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A short story (apprx. 10,000 words) in which Angela Hawkins and Jackson Crow are called upon to help a friend in need . . .Strange baskets are arriving on Eliza Andrews' doorstep and a strange face is appearing in her window...
  • Haunted: Catacombs by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: Catacombs by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the heart of the catacombs, evil stirs.Sarah Pearson is lured into the eerie depths of the Paris Catacombs after seeing an unsettling video. On it, the ghostly appearance of an old friend beckons her into the darkness. But the Catacombs hold more secrets than Sarah anticipates, and the shadows within are not all from the dead...
  • Possession by Lee Mountford

    Possession by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A haunted cathedral. A possessed priest.Sarah Pearson and her team are sent on their first assignment together—to investigate a case of possession in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.Father Hus, a respected priest, has reportedly succumbed to possession from a supernatural entity. On top of that, there are stories of a ghostly and bloody monk wandering the halls at night...
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    paranormal  dark  hauntings  ghosts  suspense  horror  fiction  demons
  • Haunted: Hotel by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: Hotel by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    David Ritter and Reverend Rachel Quinn are on a mission to save their dear friend, Sarah Pearson, from the forces of evil. Their information leads them to the long-abandoned Hillside Hotel. Imprisoned within the crumbling walls of the hotel, Sarah must hold out against chilling spectres and a demonic presence that feeds on fear. If she succumbs to them, the prophecy will be fulfilled...
  • The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He'll never let go...Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace...
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    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  gothic
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Baba Lenka: Pure Occult Horror by S.E. England, Sarah E. England

    Baba Lenka: Pure Occult Horror by S.E. England, Sarah E. England

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1970, and Baba Lenka begins in an icy Bavarian village with a highly unorthodox funeral. The deceased is Baba Lenka, great-grandmother to Eva Hart. But a terrible thing happens at the funeral, and from that moment on everything changes for seven year old Eva. The family fly back to Yorkshire but it seems the cold Alpine winds have followed them home...and the ghost of Baba Lenka has followed Eva...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Nemesis: The Death of Timmy Quinn by Kealan Patrick Burke

    Nemesis: The Death of Timmy Quinn by Kealan Patrick Burke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "We no longer need the sun to cast our shadows, for we have become them."For over twenty years Tim Quinn has lived in the shadow of death. Now, the Curtain has come down and the dead no longer need him to facilitate their vengeance...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • Winthrop House by Ambrose Ibsen

    Winthrop House by Ambrose Ibsen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "They say the Jackal Man lives in that house..." Months after a family is forced to flee the beachfront property on 100 Winthrop Road, three young travelers lost outside of Cutler, Maine find themselves taking shelter in it. Strapped for cash, the three of them spend a night in the house, wondering why the lovely old building has been left abandoned. They don't have to wonder for long...
  • The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross

    The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Lonnie James has gone missing. Only one man remembers that he ever existed in the first place.After launching a huge manhunt to find the missing boy, Sheriff Tom Curtis is shocked when everyone quickly forgets who they're looking for. Even Lonnie's parents suddenly have no idea that had a son...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • The Haunted Gathering by Michelle Dorey

    The Haunted Gathering by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From bestselling author Michelle Dorey, a new episode of ‘The Haunted Ones’, spine chilling tales of ordinary people confronting unspeakable evilOn their annual girls’ weekend three friends gather for a macabre reunion in this chilling tale of ghosts, hauntings and the occult...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon

    The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Albert Cross emerges from the terrifying labyrinths of the Temple of the Blind with a broken arm and a burdened heart, only to discover that he and his friends must now climb to the summit of a mountain engulfed in fire...
  • The Haunting of The Briar Rose by Skylar Finn

    The Haunting of The Briar Rose by Skylar Finn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jules is recovering from a recent failure when her mysterious uncle makes her an offer she can’t refuse: restore his bed and breakfast the Briar Rose. When Jules inherits the Briar Rose bed and breakfast from her strange and mysterious uncle, she thinks it will be the opportunity of a lifetime for her and her husband, Paul...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  cozy  fiction
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • An Eye for an Eye: The Doll by John Saul

    An Eye for an Eye: The Doll by John Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The editor of the Blackstone Chronicle, Oliver Metcalf, nervously presides over the ceremony to begin demolition of the old Asylum. But the building's fate hangs in the balance as financing problems halt the project. Contractor Bill McGuire, all set to proceed, can't hide his dismay: with a family and another baby on the way, he can't afford delays...
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  hauntings  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd

    GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Perhaps the scariest book you will ever read.... Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career...
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