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The Black Farm Elias Witherow · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Horror with this book.

The House on Hollow Hill

The House on Hollow Hill Cheryl Bradshaw It's Albert Sinclair's 80th birthday, and his family has gathered to celebrate at his home on Hollow Hill. But as the last guest arrives, a flash flood warning cuts across the evening news, urging residents to stay inside and off the roads.With the storm closing in, dinner begins. The wine flows, and conversation drifts from one topic to the next. And then, without warning, Albert chokes.… Shares Horror

Coffin Moon Keith Rosson “This is mind-blowingly good. A horror novel that will keep you awake long after you turn the last page.”—Stephen KingFrom the author of Fever House and The Devil by Name: a Vietnam veteran and his adopted niece hunt—and are hunted by—the vampire that slaughtered their family.“Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t relent.”—Cassandra Khaw, author of Nothing But Blackened TeethA VULTURE BEST BOOK OF… Shares Horror

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Anthology of Short Stories, is the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story anthology, consisting of such classics as "Tell-Tale Heart", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in Rue Morgue", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and many more, 68 classic short stories in all. Poe is oft given credit for fathering the Gothic fiction story, as well as the modern detective… Shares Horror

Carrie Stephen King & Margaret Atwood #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • New Original series from visionary showrunner Mike Flanagan coming soon to Prime Video. • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • “Stephen King’s first novel changed the trajectory of horror fiction forever” (Esquire) with a chilling vision of a world where bullies rule—and one girl’s secret power turns her into a weapon of terror.“A… Shares Horror

The Devouring Deep

The Devouring Deep Phil Morrison Shares Horror with this book.

Perfect Nightmare

Perfect Nightmare John Saul If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom. Now, ponder the unthinkable and surrender to your darkest dread, as sinister storyteller extraordinaire John Saul weaves a heart-stopping tale of lurking terror and twisted intent. Every parent’s nightmare becomes reality for Kara Marshall when her daughter, Lindsay, vanishes from her… Shares Horror

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, originally published in his 1982 collection Different Seasons and adapted into the 1994 film classic The Shawshank Redemption, now available as a stand-alone edition.In the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo, new and established… Shares Horror

Basilosaurus Rising

Basilosaurus Rising Jonathan Kessler Shares Horror with this book.

Our Share of Night

Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell & Pablo Gerardo Camacho “A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)The Quietus’s #1 Work of Horror Fiction of the 21st Century So Far One of Reactor Magazine’s Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st CenturyOne of Collider’s Ten Best Horror Books of All TimeONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN… Shares Horror

Reliquary Hannah Whitten Shares Horror with this book.

Pet Sematary Stephen King Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller is a “wild, powerful, disturbing” (The Washington Post Book World) classic about evil that exists far beyond the grave—among his most iconic and frightening novels.When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow’s tranquility, an… Shares Horror

The Unheld Luke Larkin Shares Horror with this book.

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Theophile Gautier, Richard Marsh, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Fitz-James O'Brien, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Bronte, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Anna Katharine Green, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, H.G. Wells, W. W. Jacobs, Robert Hugh Benson & Gaston Leroux Shares Horror with this book.

Necroscope I: Necroscope

Necroscope I: Necroscope Brian Lumley Twenty years ago, the horror world was forever altered by the publication of Necroscope. An instant classic, Brian Lumley's astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has explored and expanded through more that a baker's dozen of novels and novellas. Millions of copies of Necroscope and its successors are in print in a dozen languages throughout the world. Nominated for… Shares Horror

Widow's Point Richard Chizmar & W.H. Chizmar New York Times bestselling author Richard Chizmar, “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste), and his son W.H. Chizmar, critically acclaimed author of Them (hailed by New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman as “one of the best debuts I’ve ever read”) present a riveting found footage narrative about doomed thrill-seekers trapped in a haunted lighthouse.“This is a bad place. I don’t… Shares Horror

When the Wolf Comes Home

When the Wolf Comes Home Nat Cassidy · 2025 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them—the boy can turn his… Shares Horror

We Live Here Now

We Live Here Now Sarah Pinborough Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something… Shares Horror

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