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Penpal Dathan Auerbach In an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable horror that he never could have expected.  Each chapter completes a different piece of the puzzle for both you and the narrator, and by the end… Shares Horror

The Hour Before Dark

The Hour Before Dark Douglas Clegg · 2002 · 370p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "When Nemo Raglan's father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo must return to the New England island he thought he had escaped for good, Burnley Island and the shadowy farmhouse called Hawthorn. But this murder was no crime of human ferocity."--Jacket. Shares Horror

Notes on an Execution

Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)"A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit… Shares Horror

Voices in the Snow

Voices in the Snow Darcy Coates Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed… Shares Horror

The Haunting of Ashburn House

The Haunting of Ashburn House Darcy Coates · 2019 · ★ 3.9 Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and restless ghosts still walk the halls. They say it's the dwelling place of something cruel and sinister. But when Adrienne―desperate and in need of a place to stay―inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline... until darkness falls. Strange messages are etched into the walls. Furniture moves when… Shares Horror

Piñata Leopoldo Gout · 2022 · ★ 4.1 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Goût.It was supposed to be the perfect summer.Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance 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

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 House on Bleakmoor Hill

The House on Bleakmoor Hill Cheryl Bradshaw For decades, reporters have chased James Holloway for answers about his best friend, convicted serial killer Calvin Rook.Rook died on death row, taking his secrets with him. The most haunting question remains: where are the bodies of the women who were never found?Now, at ninety-two, James is ready to talk. For the first time, he's prepared to reveal the truth about Calvin's life and what really… Shares Horror

The Devil Knows Her Name

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Little Heaven Nick Cutter “Beautifully written—menace drips from every page.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling authorA “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep!A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue, Minerva Atwater, and Ebenzer Elkins, colloquially known as “the Englishman”—is hired by young Ellen Bellhaven for a… Shares Horror

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Stephen Graham Jones, the master of modern horror and New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, a novel of revenge and identity hailed by Stephen King as “thrilling, literate, scary, immersive” that is equal parts psychological horror and cutting sociopolitical commentary about the American Indian experience. From New York Times bestselling… Shares Horror

The Regulators Stephen King Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying New York Times bestseller about those caught between the surreal forces of good versus evil in a Midwestern horror setting—a suburban nightmare story in the fictional town of Wentworth, Ohio.The red van rolls past…humming and glinting.…Things are happening fast now, although no one on Poplar Street realizes it yet.It’s a gorgeous… Shares Horror

Craven Manor Darcy Coates Daniel is desperate for a fresh start. So when a mysterious figure slides a note under his door offering the position of groundskeeper at an ancient estate, he leaps at the chance, even though it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The abandoned mansion is straight out of those old gothic mysteries: the front door hangs open, and leaves and… Shares Horror

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans Greg Cox The official movie novelization of the latest film in the blockbuster action/horror movie series, Underworld—coming to theaters in January 2009 from Sony Pictures! Centuries ago...two ageless and terrifying races—the aristocratic vampires and the feral lycans—are bound by a cruel, ancestral relationship between master and servant, and eternally separated by the ongoing, violent rivalry between… Shares Horror

Weird Horror 13

Weird Horror 13 Undertow Publications Shares Horror with this book.

Black House Stephen King From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have… Shares Horror

We Turn Gruesome At Night

We Turn Gruesome At Night Eric LaRocca Shares Horror with this book.

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