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At Dark, I Become Loathsome

At Dark, I Become Loathsome Eric LaRocca · 2025 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares American literature, Horror with this book.

Come With Me Ronald Malfi · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee."Malfi is a modern-day Algernon Blackwood... I'm gonna be talking about this book for years"JOSH MALERMAN, author of Bird Box Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence—and her ghost—Aaron goes through her belongings, where… Shares American literature, Horror

Fever House Keith Rosson · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set… Shares American literature, Horror

The Cipher Kathe Koja · 1991 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook. Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the… Shares American literature, Horror

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction H. P. Lovecraft · 2011 · ★ 4.3 · 1104p · ≈ 36h · Moderate A collection of Lovecraft's published works written between 1917 and 1935. Also includes an introduction, juvenilia, and an essay on the genre. Shares American literature, Horror

Immaculate Conception

Immaculate Conception Ling Ling Huang · 2025 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares American literature, Horror with this book.

The Caretaker Marcus Kliewer · 2026 Instant New York Times Bestseller Follow the Rites... Nothing less than the survival of humanity is at stake. From Marcus Kliewer, a new “titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), comes an eerie supernatural horror about a young woman who accepts a caretaking job from Craigslist, only to discover the position has consequences far greater—and more… Shares Horror

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can… Shares Horror

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 167 (August 2026)

Nightmare Magazine, Issue 167 (August 2026) Wendy N. Wagner Shares Horror with this book.

Creator; The True Story of the Zombie Apocalypse Part 3

Creator; The True Story of the Zombie Apocalypse Part 3 Doug Ward This is the continuing story of an unlikely group of survivors in the Zombie Apocalypse. Their story follows their attempt to find the person responsible for the disaster and to find a way to liberate the world of the parasitic contagion. We join our heroes as they race to Put-in-Bay, Ohio, to find the creator of the Parasite, Dr. Fleming. Will they survive the perilous journey? Will they find a… Shares Horror

The No-End House

The No-End House Jeremy Bates Shares Horror with this book.

The Hacienda Isabel Cañas Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors… Shares Horror

The Starving Saints

The Starving Saints Caitlin Starling · 2025 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. In this isolated setting, food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for… Shares Horror

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die

Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die Mallory Arnold 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

22/11/63 Stephen King El 22 de noviembre de 1963 tres disparos resonaron en Dallas. Murió el presidente Kennedy, y el mundo cambió. ¿Qué harías tú si pudieras impedirlo?En esta novela brillante, Stephen King acompaña al lector en un viaje maravilloso al pasado y en un intento de cambiar lo que pasó. Durante casi 900 páginas nos ofrece un impecable retrato social, político y cultural del final de los años cincuenta y… Shares Horror

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 Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street

The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street Karen White · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 386p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Christmas spirit is overtaking Tradd Street with a vengeance in this festive new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Karen White.Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy—after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin toddlers. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden… Shares American literature

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