Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories
By: Alistair Kerr
3.67
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg …
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1. Devil's Day
By: Andrew Michael Hurley
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the she… read more
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- fiction
- horror
2. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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3. The Emperor and the Endless Palace
By: Justinian Huang
3.52
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace
4. Plain Bad Heroines
By: Emily M. Danforth
3.65
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable stu… read more
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- horror
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Eleanor Faderman knew many books. But never before had she read a book that seemed to know her."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"She was a person like this: full of opinion and firm standing, she planted her flag in more topics than you could quite believe she could actually care about."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all." "That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
"So many things felt so routinely disappointing to her that it seemed a shame to waste this evening on that mild unhappiness, one that she could admit to herself possibly wasn't deserved."-Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
5. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- historical fiction
- fantasy
6. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
By: Imogen Hermes Gowar
3.55
Format: 487 pages, Hardcover
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"A whore is a whore is a whore."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
"All cats are grey with the candles out."-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
7. Melmoth
By: Sarah Perry
3.43
Format: None pages, Audiobook
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose com… read more
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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"So we have free will I suppose." "More's the pity. I always thought it would be rather relaxing to have one's life organised by the Fates."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight."-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
"My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose…"-Sarah Perry, Melmoth
8. Hare House
By: Sally Hinchcliffe
3.26
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more
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- fantasy
- scotland
- fiction
- horror
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House
9. A Cosmology of Monsters
By: Shaun Hamill
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dar… read more
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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- halloween
"...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places."-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no i…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harves…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and f…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
10. The Second Stranger
By: Martin Griffin
3.43
Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition
Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she l… read more
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- scotland
- fiction
- horror
11. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)
By: Genevieve Cogman
3.67
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)
12. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
13. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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14. The Ghost Woods
By: C.J. Cooke
3.98
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more
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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)
By: Juno Dawson
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
16. Tales for Twilight: Two Hundred Years of Scottish Ghost Stories
By: Alistair Kerr
3.67
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg … read more
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- classics
- ghosts
- anthologies
- halloween
- short stories
- scotland
- fiction
- historical fiction
- horror
- fantasy
17. The Noh Mask Murder
By: Akimitsu Takagi
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in t… read more
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- fiction
18. The Witches of St. Petersburg (Russian Witches, #1)
By: Imogen Edwards-Jones
3.32
Format: 440 pages, Paperback
Inspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
By: Jacob Kerr
2.95
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, liv… read more
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- horror
- fantasy
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Time passed slowly and the heat was sticky, maddening, imprisoning. Dawn was the only time that had any freshness; by mid-morning the day's shape had been rolled flat as dough by the heat, and you we…"-Jacob Kerr, The Green Man of Eshwood Hall
20. Witch You Weren't Here
By: Emma Jackson
3.69
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
One hurricane. Two stranded witches. Sparks are bound to fly... Kay knows three things to be a… read more
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- fantasy
21. Tales of the Damned
By: Matt Ralphs
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
This spine-chilling collection features retellings of eight classic horror stories. From the dist… read more
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- horror
