Shooting Star
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.78
Format: 43 pages, Paperback
John Shaw just wanted to go fishing and live off the land—now he is one of only a few survivors inv…
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1. Boys in the Valley
By: Philip Fracassi
4.18
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
2. All the Fiends of Hell
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
4.01
Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition
The red night of bells heralds global catastrophe. Annihilation on a biblical scale. Seeing the mor… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- aliens
- adult
3. The Haunting of Velkwood
By: Gwendolyn Kiste
3.64
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood
4. The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
3.59
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more
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- novella
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy
5. Where the Dead Wait
By: Ally Wilkes
3.25
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate an… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Why would I want to die last?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
"You make a god of the things you fear or love. What could be more natural than that?"-Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait
6. Big Bad
By: Chandler Baker
3.77
Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition
For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
7. In Bloom
By: Paul Tremblay
3.08
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
8. Bruises on a Butterfly
By: Chad Lutzke
4.27
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
A young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he'd built with friends, smack dab … read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
9. The Day of the Door
By: Laurel Hightower
4.13
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
10. Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
By: Agustina Bazterrica
3.14
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winnin… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"She was horrified by the traces of monstrosity in everyday life. The things that we look at but don't see, whose true essences are unknown to us."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
"Outside the secure space of the circle, vulgarity accumulates. Ada loathes vulgarity because it's there that misery hides. She knows that misery is destructive and, as such, ephemeral."-Agustina Bazterrica, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
11. The Handyman Method
By: Nick Cutter
3.27
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method
12. Palmetto
By: Ania Ahlborn
3.72
Format: 101 pages, Paperback
Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house--… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
13. Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story
By: M. Rickert
3.39
Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition
Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awak… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
14. Wild Spaces
By: S.L. Coney
3.51
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces
15. The Bedmakers
By: Chad Lutzke
4.08
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
After two elderly men tire of their homelessness in downtown Chicago 1979, they hop a train in sear… read more
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- fiction
- horror
16. 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
By: Sadie Hartmann
4.43
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Ultimate List of Must-Read Horror! Curious readers and fans of monsters and the macabre, get re… read more
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- adult
- horror
"I love a good story about everyone dying."-Sadie Hartmann, 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
17. Schrader's Chord
By: Scott Leeds
4.06
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord
18. Candy Cain Kills (Killer VHS Series, #2)
By: Brian McAuley
4.12
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Oh what fun it is to DIE! When Austin’s parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote… read more
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- novella
- adult
- fiction
- horror
19. Shooting Star
By: Joe R. Lansdale
3.78
Format: 43 pages, Paperback
John Shaw just wanted to go fishing and live off the land—now he is one of only a few survivors inv… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- aliens
- adult
20. The Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
21. Heads Will Roll
By: Josh Winning
3.69
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
22. Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
23. Festival
By: Christopher Golden
3.37
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling horror writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon create a music festival… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
24. Stargazers
By: L.P. Hernandez
4.20
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Don’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library. A collection of novellas curated by Sadie… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- science fiction
- adult
25. Curse of the Reaper
By: Brian McAuley
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Scream meets The Shining in this page-turning horror tale about an aging actor haunted by the slash… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
26. Forgotten Sisters
By: Cynthia Pelayo
3.50
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psy… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"I can't speak. I can't think. words are water and everything melds into a sea of suffering."-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters
"Some memories are far too painful to resuscitate, and so they remain floating somewhere in the depths of our hearts."-Cynthia Pelayo, Forgotten Sisters
27. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies
By: E. M. Roy
3.73
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
In the small town of Eston, Maine . . . weird things happen sometimes.Leo Bates knows what’s behind… read more
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- science fiction
- adult
- fiction
- horror
28. Such Pretty Flowers
By: K.L. Cerra
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A woman investigating her brother’s apparent suicide finds herself falling for her prime suspect—hi… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
29. Root Rot & Other Grim Tales
By: Sarah Read
3.83
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Walk into the woods. Dive into the water. Make a wish. Meet your fate. Within Root Rot and Other… read more
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- short stories
- adult
- fiction
- horror
30. Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In: Multiplex
By: Christopher Golden
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1988, Joe R. Lansdale’s The Drive-In launched onto the fiction scene and left an indelible mark,… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
