The Ruins
By: Scott Smith
3.68
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th…
Want to Read $ 13.99"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."-Scott Smith, The Ruins
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."-Scott Smith, The Ruins
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1. Penpal
By: Dathan Auerbach
3.86
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum. Befo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves"-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer."-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"Our loved ones pass away or simply leave our lives forever too soon, and we think to ourselves, “I wasn’t ready for you to leave. It just wasn’t time,"-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
"We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were."-Dathan Auerbach, Penpal
2. The Deep
By: Nick Cutter
3.42
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."-Nick Cutter, The Deep
"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"-Nick Cutter, The Deep
"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"-Nick Cutter, The Deep
3. FantasticLand
By: Mike Bockoven
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurric… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate peo…"-Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand
4. A Head Full of Ghosts
By: Paul Tremblay
3.79
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"Father Wanderly said, “Are we speaking with a demon right now?"-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"And I asked her about the holes in the walls and Mom tried to joke, saying, “Yes, Marjorie was sleep punching too."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
"Are you scared and confused like I am?" Her voice was as small as I'd ever heard it. "I think everyone is secretly like me."-Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts
5. The Ruins
By: Scott Smith
3.68
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adventure
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."-Scott Smith, The Ruins
6. Seed
By: Ania Ahlborn
4.25
Format: 127 pages, ebook
Fans of Stephen King, Jack Kilborn, and Blake Crouch... prepare to meet the Devil. In the vine-twis… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
7. The Fisherman
By: John Langan
3.91
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"-John Langan, The Fisherman
"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"-John Langan, The Fisherman
8. The Ritual
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.59
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
Four old university friends reunite for a hiking trip in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic … read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly"-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic."-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
"From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that h…"-Adam L.G. Nevill, The Ritual
9. The Troop
By: Nick Cutter
3.84
Format: 407 pages, Hardcover
Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Soldering iron, Max."-Nick Cutter, The Troop
"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"-Nick Cutter, The Troop
"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"-Nick Cutter, The Troop
"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"-Nick Cutter, The Troop
10. Last Days
By: Adam L.G. Nevill
3.75
Format: 531 pages, Paperback
When guerrilla documentary maker, Kyle Freeman, is asked to shoot a film on the notorious cult know… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
"...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me ."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
"The destruction of Dan's Star Wars collectibles would have been mourned with more intensity by their owner than the burning of the library at Alexandria."-Adam L.G. Nevill, Last Days
11. Brother
By: Ania Ahlborn
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling horror author of Within These Wallsand The Bird Eater comes a brand-new novel … read more
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12. Maeve Fly
By: C.J. Leede
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Golden Poppy Octavia E. Butler Award! A Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk Award Nominee! … read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Inside my room, I turn on Billy Holiday. There are only two kinds of music in my world. Billy Holiday and Halloween songs."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason."-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
"I have tried the way of the misanthrope, the way of the deviant, the philosopher, the observer, the pretender. But there is one road I have not seriously considered walking down, have not permitted m…"-C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly
13. 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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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
" 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
14. Episode Thirteen
By: Craig DiLouie
3.53
Format: 437 pages, Paperback
From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. Intercepts
By: T.J. Payne
4.13
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The go… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
16. Nestlings
By: Nat Cassidy
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings
17. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
By: A.M. Shine
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
18. Gone to See the River Man
By: Kristopher Triana
3.67
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
Super fans. Groupies. Stalkers. These people will give anything for the idols they worship, be t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first …"-Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man
19. The September House
By: Carissa Orlando
3.92
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"-Carissa Orlando, The September House
"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"-Carissa Orlando, The September House
20. This Wretched Valley
By: Jenny Kiefer
3.33
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
21. Mary
By: Nat Cassidy
3.80
Format: 405 pages, Paperback
Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
