Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
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1. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
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- horror
- mystery
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- adult
- fantasy
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
2. A House at the Bottom of a Lake
By: Josh Malerman
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing … read more
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3. 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
4. This Thing Between Us
By: Gus Moreno
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thia… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
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- adult
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- audiobook
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us
5. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
6. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
7. Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more
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- mystery thriller
- retellings
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
8. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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- novella
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- adult
- fantasy
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
9. 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
10. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
11. Night of the Mannequins
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
12. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- retellings
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
13. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
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- adult
- audiobook
14. A House with Good Bones
By: T. Kingfisher
3.69
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones
15. 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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- retellings
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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
16. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
17. Goddess of Filth
By: V. Castro
3.63
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth
18. Crossroads
By: Laurel Hightower
3.91
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car cras… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain..."-Laurel Hightower, Crossroads
19. We Spread
By: Iain Reid
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"-Iain Reid, We Spread
"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"-Iain Reid, We Spread
20. Bloom
By: Delilah S. Dawson
3.90
Format: 203 pages, Hardcover
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York… read more
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- novella
- adult
- fiction
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21. Natural Beauty
By: Ling Ling Huang
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty
