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…
Want to Read $ 3.99"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, gently, slowly, like brandy punch through a straw."-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
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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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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"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. Sour Candy
By: Kealan Patrick Burke
3.65
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy
3. 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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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- 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
4. The Witnesses Are Gone
By: Joel Lane , Conrad Williams
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong pl… read more
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5. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
6. You Should Have Left
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin
3.44
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left
7. 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
"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
8. The Haar
By: David Sodergren
4.17
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t fear death... but they do.” Muriel McAuley has lived in the Scottish fishing village of… read more
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- novella
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- horror
- adult
- fantasy
9. 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
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- adult
- fantasy
"You were you and I was me and there was this thing between us."-Gus Moreno, This Thing Between Us
10. 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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- gothic
- historical
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- thriller
- horror
- 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
11. This Is Where We Talk Things Out
By: Caitlin Marceau
3.77
Format: 93 pages, ebook
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
12. 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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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"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
13. 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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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"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
14. The Laws of the Skies
By: Grégoire Courtois
3.39
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None o… read more
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- novella
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
"because it was him and him alone she didn't want to disappoint."-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"Was there nothing left in this world that was worth opening your eyes and fighting for?"-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"Even he who deserves to die, who deserves to be killed, doesn't deserve to be killed like that."-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
"But she was in love, head over heels in love the way you are at age six, without knowing that this love would be as fleeting as it was powerful, and as powerful as it was secret, and misunderstood, a…"-Grégoire Courtois, The Laws of the Skies
15. 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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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
16. Maggie's Grave
By: David Sodergren
4.06
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
The small Scottish town of Auchenmullan is dead, and has been for years. It sits in the shadow of a… read more
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- thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
17. Nothing but the Rain
By: Naomi Salman
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
18. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
By: Matthieu Simard
3.66
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
19. Below
By: Laurel Hightower
3.70
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- fantasy
20. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
By: Paula D. Ashe
4.06
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
21. To Be Devoured
By: Sara Tantlinger
3.82
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and in… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
