My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi…
Want to Read $ 7.39"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a person."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not drawn to the happy and carefree; they want salt, be it blood or be it tears."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
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1. 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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2. 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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"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
3. The House That Horror Built
By: Christina Henry
3.22
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more
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4. My Darling Dreadful Thing
By: Johanna van Veen
3.89
Format: 375 pages, Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more
Want to Read $ 7.39Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing
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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing
5. Grey Dog
By: Elliott Gish
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A subversive literary horror novel that disrupts the tropes of women’s historical fiction with delu… read more
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6. A Sweet Sting of Salt
By: Rose Sutherland
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she’ll ha… read more
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7. Indian Burial Ground
By: Nick Medina
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more
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"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground
8. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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9. We Used to Live Here
By: Marcus Kliewer
3.84
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
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10. Bury Your Gays
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4.29
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays
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11. The Night Guest
By: Hildur Knútsdóttir
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more
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12. 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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13. So Thirsty
By: Rachel Harrison
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more
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14. Incidents Around the House
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3.82
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Eyes Are the Best Part
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3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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16. A Sorceress Comes to Call
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17. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive
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19. The Unmothers
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20. Ghost Mother
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21. Through the Midnight Door
By: Katrina Monroe
3.61
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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