Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the...
Horror fiction
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
- Author:Tremblay, PaulSummary:
"A tremendous book--thought-provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain. The Cabin at the End of the World is Tremblay's personal best. It's that good."--Stephen King. The Bram Stoker Award-...
- Author:Child, Lincoln, Preston, Douglas J.Summary:
A new building site in Manhattan uncovers thirty-six bodies buried since the late 1800s. The developer and the mayor are trying to overrule any attempts to delay construction on the old crime scene. But FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast...
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
A collection of creepy tales by America's finest horror author. At the heart of these stories, as with all the best of Lovecraft's work, is the belief that the Earth was once inhabited by powerful and evil gods, just waiting...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1846 edition of Godey's Lady's Book, The Cask of Amontillado is widely considered to be one of the most perfect short stories ever written. Told by the unreliable narrator Montresor-a man who sought vengeance...
- Author:DiLouie, CraigSummary:
David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group's horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far...
- Author:Black, HollySummary:
Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
A collection of six stories and novellas includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend....
- Author:Enriquez, MarianaSummary:
Mariana Enriquez has been critically lauded for her unconventional and sociopolitical stories of the macabre. Populated by unruly teenagers, crooked witches, homeless ghosts, and hungry women, they walk the uneasy line between urban...
- Author:White, KierstenSummary:
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Inescapably compelling . " — VICTORIA SCHWAB, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue "A...
- Author:Pace, Roberto, Verdicchio, PasqualeSummary:
The appearance of Dark Man cannot be an event without consequence. Once come into this world, he will entice you with candy, seep into your skin, and savour your blissful ignorance of his purpose. Roberto Pace delights us with this...
- Author:Percy, BenjaminSummary:
Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs...
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
This volume includes "The Thing on the Doorstep," "Haunter of the Dark," and "The Lurking Fear".
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has been hailed by literary critics as the inventor of modern horror, and a cultivating force behind such modern writers as Robert Bloch (Psycho), Wes Craven (The craft, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), and...
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has been hailed by literary critics as the inventor of modern horror, and a cultivating force behind such modern writers as Robert Bloch (Psycho), Wes Craven (The craft, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), and...
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
In the third installment of The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft the listeners are brought ever deeper into the Lovecraft universe with not two but four more frightening stories for your mind. This volume includes: The Horror at Redhook,...
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft has been hailed by literary critics as the inventor of modern horror, and a cultivating force behind such modern writers as Robert Bloch, Wes Craven and Stephen King, just to name a few. "The Shadow over...
- Author:Starling, CaitlinSummary:
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror- The Death of Jane Lawrence. "Intense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak ....
- Author:Katsu, AlmaSummary:
From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger comes an eerie, psychological twist on one of the world's most renowned tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic and the ill-fated sail of its sister ship, the Britannic....
- Author:Sniegoski, Thomas E.Summary:
It was supposed to be a simple exorcism, a publicity stunt to firmly establish John and Theodora's thriving paranormal investigation empire in the public eye. But something went wrong, leading to an on-air massacre that unleashed a...