A romantic cabin getaway doesn't go exactly as planned. High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of...
Horror fiction
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Author:Blackwell, FelixSummary: - Author:Stevenson, Robert LouisSummary:
Doctor Henry Jekyll, on a quest to liberate our inner demons from the constraints of our conscience, unleashes ancient and primal forces buried deep within us all.
- Author:Christopher, AdamSummary:
Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter has other plans. Over Hopper’s protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked “New York” out of the basement -...
- Author:Kilmer, MaureenSummary:
Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and moved to the suburbs, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, snarking together from the outskirts of the PTA crowd. One night during their...
- Author:DeMeester, KristiSummary:
Kristi DeMeester's Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them. There's something out there that...
- Author:Boudreau, LauraSummary:
When a woman discovers a fortune in the attic, she begins a pilgrimage that takes her to the knife-edge between blessing and curse. Two fatherless children think Mrs. Crisander is nothing more than the creepy next-door neighbour'until...
- Author:Simmons, DanSummary:
In the summer of 1960, in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the town residents know that it marks the end of innocence.
- Author:Mandelo, LeeSummary:
Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more...
- Author:Mayer, ShannonSummary:
My name is Mara, and I want desperately to become a mother. All of my dreams were dashed when the world was promised hope but instead became a place of danger, death...and monsters. Nevermores, human but feral and lethal creatures with...
- Author:Ward, CatrionaSummary:
Sundial is a twisty psychological horror novel perfect for fans of The Push and Girl A, from Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street. All Rob ever wanted was a normal life. Nothing like her childhood, growing up in...
- Author:Sager, RileySummary:
It's November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H.W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the...
- Author:Brewer, NicSummary:
To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor. Suture...
- Author:Maxwell, LisaSummary:
For as long as she can remember, Lucy Aimes has been plagued by a dark, recurring dream of drowning. But when her family moves to an old plantation outside New Orleans, she starts having intense new dreams, vivid scenes of a bygone era...
- Author:Thilliez, FranckSummary:
When Detective Lucie Henebelle's friend goes blind after watching an extremely rare and violent film, Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of it, especially when nearly everyone who comes into contact with the film turns up...
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Turn out the lights, cuddle with your love, and shiver to tales from the greatest fright-meisters in the world. This collection offers the best classics for lovers of the macabre.
- Author:Curtis, RichardSummary:
Everyday places and situations are the backdrops for tense and unpredictable confrontations. A chance encounter between neighbors in their building's trash room; a routine visit to a yoga class; a friendly chat in the cardiac...
- Author:McKeen, EricaSummary:
Tear is both a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman and a bristling reclamation of female rage. Blurring the real and the imagined, this lyric debut novel unflinchingly engages with contemporary feminist issues and explores the...
- Author:Wong, LindsaySummary:
Living forever isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be. Hearts can still break, looks can still fade, and money still matters, even in eternity. The ghosts, zombies, and demons in this collection are all shockingly human, and they’re...
- Author:Oates, Joyce CarolSummary:
Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents....
- Author:Gresh, Lois H.Summary:
A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his...
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