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  • Immortal Bones (Detective Saussure Mysteries Book 1)

    DEATH IS NOT ALWAYS THE ENDIt's the '50s and Richard Saussure could have sworn he'd heard it all between his career as a police officer and his current PI business... Then a man walks in saying he is 213 years old. Lord Hurlingthon wants to die, but he cannot no matter what he tries. The worst part, he doesn’t understand why. As a last effort, he reaches out to the only person who can’t say no to his cry for help. Detective Richard Saussure has never walked away from an unsolved case. If anyone can help, Richard Saussure has the reputation and the results Lord Hurlingthon needs. But how do you solve a mystery that defies all laws of nature?Maybe with the help of your enemy. It is not something Richard is eager to employ, but Doctor Annette Kensington has the skills and the passion for ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B0058FM0SM
    • ASIN: B0058FM0SM

  • Craven Manor

    Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper’s position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true.Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion’s front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It’s clear no one has lived there in a long time.But an envelope waits for him inside the doorway. It contains money, and promises more.Daniel is desperate. Against his better judgement, he moves into the groundskeeper’s cottage behind the crypt. He’s determined to ignore the strange occurrences that plague the estate.But when a candle flickers to life in the abandoned tower window, Daniel realises Craven Manor is hiding a terrible secret… one that threatens to bury him with it.F... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B0787KW4KY
    • ASIN: B0787KW4KY
    • Manufacturer: Black Owl Books

  • The Silent Companions: A Novel

    “[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling authorLaura Purcell's latest novel, The Poison Thread, is now out from Penguin!Some doors are locked for a reason.                   When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But pregnant and widowed just weeks after their wedding, with her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her late husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure—a silent companion—that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Els... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 014313163X
    • ASIN: 014313163X
    • ISBN: 014313163X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

    In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." In this Library of America volume Joyce Carol Oates, our leading practitioner of the contemporary Gothic, presents the essential works of Shirley Jackson, the novels and stories that, from the early 1940s through the mid-1960s, wittily remade the genre of psychological horror for an alienated, postwar America. She opens with The Lottery (1949), Jack... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1598530720
    • ASIN: 1598530720
    • ISBN: 1598530720
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

  • The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

    From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern townIt’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to the Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a history of putting unruly youths back on the straight and narrow—a record so impeccable that almost everyone is willing to ignore the mysterious death... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 1984822136
    • ASIN: 1984822136
    • ISBN: 1984822136
    • Manufacturer: Crown

  • House of Leaves


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    • ASIN: 0375703764
    • ASIN: 0375703764
    • ISBN: 0375703764
    • Brand: Pantheon Books
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

  • The Beauty of Horror 1: A GOREgeous Coloring Book

    Get that red crayon ready! With this coloring book for adults channeling The Walking Dead meets The Secret Garden, comics creator/rock star Alan Robert (Crawl to Me, Killogy, Wire Hangers) invites fans of horror to discover their inner-colorist. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet an onslaught of severed heads, monsters, deadly weapons, and skeletal remains. Visit burial grounds, the zombie apocalypse, serial killer lairs, and gruesome torture chambers. Horror fans and newcomers alike will welcome this GOREgeous and creative journey into a blood-soaked new world.
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    • ASIN: 1631407287
    • ASIN: 1631407287
    • ISBN: 1631407287
    • Brand: IDW Publishing
    • Manufacturer: IDW Publishing

  • The Weight of Lies: A Novel

    In this gripping, atmospheric family drama, a young woman investigates the forty­-year­-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and uncovers devastating truths—and dangerous lies.Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.Digging into the past—and her mother’s cult classic—draws Meg to Bonny Island, Georgia, and an unusual woman said to be the inspiration for the book. At first island life seems idyllic, but as Meg starts to ask tough... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B01M04OQWE
    • ASIN: B01M04OQWE
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

    The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one ... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: 0143039989
    • ASIN: 0143039989
    • ISBN: 0143039989
    • Brand: Shirley Jackson
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

    Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her.Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t expect him, or her politically ambitious brother, to welcome her with open arms, she’s not prepared for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing his... [Read More]
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    • ASIN: B017LGAKEG
    • ASIN: B017LGAKEG
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

  • What the Hell Did I Just Read : A Novel of Cosmic Horror

    New York Times bestselling author David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic horror, set in the world of John Dies at the
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    John Dies at the End's "smart take on fear manages to tap into readers' existential dread on one page, then have them laughing the next" (Publishers Weekly) and This Book is Full of Spiders was "unlike any other book of the genre" (Washington Post). Now, New York Times bestselling author David Wong is back with What the Hell Did I Just Read, the third installment of this black-humored thriller series.It's the story "They" don't want you to read. Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening

    • UPC: 909339172
    • Rating: 4.4

  • The Haunting of Cabin Green : A Modern Gothic Horror Novel

    One of PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.One of Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.One of Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.One of BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death.#1 Amazon Best-Seller in U.S. Horror New Releases."A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down." - The Horror Report."Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques." - The Inquisitr."A haunting tale." - PopSugar.Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. A terrifying slow-burn that combines the literary
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    Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. "A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn't force myself to put it down." - The Horror Report. #1 Amazon Best-Seller in Ghosts, Gothic, U.S. Horror, & LGBT Horror.Featured on: PopSugar's Most Chilling Horror Books of 2018.Inquisitr's Best Horror Books of 2018.Ranker's 2018's Scariest Horror Books.BoredPanda's 7 Books That Scared Me Half to Death."Takes [the] standard genre template & turns it upside-down...with a literary approach that combines modern & mid-twentieth century techniques." - The Inquisitr."A haunting tale." - PopSugar.This terrifying slow-burn combines the literary Gothic prose of

    • UPC: 210623606

  • The Bourbon Thief : A Southern Gothic Novel

    "A family with bourbon in the blood, and blood on their hands."--Front cover.
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    Betrayal, revenge and a family scandal that bore a 150-year-old mystery When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it's to discover he's been robbed. The only item stolen--a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it's property of the Maddox family who owned and operated the Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War, until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows... No one except Paris. In the small hours

    • UPC: 49983005
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Father of Lies : A Supernatural Horror Novel

    A darkly disturbing occult horror novel, set in a bleak asylum on the moors of northern England.
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    A darkly chilling supernatural horror novel.With no known identity or family, Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. After two years with no improvement, Dr Jack McGowan eventually decides to hypnotise her. With terrifying consequences.A horrific dark force is now unleashed on the entire medical team, as each in turn attempts to unlock Ruby's shocking and sinister past. Who is this girl? And how did she manage to survive such unimaginable evil?Set in a desolate mining village, where secrets are tightly kept and intruders hounded out, their

    • UPC: 53428961

  • The Raping of Ava DeSantis: A Horror Novel

    THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT. Winner of 4 'Best Novel' Awards including 2015 Grand Prize Winner of Best Novel of the Year and Best Thriller of the Year. STORY: A working class college girl brutally attacked by three wealthy fraternity brothers is paid to keep quiet, then seeks revenge against their families decades
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    THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT:"The Must-Read Book of the Moment" --Yahoo News"Best Novel of the Year" --Great-Novels.com"Best Thriller of the Year" --Top10Novels.com"Best Book of the Year" --AMB Magazine"She's the Next Stephen King" --Horror Society"A Disturbingly Perfect Horror Story" --Scream Magazine"An Instant Horror Classic!" --News Atlanta"A New Powerhouse Author is Here to Stay" --Boston GlobeReaders of New York Times Bestsellers Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive left wanting more will devour the debut novel from Hollywood screenwriter turned author MYLO CARBIA.Set in 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, The Raping of Ava DeSantis tells the

    • UPC: 53442489
    • Rating: 3.667

  • A guide to Gothic Fiction | What it is & what to read

    in which I talk about one of my favorite genres of fiction. I briefly explain what Gothic fiction as a genre is and talk you through some of my favorites, both classic and modern. This was reques...
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    👻The Scariest Gothic Fiction | Getting into Classics.

    Happy Halloween! I invited my friend Alice, a massive Gothic fiction fan and ex-Penguin colleague, to come chat about Gothic classics that are great to start with. What's your favourite spooky Goth...
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    Gothic Novels | Halloween Reads.

    Want some sPo0py reads? Why not dive into the classics? I really need a name for this series... // B O O K S The Picture of Dorian Gray Northanger Abbey Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde Wuthering H...
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