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A good pick for readers who like historical ghost stories, remote Scottish settings, and gothic atmosphere.
Saltwater
Horror · Gothic Horror · Supernatural Horror
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In 1896, Tom Torrance travels to Scotland’s Isle of Stroma to oversee the completion of a lighthouse, where construction troubles have fueled rumors of hauntings. Skeptical of superstition, he soon confronts isolation, endless summer nights, and threats that science cannot explain. A good pick for readers who like historical ghost stories, remote Scottish settings, and gothic atmosphere.
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For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the second in a quartet of exquisitely haunting ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland.
The Isle of Stroma, 1896. Tom Torrance has been sent to oversee the completion of a new lighthouse, which will guide ships through one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the United Kingdom. The construction so far has been plagued by difficulties, giving rise to superstitious whisperings amongst the men, but Tom is a man of sense and science. He will not be cowed by stories of hauntings and bad omens.
Yet Tom is unprepared for the conditions on the island: the isolation and delirium of the endless summer nights. He soon learns that the real dangers on the island have nothing to do with the wild waves. There are some problems that science cannot answer, and some threats so ancient and strange, that nothing can keep them at bay.
PRAISE FOR ELAINE THOMSON
'I was so impressed by Hawthorn' MICHELLE PAVER, author of Dark Matter
'Delightfully brooding and gloriously gothic' CJ COOKE, author of The Book of Witching
'A hugely entertaining and evocative treat' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding
'A new classic' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair Botanists
'The best Scottish ghost story of the 21st Century so far' HERALD
'A wonderfully atmospheric ghost story' 5* NETGALLEY REVIEW
'A truly haunting tale, beautifully written' 5* NETGALLEY REVIEW
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A strong fit for readers who like isolated settings, relentless infected threats, and survival horror.
Arctic
Horror · Suspense
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When Bram Keller and his crew respond to a distress signal near their remote Arctic station, they find dead pilots who are still moving. With fast-moving infected swarming the ice, communications down, and a storm approaching, they must secure their station before they're overrun. A strong fit for readers who like isolated settings, relentless infected threats, and survival horror.
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They thought the cold would kill whatever was on that plane. They were wrong.
When a distress signal crackles through the radio, Bram Keller and his small crew at a remote Arctic station are ordered to respond. What they find isn’t wreckage—it’s a massacre. The pilots are dead… but still moving. And the snow around the fuselage is stained with something far too fresh.
What starts as a rescue turns into a desperate fight for survival as the infected swarm the ice, relentless and fast. With communications down and a storm closing in, Bram’s team must seal the station, or be overrun.
In the frozen dark, there’s nowhere to run—and nowhere to hide.
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Best for readers who like dark gothic romance, eerie mysteries, and horror.
Bonetide
Horror · Romance · Creature Feature · Gothic Romance
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karina Halle, Bonetide follows Iris Galloway, who must live in an inherited cottage on a remote Scottish loch for one year to claim it. As disappearances mount, a mysterious man visits from the water, and her aunt's letters warn her never to invite him inside. Best for readers who like dark gothic romance, eerie mysteries, and horror.
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"Don't let him in."
Widow's Bay meets Haunting Adeline in this standalone dark gothic horror romance from the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of Blood Orange, Grave Matter and Realm of Thieves.
When Iris Galloway inherits her great-aunt's cottage on a remote Scottish loch, the terms are simple: live there one year, and it's hers.
She doesn't know about the disappearances yet, nor does she know about the handsome man who swims in the loch at night, who watches her cottage from the dark water, and who appears at her door very wet, very naked, and asking to come in.
Meanwhile, the locals warn her about a murderer on the loose, the police are in over their heads, and her aunt's letters say to keep the salt lines around the house and the doors locked after sundown.
And never, ever invite him inside.
But Iris has spent her whole life being careful.
And this wicked stranger is going to ruin her for it.
Bonetide is a dark gothic romance that’s tinged with horror. While this book starts off almost like a cozy gothic mystery, it does pivot later into darker territory. Which also gets a little weird. If you’re here for the cozy, know that it doesn’t stay cozy. If you’re here for the dark romance, know that it’s coming. Please see inside the book or author's website for the content warnings.
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Best for readers who want graphic psychological horror involving obsession, coercive control, and deeply unsettling relationships rather than dark romance.
In Love with the Devil
Horror · Psychological Horror
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Julian enters Astoria’s home wearing a mask, subjects her to horrific abuse, and insists she belongs to him. Although he gives her space to run, he’s determined to find her again, while Astoria struggles with her disturbing craving for the man who hurt her. Best for readers who want graphic psychological horror involving obsession, coercive control, and deeply unsettling relationships rather than dark romance.
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If you love a bird, cage it, then let it fly. If it returns, then it knows where home is.
JULIAN
Like a breath of fresh air, a little bird flew into my life. Astoria was desperate for me to be her hero, but I’m no hero.
I tried to train her to be my pet and it broke both of us.
I let her run, gave her time and space, but she’ll never be free of me. I’ll always find her. She’s mine.
ASTORIA
He snuck into my home, always wearing a mask, did unimaginable depraved things to me, then whispered his own name into my ear. Julian.
He insisted I was his then destroyed me.
No matter where I run, nothing calms my craving for him. It’s disgusting but I'm addicted. I’ll never forgive him. I shouldn’t.
*This book is a horror novel (not a dark romance) that explores very dark themes in graphic details. Your mental health is priority. Please check the content warning at the beginning of the book or contact the author before starting this read.
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A strong match for readers who like Western literary horror, isolated settings, and supernatural threats.
In the Valley of the Sun
Horror · Supernatural Horror · Western
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A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, In the Valley of the Sun follows Travis Stillwell, a West Texas cowboy who develops a monstrous hunger after meeting a mysterious girl. While he hides at Annabelle Gaskin's motel, a Texas Ranger pursues him for his past misdeeds. A strong match for readers who like Western literary horror, isolated settings, and supernatural threats.
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A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.
Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.
One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.
Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover camper the next morning—with no sign of a girl, no memory of the night before.
Annabelle Gaskin spies the camper parked behind her motel and offers the cowboy a few odd jobs to pay his board. Travis takes her up on the offer, if only to buy time, to lay low and heal. By day, he mends the old motel, insinuating himself into the lives of Annabelle and her ten-year-old son. By night, in the cave of his camper, he fights an unspeakable hunger. Before long, Annabelle and her boy come to realize that this strange cowboy is not what he seems.
Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he’ll have to decide how far into the darkness he’ll go for the sake of justice.
When these lives converge on a dusty autumn night, an old evil will find new life—and new blood.
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A strong fit for readers who like folk horror rooted in industrial history, community trauma, and buried legends.
Scratch Moss
Horror · Supernatural Horror
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Across five timelines from 1865 to 2025, the mining town of Scratch Moss is haunted by deaths, missing children, and rumors of something evil beneath the ground. When writer Joe returns for his father's funeral, memories of the horror that marked his youth resurface. A strong fit for readers who like folk horror rooted in industrial history, community trauma, and buried legends.
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It's bad when the heart is ripped out of a community... it's worse when it loses its soul.
1865. There is coal under the fields of Scratch Moss Manor and Sir Henry Brody is determined to get at it. But there is something else in the ground as well, something dark and evil
1905. A more Godless set of people the Reverend George Ackman has never known than the people of the northern town of Scratch Moss. But if not God, what do they believe in?
1945. Arthur works for the Coal Commission, visiting privately-owned pits ahead of their nationalisation. But something is amiss in Scratch Moss, with a disturbing number of deaths at the mine and children going missing in the tunnels.
1985. The miners have lost. Thatcher reigns supreme. And in the shattered community of Scratch Moss, rumours resurface about Red Clogs, a terrible presence in the land below.
2025: Divorced, fifty-something writer Joe returns to the former mining community of Scratch Moss where he grew up, for the funeral of his father. Soon the memories of Joe's teenage years, and the horror that blighted the community, come flooding back.
A devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.
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A good pick for readers who enjoy supernatural suspense, eerie visitors, and haunted settings.
The Silver Creek Haunting
Horror · Mystery · Supernatural Horror
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After buying a lodge for almost nothing, its new owners welcome a blood-covered guest who neither eats nor sleeps. When Max checks the records, he discovers the woman in Room Nine died on the mountain twenty years earlier. A good pick for readers who enjoy supernatural suspense, eerie visitors, and haunted settings.
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The bank sold them the lodge for almost nothing. The first guest arrived covered in blood. She didn't eat. She didn't sleep. And when Max checked the records, the woman in Room Nine had died on that mountain twenty years ago.
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A strong fit for readers who enjoy queer YA horror, feminist rage, female friendship, and supernatural threats rooted in personal trauma.
So Witches We Became
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · Supernatural Horror
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Called “Powerfully angry and vengeance-laden” by School Library Journal, So Witches We Became follows high school senior Nell and her friends to a private Florida island, where a curse traps them inside a toxic mist while an unseen beast lurks in the surrounding waters. To survive, Nell must confront a traumatic encounter from the previous year and the secrets her friends have been hiding. A strong fit for readers who enjoy queer YA horror, feminist rage, female friendship, and supernatural threats rooted in personal trauma.
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A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back.
For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her—secrets that fuse with the island's tragic history, trapping them all with a curse that surrounds the island in a toxic, vengeful mist and the surrounding waters with an unseen, devouring beast.
Getting out alive means risking her friendships, her sanity, and even her own life. In order to save herself and her friends, Nell will have to face memories she'd rather leave behind, reveal the horrific truth behind the encounter that changed her life one year ago, and face the shadow that's haunted her since childhood.
Easier said than done. But when Nell's friends reveal that they each brought secrets of their own, a solution even more dangerous than the curse starts to take shape. Reading like a YA feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, So Witches We Became is a diverse, queer horror about female friendship, the emotional aftermath of surviving assault, and how to find power in the shadows of your past.
Step into your witchy power or be swallowed by the curse—the choice is yours.
★ "Skillfully crafted and sharply descriptive with horrifying imagery to spare ... Powerfully angry and vengeance-laden, with terrifying and very human monsters." —School Library Journal, starred review
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Ideal for readers who enjoy disturbing supernatural horror, graphic violence, and stories of widespread terror.
The Dark
Horror · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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In The Dark by James Herbert, an ancient, unstoppable evil spreads as the lights begin to fade, driving people to horrific acts of violence. As asylum inmates slaughter their attendants and once-human creatures gather in underground tunnels, humanity faces a growing supernatural threat. Ideal for readers who enjoy disturbing supernatural horror, graphic violence, and stories of widespread terror.
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A spine-chilling tale of ancient evil unleashed, James Herbert's The Dark is a chilling masterpiece of supernatural horror.
It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. Somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned. Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants, while in slimy tunnels once-human creatures gathered. Madness rages as the lights begin to fade and humanity is attacked by an unstoppable evil.
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A strong match for readers who enjoy gothic academia, forbidden professor-student romance, dark folklore, and supernatural mysteries.
The Exorcism of Faeries
Horror · Romantasy · Occult Horror · Paranormal Romance
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In this dark academia romance, Trinity College graduate student Atta Morrow investigates a deadly plague spreading through Dublin, with the help of Sonder Murdoch, a brilliant professor of morbid anatomy. As their research leads them into ancient folklore and dangerous secrets, their growing attraction complicates the search for answers. A strong match for readers who enjoy gothic academia, forbidden professor-student romance, dark folklore, and supernatural mysteries.
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The first in a haunting dark academia romance series about a graduate student studying botany in Dublin who falls for her professor of morbid anatomy, as they are drawn into a deadly plague threatening their world—perfect for fans of Ninth House and An Academy for Liars.
A strange affliction is haunting the good people of Dublin. It roots beneath the skin—blooming, entangling—before claiming its victims. No one knows how it started. No one can find a cure.
Atta Morrow has spent years pursuing the truth behind the plague. A graduate student at Trinity College, her covert research has grown into a quiet obsession that could cost her more than her academic future. When Atta’s latest risk catches the attention of Sonder Murdoch, Trinity’s infamous but brilliant morbid anatomy professor, she gains an unexpected ally—and a dangerous temptation.
Together, they dig deeper into the mysteries plaguing Dublin. But as their research blurs with folklore, Atta and Sonder must confront secrets older than science before the city, and they, are consumed.
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A great pick for readers who enjoy fast-paced science fiction thrillers, biological threats, and dark humor.
Cold Storage
Horror · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Medical Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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Called “pure, unadulterated entertainment” by Douglas Preston in The New York Times Book Review, Cold Storage by David Koepp follows bioterror operative Roberto Diaz as he races to contain a deadly, highly mutative organism that has escaped from a military storage facility. With help from two unlikely security guards, he has one night to prevent an extinction-level disaster. A great pick for readers who enjoy fast-paced science fiction thrillers, biological threats, and dark humor.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
"On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." —Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Review
For fans of The Martian, Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity.
They thought it was contained. They were wrong.
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository.
Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop it.
He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards—one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Will that be enough to save all of humanity?
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A strong match for readers drawn to queer desire, ghosts, and horror about inherited trauma.
On Sundays She Picked Flowers
Horror
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Called “Brutal and unforgiving, but aching with so much emotion.” by People, this Southern Gothic horror follows Judith Rice as she escapes her abusive mother and builds a life in a haunted Georgia house. Thirteen years later, her attraction to an unsettling stranger forces her to confront violence rooted in her family. A strong match for readers drawn to queer desire, ghosts, and horror about inherited trauma.
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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel 2026 prize
“Brutal and unforgiving, but aching with so much emotion.” —People
In this sinister and surreal Southern Gothic debut, a woman escapes into the uncanny woods of southern Georgia and must contend with ghosts, haints, and most dangerous of all, the truth about herself.
When Judith Rice fled her childhood home, she thought she’d severed her abusive mother’s hold on her. She didn’t have a plan or destination, just a desperate need to escape. Drawn to the forests of southern Georgia, Jude finds shelter in a house as haunted by its violent history as she is by her own.
Jude embraces the eccentricities of the dilapidated house, soothing its ghosts and haints, honoring its blood-soaked land. And over the next thirteen years, Jude blossoms from her bitter beginnings into a wisewoman, a healer.
But her hard-won peace is threatened when an enigmatic woman shows up on her doorstep. The woman is beautiful but unsettling, captivating but uncanny. Ensnared by her desire for this stranger, Jude is caught off guard by brutal urges suddenly simmering beneath her skin. As the woman stirs up memories of her escape years ago, Jude must confront the calls of violence rooted in her bloodline.
“An absolute stunner of a book” (Lee Mandelo, author of Summer Sons), On Sunday She Picked Flowers explores retribution, family trauma, and the power of building oneself back up after breaking down.
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