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Juniper & Thorn follows Marlinchen, a young witch trapped under her abusive wizard father as her city shifts from magic to industry.
Juniper & Thorn
Horror · Gothic Horror
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Juniper & Thorn follows Marlinchen, a young witch trapped under her abusive wizard father as her city shifts from magic to industry. Drawn to forbidden freedom and first love, she uncovers a monstrous force born of resentment and old power. As danger grows, Marlinchen must claim her own magic to survive, protect her sisters, and decide who she will become.
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From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination of her abusive wizard father, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Catherynne M. Valente.
A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites.
Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya’s last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside world. But at night, Marlinchen and her sisters sneak out to enjoy the city’s amenities and revel in its thrills, particularly the recently established ballet theater, where Marlinchen meets a dancer who quickly captures her heart.
As Marlinchen’s late-night trysts grow more fervent and frequent, so does the threat of her father’s rage and magic. And while Oblya flourishes with culture and bustles with enterprise, a monster lurks in its midst, borne of intolerance and resentment and suffused with old-world power. Caught between history and progress and blood and desire, Marlinchen must draw upon her own magic to keep her city safe and find her place within it.
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The Girl in Red reimagines Little Red Riding Hood in a postapocalyptic world where survival means staying alert and armed.
The Girl in Red
Dystopian · Horror · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Girl in Red reimagines Little Red Riding Hood in a postapocalyptic world where survival means staying alert and armed. Alone after the Crisis, Red moves through forests filled with predators, violent men, and hidden dangers worse than beasts. This tense retelling explores resilience, fear, and the brutal choices required to stay alive.
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From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.
It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago.
There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined.
Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....
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A former thief of magical secrets tries to outrun her past, but shadows, lies, and secret societies refuse to let her go.
Book of Night
Horror · Occult Horror
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A former thief of magical secrets tries to outrun her past, but shadows, lies, and secret societies refuse to let her go. As old enemies return, survival demands one last dangerous descent into the underworld of magic. Book of Night delivers modern dark fantasy with sharp edges and moral risk. Rated 4.2 stars on Amazon with over 86,000 Goodreads ratings.
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"A delicious, dark, adrenaline rush of a book. I'm already dying to see Charlie Hall's next con." - New York Times bestselling author, Alix E. Harrow
#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of betrayals, secret societies, and a dissolute thief of shadows, in the vein of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern.
Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make.
She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.
Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isn’t easy. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie's shadowless, and possibly soulless, boyfriend has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends into a maelstrom of murder and lies.
Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world—all trying to steal a secret that will give them vast and terrible power.
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Two supernatural drifters stop at a roadside diner and stumble into a zombie infestation, dark magic, and an escalating threat to reality itself.
Gil’s All Fright Diner
Horror
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Two supernatural drifters stop at a roadside diner and stumble into a zombie infestation, dark magic, and an escalating threat to reality itself. As werewolf Duke and vampire Earl dig deeper, the chaos only grows stranger. This cult classic blends horror and comedy with inventive worldbuilding, earning 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than 13,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Bloodier than Fried Green Tomatoes!
Funnier than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer . . .
Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county in their pick-up truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat. They aren't planning to stick around-until Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks right up their alley.
But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg. Seems someone's out to drive Loretta from the Diner, and more than willing to raise a little Hell on Earth if that's what it takes. Before Duke and Earl get to the bottom of the Diner's troubles, they'll run into such otherworldly complications as undead cattle, an amorous ghost, a jailbait sorceress, and the terrifying occult power of pig-latin.
And maybe--just maybe--the End of the World, too.
Gory, sexy, and flat-out hilarious, Gil's All Fright Diner will tickle your funnybone--before ripping it out of its socket!
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The Bystander drops horror fan Riley Lawrence into a town where movie tropes dictate who lives and dies.
The Bystander
Fantasy · Horror · Dark Fantasy · Fantasy Adventure · LitRPG
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The Bystander drops horror fan Riley Lawrence into a town where movie tropes dictate who lives and dies. Trapped in a deadly game with assigned archetypes, Riley learns survival depends on pretending not to notice the monsters hunting them. As rules bend and danger escalates, he and his friends must exploit horror logic to stay alive.
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In a town where horror movie tropes come to life, one’s only chance to survive is to play their role, in the first book of a spine-tingling gamelit series.
When horror-obsessed Riley Lawrence and his group of college friends arrive in the small town of Carousel for their Centennial Celebration, the few decrepit cars parked in the street don’t scare them. But when they enter a locked building, an animatronic usher hands them each a ticket, and the lights dim, Riley realizes they’ve entered the inescapable patchwork of a horror movie set. And they’ve each been assigned an archetype—Scholar, Athlete, Eye Candy, Final Girl—to play out as the curtains rise.
Assigned the Film Buff archetype, Riley’s doomed to repeat a pattern: knowing exactly who the killer is but never surviving the attacks himself. After all, film buffs may know what’s coming, but they’re always the first to be hunted down. Until, that is, Riley learns he can avoid a death or two by exploiting the Oblivious Bystander trope. It seems monsters and killers won’t harm him as long as he can convincingly pretend he hasn’t noticed them.
To make it through this deadly game, Riley and his friends will need to leverage their tropes effectively to determine what’s trapping them there in the first place. But as the rounds continue and escape seems farther and farther out of reach, they’ll be forced to ask themselves: Would they survive in a horror movie?
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A carefree vacation turns hostile when curiosity traps a group of friends in an isolated jungle ruin.
The Ruins
Horror · Mystery · Suspense
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A carefree vacation turns hostile when curiosity traps a group of friends in an isolated jungle ruin. Cut off from help, they face a slow, relentless threat that watches, waits, and refuses to let them leave. The Ruins is survival horror rooted in confinement and endurance, building dread through physical deterioration, mounting paranoia, and the terrifying cost of staying alive when escape disappears.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture!
Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there.
"The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post
“A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
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A good pick for fans of Appalachian horror, werewolves, family conflict, rural noir, and monster stories.
Holler
Horror · Occult Horror
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Greg Gallogly returns to Haint's Hollow after trying to escape his Kentucky hometown, while Sheriff Hunter Gallogly investigates a badly burned man found alive in a wolf den and a new string of deaths in the mountains, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 600 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for fans of Appalachian horror, werewolves, family conflict, rural noir, and monster stories.
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NO ONE ESCAPES THE HOLLER—AND WHAT HUNTS IN THE HILLS HAS TEETH.
Greg Gallogly swore he’d never go back. Leaving his Kentucky hometown meant escaping the violence, the curse, and the monsters buried in its past. But when his brother’s stolen bike turns up in a gang-run chop shop, one reckless decision drags him and Tanya—a sharp-tongued drifter with her own ghosts—into a fight that leads straight back to Haint’s Hollow.
Sheriff Hunter Gallogly thought the nightmare ended with the mine collapse. He was wrong. A badly burned man has been found alive in a wolves’ den, and bodies are piling up again in the mountains. Whatever haunts the holler isn’t finished—and this time, it’s hunting the Gallogly family.
As lawmen, outlaws, and something far darker collide, Greg and Hunter are pulled into a blood feud that stretches from the backroads to the grave.
Holler is a brutal Appalachian horror tale of family, vengeance, and survival—perfect for fans of Stephen King’s ’Salem’s Lot, Brian Keene, and grim rural noir.
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Best for readers who like apocalyptic horror, fractured loyalties, brutal action, and desperate family missions.
Dog Blood
Horror · Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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After an unexplained catastrophe divides humanity into the Haters and the Unchanged, Danny McCoyne crosses a collapsing world to find his daughter Ellis, certain she shares his violent condition and is still alive. As both sides fight for survival, he learns that Hater children may decide the future, with a 3.8-star average from more than 4,000 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like apocalyptic horror, fractured loyalties, brutal action, and desperate family missions.
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On the heels of Patient Zero and Pride and Prejudice with Zombies— the electrifying sequel to Hater where humanity fights itself to the death against a backdrop of ultimate apocalyptic destruction
The Earth has been torn into two parts by an irreversible division. Whether due to nature, or the unknown depths of the mind itself, everyone is now either Human or Hater. Victim or killer. Governments have fallen, command structures have collapsed, and relationships have crumbled. Major cities have become refugee camps where human survivors cower together in fear. Amidst this indiscriminate carnage, Danny McCoyne is on a mission to find his daughter Ellis, convinced that her shared Hater condition means her allegiance is to people like him. Free of inhibitions, unrestricted by memories of peace, and driven by instinct, children are pure Haters, and may well define the future of the Hater race. But, as McCoyne makes his way into the heart of human territory, an incident on the battlefield sets in place an unexpected chain of events, forcing him to question everything he believes he knows about the new order that has arisen, and the dynamic of the Hate itself.
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A resurrected prehistoric sea monster escapes into open water, turning scientific triumph into deadly disaster.
Cone
Horror · Sci-Fi
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A resurrected prehistoric sea monster escapes into open water, turning scientific triumph into deadly disaster. Haunted by guilt, its creator joins a desperate hunt that quickly becomes a fight for survival. This deep-sea thriller blends science, suspense, and relentless action, earning 4.2 stars on Amazon and strong reader praise.
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At first, it was hailed as a miracle of science.
In reality, it was a catastrophic mistake.
Dr. Elliot Alere never imagined his greatest achievement would become his greatest regret. Driven by ambition and the promise of medical breakthroughs, he accomplished the impossible: resurrecting an extinct marine predator—the cameroceras.
He believed the ancient cephalopod could unlock new frontiers in science.
Instead, he unleashed a monster.
When the creature escapes mid-transport, it vanishes into the waters surrounding Green Pastures, a quiet island off the West Coast. Over forty feet long, armed with ten muscular arms tipped with razor-sharp talons, and protected by a massive, cone-shaped shell, the beast wastes no time racking up a body count.
Haunted by guilt, Alere persuades his employer to mount a high-risk operation to recapture the creature. He joins forces with an idealistic marine biologist, a washed-up crab boat captain, and a group of ruthless trophy hunters.
The hunt proves to be the last for many involved, for nothing is safe from the creature’s mighty arms and the pointed tip of its immense CONE.
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After surviving a devastating illness, Emily moves with her husband into a remote country house meant to offer a fresh start.
We Live Here Now
Horror · Psychological Horror
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After surviving a devastating illness, Emily moves with her husband into a remote country house meant to offer a fresh start. Instead, unsettling events begin to blur the line between haunting and hallucination. As her marriage fractures and secrets surface, Emily must decide whether the danger lies in the house or within herself. 4.0 stars on Amazon.
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Award-winning author of New York Times bestselling breakout novel (and hit Netflix show) Behind Her Eyes returns with a haunting Gothic novel about a house—and a marriage—gone terribly wrong.
After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous, striking—and to Emily, something about it feels deeply wrong.
Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves, and all of it stems from the terrible presence she feels in the third-floor room. But these things happen only when Emily’s alone, so are they happening at all? She’s still medically fragile; her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can’t fully trust her own senses. Freddie doesn’t notice anything odd and is happy with their chance at a fresh start.
Emily, however, starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it, though she can find no evidence of a wrongful death. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge.
But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and her husband.
And they live here now.
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival.
Mongrels
Horror · Literary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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In Mongrels, a boy grows up on the margins, traveling the back roads of the South with an aunt and uncle who live by secrets and survival. As he waits to learn what he truly is, loyalty and belonging collide with violence and change. Stephen Graham Jones delivers an award finalist coming of age horror novel praised by Tor.com and Book Riot.
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FINALIST FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD * FINALIST FOR THE THIS IS HORROR AWARD * HONORABLE MENTION, LOCUS AWARDS * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 BY TOR.COM AND BOOK RIOT
A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy, whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. They are mongrels, mixed blood, neither this nor that. The boy at the center of Mongrels must decide if he belongs on the road with his aunt and uncle, or if he fits with the people on the other side of the tracks.
For ten years, he and his family have lived a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes--always on the move across the South to stay one step ahead of the law. But the time is drawing near when Darren and Libby will finally know if their nephew is like them or not. And the close calls they've been running from for so long are catching up fast now. Everything is about to change.
A compelling and fascinating journey, Mongrels alternates between past and present to create an unforgettable portrait of a boy trying to understand his family and his place in a complex and unforgiving world. A smart and innovative story-- funny, bloody, raw, and real--told in a rhythmic voice full of heart, Mongrels is a deeply moving, sometimes grisly, novel that illuminates the challenges and tender joys of a life beyond the ordinary in a bold and imaginative new way.
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Good for readers who want occult horror rooted in fanaticism, family secrets, and religious terror.
FATHER
Horror · Thriller · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror · Suspense
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When Jess’s sister Sarah disappears, Father follows her search into a church built on rituals, loyalty, and manipulation. Father Aries claims to speak for God, but the deeper Jess goes, the more dangerous the truth becomes, with a 3.8-star rating from 30 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want occult horror rooted in fanaticism, family secrets, and religious terror.
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Faith demands sacrifice. And in Father Aries’s church, redemption is just the beginning of the nightmare.
When Jess’s sister Sarah vanishes, the search for answers reveals a terrifying web of rituals, loyalty, and manipulation, all orchestrated by a man who claims to speak for God. But salvation comes at a cost, and the deeper Jess goes, the more she uncovers truths that could shatter her family—and the world.
FATHER is an Occult Horror/Thriller that explores faith, fanaticism, and the horrifying consequences of blind belief.
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