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Endurance becomes horror when survival depends on never slowing down and every mile strips another layer from the boys forced to keep walking.
The Long Walk
Horror · Dystopian · Suspense
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Endurance becomes horror when survival depends on never slowing down and every mile strips another layer from the boys forced to keep walking. In The Long Walk, Ray Garraty enters a brutal contest where exhaustion, fear, and human desperation matter more than strength alone. This dystopian novel lands with psychological pressure, bleak inevitability, and a steady sense of dread.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the “long walk” and there is only one winner—the one that survives.
In a dystopian near-future, America has fallen on hard times. Sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour day and night, without ever stopping. The winner gets “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But the rules of the Long Walk are harsh and the stakes could not be higher. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—forever.
Written by King when he was a college student and published in 1979 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Long Walk is an unforgettable and timeless masterpiece that showcases King’s genius for character building and his visionary storytelling.
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Disaster arrives with terrifying speed, but its human cost keeps unfolding long after the explosion itself.
Chernobyl
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Historical Thriller
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Disaster arrives with terrifying speed, but its human cost keeps unfolding long after the explosion itself. In Chernobyl, Frederik Pohl turns a real nuclear catastrophe into a tense, immersive novel shaped by technical detail and personal consequence. This works as disaster fiction with historical weight, capturing fear, confusion, and the scale of lives altered by a single irreversible event.
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The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author presents a "gripping and vivid" fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history (Kirkus).
Chernobyl: The very name conjures the terror of nuclear catastrophe. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion that spewed radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million had potentially cancer-causing exposure, and the surrounding city became a toxic wasteland in which nothing could live. When the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, the scenario many had feared became a sudden and terrifying reality.
Frederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of many people inside the USSR with access to technical information and first-person accounts of the events. This fictional account vividly brings to life the most tragic nuclear event in human history, only one of two level-7 nuclear accidents, along with the Fukushima disaster of 2011.
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Some threats come from the present, and some wait in the dark for the past to catch up.
Whispers in the Dark
Mystery · Paranormal Romance · Romantic Suspense · Suspense
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Some threats come from the present, and some wait in the dark for the past to catch up. After surviving a serial killer case that made her a target, Darby Shepard must rely on a man who feels unsettlingly familiar as danger closes in. Whispers in the Dark blends romantic suspense, buried history, and escalating menace into a story driven by memory, trust, and secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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After helping the police track a serial killer brutalizing her sleepy Louisiana town, Darby Shepard made headlines that put her life on the line. Now, the only man she can trust to keep her safe is the enigmatic, inexplicably familiar Aidan Tanner who seems to know Darby as well as she knows herself. She knows this man--like a whisper in the dark that she can't quite grasp. As the danger escalates around them, the dark secrets from that past fight to resurface.
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This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the…
Night Film
Thriller · Horror · Mystery · Psychological Thriller
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Night Film follows a disgraced investigative journalist into the orbit of a dead young woman, a vanished cult director, and a world that feels more cursed the deeper he goes. As Scott McGrath digs into Ashley Cordova’s death, the line between obsession, performance, and something genuinely sinister starts to blur. This is a strong fit for readers who like literary thrillers with a dark atmosphere, unsettling mysteries, and a constant sense that something is wrong just beneath the surface.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)
“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights on.”—The Washington Post
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage
On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.
The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time, he might lose even more.
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails.
The Unsuitable
Horror · Romance · Thriller
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The Unsuitable is the kind of gothic story that smiles politely right before everything goes deeply off the rails. With a heroine convinced her dead mother lives in the scar on her neck, a parade of terrible suitors, and a courtship that only gets stranger from there, this one blends Victorian manners, dark humor, and creeping madness into something deliciously unsettling.
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Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment.
Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck.
Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands—a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver—a true comedy of errors ensues.
As history's least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult's mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check.
As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act.
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In The Ultra Betrayal, OSS agent Conor Thorn is sent to track down a missing Swedish cryptographer whose disappearance could put critical Allied intelligence at risk.
The Ultra Betrayal
Historical Fiction · Thriller · Spy Thriller · World War 2
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In The Ultra Betrayal, OSS agent Conor Thorn is sent to track down a missing Swedish cryptographer whose disappearance could put critical Allied intelligence at risk. When the search leads from England to Stockholm and his MI6 colleague vanishes as well, Thorn is pulled into a deeper Nazi conspiracy with consequences for the wider war effort. This is a fast-paced WWII espionage thriller with codebreaking, covert operations, and high-stakes intrigue.
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One man's dark deal with the Nazis could bring the Allies to their knees …
The well researched WWII espionage series continues with fast-pased action and historical adventures.
Autumn, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing.
Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands, but when his MI6 colleague vanishes trailing the code-breaker to Stockholm, Thorn is plunged yet again into a sinister Nazi conspiracy.
Can Thorn stop prized secrets from triggering more wartime carnage?
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A missing girl, a silent survivor, and a town that never stopped feeding on its own tragedy make We Are All the Same in the Dark feel tense…
We Are All the Same in the Dark
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A missing girl, a silent survivor, and a town that never stopped feeding on its own tragedy make We Are All the Same in the Dark feel tense from the first page. When a mysterious girl is found years after Trumanell Branson’s disappearance, young cop Odette Tucker is pulled back into the cold case that shaped her life. What follows is an atmospheric thriller full of buried secrets, old wounds, and the kind of truth this town was never built to survive.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEOPLE PICK • OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION • The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans
“If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.”—Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers
It’s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru’s brother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.
When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town’s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can’t look away. She shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru.
Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past—the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.
In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.
Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark
“This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.”—The Times (South Africa)
“[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘What’s coming is always unimaginable,’ Odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ That’s true for this novel, too.”—The Dallas Morning News
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The Roses of May is the kind of thriller that knows healing and horror can exist in the same breath.
The Roses of May
Thriller
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The Roses of May is the kind of thriller that knows healing and horror can exist in the same breath. As the survivors of the Garden try to rebuild their lives, another killer begins staging young women in churches surrounded by flowers, pulling the agents back into a fresh nightmare. With Priya hunting answers about her sister’s murder, this one mixes grief, urgency, and creeping dread in a way that is deeply unsettling.
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Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers.
Priya Sravasti’s sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman’s crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya’s help can the killer be found—but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?
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It fits thriller readers who want sister drama, unreliable perceptions, buried trauma, and dark psychological tension.
The Secrets of Us
Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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When one sister is committed after trying to kill her husband, the other starts digging and uncovers a past that was never really buried. In The Secrets of Us, Krystal is determined to protect Nichole, but the closer she gets to the truth, the more their shared history threatens everything they built. It fits thriller readers who want sister drama, unreliable perceptions, buried trauma, and dark psychological tension.
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Dangerously addictive, The Secrets of Us is a pulse-pounding exploration of a disturbed psyche and the bond between two sisters desperate to escape a troubled past.
Foster sisters Krystal and Nichole have always been there for each other, so when Nichole is committed to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill her husband, Krystal drops everything to defend her.
Scarred by a hard upbringing, Nichole and Krystal managed to construct comfortable lives for themselves. Krystal became a respected lawyer, and Nichole was happily married to an architect—until Nichole starts raving that her husband isn’t her husband, believing that he’s an imposter.
Driven by fierce loyalty, Krystal starts asking questions, but she’s not sure she can bear the answers. Her investigation leads to the sisters’ dark shared past…to a horrible tragedy and a well-guarded lie that cemented their sisterly bond.
But that lie can’t kill the truth—the battered, gasping, clawing truth that’s coming for them both. Now Krystal and Nichole must both fight for the lives they’ve built before they’re consumed by the one they left behind.
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A strong match for readers who like classic vampire horror, slow-building dread, and corrupted small-town settings.
‘Salem’s Lot
Horror · Suspense
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A #1 bestseller, writer Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot hoping the Marsten House will help him confront his past and inspire a book. When a child disappears and the town falls under a growing supernatural threat, Ben and a group of allies fight to contain it, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 25,500 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like classic vampire horror, slow-building dread, and corrupted small-town settings.
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NOW A NEW FILM STREAMING ON MAX • #1 BESTSELLER • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. • With an introduction by Joe Hill
"A master storyteller." —The Los Angeles Times
When two young boys venture into the woods, and only one returns alive, Mears begins to realize that something sinister is at work. In fact, his hometown is under siege from forces of darkness far beyond his imagination. And only he, with a small group of allies, can hope to contain the evil that is growing within the borders of this small New England town.
With this, his second novel, Stephen King established himself as an indisputable master of American horror, able to transform the old conceits of the genre into something fresh and all the more frightening for taking place in a familiar, idyllic locale.
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Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
Symbiont
Dystopian · Thriller · Genetic Engineering
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In a world where tapeworms were designed to cure diseases, they instead turn on their hosts, creating a ravenous horde. Sal and her companions must uncover the tapeworms' sinister plan and find a way to stop them before it's too late. Symbiont has a 4.3-star rating from more than 1,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like medical thrillers, parasite horror, and near-future science fiction with outbreak stakes.
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From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes the second book in the terrifying Parasitology series.
The SymboGen-designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde.
Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped.
"A riveting near-future medical thriller that reads like the genetically-engineered love child of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton." —John Joseph Adams on Parasite
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It fits readers who want romantic tension, class conflict, and a Dickens-inspired historical retelling.
Olivia Twist
Teen + Young Adult · Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Historical Thriller
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A hidden past collides with high society in Olivia Twist, where survival instincts and stolen identities refuse to stay buried. Olivia has built a new life after years on London’s streets, but her loyalty to the children she left behind and her growing connection with Jack threaten everything she has tried to become. It fits readers who want romantic tension, class conflict, and a Dickens-inspired historical retelling.
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Olivia Twist is an innovative reimagining of Charles Dickens' classic tale Oliver Twist, in which Olivia was forced to live as a boy for her own safety until she was rescued from the streets. Now eighteen, Olivia finds herself at a crossroads: revealed secrets threaten to destroy the "proper" life she has built for herself, while newfound feelings for an arrogant young man she shouldn't like could derail her carefully laid plans for the future.
Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.
Jack MacCarron rose from his place in London's East End to become the adopted "nephew" of a society matron. Little does society know that MacCarron is a false name for a boy once known among London gangs as the Artful Dodger, and that he and his “aunt” are robbing them blind every chance they get. When Jack encounters Olivia Brownlow in places he least expects, his curiosity is piqued. Why is a society girl helping a bunch of homeless orphan thieves? Even more intriguing, why does she remind him so much of someone he once knew? Jack finds himself wondering if going legit and risking it all might be worth it for love.
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