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833 past books matching Horror
From the legendary author of I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes is a haunting tale of psychic powers gone wrong.
A Stir of Echoes
Horror · Occult Horror · Psychological Thriller
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From the legendary author of I Am Legend, A Stir of Echoes is a haunting tale of psychic powers gone wrong. When Tom Wallace unlocks the ability to hear others’ thoughts, he uncovers more than he bargained for—especially when a restless spirit comes calling. With 4.3 stars on Amazon, this classic inspired the 1999 Kevin Bacon film.
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Tom Wallace was an ordinary man with a quiet life, until one strange night changed everything. After a casual hypnosis session at a party, Tom begins to hear the thoughts of those around him—and what he hears is disturbing.
Unwillingly tuned into the darkest corners of others’ minds, Tom struggles to cope with secrets he was never meant to know. But the voices are just the beginning. Something else is reaching out. A presence that won’t be ignored. A message from beyond the grave that demands to be heard.
As his reality crumbles, Tom must confront forces he cannot understand to uncover the truth. In A Stir of Echoes, Richard Matheson delivers a chilling tale of psychic terror, buried secrets, and the thin veil between the living and the dead.
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Good for readers who want serial-killer horror, childhood trauma, small-town dread, and old-school chills.
Sleep Tight
Horror · Psychological Thriller
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Called the “clear heir to Stephen King” by Peter Farris, Sleep Tight is a horror thriller about Tess Claibourne, a detective drawn back to Twisted Tree after a new killer revives Father Silence’s legacy and kidnaps her daughter, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 1,200 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want serial-killer horror, childhood trauma, small-town dread, and old-school chills.
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The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive horror thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man.
Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the "clear heir to Stephen King.”
Beware the one who got away . . .
Father Silence once terrorized the rural town of Twisted Tree, disguising himself as a priest to prey on the most vulnerable members of society. When the police finally found his "House of Horrors," they uncovered nineteen bodies and one survivor–a boy now locked away in a hospital for the criminally insane.
Nearly two decades later, Father Silence is finally put to death, but by the next morning, the detective who made the original arrest is found dead. A new serial killer is taking credit for the murder and calling himself the Outcast.
The detective’s daughter, Tess Claibourne, is a detective herself, haunted by childhood trauma and horrified by the death of her father and the resurgence of Father Silence’s legacy.
When Tess’s daughter is kidnapped by the Outcast, Tess is forced to face her worst fears and long-buried memories. With no leads to follow, she travels back to Twisted Tree to visit the boy who survived and see what secrets might be buried in the tangled web of his broken mind.
With captivating prose and an old-school horror flair, Sleep Tight is a must-read, haunting tale from a true master of the genre.
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A horror novelist returns to his ancestral estate and finds the real darkness he’s been writing about all along.
Usher’s Passing
Horror
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A horror novelist returns to his ancestral estate and finds the real darkness he’s been writing about all along. In Usher’s Passing, Bram Stoker Award winner Robert McCammon pays haunting tribute to Poe’s legacy with a Southern gothic twist. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, this chilling tale of madness and inheritance proves some bloodlines should have ended long ago.
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Poe's classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York Times–bestselling author.
Ever since Edgar Allan Poe looted a family's ignoble secret history for his classic story "The Fall of the House of Usher," living in the shadow of that sick dynasty has been an inescapable scourge for generations of Usher descendants. But not for horror novelist Rix Usher.
Years ago, he fled the isolated family estate of Usherland in the menacing North Carolina hills to pursue his writing career. He promised never to return. But his father's impending death has brought Rix back home to assume the role of Usher patriarch—and face his worst fears.
His arrival forces him to confront a devious and impassive family and his vulnerable sister's slow descent into insanity. Stirring memories of the grim folktales born out of the surrounding Briartop Mountains and the terrifying legends of missing children, Rix knows that in the dark, twisted corridors of Usherland, that dreadful something he saw as a young boy is still there. It's waiting for him, as decayed and undying as the Usher heritage, and more depraved than anything Poe could have imagined.
This eerie novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Swan Song and Boy's Life is "a frightening pleasure" and a worthy tribute to the master who inspired it (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).
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With 4.4 stars on Amazon, it’s a terrifyingly good deal for anyone craving xenomorph carnage and high-stakes space warfare.
The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One
Sci-Fi · Horror · First Contact
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This pulse-pounding omnibus brings together three classic Alien novels by Steve and Stephani Perry. Packed with military sci-fi action, psychological horror, and iconic characters like Ripley, The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One is essential for franchise fans. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, it’s a terrifyingly good deal for anyone craving xenomorph carnage and high-stakes space warfare.
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Welcome to a galaxy where nightmares don’t end when you wake up. The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume One collects three explosive novels set in the legendary Alien universe—Earth Hive, Nightmare Asylum, and The Female War.
Ex-marine Wilks and survivor Billie are bound by trauma, forged in fire, and repeatedly thrown into impossible missions. From Earth’s covert bioweapons programs to deep-space outposts overrun with xenomorphs, they face horrors beyond comprehension. Alongside a mysterious pilot named Ripley, they uncover devastating secrets and lead a final stand that may decide the fate of humanity.
Filled with gritty action, claustrophobic terror, and brutal survival, this omnibus captures the raw intensity of the Alien saga in print. The hive is stirring. The war is far from over.
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Born of violence and raised in darkness, Baal is no ordinary child.
Baal
Horror · Occult Horror
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Born of violence and raised in darkness, Baal is no ordinary child. In this cult horror classic by Robert McCammon, a boy becomes a harbinger of destruction, spreading chaos across continents in a supernatural rise to power. With 4.1 stars on Amazon, Baal is a chilling tale of evil incarnate and the desperate fight to stop it.
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Mary Kate is a waitress trapped in a bleak marriage. After surviving a brutal assault, she discovers she’s pregnant with her attacker’s child. A son she tries to love and protect.
But Jeffrey is no ordinary boy.
By the time he can walk, he’s manipulating those around him. By adolescence, he renames himself Baal and begins to wield a terrifying power. From a blood-soaked cult in California to violent uprisings in the Middle East, Baal leaves devastation in his wake.
Priests, prophets, and scholars follow his trail, each hoping to stop the force of evil growing stronger by the day. But Baal isn’t hiding.
He’s ascending.
In a final confrontation set in the frozen Arctic, good and evil collide in a battle that will decide humanity’s future or seal its doom.
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On a world reduced to mountain strongholds and ritual survival, the monsters below are no longer myth.
Aliens: Phalanx
Horror · Sci-Fi
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On a world reduced to mountain strongholds and ritual survival, the monsters below are no longer myth. Aliens: Phalanx follows three young warriors who seize on a fragile new weapon and push toward the heart of the infestation, where the Demon Mother waits. Scott Sigler blends medieval warfare, survival horror, and relentless creature terror into a brutal reimagining of the Alien universe.
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The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Infected delivers medieval carnage as a pre-industrial society fights extinction at the hands of a massive infestation of Xenomorphs.
Ataegina was an isolated world of medieval castles, varied cultures, and conquests, vibrant until the demons rose and spread relentless destruction. Swarms of lethal creatures with black husks, murderous claws, barbed tails and dreaded "tooth-tongues" raged through the lowlands, killing ninety percent of the planet's population. Terrified survivors fled to hidden mountain keeps where they eke out a meager existence. When a trio of young warriors discovers a new weapon, they see a chance to end this curse. To save humanity, the trio must fight their way to the tunnels of Black Smoke Mountain--the lair of the mythical Demon Mother.
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A Caribbean scuba dive turns terrifying when a Nazi U-boat resurfaces, with something still alive inside.
The Night Boat
Horror · Occult Horror
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A Caribbean scuba dive turns terrifying when a Nazi U-boat resurfaces, with something still alive inside. In The Night Boat, horror legend Robert McCammon crafts a chilling tale of deep-sea dread and supernatural suspense. With 4.1 stars on Amazon, this undersea nightmare proves some wrecks are better left alone. Fans of classic horror will want to read with the lights on.
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A scuba diver unearths a sunken U-boat that holds a terrible secret
Robert Moore had a cushy life in Baltimore. The son of a bank president, he could have had the old man's job if he'd just waited in line. But Moore isn't the patient type, and rather than spend his life trapped behind a desk, he decamped for the Caribbean, to pass his days diving beneath the perfect blue sea. One day, diving deeper than usual, he spies a sunken ship. His investigations disrupt an unexploded depth charge, which hurls Robert to the surface with the sunken ship not far behind.
The U-boat, still seaworthy after all these decades, drifts towards the island and gets caught on the reef. A strange knocking echoes from inside the hull, as though something within is still alive. When Robert opens the long-closed hatch, he'll learn that some sunken treasure is better left undisturbed.
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In 1925, three climbers ascend Mount Everest to uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious disappearances.
The Abominable
Thriller · Horror
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In 1925, three climbers ascend Mount Everest to uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious disappearances. As the air thins and the shadows close in, they realize something else is hunting them on the mountain. Dan Simmons’s The Abominable is a gripping historical thriller of survival, obsession, and the dark mysteries of Everest.
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High on the slopes of Mount Everest, something waits in the snow.
In 1925, three climbers—an English war veteran, a French mountain guide, and an idealistic American—set out to uncover the truth behind the disappearances of George Mallory, Sandy Irvine, and a missing young aristocrat. Funded by the boy’s grieving mother, their expedition becomes a desperate search for answers in the world’s most dangerous place.
As they climb into the thin air, strange signs appear in the snow and an unseen presence stalks them through the night. Survival becomes a race against something colder and far more sinister than the mountain itself.
Dan Simmons’s The Abominable is a chilling historical thriller of endurance, obsession, and the secrets buried on the roof of the world.
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An influencer retreat on a remote island turns blood-soaked when guests start disappearing and dark legends prove disturbingly real.
How Bad Things Can Get
Thriller · Horror
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An influencer retreat on a remote island turns blood-soaked when guests start disappearing and dark legends prove disturbingly real. How Bad Things Can Get is a survival horror from Darcy Coates with 4.4 stars on Amazon, blending cult trauma, buried secrets, and a tropical nightmare that won’t stay in the past. Not everyone will make it off Prosperity Island alive.
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It was supposed to be five days of sun-soaked games and influencer-driven debauchery. Instead, paradise turned into something far more sinister.
Ruth didn’t come to Prosperity Island for fun. She came to stay invisible. The only survivor of a cult that made headlines decades ago, she knows how quickly utopia can become a nightmare.
Now, party guests are vanishing. Strange symbols mark the sand. And the legend that gave the island its name feels more like a warning than a myth.
Ruth has spent her life outrunning the past. But this island knows who she is. And it’s not finished with her yet.
As the bonfires burn and the bodies pile up, the real game begins.
Survival isn’t about winning. It’s about escaping the story you were never meant to survive.
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction.
The Conspiracy against the Human Race
Horror · Gothic Romance
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From acclaimed horror writer Thomas Ligotti comes a terrifying work of nonfiction. The Conspiracy against the Human Race blends philosophy, neuroscience, and literary critique into a chilling case for pessimism. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and a cult following, this book confronts the darkest question of all: what if the real horror is life itself?
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What if the true horror of existence isn’t the monsters we imagine but the act of being alive?
In his first nonfiction work, acclaimed horror author Thomas Ligotti pulls back the veil not on fantasy, but on reality itself. Combining philosophical pessimism, literary analysis, and neuroscience, Ligotti constructs a chilling argument: human consciousness is a cosmic mistake, and our desperate belief in meaning is a comforting illusion.
This is not horror for entertainment. It is horror as revelation.
Ligotti invites readers into a mirror-dark world where suffering is universal, free will is a myth, and optimism is just another delusion. Bleak, brilliant, and strangely freeing, this book doesn’t ask if you’re ready to face the truth.
It quietly suggests you never were.
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Mats Strandberg mixes supernatural horror with sharp human drama in a claustrophobic story for readers who like vampires, ensemble casts, and nowhere safe to run.
Blood Cruise
Horror · Occult Horror
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A routine overnight ferry across the Baltic Sea becomes a floating nightmare when an ancient evil comes aboard. Hundreds of passengers and crew are trapped far from shore as the threat spreads, testing relationships and turning ordinary travelers into reluctant heroes—or something much worse. Mats Strandberg mixes supernatural horror with sharp human drama in a claustrophobic story for readers who like vampires, ensemble casts, and nowhere safe to run.
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'Terrifying and terrifyingly real, a must-read for fans of Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist' - Elizabeth Hand, author of Hard Light
Welcome aboard the Baltic Charisma.
Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland. The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year.
But this trip is going to be different.
In the middle of the night the ferry is cut off from the outside world. There is nowhere to escape. There is no way to contact the mainland. And no one knows who to trust . . .
On the Baltic Sea, no one can hear you scream.
'I will never set foot on a cruise ship again!' - Åsa Larsson, bestselling author of The Second Deadly Sin and Until thy Wrath Be Past
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A small-town murder.
Mind of a Killer
Horror · Thriller
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A small-town murder. A phantom killer. An FBI profiler with everything to lose. Mind of a Killer kicks off Dan Padavona’s dark and gripping Scarlett Bell series with 4.2 stars on Amazon. Fans of Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs will be hooked from the first page. This killer leaves no traces—except the ones meant just for her.
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A teenage girl is found murdered in a quiet lakeside town. The killer is careful, calculated, and completely untraceable.
Scarlett Bell, top profiler for the FBI’s Behavior Analysis Unit, is called in to uncover the truth. But what she finds in Coral Lake is more than a single murder. A second girl goes missing, and Scarlett realizes she’s facing a predator unlike any she has hunted before. Cunning. Bloodthirsty. Invisible.
As the body count rises, Scarlett must piece together a trail that barely exists. The killer is always one step ahead. And now, he’s watching her.
Mind of a Killer is a pulse-pounding FBI thriller where every second counts. Perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs, this case will test everything Scarlett thought she knew.
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