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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.
Mortal Realities
The Exorcism of Faeries
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This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
Fitcher’s Bird
Horror · Gothic Horror · Occult Horror
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Three sisters survived the fire that destroyed their childhood home, but years later Chloe and Zoe disappear, leaving Dido to revisit their shared past and discover whether something else survived the blaze. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 50 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
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Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire… Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived… A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.
When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctor’s family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.
Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, it’s left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.
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Ideal for readers looking for gothic dark academia with secret societies, pagan mythology, supernatural conflict, and campus horror.
Waking the Moon
Occult Horror
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Winner of the 1996 James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award and the 1996 Mythopoeic Award, Waking the Moon follows college freshman Sweeney Cassidy as she discovers that her gothic Washington, D.C. university is tied to the Benandanti, a secret order suppressing a destructive Moon Goddess, and that her two new friends are the Goddess's Chosen Ones. With a 3.8-star average from more than 2,500 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for gothic dark academia with secret societies, pagan mythology, supernatural conflict, and campus horror.
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A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall: "The unstoppable narrative just might make Waking the Moon a cult classic. Literally" (Spin).
For fans of The Secret History—a supernaturally charged masterpiece of dark academia.
Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn't suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the University is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the Goddess's Chosen Ones.
Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive post-feminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud where the real and the magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Historical Fiction · Horror · Literary Fiction · Occult Horror · Suspense
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In 1970, four pregnant teenagers confined at a Florida maternity home discover witchcraft and use their new power to resist the adults controlling their bodies and futures, with a 3.9-star average from more than 144,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical horror built around institutional cruelty, female friendship, folk magic, and hard-won resistance.
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"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
They were never girls, they were witches . . . .
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, frightened, and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they’re allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by the adults who claim they know what’s best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it’s never given freely. There’s always a price to be paid . . . and it’s usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a “horror master” (NPR).
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Ideal for readers drawn to occult horror, haunted buildings, parallel investigations, genealogy, and slow-burning historical mystery.
The Search for Joseph Tully
Horror · Occult Horror
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A New York Times bestseller called “A relentless, terrifying thriller” by Dean Koontz, The Search for Joseph Tully follows Peter Richardson as a condemned Brooklyn building turns threatening, while London solicitor Matthew Willow traces Joseph Tully through genealogical records and centuries of reincarnation. Ideal for readers drawn to occult horror, haunted buildings, parallel investigations, genealogy, and slow-burning historical mystery.
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New York Times Bestseller: "A relentless, terrifying thriller" from the award-winning author of The Ross Forgery (Dean Koontz).
In Brooklyn, in a historic part of that shambled borough, the flailing iron ball of the wrecker's crane is at work. One of the few buildings still standing amid the rubble is the Brevoort House, older than memory. Its only remaining tenant is Peter Richardson. Abandoned. Menaced. Alone. The Brevoort has become an unbearable burden for him. Houses, like people, can go bad, and the Brevoort emanates an evilness, an undefined terror, aimed directly at him. The house—something in the house—is telling Richardson of his impending death.
In another part of Brooklyn, solicitor Matthew Willow arrives from London seeking a man who may not exist. He has one clue, the name of the wanted man's ancestor: Joseph Tully. Willow's search takes him into the fascinating world of the genealogical detective—and uncovers a relentless pursuit and quest for vengeance through centuries of reincarnation . . .
"The kind of book you can't put down while you're reading—and will never forget after you finish. A super-shocker." —Robert Bloch, author of Psycho
"As horrifying as anything you'll read for a long time." —The Detroit Free Press
"Hallahan skillfully brings together two disparate stories in a frigid climax of suggestive '70s horror. . . . I reveled in Tully's lonely, despairing, fatalistic tone." —Too Much Horror Fiction
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Best for readers who like gothic mystery, eerie old houses, restless spirits, and slow-building historical suspense.
An Insidious Inheritance
Thriller · Horror · Occult Horror
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An Insidious Inheritance follows Clara Dawson, who inherits a remote inn from the father who abandoned her and finds herself drawn into Hollowfield House’s haunted past, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 90 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like gothic mystery, eerie old houses, restless spirits, and slow-building historical suspense.
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A chilling and atmospheric gothic mystery where buried secrets and restless spirits collide, forcing one woman to confront the dark inheritance her father left behind. For readers who love the slow-building, eerie tension of Susan Hill and Simone St. James.
Every inheritance has a price . . .
Upstate New York, 1933. When Clara Dawson inherits Hollowfield House—a remote inn owned by the father who abandoned her—she hopes to sell it quickly and escape her mounting debts. But the inn’s haunted halls hold secrets darker than she ever imagined, and something within them refuses to be forgotten.
From the moment she arrives, Clara is unnerved by eerie encounters that leave her questioning her sanity—a mysterious locket, an unsigned letter, and the apparition of a young woman bound to the inn's tragic past. As these unsettling incidents escalate, Clara begins to suspect her father’s death was anything but ordinary.
With help from the property’s groundskeeper, Tuck, Clara’s search for answers pulls her into the tangled web of Hollowfield’s history. It quickly becomes clear that someone—or something—is determined to keep the past buried, and they will stop at nothing to silence her.
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This is paranormal thriller territory for readers who like eerie puzzles, psychological unease, and danger with an uncanny edge.
Bad Moon
Horror · Occult Horror
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Bad Moon traps Elizabeth Cage inside a supernatural mystery where the most frightening threat may come from herself. After a Christmas she cannot fully remember, blood appears on her doorstep, a sinister force closes in, and a death threat arrives in her own handwriting. This is paranormal thriller territory for readers who like eerie puzzles, psychological unease, and danger with an uncanny edge.
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BOOK 4 IN THE GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL SERIES BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S
I will send the serpent.
I always send the serpent.
It's kind of my signature move.
Things are not going well for Elizabeth Cage.
It all started with the Christmas she can't quite remember.
There's blood on her doorstep every morning.
Something unpleasant is heading her way.
And then there's the sinister note threatening her life.
The one that seems to have been written by Elizabeth herself . . .
Twisty, dark and incredibly gripping, the Elizabeth Cage novels are perfect for fans of Sarah Painter and Genevieve Cogman.
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A strong match for readers drawn to apocalyptic horror with small-town dread, contagion, possession, and family-in-crisis stakes.
The Missing
Horror · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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Called “one of the best dark fiction writers of our generation” by Brian Keene, The Missing follows a small Maine town as a bite-spread virus turns victims into predatory monsters and forces librarian Meg Wintrob to find a way out, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 80 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to apocalyptic horror with small-town dread, contagion, possession, and family-in-crisis stakes.
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A virus infects a small Maine town, unleashing an apocalypse in this Bram Stoker Award–winning horror novel.
It is always hungry; it is never satisfied . . .
It laid waste to the town of Bedford, Maine. A cocktail of toxic chemicals conjured up by the runoff product of a paper mill. But that was merely one ingredient of the poison that killed Bedford's people, whose lives were haunted by their unforgivable sins.
Now, the neighboring community of Corpus Christi is facing its own epidemic. A fourth-grader vanished during a field trip to Bedford's woods. And when he returned, he wasn't alone. Something took possession of him, driving him to hunt and . . . feed. He carries a contagion that spreads with every bite, turning wounded victims into predatory monsters.
Town librarian Meg Wintrob has her own problems when the virus comes. Her marriage is hanging by a thread. Her teen daughter wants to run away. It was an ordinary suburb with ordinary problems—until it wasn't. As the sick begin to outnumber the healthy, Meg will need to find a way out. Because this virus infects more than the body; it eats the soul.
"With The Missing, Sarah Langan solidifies her position alongside Joe Hill, Tim Lebbon, Tom Piccirilli, and a handful of others as one of the best dark fiction writers of our generation." —Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award–winning author
"The Missing is reminiscent of Stephen King's Salem's Lot with wicked drops of Koontz, Barker and Straub. Sarah Langan is the new jack-o'-lantern on the doorstep. Walk around her cautiously." —Madison Country Herald
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Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
Starve
Horror · Occult Horror · Paranormal Romance
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Starve follows a woman who escapes Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium only to be followed by an ancient, hungry presence that knows her scent and blood, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,700 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for folklore-esque monster romance with dark atmosphere, locked-door fear, and dangerous obsession.
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All it took was one time.
One breakdown and I ended up behind the locked doors of Bluebone Ridge Sanitarium.
Something is wrong here.
It whispers through the cracked windows, coils beneath the floorboards, and breathes in the frozen Washington air that never truly warms, even in the summer.
Something hungry.
At night, the screaming starts. I’m locked in like prey, and the dark watches with hollow eyes. When someone—or something—finally sets me free, it isn’t a mercy. Because whatever haunted Bluebone Ridge followed me out. It’s ancient… starving. And now it knows my scent and the taste of my blood.
He doesn’t know whether to devour me or claim me.
But either way, I’m sure I won’t survive unchanged.
STARVE is a MF standalone, folklore-esque monster romance. It does not end in a cliffhanger, and contains quite a few aspects readers should be aware of. For a full list of potential triggers, please check the front of the book.
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This will appeal to readers who want tense supernatural thrillers built around family secrets, identity, pursuit, and inherited danger.
The String Diaries
Horror · Occult Horror
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The String Diaries follows Hannah as she tries to protect her family from a centuries-old shapeshifter whose obsession has haunted generations, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 500 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want tense supernatural thrillers built around family secrets, identity, pursuit, and inherited danger.
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A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.
The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night -- her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied with strings through generations. The diaries carry the rules for survival that have been handed down from mother to daughter since the 19th century. But how can Hannah escape an enemy with the ability to look and sound like the people she loves?
Stephen Lloyd Jones's debut novel is a sweeping thriller that extends from the present day, to Oxford in the 1970s, to Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, all tracing back to a man from an ancient royal family with a consuming passion -- a boy who can change his shape, insert himself into the intimate lives of his victims, and destroy them.
If Hannah fails to end the chase now, her daughter is next in line. Only Hannah can decide how much she is willing to sacrifice to finally put a centuries-old curse to rest.
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Best for readers who like dark academy romantasy with fae soldiers, forbidden mentor attraction, brutal training, revenge, and spice.
The House at Watch Hill
Horror · Occult Horror · Supernatural Horror
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Called “a bloody, steamy, and surprisingly heartfelt revenge tale” by a NetGalley reviewer, Vicious Princess follows a scarred human recruit entering a ruthless fae military academy to join an ancient order and gain the power to avenge her family’s murder, only to find that the soldier she spent one passionate night with is now her instructor, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like dark academy romantasy with fae soldiers, forbidden mentor attraction, brutal training, revenge, and spice.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new paranormal romance series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets...
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.
Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.
Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…
What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house, and this haunted estate is the key to her true identity. In order to awaken her dormant witch powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.
“This book has everything! A witchy, sexy read that made me sleep with the lights on…Karen Marie Moning at her best!”
-Sophie Jordan, New York Times bestselling author
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