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  Publication Date:  February 7, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Horror  Publisher:  Gallery Saga Press Length:   461 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis December 12, 2019, Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer Dark Mill South escapes into town to complete his revenge killings, in this riveting sequel to  My Heart Is a Chainsaw  from  New York Times  best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones. Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted seria...

  Publication Date:  February 7, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Supernatural, ghosts Narrators:  Adam Lazarre-White Publisher:  Macmillan Audio  Length:   11 hours 15 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money—it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson proper...

Publication Date:  October 21, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror, Dark Fantasy Narrators:  Jeff Cummings Publisher:  Brilliance Audio  Length:   6 hours 52 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old estate.  After heiress and current owner Caitlin Chaisson is witness to her husband’s stunning betrayal at her birthday party, she tries to take her own life in the mansion’s cherished gazebo. Instead, the blood she spills awakens dark forces in the ground below. Chaos ensues and by morning her ...

Publication Date:  August 31, 2021 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Horror Fiction Publisher:  Gallery Saga Press Length:  412 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets  Friday the 13th  in  My Heart Is a Chainsaw , written by the  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Only Good Indians  Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls  My Heart Is a Chainsaw  “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, ...

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2020 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Horror Publisher:  Tor Nightfire Length:  159 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Review:  A modern retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.  Roderick and Madeline Usher reside in a crumbling home on lands that are barren and the lake dark and murky.  Madeline...

Publication Date:  July 26 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror/Mystery Narrators:  Joe Hempel Publisher:  Tantor Audio Length:  12 hours 13 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis An atmospheric, haunting thriller, full of memorable characters and sublime terror, from the author of Come with Me For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic childhood and the guilt at having disappeared from his disabled brother's life. But then a series of unusual events reunites him with his estranged brother and their childhood friends, and none of them can deny the sense of fate that has seemingly drawn them back together. Nor can they deny the memories of that summer, so long ago—the strange ...

  Publication Date:  May 10, 2022 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Ghost Thriller Publisher:  Flatiron Books  Length:  375  pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Hardcover Synopsis Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy. Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body. Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly siniste...

Publication Date:  April 3, 2012 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror Narrator:  Dan Butler Publisher:  Blackstone Audio         Length:  11 hours 49 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and shuffling closer ever so slowly.   Pity no one warned the family a...

Release Date:  April 8, 2014 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 30 minutes Narrator:  Jennifer Ikeda Genre:  Science Fiction Romance YA Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle Synopsis:  Twin sisters Moria and Ashyn were marked at birth to become the Keeper and the Seeker of Edgewood, beginning with their sixteenth birthday. Trained in fighting and in the secret rites of the spirits, they lead an annual trip into the Forest of the Dead. There, the veil between the living world and the beyond is thinnest, and the girls pay respect to the spirits who have passed. But this year, their trip goes dreadfully wrong. With all the heart-stopping romance and action that have made her a #1  New York Times  bestselling author, and set in an unforgettably rich and dangerous world, this first epic book in the Age of Legends trilogy will appeal to Kelley Armstron...

  Phantoms in the Moonlight Alaine Greyson, Marie McGrath, S. C. Morgan Publication date: September 8th 2020 Genres: Adult, Horror, Thriller 11 stories to fright and delight. As the air turns cooler and bonfires take over the night, gather around the fire for stories of fall fun, strange occurrences and abject terror. These stories published by authors S. C. Morgan, Marie McGrath and Alaine Greyson are sure to get your heart pumping and take your imagination on a wild ride. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: Lucifer. The Devil? The night had taken a turn for the worse. Trudy glanced at the pill bottle. Forget the rest of today. This haunting of a witch, sorceress, and now the Devil was enough to end things. No one would ever believe her if she explained. “Whenever I see opportunity, I’m there. This is no different. Besides, I’m convinced this will be an easy sell.” Lucifer nodded toward Miranda. “Sending in the young ones to do an adult’s job? No worries. Just makes my...

  Belle Vue C.S. Alleyne Publication date: August 25th 2020 Genres: Adult, Horror Jealousy. Betrayal. Murder. And a hunger for vengeance that spans the centuries… History student Alex Palmer is thrilled when his girlfriend, Claire Ryan, buys an apartment in Belle Vue Manor, formerly a Victorian lunatic asylum. But as Alex begins to discover the dark truth about the asylum’s past, he, Claire, and their friend Marianne find themselves on a nightmarish journey. Each will face the deadly consequences of the evil that began with the construction of the first Belle Vue Manor by an aristocratic French émigré in 1789, as well as the cruelty and satanic practices that continued when it became an asylum for the insane. As the two strands—past and present—unfold, Alex uncovers a supernatural mystery where revenge is paramount and innocence irrelevant—without being aware of the price he, and those around him, will pay. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the D...

Release Date:  February 6, 2007 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 3 minutes Narrator:  Stephen Lang Genre:  Horror, Thriller, Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals...a used hangman's noose...a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is widely known. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest discovery, a thing so terrible-strange, Jude can't help but reach for his wallet. I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the proud owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. He isn't afraid. He has spent a lifetime coping with ghosts: of an abusive father, of the lovers he callously abandoned, of the bandmates he betrayed. What's one more? But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-sha...

Title:   Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone: A Novel by Stefan Kiesbye Publisher: Penguin 198 pages Genre: Horror Synopsis:  A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel. Review: This is truly one of the most disturbing books I have read in a long time.  Not because of what goes on in this creepy little town but because of the lack of remorse from any of the characters.  Within the first 40 pages a boy murders his sister and a town bludgeons to death a family of 5 and life goes on. There were many moments when I almost ...