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  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    One night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  hauntings
  • The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    12 ratings
    Ghost removal specialist Ellie Jordan must face a dangerous, shape-shifting entity that she and Calvin have encountered once before, with tragic results. The spirit has the power to reach into the minds of living and feed on their fears, taking the shape of their worst nightmares, and it has awoken in search of new victims...
  • The Proctor Hall Horror The Bayou Hauntings Book 7 by Bill Thompson

    The Proctor Hall Horror The Bayou Hauntings Book 7 by Bill Thompson

    6 ratings
    DescriptionSet along the beautiful Bayou Lafourche near Thibodaux, Louisiana, it’s a more traditional ghost story than some of the others from this author. Back in 1963, a fourteen-year-old boy who’s never spoken a word is found sitting quietly on a stairway in his house. In a nearby sitting room, his mother, father and younger sister sit next to each other on a couch...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  death  fiction  haunted-places
  • The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon

    The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon

    6 ratings
    The monster demon is BACK! ...and he’s had twenty-six years to plot his revenge. More horrifying than any Hollywood-animated, computer-generated, mechanical unreality, the winged demon called an efreet will do anything to get what he wants. Pronounce that: An-y-thing Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the monster returns determined to kill them...
  • The Crane Diaries: Bayou Secrets by Apryl Baker

    The Crane Diaries: Bayou Secrets by Apryl Baker

    6 ratings
    Deep in the bayou is a place so dark even nightmares tremble in fear. It has been whispered about for a century, and even the hunters of New Orleans don't trek into the shadows of Madame's island, a Necromancer more feared than any other. But all that is about to change.A hunter has gone missing...
  • Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    6 ratings
    A new novel in the exciting Lance Brody series from the author of the Amazon Kindle #1 Bestselling horror novel, Rough Draft!A family mysteriously murdered. A haunted farmhouse. A town rich with secrets...
  • The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    The Ravenous Dead by Darcy Coates

    8 ratings
    He'll never let go...Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard’s new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They’ve been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  gothic  hauntings
  • The Monster Museum by J.L. Bryan

    The Monster Museum by J.L. Bryan

    10 ratings
    Just outside the small but colorful mountain resort town of Foxboro, Tennessee lies Dr. Weirdman's Mountain Museum of Monsters, Curiosities, and Ancient Mysteries. A tourist draw for earlier generations it offered travelers the amusement of touring unusual underground caves, and pseudo-scientific exhibits ranging from strange creatures to the supposed artifacts of lost civilizations...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  death
  • Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    Devil's Door by Lee Mountford

    10 ratings
    Halloween night, 1982. Many people were brutally killed or simply vanished at the Blackwater Hotel—formerly Perron Manor. The events of that night have always remained a mystery.Until now...Ray and Rita Pearson, along with their daughter, Chloe, move into the hotel to help with its renovation and grand opening. All under the watchful eye of the mysterious owner, Marcus Blackwater...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig

    The Raptor & the Wren by Chuck Wendig

    11 ratings
    Official Amazon description:In the fifth book of the “wildly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) Miriam Black series, Miriam continues her journey to find answers on how to change her fate and begin to make right some of what she’s done wrong...
  • The Saints of the Lost and Found by Toni McGee Causey

    The Saints of the Lost and Found by Toni McGee Causey

    6 ratings
    Avery Broussard has the curse of seeing lost things (and make no mistake about it, it is a curse). Missing belongings and beloved pets, lost love and loved ones--she sees it all. Long ago, that curse destroyed her own chance at true love, causing her to flee her Louisiana home, vowing never to return. She's kept that promise too, until a phone call from her estranged father forces her hand...
  • The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    The Pretender by Rob Blackwell

    6 ratings
    A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth...
  • The Belles of Desire, Mississippi  (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    The Belles of Desire, Mississippi (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    6 ratings
    What happened to Jeopardy Belle? Is she the lost soul that haunts Summerleigh? Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson

    Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson

    6 ratings
    It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into.Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  evil-places  fiction  horror
  • The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    The Final Formula Collection by Becca Andre

    6 ratings
    When magic returned almost two decades ago, it found a modern world rooted in science, and those beliefs colored the way new abilities manifested. This New Magic is in sharp contrast to Old Magic, which has always been around, hiding in the dark and forgotten places. Addie isn’t magical, but she can wield power with the best of them...
  • Dark Passing by Liz Schulte

    Dark Passing by Liz Schulte

    6 ratings
    Mary Nelson’s murder shocked the small town of Jackson. The vibrant, young college student disappeared on her way home. A week later her body was found in the trunk of a burning car. No suspects. No evidence. No case. Ella Reynolds’ life had finally turned around. With a new book released, the past safely tucked away, and a burgeoning romance, she begins to live again...
  • Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    6 ratings
    Charlie Modine didn’t find any justice in life. And the afterlife hasn’t been much better. Still, Modine’s ghost is more determined than ever to find the cold-blooded murderer who ran his wife down on the streets of New York City. Tortured and tormented, Modine asks for help from the only person who will listen. The only one who knows he’s there. Abby Craig...
  • Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    6 ratings
    Now the prime suspect in a high-profile murder investigation, Abby Craig flees the only place she has ever called home and is forced to live on the run as a fugitive in the shadows of the American Southwest.But Abby soon discovers that she isn't alone. A mysterious stranger is plaguing her every step. A stranger with a dark past who has plans for her...
  • Whispers in the Dark by Laurel Hightower

    Whispers in the Dark by Laurel Hightower

    6 ratings
    Rose McFarland is a trained killer--a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors know that she spent two years in a rehabilitative facility, healing and learning to cope with the emotional trauma of the fire...
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    paranormal  ghosts  dark  horror  fantasy  fiction  grief  gothic
  • Ghosts Beneath Us by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Ghosts Beneath Us by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    8 ratings
    Someone is terrorizing the elderly in a certain neighborhood in Spookie and vandalizing their homes. As usual, Abigail Sutton, a freelance artist, and her boyfriend Frank Lester, a retired homicide detective, are called in to help find out who’s doing these awful acts. The two seem to have an uncanny knack for unraveling mysteries and getting to the bottom of such strange happenings...
  • 44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    8 ratings
    It’s Christmastime and the nights are far from silent for Abby Craig.She is haunted by a vision unlike anything she has ever experienced before. As a church bell rings out in the lonely night, a young woman is left dying in an alley, her blood staining the snow beneath her...
  • The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    The Ghost of Tobacco Road by Dale J. Young

    8 ratings
    On the banks of the Skeleton River in a remote part of North Carolina lies the small town of Starlight. Once known for its tobacco fields and rural charm, Starlight has seen better days. Now most of the stores on Main Street are boarded up, and many of the residents have left town for good...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gothic  hauntings
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    10 ratings
    Devin Lyle and Craig Rockwell are back, this time to a haunted castle in Ireland where a banshee may have gone wild—or maybe there's a much more rational explanation—one that involves a disgruntled heir, murder, and mayhem, all with that sexy light touch Heather Graham has turned into her trademark style...
  • The Knowing by Ninie Hammon

    The Knowing by Ninie Hammon

    12 ratings
    When the hot call comes over the radio: “Code Red! Active shooter at Carlisle Elementary School,” Police Sergeant Jack Carpenter has one job and only one job. Find the gunman; take him out. He rushes into the school, fully armed and focused on cold, hard reality. But what happens to him in the next few hours shatters the world as he has always known it...
  • The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark

    6 ratings
    He just spent everything on a house in disrepair, but he didn’t know someone was waiting inside. Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream; a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale...
  • A Witch's Lament  (The Salem Witches Book 1) by Cathy Walker, Cathy Walker

    A Witch's Lament (The Salem Witches Book 1) by Cathy Walker, Cathy Walker

    6 ratings
    Salem's history of rampant darkness and death isn't over yet, a fact Skye discovers upon purchasing a house in the infamous seaport. Her presence ignites events that began centuries ago during the witch trials and stimulates her formerly benign powers into a force beyond earthly bounds...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  death  demons
  • Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    6 ratings
    A teenage girl is missing and Taryn's camera is showing her a haunted past she NEVER wanted to see... When your camera can see the past, it's a history lover's dream! Historical mysteries never seemed so alive, and solvable. But sometimes the past should stay buried...
  • Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    6 ratings
    A mummified body washed up on a beach near Chichester.A tormented detective cursed with a gift she didn't want. When the autopsy reveals the victim's heart was torn from her body, Detective Inspector Jo Wolfe and her team wonder if someone is continuing the work of Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death.  With the body count rising, Jo must touch the dead, to help her solve the case...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Harvest of Scorn by F.G. Cottam

    Harvest of Scorn by F.G. Cottam

    6 ratings
    Felix Baxter, entrepreneur extraordinaire, is going to rehabilitate New Hope Island. Rich and manipulative, he wants to convert it into a glamorous getaway destination, ‘The New Hope Experience’...
  • Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    Black Hill Farm by Tim O'Rourke

    6 ratings
    When sixteen year-old Ben McCloud moves to Black Hill Farm, he soon falls in love with the mysterious and seductive Andrea Black.Finding themselves alone on this remote farm and desperate to stay together, Ben and Andrea’s world spirals out of control. As they fight for survival, every step they take leads them into an ever darker world of forbidden love and despair...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Fool's Ride by John L. Monk

    Fool's Ride by John L. Monk

    6 ratings
    Dan Jenkins is back, body hopping a scumbag at a time in his quest for the perfect ride. He doesn’t need much. Premium cable TV, good books, a well-stocked pantry, and he's set. But the Great Whomever has other plans.After six months waiting in limbo, Dan catches a ride as a horror novelist whose gruesome stories aren’t just fiction. Later, he hunts a man who’s escaped justice for far too long...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  cheating  crime
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    The Spirit Chaser by Kat Mayor, Kat Mayor, K.M. Montemayor

    6 ratings
    Some places are too evil. Some places should be left alone.Austin Cole has it made. Star of the hit television show Spirit Chaser Investigations, he has become the world’s most famous paranormal investigator...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  demons  fiction  horror
  • Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline E. Smith

    6 ratings
    Some secrets are best kept laid to rest.At least, that's as far as Michael Sinclair is concerned. At twenty-seven, he has spent his entire life pretending that the ghosts he encounters on a daily basis do not exist. Now, if only the dead would let him rest in peace.Unfortunately, that doesn't seem likely, especially after Kate Avery and her ailing brother, Gavin, move in next door...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    Band of Demons by Rob Blackwell

    6 ratings
    The highly anticipated sequel to the Kindle bestseller A Soul to StealThe past is always at your heels…Quinn O’Brion and Kate Tassel, two community journalists, tapped into a dark power last Halloween in order to stop a vicious serial killer. But they are still grappling with their new abilities—and wondering if what they unleashed may soon consume them...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    6 ratings
    Griffith Tavern has been empty for a long time, but there’s something alive within the crumbling walls and it’s been waiting for Taryn, and her alone, for nearly 100 years…As a stagecoach inn in the 19th century, Griffith Tavern saw many things, held many people, and saw numerous tragedies and triumphs. Now the old abandoned building will almost surely be demolished, all in the name of progress...
  • Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran

    8 ratings
    The ghosts of her family's estate on the coast of Maine never troubled Ava Trumble. When she finally inherits the historic mansion, however, there's a small string attached: Ava has exactly one year to solve a 200-year-old mystery of a missing girl, or lose her family's home..
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox

    The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by Michael Cox

    10 ratings
    The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it...
  • Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    10 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEESEvery crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted.And only the man and the boy know this...
  • No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    12 ratings
    Message from a dead girl... It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help.... They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died...
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