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  • The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    The Ghost Files 3 by Apryl Baker

    16 ratings
    One, two, the ghosts are coming for you… Three, four, better salt your door… Five, six, death and hatred mix… Seven, eight, help will come too late… Nine, ten, never reap again…Seventeen year old, Mattie Hathaway, has enough on her plate without having to deal with the latest teenage ghost drama. The ghosts of eight murdered girls are out for her blood. They blame Mattie for their deaths...
  • The Ghost and the Church Lady by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    The Ghost and the Church Lady by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre

    8 ratings
    When autumn arrives in Frederickport, it brings surprises—some welcomed.Meanwhile, the residents of Beach Drive learn there are some things more frightening than ghosts...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • 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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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  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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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Medium Things by Erin Huss

    Medium Things by Erin Huss

    8 ratings
    My name is Zoe Lane, and I see dead people. I'm not your typical medium. The kind portrayed on your favorite television shows. The spirits who visit me aren't interested in reuniting with loved ones. Nope. The spirits I connect with have sought me out for one thing and one thing only: justice...
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    crime  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Hookah by Cameron Jace

    Hookah by Cameron Jace

    12 ratings
    A Plague Scarier than Death Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who'd lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much. A Cure Larger than Life The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar's darker pasts...
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    crime  dark  humor  paranormal  book  comedy  fairy-tale  fiction
  • Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell

    20 ratings
    We're waiting for you to come and play. Dunvegan School for Girls has been closed for many years. Converted into a family home, the teachers and students are long gone. But they left something behind...Sophie arrives at the old schoolhouse to spend the summer with her cousins...
  • 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 Medium's Tale by Erin Huss

    The Medium's Tale by Erin Huss

    6 ratings
    My name is Zoe Lane, and I see dead people.  At least...I used to.    Communications with the "other side" are down, and I have no idea why. This couldn't have come at a worst time because the town's pharmacist, Mr. Sanders, has just been murdered. Police have all but closed the case because the evidence overwhelmingly points to one person...
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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • 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...
  • 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  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  hauntings
  • Greetings from the Graveyard by Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise

    Greetings from the Graveyard by Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise

    8 ratings
    Roses are red, Violets are blue. If a ghost can write books, Why not greeting cards, too?The bestselling trio from Spence Mansion is launching a greeting card company called Greetings from the Graveyard. But what kind of card do you send to an ex-girlfriend who threatens to publish the love letters of Ignatius B...
  • Some Can See by J.R. Erickson

    Some Can See by J.R. Erickson

    12 ratings
    The dead have stories to tell. Are you listening?On a sunny August morning, in 1935, thirteen-year-old Sophia Gray finds her friend, Rosemary wandering in the woods. Rosemary’s yellow dress is tattered and stained, she walks with a strange lurch, and her eyes are vacant and glassy. She beckons to Sophia, desperate to show her something, and Sophia follows...
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    paranormal  ghosts  dark  crime  gothic  horror  mystery  suspense
  • Poltergeist by James Kahn

    Poltergeist by James Kahn

    14 ratings
    From a dimension beyond the living, a terror to scare you to deathFrom the imageless eye of the TV set, from the flickering snowy light, it calls to Carol Anne, six years old and innocent.From beyond the world of the living, reaches out in unholy anger, ripping her from the arms of her family, into the thrall of the POLTERGEIST...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  family  fiction  horror
  • 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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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  murder
  • 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  gothic  horror  fantasy  fiction  grief
  • Ghost Market by Angela Roquet

    Ghost Market by Angela Roquet

    10 ratings
    In the wake of a thwarted war, Lana Harvey is more than ready for an extended vacation on the new houseboat she shares with the Lord of the Flies, but when the leaderless rebels begin poaching souls and selling them on the Ghost Market, Lana is tasked with heading up a new reaper unit to stop them...
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    dark  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  angels  audiobook  book
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Boot Points by Ann Charles

    Boot Points by Ann Charles

    10 ratings
    Listening Length: 1 hour, 11 minutesIt’s not really about the boots … or is it?BOOT POINTS is a set of short tales about Violet Parker’s purple boots. It is set in the story time between the third and fourth books in the Deadwood Mystery series. Each tale not only explains more of Violet’s history, but also shows the role each character plays in Violet’s life...
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    crime  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  alpha-mc  book  cozy
  • The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins

    The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins

    12 ratings
    Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius...
  • The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    The White Gold Score by Craig Schaefer

    13 ratings
    When a high roller dies in his Vegas penthouse suite, that's a problem. When his ghost refuses to leave, that's a bigger problem. Daniel Faust is the solution. Called in to clean up the casino's mess, the modern-day sorcerer soon learns that the restless spirit isn't going down without a fight...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  demons
  • Selected Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

    Selected Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

    16 ratings
    'And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot'This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  anthologies  classics
  • 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  humor  paranormal  adult  book  death  demons
  • 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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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • 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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    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • 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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    crime  dark  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  book  cheating
  • 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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    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • 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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    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • 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
  • Who Killed the Ghost in the Library? by Teresa Watson

    Who Killed the Ghost in the Library? by Teresa Watson

    6 ratings
    Cam Shaw is an out-of-work ghost writer who places an ad in the newspaper looking for a new client. When she gets a reply and meets the client, she gets more than she bargained for. She's thrown into a 60-year-old mystery, but somebody doesn't want the truth to come out, and they are willing to go to any lengths to keep that from happening...even if it means killing Cam...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  book  cozy  fiction  horror
  • Carnival of Bones by Penn Cassidy

    Carnival of Bones by Penn Cassidy

    6 ratings
    Bienvenue à la maisonThe song beckons me. Haunting, tragic and utterly lovely. It calls me to a place deep in the Louisiana Bayou, where impossible things creep in the shadows.Following the voice on the wind, I scratch at the blood coating my skin and dance along the swamps with the crickets. Hands caress my arms and lips coax at mine, begging for me to let them inside. Begging me to surrender...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  dark  ghosts  gothic  romance  reverse-harem  fantasy  gods
  • Lipstick, Lies & Dead Guys by Jennifer Fischetto

    Lipstick, Lies & Dead Guys by Jennifer Fischetto

    8 ratings
    From National Bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes a hauntingly humorous new series... Gianna Mancini has chatted with ghosts most of her life. It's never affected her much. Until now. The latest ghost in Gianna's family-centric, boy-complicated, job-depleted world is Emma Tinsdale, a woman Gianna despises...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cozy
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • 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...
  • Bubba Ho-Tep by Joe R. Lansdale, Don Coscarelli

    Bubba Ho-Tep by Joe R. Lansdale, Don Coscarelli

    12 ratings
    The companion book to the popular movie starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Stuck in an East Texas old folks home, they must face off against a redneck mummy...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  humor  20th-century  adult  book  comedy
  • Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell

    14 ratings
    The ghost of Sherlock Holmes is dead, but who will solve his murder?The Great Detective's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger through his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost?When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
  • Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham

    16 ratings
    Adam’s eyes swelled in horror at the sight that confronted him. Henry was standing with his back against the front door, pale and rigid, his left hand pressed to his neck. Blood was seeping between his fingers, running down his wrist and dripping from his elbow onto the back of Jacob’s head...
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    crime  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Curfew by Phil Rickman

    Curfew by Phil Rickman

    14 ratings
    On the border between England and Wales lies the tiny town of Crybbe, not picturesque enough for the tourist trade, quietly sliding into decay. Max Goff means to change all that. Goff has made millions in the record business, but his heart is in New Age philosophy. He has learned that Crybbe was once a spiritual center of sorts, surrounded by ancient standing stones that were emblems of power...
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    crime  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • December by Phil Rickman

    December by Phil Rickman

    12 ratings
    In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood. On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again...In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history. The experience almost destroys them. Years later, the original group is forced to return to the abbey, to confront the old evil they discovered...
    Categorized as:
    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction
  • Inspector Specter by E.J. Copperman

    Inspector Specter by E.J. Copperman

    12 ratings
    Detective Lt. Anita McElhone is one of Harbor Haven's finest. She's also a hard-boiled ghost skeptic. So when she shows up on the doorstep of Alison Kerby's Haunted Guesthouse to ask for supernatural help in solving the murder of her former partner it's hard to tell which woman is more flabbergasted...
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    crime  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • The Farm by Amy Cross

    The Farm by Amy Cross

    12 ratings
    One farm. Two tragedies, thirty years apart. And a tortured figure whose presence connects both incidents... In 1979, the Bondalen family farm in Norway is home to three young girls. As winter fades to spring, Elizabeth, Kari and Sara each come to face the secrets of the barn, and they each emerge with their own injuries...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
  • Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    12 ratings
    The DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping mix of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.                                                      ~In Book One, Cassie, Ethan and Lacey sought their missing friend, Aisha, in the deep of the forest...
  • All Seeing Eye by Rob Thurman

    All Seeing Eye by Rob Thurman

    10 ratings
    Picking up a small pink shoe from the grass forever changed young Jackson Lee’s life. Not only did its presence mean that his sister Tessa was dead—murdered and stuffed in the deep, black water of a narrow well—but the shoe itself told him so...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  humor  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book
  • The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story by Phil Rickman, Dion Fortune

    The Chalice: A Glastonbury Ghost Story by Phil Rickman, Dion Fortune

    10 ratings
    Glastonbury, legendary resting place of the Holy Grail, is a mysterious and haunting town. When Diane Ffitch returns home, it’s with a sense of deep unease. As the town becomes increasingly split by violence and death, Diane and her friends face up to the worst of all possibilities: the existence of an anti-Grail—the Dark Chalice...
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    crime  dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  arthurian  book  contemporary
  • Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    Dark and Deadly Things by Kelly Martin

    10 ratings
    Since Elise Morgan left her father’s reality television show, Dark and Deadly Things, she put the ghost-hunting life behind her, able to comfortably watch from her couch. Her father has resorted to faking the hauntings that thrill America, but he could never fool Elise. She can see the dead. When the Halloween episode airs live on television, something goes horribly wrong...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  death
  • Grave Girl by Amy Cross

    Grave Girl by Amy Cross

    10 ratings
    When Sam Marker ran away from her old life, all she needed was a job and somewhere to live. Anything would do. And then, one fateful day, she saw that the town of Rippon was looking for a new gardener...Unfortunately for Sam, the 'garden' is actually a cemetery, and it just so happens to contain the deadliest grave in the world...
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    dark  ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Wife of the Left Hand by M.L. Bullock

    Wife of the Left Hand by M.L. Bullock

    8 ratings
    Avery Dufresne had the perfect life--a rock star boyfriend, a high-profile career in the anchor chair on a national news program. Until a dangerous threat brings her perfect world to a shattering stop. Avery loses everything but when she emerges from the darkness she finds she has a new ability--a supernatural one...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  gothic  humor  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  historical
  • Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector

    Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector

    8 ratings
    Based on the motion picture written by Tom Holland.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire's next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo, Evil Ed...
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    dark  gothic  humor  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  graphic-violence
  • The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard

    The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard

    8 ratings
    Ruth Travers has lost a lover, both parents and her job. Now she thinks she might be losing her mind.When death strikes again, Ruth finds herself the owner of a dilapidated Victorian house on the Isle of Skye: "Tigh na Linne", the summer home she shared as a child with her beloved Aunt Janet, the woman she'd regarded as a mother...
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    ghosts  gothic  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror
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