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Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan
6 ratingsClose 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... -
![Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne]()
Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne
6 ratingsOne 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... -
![Purgatory by Lee Mountford]()
Purgatory by Lee Mountford
10 ratingsThe dead are sufferingPicking up immediately after the shocking climax of Haunted: Perron Manor, a paranormal research team is hired to help gather evidence and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Perron Manor is haunted.The owner of the house needs the Church to sanction an exorcism. It is the only way to free the souls of the dead who are trapped there and suffering in eternal torment... -
![The Ghost Who Wasn't by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre]()
The Ghost Who Wasn't by Bobbi Holmes, Anna J. McIntyre
14 ratingsWhen a local heiress goes missing, Danielle discovers it’s not always possible to distinguish the living from the dead. To complicate matters, it seems Danielle is not the only one who communicates with spirits. Her new guest claims to hear Walt. But, something’s not quite right with Marlow House’s newest medium. Danielle must move quickly before her best friend joins the spirit world... -
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![The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon]()
The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon
6 ratingsThe 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... -
![Legion by Shani Struthers]()
Legion by Shani Struthers
6 ratingsLegion is the sixth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!What if evil won't let go?Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it... -
![Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.]()
Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.
6 ratingsA 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 Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey]()
The Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey
10 ratingsLike a grand lady, the house has reigned over Harvest Street for almost a century. It's a splendid home- a sweeping veranda, ivy covered walls and spacious rooms, all within a short walk to the campus. Add to its charm the exceptionally low rent, and it's a perfect student rental. In spite of this, tenants never stay... -
![Devil's Door by Lee Mountford]()
Devil's Door by Lee Mountford
10 ratingsHalloween 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... -
![Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson]()
Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson
6 ratingsIt’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... -
![Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey]()
Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey
6 ratingsThe newest eerie tale from best selling author Michelle Dorey Serenity Lodge is haunted. Don’t ask the residents suffering dementia if that’s true. Ask the nurses. Amanda Ennis is the new nurse at Serenity Lodge nursing home. It’s a dream job after years of the hectic pace in the emergency room of a large hospital... -
![Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke]()
Andy's Diary by Tim O'Rourke
6 ratingsIn his confession, Ben McCloud told Detective Chief Inspector John Walker about the four murders that took place at Black Hill Farm. But what about the others? There are two sides to every story and this is Andy’s. 'Andy's Diary' the second book in the paranormal romance series: ‘Black Hill Farm’. For young adults aged 16 years and over... -
![Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair]()
Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair
6 ratingsCharlie 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 ratingsNow 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... -
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44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair
8 ratingsIt’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... -
![When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham]()
When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham
10 ratingsDevin 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... -
![Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw]()
Belle Manor Haunting by Cheryl Bradshaw
10 ratingsThe door to Addison Lockhart's room opens. Five-year-old Sara Belle walks in. The child seems lost and confused. Addison reaches out, grabs Sara's hand, and the room goes black.Addison's eyes open to find she's been transported several decades into the past. She's sitting in the back seat of a car. Sara is beside her. The car stops at an intersection... -
![The Knowing by Ninie Hammon]()
The Knowing by Ninie Hammon
12 ratingsWhen 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... -
![Perron Manor by Lee Mountford]()
Perron Manor by Lee Mountford
12 ratingsDescriptionPerron Manor—a place evil calls homeSisters Sarah and Chloe inherit a house they could never have previously dreamed of owning. It seems too good to be true.Shortly after they move in, however, the siblings start to notice strange things: horrible smells, sudden drops in temperature, as well as unexplainable sounds and feelings of being watched... -
![The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark]()
The Patience of a Dead Man by Michael Clark
6 ratingsHe 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... -
![Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen]()
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
6 ratingsThe Best of Arthur Machen's short stories: The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Great God Pan, The White People, The Inmost Light, The Shining Pyramid, The Bowmen, The Great Return, The Happy Children, Out of the Earth, N, The Children of the Pool, The Terror... -
![Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard]()
Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard
6 ratingsA 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 ratingsA 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... -
![Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon]()
Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon
6 ratingsTHEY 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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![The Scene by R.M. Gilmore]()
The Scene by R.M. Gilmore
6 ratingsHavoc ensues when journalist Dylan Hart takes on the story of a lifetime. Exsanguinated hookers? Vampires in real life? What more could the public want? As the death toll rises, Dylan discovers she's put herself on the killer's radar and will have to fight to survive... -
![Echoes by Michael Bray]()
Echoes by Michael Bray
6 ratingsSeven years have passed since the fire at Hope House. Despite surviving, the lives of Steve and Melody Samson have changed for the worse. Steve has become a virtual recluse, while Melody is consumed by guilt, and sees in their son a constant reminder of the man Steve used to be... -
![Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard]()
Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard
6 ratingsGriffith 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... -
![Broken Home by Glenn Bullion]()
Broken Home by Glenn Bullion
6 ratingsEven a demon has a beginning.The year is 1973. Janet Fields is living the stereotypical American Dream. She has a loving husband, two wonderful daughters, and a beautiful home away from the hustle of city life. Life couldn’t be any better.That changed the day the stranger invaded her home, and tore apart not only everything Janet knew about her life, but also the world around her... -
![Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran]()
Ghost of A Promise: by Kelly Moran
8 ratingsThe 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.. -
![The Brown House by Christy Sloat]()
The Brown House by Christy Sloat
8 ratingsThe Brown house isn’t a house you want to mess with. It’s that place where you and your friends go on a dare, but no one is brave enough to go inside, and if they do, they come out screaming. So when Brylee Branson and her family move in, it's not long before the evil things lurking in corners come out to play... -
![Fatpocalypse by Johnny B. Truant]()
Fatpocalypse by Johnny B. Truant
8 ratingsMISSED BOOKS 1-4?The "Fat Vampire Value Meal" contains books 1-4 in the Fat Vampire series at a 33% discount. Get it here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/.. -
![Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon]()
Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon
10 ratingsTHEY 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... -
![Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd]()
Shepherd's Warning by Cailyn Lloyd
10 ratingsFor years the abandoned MacKenzie mansion remained hidden in rural Wisconsin. Rumors and stories of apparitions, odd noises, accidents, and strange deaths in or near the property were enough to convince the townsfolk it was haunted and they stayed away... -
![The Haunting of Hadleigh Estate by Connor Donnelly]()
The Haunting of Hadleigh Estate by Connor Donnelly
10 ratingsAn unsolved case in a small town that has gone too far.To Cassie King the small town of Playa del sol used to be an ironically named summer vacations spot for her family. But when she gets terrible news that takes her back her uncle's home there she finds that the town isn't as innocent as her childhood memories would have her believe... -
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![The Venetian by Shani Struthers]()
The Venetian by Shani Struthers
12 ratings‘Welcome to the asylum…’ 2015Their troubled past behind them, married couple, Rob and Louise, visit Venice for the first time together, looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Not just a romantic destination, it’s also the ‘most haunted city in the world’ and soon, Louise finds herself the focus of an entity she can’t quite get to grips with – a ‘veiled lady’ who stalks her... -
![The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers]()
The Haunting of Highdown Hall by Shani Struthers
14 ratings"Good morning, Psychic Surveys. How can I help?"The latest in a long line of psychically-gifted females, Ruby Davis can see through the veil that separates this world and the next, helping grounded souls to move towards the light - or 'home' as Ruby calls it. Not just a job for Ruby, it's a crusade and one she wants to bring to the High Street. Psychic Surveys is born... -
![House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine]()
House of Echoes by Barbara Erskine
16 ratingsThe past isn't always dead or buried...When Joss Grant, adopted at birth, inherits Belheddon Hall – a beautiful old house on the East Anglian coast – it is like a dream come true. Eager to begin a new life there with Luke, her husband, and Tom, her small son, she is also impatient to find out about her newly discovered family who lived there for generations... -
![Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham]()
Don't Look Back by Ben Cheetham
16 ratingsAdam’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... -
![নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed]()
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![Invaders by Brian Lumley]()
Invaders by Brian Lumley
14 ratingsThree great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation... -
![The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates]()
The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates
14 ratingsSometimes 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... -
![The Warning by Jonas Saul]()
The Warning by Jonas Saul
14 ratingsThe Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) Sarah Roberts has spent the last four years helping people stay alive and escape near death experiences as messages from the dead come to her. She receives a daunting communication from the Other Side regarding her sister's murderer and where she can find him... -
![GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd]()
GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd
12 ratingsPerhaps the scariest book you will ever read.... Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career... -
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![Heku by T.M. Nielsen]()
Heku by T.M. Nielsen
12 ratingsChevalier has never been told no. For thousands of years he’s sat on the Equites Council, ruling body of his heku faction, and for thousands of years his every order has been followed immediately and without question.One of the most important rules of the heku, is that no one is to feed from unwilling donors... -
![Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn]()
Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn
12 ratingsThe 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... -
![The Haunting of Blackwych Grange by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Blackwych Grange by Amy Cross
12 ratingsFor almost a century now, Blackwych Grange has been left locked and abandoned. But when a team of researchers gains permission to enter the house and monitor for ghosts, a dark presence begins to stir. Paula is thrilled when she's invited to join the team. Soon, however, she starts to regret her choice. Something lurks in the dark rooms of Blackwych Grange, something that seeks vengeance... -
![The Ash House by Amy Cross]()
The Ash House by Amy Cross
10 ratingsLibrarian Note: This is an alternate cover edition of ASIN: B0711MTZDT.Why would anyone ever return to a haunted house? For Diane Mercer the answer is simple. She's dying of cancer, and she wants to know once and for all whether ghosts are real. FROM THE AUTHOR OF ASYLUM, HAUNTED AND THE NIGHT GIRL. Heading home with her young son, Diane is determined to find out whether the stories are real... -
![The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke]()
The Hides by Kealan Patrick Burke
10 ratingsIt's been almost seven years since the events of Myers Pond. Seven years since a child rose from the dead, seeking Timmy Quinn's help in finding a murderer, a search that left more questions than answers in its terrifying wake. But for Timmy, the dead never leave. They're everywhere, reaching out to him, and there is nowhere to hide from their quiet desperation... -
![The Haunting of Nelson Street by Amy Cross]()
The Haunting of Nelson Street by Amy Cross
10 ratingsCrowford, a sleepy coastal town in the south of England, might seem like an oasis of calm and tranquility. Beneath the surface, however, dark secrets are waiting to claim fresh victims, and ghostly figures plot revenge.Having finally decided to leave the hustle of London, Daisy and Richard Johnson buy two houses on Nelson Street, a picturesque street in the center of Crowford...
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