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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

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Home Before Dark

Riley Sager · 389 pages

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The Invited

Jennifer McMahon · 399 pages

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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow · 347 pages

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “This book has everything you could possibly want this fall...a cursed town, a haunted house, a vivid & eerie setting—plus, characters willing to risk everything.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’23 Pick) Starling House is a gorgeous, modern gothic fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten Thousand Doors of Jan

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Midnight Bayou

Nora Roberts · 353 pages

A novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana--where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house... Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't understand his impulse to buy a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans. All he knew was that ever since he first saw Manet Hall, he'd been enchanted-and obsessed-with it. So when the opport

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Let Me Die in His Footsteps

Lori Roy · 352 pages

On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran runs through the lavender fields to the well on the Baines' place. Hollerans don't go near Baines since Joseph Carl was buried two decades ago. At the stroke of midnight, she gazes into the water in search of her future. When the body she sees there in the moonlight is discovered come morning, An

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The Last Party

Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages

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Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone

Kat Rosenfield · 288 pages

Unveils the details of a horrific murder, its effects on permanent and summer residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and especially how the related violence shakes eighteen-year-old Becca's determination to leave home as soon as possible.

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Speaks the Nightbird

Robert McCammon · 792 pages

In 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, come to Fount Royal to try a woman charged with witchcraft.

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The Darkest Part of the Forest

Holly Black · 352 pages

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for. Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeri

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The Winter People

Jennifer McMahon · 408 pages

West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter. Now, in present day, nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister. Alice has always insisted th

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Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 388 pages

"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the car

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Low Tide

Dawn Lee McKenna · 190 pages

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The Replacement

Brenna Yovanoff · 355 pages

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement—left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, he's slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything to live a normal life, play his bass, and find out more a

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Cover of Snow

Jenny Milchman · 433 pages

"Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her world is suddenly, irretrievably shattered: Her husband, Brendan, has committed suicide. The first few hours following Nora's devastating discovery pass for her in a blur of numbness and disbelief. The

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Ritual

David Pinner

Shrouded in the same brand of mystery and contradiction that forms its tangled plot, "Ritual", the 1967 debut by David Pinner is commonly recognised by cult cinema fanatics as the original seed that grew into the towering movie enigma "The Wicker Man". Set against an enclosed rural Cornish landscape, Ritual follows the trail of English police officer, David Hanlin, who is requested to investiga

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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

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The Caged Graves

Dianne K. Salerni · 329 pages

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

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'Salem's Lot

Stephen King · 512 pages

The Marsterson house. The house was full of evil deeds and atrocities, Ben Meyers returns to his home town to work on his next novel only to relive childhood nightmares and find that the house was now a home to the undead. Vampires.

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Welcome to Night Vale

Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor · 416 pages

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Beware the Wild

Natalie C. Parker · 341 pages

A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place.

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Bad Little Falls

Paul Doiron · 320 pages

Summoned to a rustic cabin during a blizzard, Maine game warden Mike Bowdich embarks on a dangerous investigation involving a notorious drug dealer, a beautiful woman with a dark past, and her troubled young son.

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Blood Harvest

Sharon Bolton · 408 pages

The terrifying, spine-tingling new thriller from the author of Sacrifice and Awakening. A TIME TO BE BORN Twelve-year-old Tom and his family have just moved to a small town perched on the crest of the moor. But troubles begin when Tom sees a mysterious child lurking around the nearby churchyard. A TIME TO DIE Psychiatrist Evi is trying to treat a young woman haunted by the disappearance of her lit

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