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Lasher

Anne Rice · 578 pages

The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs. Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston and she becomes pre

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The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 360 pages

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales. In t

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The Unloved

John Saul · 358 pages

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A House with Good Bones

T. Kingfisher · 247 pages

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Usher's Passing

Robert McCammon · 407 pages

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Those Across the River

Christopher Buehlman · 352 pages

Moving to rural Georgia, a failed academic plans to write a history of his family's old plantation and the horrors that occurred there but instead discovers a sense of unspoken dread among the townspeople and a long-standing debt of blood.

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Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Cherie Priest · 238 pages

A tale of supernatural horror mixed with Southern Gothic, 'Four and Twenty Blackbirds' centres on Eden Moore, an orphan who is never alone. Who are the three dead women watching her from the shadows? Who is the assassin in the woods? What is the truth about her beloved aunt and the curse that threatens her life?

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 400 pages

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."—New York Times Book ReviewBestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massa

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Compulsion

Martina Boone · 433 pages

After the death of her disfigured, shut-in mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation, which is guarded by an ancient spirit who cursed one of the island's three founding families and gave the others magical gifts that become compulsions.

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The Miniaturist

Jessie Burton · 416 pages

Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.

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The Restorer

Amanda Stevens · 376 pages

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The Other Side Of The Sun

Madeleine L'Engle · 344 pages

L'Engle at her best, this novel features Stella, who marries into the aristocratic Renier family and discovers a frightening world of intrigue, greed, prejudice, and superstition. Soon drawn into a raging battle between good and evil, Stella must fight her way through to find the other side of the sun.

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Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints

Cullen Bunn · 152 pages

Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to the land itself -- in ways she never could have imagined.

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Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews · 358 pages

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So Cold the River

Michael Koryta · 508 pages

It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man's past--just the name of his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept his entire life. In B

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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace · 400 pages

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

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The Fate of Mercy Alban

Wendy Webb · 344 pages

"Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love le

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One Dark Window

Rachel Gillig · 377 pages

New York Times bestseller • USA Today bestseller • Booktok sensation • Amazon Charts bestseller • Over 3 million copies sold of The Shepherd King Duology From the queen of gothic romantasy, Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window is the dark, mist-cloaked tale of a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monst

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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

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Rawblood

Catriona Ward

She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Their disease confines them to a lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they understand the t

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 318 pages

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Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier · 380 pages

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, M

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