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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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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

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The Turn of the Key

Ruth Ware · 352 pages

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Ca

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The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield · 424 pages

Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long.

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The Darkest Room

Johan Theorin · 480 pages

It is bitter mid-winter when Katrine and Joakim Westin move with their children into the old manor house at Eel Point on the Swedish island of Oland. But their new home is no remote idyll. Just days later, Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. While Joakim struggles to keep his sanity, Tilda Davidsson - a young policewoman fresh out of college- becomes convinced that Katrine was murdered.

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The Ice Twins

S.K. Tremayne · 339 pages

Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.

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The Grownup

Gillian Flynn · 71 pages

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t

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The House on Biscayne Bay

Chanel Cleeton · 324 pages

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The Seance

John Harwood · 293 pages

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Ghost Story

Peter Straub · 507 pages

In a seedy motel in Florida, a young man holds captive a little girl in a soiled pink dress. He is anxious, tormented, introspective. She is calm, passive, strangely detached. She says her name is Angie Maule.

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The Invited

Jennifer McMahon · 399 pages

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Duma Key

Stephen King · 704 pages

After a construction accident in which he loses his right arm and his divorce, Edgar Freemantle moves from Minnesota to Florida to begin what his psychiatrist described as a "geographic cure." He rediscovers his love of painting and finds that he is good at it but his paintings seem to have something "more" to them. On Duma Key he also finds a new friendship with Wireman, a kindred spirit seekin

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Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins · 294 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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Unraveling Isobel

Eileen Cook

When seventeen-year-old Isobel's mother marries a man she just met and they move to his gothic mansion on an island, strange occurrences cause Isobel to fear that she is losing her sanity as her artist father did.

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The Widow's House

Carol Goodman

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The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe · 52 pages

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.

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The House of a Thousand Lanterns

Victoria Holt · 351 pages

Jane Lindsay was fascinated by the mere idea of the house. but it was a world away, in the teeming oriental port of Kowloon, and she knew she'd never see it. Quite unbelievably her dream came true, altering her life forever. Now the wife of a wealthy art dealer, Jane's life is shattered by the menacing secret of The House of a Thousand Lanterns...

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Alkony Motel

Simone St. James · 509 pages

"A krimi és a kísértethistória vérfagyasztó elegye, ami mindkét rajongótábort lázba hozza majd." Riley Sager New York állam északi része, 1982: Viv Delaney New Yorkba készül, és hogy megkeresse a pénzt az útra, elvállal egy éjszakai recepciós állást a Fell kisvárosában található Alkony Motelben. A hely azonban nagyon furcsa hangulatot áraszt magából, ráadásul hamarosan kísérteties és ijesztő dolgo

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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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Mr. Splitfoot

Samantha Hunt · 352 pages

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The Hoarder

Jess Kidd · 352 pages

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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 142 pages

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

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