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"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE DI Lucas Grant thought that he'd seen everything that Bayport had to offer. A grim town run by a crime lord with half the police in his pocket and no one willing to take a stand. But now something new is happening, something that makes no sense. Bank robbers who won't stay down despite being shot multiple times, men returning from the dead to wreak havoc and death on his streets. Bayport might be a crime ridden hellhole, but it is still his town and outsiders don't get to burn...

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.

A mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch. An antique doll comes into the possession of Paul Goodfellow, a vicar in the small market town of Dorchester. He reluctantly agrees to take it after the horrific death of its previous owner but soon regrets his decision as the rumours concerning the doll seem to be true. Paul is at his wits end until a parishioner suggests he consult the local witch, Queenie Beresford. She becomes increasingly disturbed as she realises that the doll has an evil curse attached to it. It becomes evident how dangerous the situation is when the ...

Damon: Determined to make Elena his, he'd kill his own brother to possess her. Stefan: Desperate for the power to destroy Damon and protect Elena, he gives in to his thirst for human blood. Elena: The girl who can have anyone finds herself in the middle of a love triangle...one that might turn deadly

The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question.

The complicated history of the Harrington house has been long forgotten. Novelists Anna Bowman and Emily Garrett stumble upon an old mansion with a dark past in Harrington, Louisiana. As they settle into their new home, they uncover the town's buried secrets and find themselves entangled in its haunting history. Their exploration reveals long-hidden mysteries, drawing them into a web of intrigue and supernatural events. With each discovery, Anna and Emily must navigate the treacherous waters of small-town secrets while pursuing their dream of transforming the mansion into a thriving bed and...

NEWLY EDITED EDITION: Laura Kendall, two time Olympic archery champion, works her skills for the Maxwell Traveling Gypsy Circus; A circus using the free spirit of the gypsy life style, fashion and mysteries as it's theme to bring in crowds far and wide. Laura, traveling with her son, Jason, thrills audiences, becoming the top act at the big top. Yet, the window to compete is never totally shut. When the circus sets up tent at the sleepy coastal town of Fort Myers, Fla. An animal attack grabs the attention of Karen Walker, Animal Control Officer for the Lee County Sheriff's Department. After...

Seven years ago Professor Gabriel Kennedy's investigation into paranormal activity at Summer Place ended in tragedy and destroyed his career. Now Kelly Delaphoy, the ambitious producer of a top-rated ghost-hunting television series, is determined to make Summer Place the centerpiece of an epic live broadcast on Halloween night. To ensure success she needs help from the one man who has come face-to-face with the evil that dwells in Summer Place, a man still haunted by the ghosts of his own failure.

The small town of Stragglersville is gripped by a series of grisly murders, each more baffling than the last. Detective Jessup is thrust into a chilling investigation when the reclusive Vera Jones is found dead, her body gruesomely deboned, with the bones meticulously stacked and stripped of all flesh. As Jessup delves deeper into the case, the town is enveloped in fear and suspicion. A malevolent force lurks in Stragglersville—and it’s just getting started. "Story of the Dolls" is a spine-tingling introduction to B. L. Norris’ *Dolly Nightmare Doll* series.

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: He can bring characters from books into the real world. His older brother, Rob - a young lawyer with a normal house, a normal fiancee, and an utterly normal life - hopes that this strange family secret will disappear with disuse, and he will be discharged from his life's duty of protecting Charley and the real world from each other. But then, literary characters start causing trouble in their city, making threats about destroying the world...and for once, it isn't Charley's doing.

The people of High Moor are united in horror at the latest tragedy to befall their small town. As dawn breaks, the town is left to count the cost and mourn its dead, while breathing a collective sigh of relief. John Simpson, the apparent perpetrator of the horrific murders, is in police custody. The nightmare is over. Isn't it? Detective Inspector Phil Fletcher and his partner, Constable Olivia Garner, have started to uncover some unsettling evidence during their investigations of John Simpson's past - evidence that supports his impossible claims: that he is a werewolf....

Wandering the streets of Edinburgh late at night isn't usually the safest thing to do but I needed to. The police had a killer on the loose and had no clues. It had struck at least twice and I knew that the killer was not of our world. It was a Demon. I had found a tiny trace of its movements and now, as I moved into the alley, I knew I would find the latest victim. Who should I call first? Bishop Michael to inform His Eminence that a demon stalked the streets of Edinburgh? Or the Police? I hoped they didn't ask too many questions about why I happened to be there. The Police it was, Bishop ...

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R’lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is. The detectives discover that he was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River.

With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie’s juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother’s pressure to "go public" with her talent - a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem. Her name is Nola, Jack’s estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father’s attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well.

"Wow, the writing is intense, the plot nothing short of vicious, the characters as flawed as any I've read, the action includes some of the oddest fights ever, and throughout this strange novel I never lost interest." - KOBAM "Good Read. Loved it, different. ... I loved the storyline. Looking for more!" - Ardythe M If you step in the shadows, you die. When Ben Reilly returns to his home town after a bad break-up, all he's hoping for is to live a nice, quiet life and fade into the shadows. But in this town, the shadows are the last place you want to be... And when Ben's high school ...

In the cursed town of Pine Hollow, reality is not what it seems. People vanish without a trace, their names erased from history, their existence rewritten by unseen forces. Dana Crowell has spent her life questioning the gaps in her memory, the disappearances no one else seems to notice—until the cycle finally comes for her. When she uncovers buried records of erased lives and forgotten truths, Dana realizes she isn’t the first to resist the Watchers—the shadowy entities controlling Pine Hollow from the darkness. With the help of someone who was taken decades ago but mysteriously ...

Mackenzie keep is cursed so the local’s say. But Audrey’s partner bought it anyway. The pipes are making a terrible racket, at least she hopes it’s the pipes, after all, what else could it be? Audrey’s partner surprised her when he told her he’d bought MacKenzie Keep, then he left on a red eye out of London the next day leaving her to move in on her own. Audrey was furious but needs must, and Audrey moved in. When the keening started she put it down to old pipes. When a woman appears in Audrey’s kitchen bearing the name MacKenzie, Audrey is unnerved but she listens to her story....

Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they're delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship.

Tales the Crows Taught Me Seventeen Supernatural Tales to Make Your Skin Crawl Fans of Ray Bradbury and the Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock, and Lord of the Flies have reason to rejoice! Here are 17 tales with a twist—many of them award-winning: a traveling sideshow, a shadowy something waiting in a deep Oregon forest, an ancient fishing village where there's a price to pay for magic, a strange parcel dragged for miles over ice and snow, a Florida boarding house full of residents who would VERY much like to meet you... The Uncanny waits to make your acquaintance. Included: Protection: ...