Horror Thriller

Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes. The troubled nurse makes the journey to Harper's hometown of Desire, Mississippi, and immediately finds herself swept up in a 75-year-old mystery: what happened to Jeopardy Belle?

In the small town of Sandy Lane, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop an overlooking bluff. Bella uncovers the chilling secrets of the Clifford family at their cliffside estate, a legacy marred by sinister deeds and unexplained suicides. As she delves into the small town's dark past, each secret brings her closer to a dangerous edge.

Occult investigator Quincey Morris and his "consultant", white witch Libby Chastain, are hired to free a family from a deadly curse that appears to date back to the Salem witch trials. Fraught with danger, the trail finds them stalking the mysterious occult underworlds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York, searching out the root of the curse. After surviving a series of terrifying attempts on their lives, the two find themselves drawn inexorably towards Salem itself - and the very heart of darkness.

When a dismembered body is found posed like a sculpture in the windswept plains of Nebraska—ribs carved into the shape of a snarling wolf—FBI profiler Nora Kade is pulled into one of the most grotesque cases of her career. But as the killer’s obsession with bone deepens, each new victim brings a message written in flesh, echoing Nora’s own past in terrifying detail. Beneath Bone is the second installment in the darkly addictive Beneath Series, a psychological thriller collection by a master of atmospheric suspense. In the haunting voice of Nora’s journal entries, the book explores...

Three years ago in a large Victorian house on the Jersey Shore in the town of Harbor Haven, fledgling private investigator Paul and his client, Maxie Malone, were murdered. Since then, recent divorcée and reluctant ghost whisperer Alison Kerby and her 10-year-old daughter, Melissa, have moved in and converted the place to a guesthouse, where Maxie and Paul are now checked in for an eternity and ready to solve any case that comes their way - or at least spook the guests (who love it). Alison’s got a lot on her plate at the moment, however, so when Paul discovers the 300-year-old ghost of a small boy in the house, he decides not to involve her in the case.

Max was looking for a little R&R after his team's last mission and was excited to get the chance to head back to Phoenix. It wasn't every day he got the chance to relax in his hometown. The only bad news was Max was on call, and couldn't let anyone know he was back home. To ease the sting Director Chen secured Max a courtside seat for the Sun's game, and Max couldn't wait to watch their first number one pick dominate the competition. Unfortunately, as it seemed with most good things in life his night was cut short when his partner called about a mission. At least this time he wouldn't have ...

It can’t happen to me, it can’t! A moment that paralyzes the body, freezes the soul, and curdles the blood; a few seconds of the depth of horror known only in nightmares can appear and scowl into your face. The horror stories in this anthology can create that effect on you; but nightmares are transient since they come, they go and the friendly light switch, the first rays of dawn, the sound of the milk deliverer; in short, a reunion with the mundane and the familiar brings us back to sanity. This collection of stories is not about dreams, horrifying though they might be, it is about ...

Amelia Scarcliffe’s monstrous brood, harbingers of Cthulhu, will soon spawn. Her songs spell insanity, death...and illimitable wealth. And Moriarty will do anything to get his hands on gold, even if it means tearing down the walls between this world and a realm of horrors. Meanwhile, after Sherlock Holmes’s last tangle with the Order of Dagon, horrifying monsters haunt the Thames, and madness stalks the streets of Whitechapel. Gang war between Moriarty’s thugs and the powerful cult can only bring more terror - unless Holmes and Dr. Watson can prevent it.

In the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, a group of oil workers stumbles upon something monstrous. When their warnings are dismissed as hysteria, crew members begin to vanish. Desperate for answers, a corporate representative is sent to cover up the chilling events—but the truth is far darker than anyone imagined. Now, with their lives on the line, the survivors must confront a terrifying species that has lurked in the shadows for centuries. As they venture deeper into the icy forests, they’ll uncover not only the horrifying creatures, but a deadly conspiracy buried ...

Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny are attending the re-opening of Tyrone’s Castle, an ancient Cornish inn originally built by smugglers. Over dinner that night, the guests entertain one another with ghost stories inspired by local legends and superstitions. But it would appear that the curse of Tyrone’s Castle has struck for real when one of their number disappears into thin air. And then another....

Working in the ER, Dr. Marie Lavant sees the darkest side of New Orleans. But the bloody wounds of patients are not the only things that haunt her. As the descendent of a legendary voodoo queen, Marie is cursed with the ability to communicate with spirits of the dead.

A dark, watery underworld where death is always near.Jason and Penny Beringer lead a small cave diving team in a daring bid to become the first explorers of a newly discovered system of underwater caverns hidden deep in the Philippine jungle. But within this maze of sunken chambers lives a genetically engineered predator, a creature capable of spreading havoc on both land and beneath the lightless, suffocating depths of this mysterious underworld. Combining tense, white knuckled thrills and scientific horror, John Triptych’s newest release will surely interest fans of Michael Crichton, ...

Revenge never dies... it waits. Dan Avernus thought he’d inherited a fortune—an untouched island worth millions. But beneath the rocky shores and silent trees lies something ancient. Something angry. And it’s been waiting for the Avernus bloodline to come home. Buried deep within a well of obsidian glass is a secret so volatile, it threatens to shatter not only the island’s value—but the lives of everyone Dan holds dear. The curse tied to the island is no legend. It’s alive. And it has started to kill. As the family begins to unravel—haunted, hunted, and driven to madness—...

This second novel in the acclaimed Greywalker series finds PI Blaine Harper investigating a chilling case as Halloween approaches. After university researchers create an artificial poltergeist, the team leader suspects someone is faking the phenomena. When a student is murdered, Blaine is asked to investigate. Stepping into the spirit world, she realizes the haunting may be very real. But that doesn't necessarily mean a ghost did the killing.

Five years ago Susannah Harper's son, Joel, went missing without trace. Bereft of her son and then of her husband, Susannah has rebuilt her life around helping others. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction. She tells her that this Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. As her carefully constructed life begins to unravel, Susannah is forced to confront the buried truths of her family's past.

A collection of twenty-six horror/thriller stories with surprise endings to thrill you and chill you to the bone. The creepers include: REST STOP: Martin loved the story The Lady or the Tiger so much he started playing the game with real people and hybrid beasts. THE CURSE: When Rebecca found the pharaoh's tomb, she refused to leave no matter how many perished. TILL DEATH DO US PART: Isabelle discovered her new husband had been married before, and all ten brides had disappeared without a trace. THE EXECUTION: Myers has a crazy dream he's on death row, waiting to be executed. LIFE TO THE ...

No good deed goes unpunished… and some open the gates of Hell. High in the remote Colorado mountains, a devastating car crash leaves the Jackson family stranded and wounded. Their only hope for shelter—a forgotten cabin buried deep in the woods. But inside, they find something far worse than the cold: a pregnant woman bound and gagged, begging for freedom. They let her go. They shouldn't have. That single act of mercy unleashes a nightmare older than the forest itself—an ancient, unspeakable evil with no mercy and no limits. As the storm traps them inside and the walls begin to bleed ...

From the international bestselling author of The Cursed Thief and The Blood King comes a harrowing thrill ride through an apocalyptic New York City! My name is Frank Moon, and I’m surrounded by death. Until today, I thought I’d seen everything in my time as a cop. Nope, not even close. Believe it or not, a meteor just landed in Central Park! The damn thing brought along a hellish radiation too. The strobing red emission has altered the genetic code of the people who witnessed it enter Earth’s atmosphere. Lucky for me, I was too busy binge-watching my favorite TV show or I would’ve ...

Ellie Blake is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor. However, there is disquiet in the village. Tanners Dell has a terrible secret, one so well guarded no one speaks its name. But in her search for meaning, Ellie is drawn to traditional witchcraft and determined to pursue it.

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.