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Pretty/Ugly by Jennifer Anne Gordon

Powerful, gripping, and raw… Gordon impresses once again with her latest, an exhilarating tale set into a world approaching its end. Omelia has seen it all: grief, childhood trauma, and death. A large fan following on Instagram means nothing but…
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Salem Ropes: A Novel Inspired by the True Story of the Haunted Ropes Mansion by Joseph C. Gioconda

Vivid, chilling, propulsive… Absolutely un-put-downable. In his exhilarating latest, Gioconda traces the history of Ropes House in Salem, taking readers into the intriguing world of dark magic, witchcraft, sinister conspiracies, and deadly betrayals. George Lawson, a recovering alcoholic and a…
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Dark Farm by Dean Raven

Brilliantly unsettling and addictive… The volatile supernatural world of powerful wizards, destructive gods, magic, and cosmic terror proves an impressive setting for a story that’s high on suspense and intrigue in Raven’s supernatural thriller. Sam Morgan from the government’s National…
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Rave by Konn Lavery

Pointed, driven, and sharp… A roller-coaster ride. Filled with murder, mayhem, and uncanny, the award-winning Lavery’s unsettling latest takes readers on a thrilling journey into grit and horror. It’s 1999. Struggling with the tediousness of the small town of Prince…
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Level Zero by Dan McDowell

A solid, chilling horror… McDowell builds a world of betrayal, dark intrigue, decay, and uncanny in this tightly constructed horror. An unfortunate accident forces Chris Wilkerson to accept the ownership of The Oak Hollow Hotel, a run-down, abandoned facility. Trying…
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Ballad of the Dead: A Modern Fairy Tale by D.N. Moore

An exhilaratingly chilling ride… Moore delivers a brilliant tale of dark horror about a young girl whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic stranger. 18-year-old Rory is looking forward to college and a musical career after graduation…
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Bending Reality by Cory DeAn Cowley

Gripping, provocative, and truly spine-tingling horror… With vivid prose and an intriguing cast of characters, this exhilarating horror from Cowley tells the tale of one woman’s journey to death and beyond. Thirty-year-old lovely Cory is living a troubled existence, owing…
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Ungodly by Braedon Riddick

An excellent horror… With compelling prose and setting, Riddick makes his foray into horror with this uncanny mix of spine-chilling dread and keen psychological insights. A troubled teenager is ready to exact a plan for mass murder, but is stopped…
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SOUL SEEKER (Gehenna Book 1) by Kaylin McFarren

Addictively dark, shocking, intriguing… An absolute page-turner. Written with precision, clarity, and perception, McFarren’s outstanding debut installment in her supernatural thriller series gracefully puts her among top of the genre. Crighton Daemonium, a manipulating soul collector from hell, arrives in…
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Survival (3 book series) by Chris Wright

A bombshell-laden blend of horror and hard science fiction… Wrights begins his sci fi trilogy with a heaping serving of thrills, scares, adventure, and dark intrigue. Survival, the gripping first book in the series takes readers into a bizarre world…
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When the Sleeping Dead Still Talk (The Hotel #2) by Jennifer Gordon

Artfully plotted, carefully nuanced, and thoroughly readable… Terrific. Gordon crafts a solid piece of gothic horror in this atmospheric finale of The Hotel, a two-part series. Francis Coyle, the enigmatic priest, leaves for his childhood home in Dorchester Neck after…
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Tryst: Based on Actual Events by Aaron Eldritch

A chilling tale that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror… Is there something more existential behind a series of bizarre events happening in the lives of the teen protagonists of the novel or is there a possible explanation for…
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The Poe Consequence by Keith Steinbaum

A deeply suspenseful, sprawling story of supernatural revenge… A total knockout. Steinbaum offers an irresistibly offbeat mix of supernatural horror and gritty crime drama in his latest. Two rival gangs, Alvarado Street Diablos and North Rampart Lobos, have always ruled…
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From Daylight To Madness (The Hotel #1) by Jennifer Gordon

Hauntingly romantic and achingly beautiful… Gordon’s masterful first installment in The Hotel series takes readers into the heart of Dagger Island, an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine for a profoundly unsettling adventure. In the late spring…
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The Unspeakable Kind by Christopher Renna

Darkly intriguing and thoroughly engrossing… This slender volume from Renna takes readers on an unsettling journey into uncanny as a young woman tries to search for a lost child’s identity. After suffering her second miscarriage, Ashleigh Lundberg agrees to move…
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BEAUTIFUL, FRIGHTENING, AND SILENT by Jennifer Gordon

An exhilarating story packed with magnificently complex characters, psychological intrigue, and horror… Gordon brilliantly integrates psychological depth into a chilling horror plot in this mind-boggling debut which tells the story of three broken souls trying to come to terms with…
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Stranger Things Have Happened by Thomas Gaffney

  An unsettling, hard-to-put-down collection of horror… Taut and addictive, Gaffney’s multiple award-winning debut easily transcends its genre when it comes to presenting an eerie grouping of tales. “Fraxinus” tells the story of a group of women who are forced…
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The Danger Seekers Club by Bryan Cates

  A sinister tale of suspense… The graveyard in the dreary fictional town conceals some creepy secrets in Cates’s debut, a dark tale of suspense. The great graveyard is off limit as for as the children know, but Dalton, the…
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Tales from the Aether: Extraodinary Tales of Dark Fiction, Dark Humor and Horror by Matthew C. Woodruff

  An unsettling, powerful collection… Award-winning Woodruff’s panache for writing shines in his second collection of short stories with the wildly imagined worlds, powerfully drawn realistic characters, and an unsettling portrayal of various happenings in his protagonists’ lives. Merging the…