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When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market. It’s there that she connects with old high school flame Henry McCabe, now a reclusive local fisherman whose infant son, Skyler, went missing five years ago. Everyone in town is sure Skyler is dead, but when Madi reads Henry’s palm, she’s haunted by strange and disturbing visions that suggest otherwise.

Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

NYPD detective John Decker thinks his family’s dark past is behind him when he’s offered the job as town sheriff in his sleepy southern hometown. Happy for a change in scenery, and a quieter way of life, he accepts the position. But when a pair of mutilated bodies are found in the woods just days before a massive storm is due to make landfall, the similarities dredge up the horrific memories of his mother’s unsolved murder almost thirty years ago. A murder that drove his father to madness and an early grave, and John to abandon his high school sweetheart and escape to New York.

After a South London man is shot and killed at home, his wife swears that the offender had no feet. Even stranger, when a teacher is murdered at a local school, her pupils insist they saw disembodied feet dangling from their classroom ceiling. All across the country, victims claim the assailant was missing a body part, while others stumble upon the severed appendages. It's clear these murders are neither straightforward nor easily explained, which means there are only two people fit to investigate: DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe, who are used to tracking spirits intent on causing mayhem.

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"Narrator Avi Roque delivers a perfectly paced performance....seamlessly switching between English, Scottish, and American accents to distinguish the variety of characters." —AudioFile on What Moves the Dead, an Earphones Award winner) The follow-up to T. Kingfisher’s bestselling gothic...

Briar Gap, West Virginia, was already dying before the earth began to shake. The coal jobs left, the young people followed, and all that remained were empty houses, bad memories, and the dark bulk of Kithlow Ridge leaning over the town like a warning. Eben Locke swore he’d never come back. But his kid brother dies in a “work accident” on the ridge, and the official story doesn’t match the tremors in the ground or the stone dust in the coffin. Coming home means facing the town that chewed him up, the mining company that owns what’s left—and something older that’s waking inside the rock.

When a restless college student and a weary bookstore owner cross paths with the Black Book, reality begins to fracture. Memories twist. Dreams bleed into waking nightmares. And as its influence spreads, a buried piece of history claws its way back: the violent 1933 farmers’ strike that scarred the region. The only one immune to its pull is an ordinary friend. But to stop the book before it consumes everyone he loves, he must uncover its secrets—and face the horrors that history tried to erase.

Coy tells the story of his life. He never knew his parents. He’s been beaten and abused, and he’s witnessed things that are nearly unspeakable. But it was all a part of what he was to become.

Cheating death, cheating time, looking for the easy way out. These things have consequences. Consequences that can be violent and painful.

The world ends when the Hg34 virus infects its population. Those who don’t die either hide or are taken captive; forced to dig underground until their bodies fail. Those who haven’t been taken fight for survival. The search for answers leads Libby and her companions into decimated towns where secrets lay buried. How far will the search for answers take them? What will they do with the answers when they find them?

Once renowned for her villainous performance as Lady Macbeth, Ms. Josephine "Jo" Rose is an eccentric recluse aging alone in a decaying Victorian. As a favor for her best friend, Haley Fields visits with Ms. Rose. Haley is a librarian and writer, and Ms. Rose wants her to write What Ever Happened to Helga the Hag?, a play that will return her to theatrical fame.

Can a soul hover after passing on? Can a person be unaware of her own death? Journalist Christine Christian had always been a pragmatist. Not even her own persistent intuitions could compete with her commitment to logic and to empirical proof. In fact, that’s what had gotten her into to trouble in the first place.

What Price Gory? is the new horror collection from Terry M. West, the critically-acclaimed author of A Psycho's Medley and the filmmaker best known for Flesh for the Beast. What Price Gory? is a collection of weird supernatural stories. Monsters and demons dwell in these tales.

What the Dark Brings is a collection of 19 short stories, beginning with "Literary Sweets," a tender jaunt into Christmastime that proves all is not lost for one jaded gentleman. But by the time you reach the final tale, "Come to Jesus Meeting," the darkness is all encompassing.

A strange black book. Routine autopsy. Memories that won’t stay quiet. When small-town medical examiner Dr. Timothy Clarke discovers a mysterious book during a routine autopsy, he expects paperwork, not whispers. Opening the book unravels the world, corpses vanish, memories twist, and something ancient awakens. As the boundary between life and death dissolves, Tim must confront a horror that isn’t just read, it reads back. In this chilling psychological thriller, Dennis Joslyn blends cosmic terror with human fragility.

She’d move mountains for a cure. But reentering the supernatural world to chase an antidote could get her killed. Scotland. Erica Hutchinson can barely juggle her life as it is. Orphaned at age eight and a struggling single mother by 18, the witch-werewolf barista has worked hard to forget her occult origins. But her buried past comes crashing back when her beloved child catches a deadly lupine virus. Willing to go down whatever road it takes, Erica returns to her former life to heal her daughter from a sickness with no survivors.

Where evil lurks, a group of heroes rises to challenge it. Colton Donovan used to be a college-pitching phenom, but a horrific accident ended his dreams of baseball stardom. Now, he is haunted by a different kind of dream - a recurring nightmare that won’t let him rest. At the behest of his wise-cracking roommate Adam, Colton enlists the help of Shawna, a beautiful empath who is adept at reading energies and interpreting dreams.

For those who might have thought about what it would be like to engage in astral travel or astral projection, this awesome book by Farsha Hassan tells a beautiful story that I am certain you will enjoy; and I am confident you will learn a lot about this other level of existence. Her creative and unique style of writing keep you engaged from the beginning to the end.