Literary Horror

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ellen Cahill has been married thirty-four years, and for nineteen of them she and Tom have kept a silence between them, careful and complete, over a loss and a wound they have never once spoken aloud. It is the shape of the marriage now. She has stopped...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Daniel Holt did his time. Eleven years for a single violent night, and every day since spent building the smallest, most careful life a man can stand inside. What no one knows, what he has never had a word for, is that he was never alone in his own head...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Walt Sorensen has lived on Mercer Row for thirty-one years, and for nineteen of them he has been owed. A property line. A strip of his own ground the width of a porch step that the neighbors took and forgot. He never made a scene. He swallowed it, kept...

In Dark Property, a woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. In Contagion and Other Stories, Evenson takes his audiences into a world that is at once apocalyptic, dark, observant, and grotesque without ever dipping into static genre conventions.

Both a biting commentary on our ‘skinny-obsessed’ times and a wholly consuming thriller, EATING VERONICA stares our social fixation on size in the eye. Perfect for fans of Bunny, Nitghtbitch and Butter. Diets are hard. This one’s a killer. Veronica has always dreamt of a smaller body, one...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of...

Veronica’s about to learn that beauty comes with a body count. Veronica is smart. She’s funny. She’s career driven. And she struggles every day with her scale, the mirror, and the way people judge her for her weight. They're eating her alive. Then one night, part of her decides to do...

"An impeccable work of folk horror" -- Irish Times An atmospheric and unsettling story of the depths of grief found in an ancient farm in northern England—now a major motion picture starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. The worst thing possible has happened. Richard and Juliette Willoughby's...

In this “chilling, profound” (Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie) horror story based on true events, the President’s late son haunts the White House, breaking the spirit of what remains of the First Family and the divided America beyond the...

Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can't break...

Fourteen years ago, deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, a 12-year-old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret. Now, a young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the "snake well". An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawl spaces. The townsfolks' darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The indelible final novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy. “There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London) A father's worst nightmare: Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared...

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate.

The concluding volume in an epic and terrifying trilogy for teen readers. Throughout the world, Dancing Jax reigns supreme. The Ismus and his court are celebrated and adored, and the Ismus is writing the much-awaited sequel to Dancing Jax. But when someone accidentally reads the manuscript, the...

From the author of the horror classic Night of the Living Dead. Tiffany Blake was a beautiful dancer with a glorious future and the backing of a rich benefactor. Then a monstrous accident severed her leg at the hip. Now, the ballerinas are disappearing without a trace. One by one, they fall victim to a dark and deadly pattern of evil - caught by a psycho that would have them pay with their lovely bodies for the cruel fate of another...victims of a madman whose flashing knife will make them writhe a gruesome new dance.

In a small New York State college, beautiful 18-year-old Laura Clark is blossoming, reaching out for love and trying to escape her controlling mother. But for Laura, there is no escape. Not from her mother, not from the unnameable horror that haunts her dreams, and not from the coven's spell of darkness.

A chilling and deliciously dark novel about an idyllic Midwestern college town that turns out to be a panorama of depravity and a nexus of horror. For years Normandy Falls has been haunted by its strange history and the aggrieved spirits said to roam its graveyards. Despite warnings Edmund Campion is determined to pursue an advanced degree there. But Edmund soon learns he isn't immune to the impersonal trappings of fate.

The Sins of the Past: Kevin Kendrick must come to terms with his grandfather not being who he's always been thought to be and that he killed Kevin's real grandfather decades ago. As times wears on, Kevin feels his mind slipping away, with each tick of the clock stealing something from him. Can he learn to forgive and put everything in the past, where it's always been, or can he, a mild-mannered man, bring justice full circle?

Why not get two tales of pure terror for the low price of only one? If you are not frightened by the body-snatching of husband and wife by the long-forgotten spirits of the wife's great-great-grandfather and his "beloved" and their plan to wreak havoc and carnage upon mankind, surely, your mind will be twisted and left in shattered awe at the forlorn story of a woman driven mad by her own nightmare and its abrupt thrust into reality, tearing away everything that might have left her whole...or you.

Two soldiers wander through a mist, into enemy hands, soon after, taken to an abandoned cabin, to be tortured for information about the whereabouts of a Union gold payroll shipment. The Confederate deserters seem to forget their history with the place and discover that old crimes live on with those that no longer do. The dead sometimes ache for revenge, and might just tear a man into shredded meat or worse.