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Teetering on the edge of the North Sea in Norfolk, Grimdark Hall is both grim and dark in name and nature. When Cló and Jude Honeyborne arrive from Toronto to claim Jude's inheritance, Cló is unsettled by the foreboding ancient building and the hostility of Jude's sisters, who stalk her every move. But Cló is drawn to the strange energy of the treacherous fens and the haunting sadness of a drowned village in the bay where ghostly church bells toll thirteen, sweeping her back into another woman's memories.

Someone kidnapped my classmate, and no one cares. Not the college, not the police—everyone just wants to forget her. But I won't. Finding Megan becomes my obsession, leading me straight into the world of the rich and ruthless Crowne family. They're untouchable, powerful, and hiding something dark. And I walk right into their trap. Now, I'm their prisoner, caught in a game of mind-bending control where every step they take shatters my sanity. And Caius Crowne—the coldest, most ruthless of them all—is determined to use me to get what he wants.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Silent film star Venita Rost's malevolent spirit lurks spider-like in her cliffside mansion, a once-beautiful home that's claimed countless unlucky souls. And she's not alone. Snared in her terrible web, Inspector Bartholomew Sloan—her eternal nemesis—watches her wreak havoc in helpless horror, shackled by his own guilt and Venita's unrelenting wrath. Now the house has yet another new owner. This time it's Ronnie Mitchell, a grieving woman who buys the run-down place sight unseen.

It’s been years since Ingrid has heard from her childhood best friend, Mayra, a fearless rebel who fled their hometown of Hialeah, a Cuban neighborhood just west of Miami, for college in the Northeast. But when Mayra calls out of the blue to invite Ingrid to a weekend getaway at a house in the Everglades, she impulsively accepts. From the moment Ingrid sets out, danger looms: The directions are difficult, she’s out of reach of cell service, and as she drives deeper into the Everglades, the wet maw of the swamp threatens to swallow her whole.

What remains of Jesse’s mother can fit inside an old jerky tin. Photos, postcards, a single, worn-out bracelet. But nothing that can explain why she was found dead eighteen years earlier on the bank of a river, her infant son left wailing by her side. When Jesse starts to receive anonymous messages promising him answers, he returns home to the regressive town of Blacknot, North Carolina so that his lifelong obsession can finally be laid to rest.

What do you do when the killers come out to play? When it's hunt or be hunted? You sharpen your knives and prepare to get bloody because nobody does it better than a woman scorned with something to prove. Welcome to the 23rd annual serial killer war games, where the adrenaline runs high, the blood is fresh, and the revenge is best served cold.

When high school senior Charlotte agrees to babysit the Wilbanks twins, she plans to put the six-year-olds to bed early and spend a quiet night studying: the SATs are tomorrow, and checking the Native American/Alaskan Native box on all the forms won't help if she chokes on test day. But tomorrow is also Halloween, and the twins are eager to show off their costumes.

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.

This edition of Shelley's second novel, transcribed and introduced by Deanna Koretsky, explores the work both as a complex portrayal of taboo desires and as an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy. Mathilda is often understood as biographical, but this edition also highlights the issues of justice, gender, and rights.

Even as Teddy’s child grows in my belly, I feel myself locked in the jaws of grief I can’t escape. But I can’t allow my emotions to distract me. A very real threat lurks in the shadows, eagerly waiting for me to let my guard down for even an instant. Cameron is out there somewhere—and it’s only a matter of time before he finds me.

When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary icon, some known, some soon to be discovered, and they've been waiting for their chance to step into the author’s shoes for some time. Instead, they arrive at his grand manor and are invited to play a game. The rules are simple, solve the riddle and progress to the next room. If they don’t, the manor will take one of them for itself.

Just beyond the waking edges of Lucerìa, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the Night: an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven immortals and fueled by Moira, the power to reshape one’s destiny. On this porous border separating Day from Night, Oriana spends her time fantasizing about becoming a smith in her father’s forge and eavesdropping on whispered tales of beasts and men who roam the nocturnal realm. But in the Night, these stories come alive, as Oriana saw for herself after she inadvertently trespassed into the Secret Market of the Dead.

When scholarship student Iris Hale arrives at the elite Winter Hall, she expects cold stares, ancient traditions, and a brutal academic workload. She doesn’t expect whispers in the walls, students who vanish without a trace, or cryptic warnings etched into stone. As Iris digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling legacy: a secret society known as The Inheritors, an ancient Rite fueled by memory and blood, and a lineage that ties her to a girl who disappeared decades ago.

When Marla inherits her grandmother’s crumbling house, she also inherits its attic—a space filled with locked boxes, forgotten voices, and the remnants of a woman’s unfinished thoughts. As Marla begins to experience waking dreams, mirrored emotions, and disjointed timelines, she must confront a truth that exists not in what she remembers, but in what she was taught to forget. Echoes in the Attic Mind is a gothic meditation on memory, grief, and the architecture of the mind.

Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos is a captivating collection that brings together the works of three legendary authors: H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Henry Kuttner. This anthology showcases over thirty stories that delve into the dark and mysterious realms of the Cthulhu Mythos, a universe filled with cosmic horrors, ancient deities, and existential dread.

The world ignites without warning. Spontaneous human combustion transforms cities into silent ash, leaving survivors with nothing but scars and instinct. For Rory, the pain began before the flames with her mother’s death. For Dante, it started when she watched her father vanish on a storm of embers. Now, in the desolate Colorado wilderness, these two young women’s path intersect. Strangers at first, they’re bound by shared loss and hardened survival. Each day brings new battles; against hunger, marauders, and nature itself. But in this crumbling world, something unexpected blooms.

Alabama, 1946. Os Caskeys já enfrentaram diversas provações, alianças inesperadas se formaram, conflitos amargos se instalaram. Miriam agora está à frente dos negócios da família, sempre buscando aumentar a riqueza deles, até que faz uma descoberta surpreendente, que vai lhes dar ainda mais dinheiro. Mas essa fortuna repentina será suficiente para conter os fantasmas do passado? E quanto tempo eles terão até a natureza cobrar seu preço?

Time stopped when Teddy died. I couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t think. Couldn’t function. Until Lucas. He became an unlikely ally who helped me navigate through my fog of pain. I never intended for it to become more, but one night everything between us crashed to the surface. Now, Teddy is back and I’m trapped in a triangle with two of the deadliest men I know. How can I uncover my father’s murderer when I’ve ignited a rivalry that could blow my world apart?

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum plunges listeners into the claustrophobic mind of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, who awakens in utter darkness to face a series of psychological and physical torments. Chained beneath a slowly descending pendulum blade, surrounded by monstrous iron walls and the yawning mouth of a deadly pit, he must summon every ounce of courage, reason, and instinct to survive.