Horror

In the near future, when America has become a police state, 100 boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life....

Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul.

From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters.

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....

A gripping novel set in Jim Crow Florida, The Reformatory follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.

From number one New York Times best-selling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It....

Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real....

Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a nonfiction book called House of Horrors....

When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust…from bestselling author Isabel Cañas.

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom. But the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking....

The lives of two homeowners are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start....

Welcome to the world of T. W. Brown's DEAD saga. This raw, violent, and brutal world isn't populated with military supermen and women, or preppers that have been waiting for the human extinction event to arrive. This is a world of normal people...some good, some bad...and some pure evil....

Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores....

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention.

An 11-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens....

When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic, rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true....

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage....

World War Z: The Complete Edition is a new recording of Max Brooks’ best-selling novel, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War....

A captivating new historical novel from Madeline Martin, set in Victorian London about a forbidden book club, dangerous secrets, and the women who dare to break free.

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling “exploration of grief and delusion, just pure undistilled evil” (New York magazine) as she uncovers the truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

Writer Ben Mears has returned to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot with the hope that moving into a delapidated mansion, long the subject of town lore, might help him get a handle on his life and provide inspiration for a new book....

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world. That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

London, 1895: Trapped by oppressive marriages and societal expectations, three women receive a mysterious invitation to an afternoon tea at the home of the reclusive Lady Duxbury. Beneath the genteel facade of the gathering lies a secret book club—a sanctuary where they can discover freedom, sisterhood, and the courage to rewrite their stories.

Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes, the allegations spark fascination and fear like nothing has before.

In a tight-knit town in the 1980s, a child-killer is on the loose. And Topaz’s parents are on edge. At ten years old, Topaz is so vulnerable. But she has nothing to worry about. Her eldest sister, Ruby, has made sure of that. Swearing Topaz to secrecy, Ruby reveals she has trapped the monster in their root cellar.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Isla Hansen, a mother reeling from a devastating loss, is beside herself when a mysteriously orphaned child appears on the outskirts of the Hansens’ secluded Colorado property. Although strange and unexplainable, the child’s presence breathes new life into Isla. But as the child settles in, Isla’s husband, Luke, and their five children notice peculiarities that hint at something far beyond the ordinary—anomalies that challenge the very fabric of reality itself.

The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her—and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.

On a clear October day, the American skies empty after hundreds of pilots refuse to fly, triggering a complete ground stop as authorities seek to explain an act of baffling coordination that the pilots insist was anything but planned. The pilots received disturbing, middle-of-the-night calls from their mothers, and each mother had a simple and urgent request: do not fly today. There are a few concerning elements to the calls. None of the mothers remember making them—and some of the mothers are dead.

Fifteen years ago the feeders rose from the shadows to transform the world into a graveyard. The few survivors exist in fortified settlements surrounded by the empty ruins of a destroyed civilization. For years the citizens of New City Redoubt have relied on an elite cadre of Crossers to navigate the feeder-infested wasteland between settlements in order to trade for vital supplies. But the Outside is becoming ever more dangerous, and the ranks of the Crossers grow thinner with every crossing.

Goat Valley Campground has killed generations of Kate’s family. The land is old, passed down through generations, but the campground’s reputation doesn’t just draw campers year after year. Creatures from folklore and horror have made Goat Valley not just their home, but their hunting ground.

📚 Want to improve your Spanish while reading a classic story? This adapted edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to life in easy Spanish, specially designed for learners at A2 level. ✅ Clear language and short sentences ✅ Glossary and adapted vocabulary ✅ A timeless gothic novel made simple and enjoyable ⚡ Practice your Spanish naturally while diving into mystery, suspense, and one of the greatest classics of world literature. Perfect for: Learners who want graded Spanish readers Students looking for Spanish reading practice Anyone who loves classic novels ...

Winter 2017. Freyston, Maine. A remote town buried in snow—and in secrets. Otha and her brother arrive to visit their grandfather, only to find him changed. Gaunt. Hollow-eyed. Wrong. Some say it’s dementia. Others whisper a darker word: Wendigo. As the storm closes in, so does the truth about what happened to him in the wilderness years ago—and why he survived when everyone else died.

When a group of college friends throws an astrology-themed party, they awaken a dark, ancient curse tied to their town's colonial past. A mysterious presence begins to stalk them, orchestrating a series of horrifying accidents that defy all logic. As two of their guests fall victim to this force, a chilling pattern emerges—a terrifying supernatural judgment that demands balance through blood. As their world unravels, they must confront the terrifying truth that their charming new friend, a Libra tormented by a secret, may be the vessel for this malevolent entity. Trapped in a home that ...

Anthony Ballard, der Hexenhenker, knüpfte vor 300 Jahren sieben Hexen am Gelgenbaum auf. Doch diese starben nicht, sondern kommen alle 100 Jahre zurück, um sich blutig zu rächen, bis in unsere Zeit. Und immer ist ein Nachkomme des Hexenhenkers unter den Opfern. In unserer Zeit soll es der Polizeibeamte "Tony Ballard" sein, der ihnen zum Opfer fallen soll, und dieser glaubt nicht an die Schauergeschichten, die man sich von den Hexen erzählt, bis er ihnen begegnet.

Mi sveglio incatenata al letto di uno sconosciuto. Lui dice che sono sua moglie. Non ho nulla: né denaro. Né amici. Nessuna via di fuga. Lui è tutto ciò che non avrei mai immaginato: spietato, calcolatore, temuto. Un bellissimo mostro con un viso da dio, freddo e inavvicinabile. Un boss mafioso la cui ricchezza potrebbe comprare imperi e il cui potere fa tremare il mondo. Il mio rapitore. Mio marito. Giura di proteggermi a ogni costo, e in cambio esige... tutto. Il mio corpo. La mia obbedienza. La mia sottomissione. Ogni tocco, ogni bacio brutale risveglia un desiderio pericoloso che ...

Step into the shadows of the human soul with this haunting collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s most unforgettable tales of madness, obsession, and the supernatural, read in a modern, easy-to-listen-to style by Jen Ponton (30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). From the creeping guilt of The Tell-Tale Heart to the grotesque horror of Berenice, each story pulses with dread, decay, and the desperate need to be heard.

Asher Anderson is angry―at the world, at himself, at the way his best friend Lucy Wolfe seems determined to tune out this buzzing connection between them. He doesn't mean to solve all his problems with violence, but maybe he has too much of his father in him. That's why the faculty at Avernia College hates him, right? Because of the "evil" blood in his veins?

How much fear can your heart take? Your skin crawls. Something in the darkness growls. Paralyzed by fear, you can’t run, you can’t hide. All you can do is scream... Welcome to the terrifying world of Spine Chillers. This special collection brings together 15 delightfully dreadful tales of supernatural horror that are guaranteed to haunt your dreams and stalk your waking hours.

After her boyfriend dumps her in a Reddit post, unemployed thirty-nine-year-old Dayna accepts an unusual opportunity from a man she stopped speaking to twenty years ago: If Dayna can help Craig transform his crumbling mansion into a successful hype house of influencers, he can restore his birthright to its former glory, and she can bring her career back from the dead.

When twelve-year-old Andy’s sister vanishes without a trace, the police are stumped, his parents are falling apart, and no one believes what he saw—a strange yellow van and the shadowy figure behind the wheel. Determined to find her, Andy launches his own search…and uncovers something far more terrifying than he imagined.

Shane Ryan and Frank Benedict have faced countless enemies, both human and supernatural. But nothing has prepared them for what awaits on Maple Grove Island. When their desperate search for a missing person leads them to a secluded Maine community, the duo discovers a horrifying secret.

She came for a story. Now she's fighting for her life. Mara Kane is a professional skeptic. As the host of the popular podcast Unseen, she debunks myths and exposes the truth behind ghost stories. For a Halloween special, she travels to the Dublin mountains to investigate Killakee House—a crumbling ruin haunted by a terrifying creature from folklore. But when her investigation is met with a wall of silence from the terrified locals, Mara knows she's onto something more than a simple ghost story. The whispers of a spectral beast, a history of devil worship, and a decades-old cover-up pull ...

Piper Lowery, a public library clerk in charge of liaising with the local middle school, can tell right away there’s something strange about the new girl in eighth grade. Avery Wallace won’t touch any kind of technology, not even the computers at the library, and her mother comes to school with her every day, refusing to leave her side—not even when Avery uses the restroom. And then there are the rumors, the whispers Piper hears from kids in the hallway and parents around town: Avery’s mother is a witch. Her sister and father were killed by something supernatural. A strange virus killed them.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a Gothic novella written during the late 19th century. The story explores the duality of human nature through the contrasting figures of the respectable Dr. Jekyll and the malevolent Mr. Hyde, and delves into themes of morality, identity, and the struggle between good and evil.

The annual family trip to Skytop was an escape. A sanctuary of towering pines and quiet lakeside afternoons. But this year, the outside world is creeping in. A greedy developer wants to pave paradise, and the land itself is beginning to stir. The locals whisper of an ancient legend. A guardian that slumbers deep within the mountain, only to be woken by a greed that poisons the soil. As the sky turns a bruised, unnatural purple and a thunder rumbles from below the earth, the family realizes the stories are true. When the developer ignores the warnings and unleashes his chainsaws, he awakens ...