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1) The shining
2) Dracula
4) The Stand
When Oxford don Michael Flint travels to the house to trace the origins of the long-dead Choir, he is at once aware of the house's eerie menace. Who is the shadowy young man who lurks in the grounds, and why does his exact likeness appear in a sketch...
6) Alex
Upon winning the prestigious 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award, the judges praised Alex by saying, "An original and absorbing ability to leash incredulity in the name of the fictional contract between author and reader . . . A police procedural, a thriller against time, a race between hunted and hunter, and a whydunnit, written from multiple points of view that explore several apparently parallel stories which finally meet."
7) The jumbies
Detective Jonathan Stride is back.
A third woman dead in two months. And for the third time, Alison Malville isn't sure her husband was home all night.
When the killer sends the usual photo of his victim to the press, she sees an item of her clothing left with this body, too.
Could you believe your own husband was capable of murder? Would you turn him in?
This is exclusive to ebook, a gripping read from the acclaimed
12) The Other Child
A family moves into a new home—but a former occupant has not departed—in this terrifying tale by the New York Times-bestselling author.
Where innocence dies...Expectant parents Karen and Mike Houston are excited about restoring their old rambling Victorian mansion to its former glory. With its endless maze of rooms, hallways, and hiding places, it's a wonderful place for their nine-year-old daughter Leslie...
“A dizzying high-wire act.”—The Washington Post
“Fantastical, hellish, and hilarious.”—Los Angeles Times
“By turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”—The Boston Globe
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The...
Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of things far worse—that have scarred its grandeur almost from the...
How Long Must We Pay for the Sins of Our Past?
She blames herself for her husband's death. But for Rachel Schmidt Nussbaum, redemption may only lie in the ultimate sacrifice.
When a stranger arrives claiming only she can save him, Rachel's impulsive instincts lead her on a perilous journey, one that leads her to a battle that will decide both the fate of her soul and the life of her unborn child.
A far–from–ordinary
...17) A Cold Season
"A scary read that will chill you to the bone," —Library Journal.
After the battlefront death of her husband, a soldier, in the sands of the Middle East, a distraught Cass decides to move to the bucolic village of Darnshaw—a place she once knew and loved—with her teenage son, with the hope that a change in scenery will be just
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing
...“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent...
20) Growth
A slew of mysterious disappearances are only the beginning of trouble for a smalltown Illinois sheriff in this horror novel by the author of Sleep Tight.
Corn is America's grain and the very stuff of life. Now, scientists have created a genetically modified strain that repels all pests. It also unknowingly contains the DNA of a rare species of fungus that is invasive, virulently infectious, and very deadly.
First, the
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