Adult Horror Thriller

It should have been just another quiet night on the farm when Logan witnessed the attack, but it wasn’t. Something is in the woods. Something unexplainable. Something deadly. Hundreds of miles away, Chrystal’s plans for summer in Manhattan are abruptly upended when her dad reads tabloid coverage of some kind of grisly incident in Oklahoma. When they arrive to investigate, they find a witness: a surprisingly good-looking farm boy.

Adolescence is a time of "firsts." First kiss. First love. First loss. First job. And in this case, a very different type of "first": murder. This short story collection of murder mysteries adds a sinister spin to the joy and pain of firsts that have always been a major part of life, whether it be high school cliques who take the term "backstabbing" too seriously, stumbling upon a body on the way home from school, or receiving a Snapchat message that promises something deadly.

How do you unmask your own killer when everyone wants you dead? "A twisty thriller with a bloody ending you’ll never see coming."—Kelly Coon, author of Gravemaidens Ruby is a scholarship senior at elite Oleander High School with a chip on her shoulder and an attitude to match—which she...

There's a new boy at Shadyside High School, and he's stolen the hearts of all the girls. Good-looking, athletic Ross Gabriel is the kind of guy that every girl wants to date - including best friends Janie, Eve, and Faith. They've even made a bet on which one of them he'll go out with first. Ross dates a lot of girls - and one by one, they're all murdered. It looks like going out with Ross means flirting with a gruesome and horrifying fate.

Charlotte Barreau has tried to maintain a low-key lifestyle but it isn’t easy for a young witch. Then she meets a feisty orange cat attempting to foil the plot of a cultist opening a portal to another world. This magical beast comes to her with a calling, a duty to defend our world against denizens of a dangerous realm called the Umbra Oculus. As they begin to investigate, they find themselves dangerously outmatched. Their opponents are fully-trained adult wizards with serious zeal for their work.

Nobody expected Dru Anderson to survive this long. Not Graves. Not Christophe. Not even Dru. She's battled killer zombies, jealous djamphirs, and bloodthirsty suckers straight out of her worst nightmares. But now that Dru has bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha — rare, beautiful, and toxic to all vampires — the worst is yet to come. Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. And in the end, is survival really worth the sacrifice?

A supernatural thriller told in first person by three main characters over the course of eleven years, Eternal Beauty explores the lives of Bridget Higgins, a young girl grappling with grief, Claire Foster, a woman seeking physical perfection while battling her own inner demons, and Barbara O’Malley, a charismatic wellness influencer. Fueled by her trauma of mysteriously losing her loved ones, Bridget connects deeply with Barbara as she devours her online videos looking for her own place in the world.

An die, die noch immer um jeden Preis Widerstand leisten (ich weiß, ein kleiner, verstreuter Haufen existiert noch), entweder weil ihr einen eisernen Willen habt oder einfach das Glück, so wie ich immun gegen diesen Wahnsinn zu sein: Ich rate euch dringend, das Land zu verlassen! Verschwindet von da. Ihr könnt nichts mehr ausrichten. Vor einigen Monaten tauchte ein merkwürdiges altes Buch in einer britischen Kleinstadt auf und zog all jene, die es lasen, in seinen Bann.

Einige Bücher sind schädlich, sogar gefährlich. Sie verdrehen einem den Kopf und geben den dunkelsten Seiten der menschlichen Seele Nahrung. Sie sollten verbannt oder vernichtet werden. Diese Geschichte handelt von solch einem Buch. Ich hoffe, es gibt noch genug von euch da draußen, die das hier lesen und mir glauben und sich zur Wehr setzen können - bevor es zu spät ist: Ein altertümlich wirkendes und zunächst harmlos erscheinendes Buch taucht in einer englischen Kleinstadt auf und ergreift Besitz von seinen Lesern.

Der sehnsüchtig erwartete Abschlussband der erfolgreichen "Dancing Jax"-Trilogie lässt keine Horror-Wünsche offen. Stephen-King-like kombiniert Robin Jarvis intelligente Schockelemente mit Fantasy und schafft so eine vor Spannung überbordende Trilogie. Die Saat des Bösen geht auf und es scheint kein Entrinnen für die gleichgeschaltete Menschheit zu geben... Es scheint hoffnungslos: Dancing Jax, das diabolische Buch, das aus seinen Leser willenlose Kreaturen macht, verleibt sich die Realität immer mehr ein. Der Ismus und sein Gefolge werden gefeiert und verehrt, wohin sie auch kommen.

Abby Ward lebt in einer Stadt, in der immer wieder Menschen verschwinden. Wenn man die Leichen findet, sind die Körper zerstückelt und auf bizarre Weise wieder zusammengenäht. Mit roten Fäden … Deshalb leben Abby und ihre jüngere Schwester Hope nach strengen Regeln, die sie schützen sollen–und dennoch passiert es: Hope wird entführt. Verzweifelt versucht Abby, sie zu finden. Und sie muss sich beeilen, bevor der Stitcher ihrer Schwester die Körperteile abtrennt.

Relic Meyers thought sophomore year would be easier, but his band Altar Stone’s electrifying debut has sent shockwaves through Laramie—both literally and supernaturally. The performance has awakened hexes tied to Adratheon, a dark entity lurking in the town’s shadowy past, and now monstrous forces are surfacing from beyond. As Relic struggles to balance band life, friendships, and the terrifying weight of these supernatural disturbances, he realizes that getting what you want isn’t always a blessing—it’s just the start of a new nightmare.

Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late.

Jade possui apenas um objetivo ao chegar ao Vietnã: sobreviver a cinco semanas ao lado do seu pai ausente, enquanto ele restaura uma antiga casa. A garota sempre mentiu para poder se encaixar socialmente e, desta vez, não será diferente. Basta ela ser heterossexual, vietnamita e americana o suficiente para conseguir a única coisa que deseja da complicada relação que tem com o pai: o dinheiro para a faculdade que ele havia prometido. Mas a Casa das Flores tem outros planos.

A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories—spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death—from an electrifying new voice in fiction. An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she’s actually upset about his death. A group of...

Seventeen-year-old Cody Sterling doesn’t believe he’s crazy. He sees creatures no one else can—spectrals made of light and dark energies. He knows they’re real because he watched one kill his father. Ever since, that same presence has haunted him. The doctors call it trauma. Cody knows better. He calls it Mr. Shadow. After a violent incident at school and a devastating betrayal at home, Cody is sent to New Beginnings, a wilderness therapy program deep in Idaho’s remote Payette National Forest.

In order to save her sister, Zuretta takes a job at an infamous house of horrors—but she might never escape. Zuretta never thought she'd encounter a monster. She had resigned herself to a quiet life in Utah. But when her younger sister, Ruby, travels to Chicago during the World's Fair, and disappears, Zuretta leaves home to find her. But 1890s Chicago is more dangerous and chaotic than she imagined. She doesn't know where to start until she learns of her sister's last place of employment . . . a mysterious hotel known as The Castle.

Graduation was on the horizon, and Jonathan and his friends were eager to leave their small world behind. But when a member of their close-knit group mysteriously disappears, a chilling unease settles in. As 'Missing Person' posters saturate the town's streets and the sheriff is without clues, Jonathan and his friends decide to escape to a remote cabin in the woods to get away from the sympathetic looks of their classmates and the anxiety of it all. But their troubles will not be so easily left behind.

What would you do for a seat at the table? In this deliciously dark thriller set in Japan, a desperate gambling addict masquerades as the private chef to a reclusive billionaire with deadly taste—from the twisted mind behind Claire, Darling. “Stuffed with succulent prose, delicious dread...

Jono, a city-born Indigenous teenager, is trying to figure out who he really is. Life in Brisbane hasn’t exactly made him feel connected to his Country or community. Luckily, he’s got his best friend, Jenny, who has been by his side through their hectic days at St Lucia Private. After graduating, Jono and Jenny score gigs at the Aboriginal Performing Arts Centre and an incredible opportunity comes knocking – interning with a documentary crew. Their mission? To promote a big government mining project in the wild western Queensland desert.