Women Horror

When Ailsa returns to her childhood home, an eerie sense of danger overwhelms her. Her unease only grows when she notices small things out of place and the odd fact that no animals will step foot on the grounds of the house… Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs...

Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to hate men and to keep her heart cold as the grave. She knows she doesn’t feel things quite like other people do but is this just the result of her strange upbringing? As she watches the brutal treatment of women around her, hatred hardens into a core of vengeance, and when she finds herself married to the abusive Drummle, she is forced to make a deadly choice: Should she embrace the darkness within her and exact her revenge?

Running from a dark past takes Emma further into the shadows. Nightmares, doctors, and the concerns of friends and family plague Emma. All she wants is peace and to forget her troubles. A servant's position opens up in the town of Restless Hills. Her time for escape has come. Except, the town and its people aren't as they seem. Edgar, an enigmatic man with a hidden connection to her employer, befriends her while keeping her at a distance. As strange occurrences start to plague the mansion, Emma must face her past and discover the truth behind the hauntings.

On a dark night in the summer of 1859, three men enter the home of Dr. Matthew Callahan and shoot him dead in front of his pregnant wife. Unbeknownst to them, Li Lian, his wife, hails from a long line of women gifted in ways that scare most folks - the witches of the MacPherson clan - and her need for vengeance is as vast and unforgiving as the Great Plains themselves. Devil's Call traces Li Lian's quest from the Nebraska Territory to Louisiana to the frozen Badlands, to bring to justice the monster responsible for shooting her husband in the back.

On the one-year anniversary of her mother's murder, Sarah has been summoned home. She returns to Bennett House, hoping to put the broken pieces of her life back together. But when another murder occurs shortly after her arrival, Sarah once again finds herself a suspect, as she is drawn into a web of suspicion and lies. In order to clear her name, Sarah must remember what happened the fateful night her mother died. But as she works to regain her memory, the real murderer watches, ready to kill again to protect a dark family secret.

There is never a good time for a witch to lose her powers. But to lose your magic just when you and your friends need it to survive might be the worst timing of all. But even in her despair, Torie Bliss has noticed some strange goings-on in Singing Falls. The supernatural community seems to be at war with itself, and the human inhabitants of the community are not exactly acting like normal humans. Without her powers Torie is at a loss as to how she can help them. But there is one person who may be able to help her.

A down-and-out rodeo champion follows a mysterious woman on the run with half a million dollars back to the bright lights of Las Vegas in the sequel to Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky? “Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard Two years after...

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and lust. “Devastating in the most beautiful ways. From the...

A riotous revenge novel about a woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself. "It’s impossible for a book so chilling, so uncanny, so urgent to also be this funny. Nerve Damage is a major debut.” —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!...

"A savage, witty, gory, heartfelt, utterly relatable rage fantasy and a helluva good time. Miranda July meets Stephen King." --Lauren Beukes, New York Times bestselling author of The Shining Girls Hyper-competent Ellie thinks she’s going through perimenopause, but discovers she’s actually...

Magic is real, and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, and only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a survivor. She joins a Vatican-backed black-ops anti-magic squad—Team Three of the Societas Librorum Occultorum—and together they stand between humanity and the magical apocalypse. Some call them the Bookburners. They don’t like the label.

In Book 18 of The Jerry McNeal Series, Mr. Bigsby, the spirit who’s been seeking April’s assistance, is back and insisting she drop everything to help save his wife before it’s too late. The wife is leaving on a cruise in two days and Mr. Bigsby fears the man will successfully swindle her out of her inheritance. While Jerry’s former boss, Seltzer, and his wife, June, are slated to be on the same cruise, the spirit insists April go along to make sure his wife isn’t duped by the man suspected of catfishing her.

The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy's deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets. In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.

“It was just a dream.” We all say that to our children when they have a nightmare and wake up crying, don’t we? “Shh...baby, it was just a dream.” But what if there is no such thing as just a dream? What if dreams are portals to other worlds where evil lurks? When Andrew and Julia have their baby, they quickly realize their daughter is very different from other children. The girl’s grandmother tries to warn them. Their daughter, Anna, has a gift. She travels the worlds at night as one of the shadow-people. But she is also in grave danger.

When the body of the teenage boy, Julian Long, is discovered in the Green Swamps of Florida, the citizens of Bushlake know the city will never be the same again. Julian was popular, loved by all, and the circumstances of his death are more than strange. What secrets is the boy in the swamps hiding? Stephanie Boulder has returned to the town after 15 years to take care of her grandmother, who is terminally ill. She writes for the local paper, and as soon as she starts digging into the story of Julian Long, she discovers secrets deep within the town’s history.

The gang is prepared this time. Emmie and Sarah have trained their psychic skills, Finn is a little wiser, and they’re ready for the worst. But if a looming menace gets its way, they’ll be dead within days. While exploring Emmie's basement, Finn makes a gruesome discovery hidden behind a wall that shakes them to the core—a woman’s corpse. And it’s obvious she was murdered. But Alice isn’t talking, and the ghosts of the past elude the gang, until they meet a mourning father who’s daughter suffered the same ghastly fate. But his insight comes with a warning....

Thirty-five years ago, Genevieve Ryland stepped off the stage of her high school graduation and disappeared without a trace. For years her mother searched for her, hitting dead end after dead end. Now that she’s on her deathbed, her other daughter has asked me to find out what happened to her sister. Before her mother passes. It’s like opening a time capsule buried in 1985 when neon shirts, scrunchies, and big hair were all the rage.

Finn is devastated. Struggling to reconcile with his mother at his father’s funeral in Southern California, Emmie and the gang do their best to support him. But after his father’s ghost warns them of a legendary curse, the truth is undeniable and heartbreaking: his death was anything but natural. Still reeling from his brother’s suicide two years earlier, Finn seeks answers at his Godfather’s historic Raven House Vineyard and home to his childhood playground—a decaying Spanish mission called “the ruins.”

Set against the stark background of the Southwestern desert, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights glows with the promise—and fear—of the world we know and the worlds we don’t, following women and girls as they navigate dangers both supernatural and existential. From the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures, Mystery Lights grapples with terrors both familiar and fantastic.

Emmie is broken. Her friends have separated and Dr. Albright’s mysterious death has the psychic community reeling. But after investigating the doctor’s home in New Orleans, she faces a terrifying truth: the murderer can get to anyone. Determined to follow their only clue, Emmie and Jason are on their own, and their last hope for getting answers is a man they barely trust. After defying his cryptic warning, they’re confronted by an angel of death—and it sees them. It’s only a matter of time before it returns to finish them off.