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Ghosts, ghouls, and grim tales await… whether you’re in the mood for a chilling thriller, a haunted history, or a pumpkin-perfect bedtime story, our book lair has you covered! These hand-picked Halloween reads are sure to send shivers down your spine or giggles up your sleeve. From horror legends to family-friendly frights, there’s a spooky story here for every bookshelf.
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THE ICONIC BRITISH SERIES THAT HAS REDEFINED A GENRE AND BECOME FAR MORE THAN A ZOMBIE STORY.
This is a tale of loyalty, friendship, and the sacrifices we make for love. The Undead is a gripping, and often laugh-out-loud exploration of how far we’ll go to protect those we care about.
THE DEAD DO NOT REST TILL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence . . . You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills.
Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit.
An abandoned house. A forgotten evil. Home sweet home…
Shane Ryan returns to Nashua and the childhood memories that drove him to join the Marines. After a prolonged legal battle with his aunt and uncle, Shane has possession of the family home where his parents disappeared over 20 years ago. The house, a monstrous castle filled with ghosts and secrets, is more alive than its inhabitants.
The story of a daughter being raised by a single father, who happens to be a serial killer.
Experience the sights, smells, sounds, and experiences of Deicide's life.
With each book, Deicide will grow older, giving us an inside look at how her life has been affected due to her upbringing.
Warning: Extreme Horror; Graphic scenes that may disturb some readers.
Dave Marwood's trapped in a soul-crushing dead-end job. He’s in love with his work colleague Melanie and his only friend Gary is a conspiracy theory nut.
His life is going nowhere until he has a Near Death Experience - though Death thinks of it as a Near Dave Experience. Soon, he discovers gifts he never knew he possessed and a world he never dreamed existed. One where the Grim Reaper is a hard-drinking, grumpy Billy Joel fan and the undead are bored, lonely and dangerous.
They're saving the world from ghosts, zombies, vampires, werewolves and medium-sized apocalypses. After a nice cup of tea and a biscuit.
One of the true classics of horror, now with a new stunning cover look. THE SHINING is regarded as one of Stephen King''s masterpieces.
Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a ''shiner'', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny''s visions grow out of control.
As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?
House of Leaves meets Parasite in this gripping and eerily haunting debut psychological horror, soon to be a Netflix film starring Blake Lively. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Leave the World Behind.
⭐ Winner of Reddit NoSleep Scariest Story of the Year Award ⭐
⭐ A Goodreads 'Best Horror Novel of the Last 5 Years' ⭐
⭐ A Goodreads 'Favourite Horror Novel of 2024' Finalist ⭐
'Inventive and genuinely scary' Alma Katsu, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Hunger
‘Full of unease and stomach-churning dread...Read it with every single light on’ Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
Deep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.
While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder. Soon fear and paranoia turn them against one another—even as the unknown killer stalks them throughout the longest night of their lives.
An abandoned house. A forgotten evil. Home sweet home…
Shane Ryan returns to his hometown of Nashua, and the childhood memories that have haunted him throughout his life. Something sinister prowls the shadows of his family home. And a darkness threatens to destroy all he holds dear.
Twenty years ago, the dark force took Shane's family. They vanished within the halls of their shadowy old house. Now, more relatives have gone missing. But a childhood memory stirs in his mind - a long-forgotten encounter with a sinister presence that has always lurked just out of sight.
To confront this malevolent evil, Shane must peel back the secrets of his former home. His investigation will take him on a journey that challenges everything he thought he knew about himself and his past. But can he banish his demons once and for all?
Or will the darkness consume him…
The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, Boys in the Valley is a chilling folk horror set in a remote orphanage in turn of the century Pennsylvania.
St. Vincent''s Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania.
Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future. . . a family.
🦇 'Haunted, absurd, terrifying, ridiculous, and full of hungry ghosts. This book shook me in all the best ways' GRADY HENDRIX 🦇
🦇 'Essential reading from a new voice in horror' BOOKLIST 🦇
🦇 'Gory' PAUL TREMBLAY 🦇
🦇 'Bat Eater will swoop in like a bat out of hell, swallow you whole and leave no crumbs' ALICE SLATER 🦇
🦇 'Easily one of the most exciting and unique books I've read in years' ERIC LAROCCA 🦇
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train.
But the killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last words: bat eater.
Cooper Kane is the last guy you’d bet on to survive the zombie apocalypse.
When the bombs fell, Kane’s carefree life of fast cars, fast women, and even faster getaways came to a screeching halt.
Now, Phoenix has transformed into a nightmare where the dead don't stay dead, and Kane’s only concern is saving his mother from the heart of this hellscape.
But the road out of the city is paved with the living dead. With the help of his tougher-than-she-looks mother, a crotchety old sniper, a foul-mouthed mentor, and a blonde bombshell with secrets of her own, Kane fights to get out of Phoenix.
It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later. But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost - and what might still be saved.
Addiction starts like a sweet lullaby sung by a trusted loved one. It washes away the pains of the day and wraps you in the warmness of the womb where nothing hurts and every dream is possible. Yet soon enough, this warm state of bliss becomes a cold shiver, the ecstasy and dreams become nightmares, yet we can’t stop listening to the lullaby. We crave to hear the siren song as it rips us apart.A powerful list of talent has woven tales featuring the insidious nature of addiction—damaged humans craving for highs and wholeness but finding something more tragic and horrific on the other side. Come, listen to these Lullabies for Suffering.
"This book is not for the faint of heart. It's deliciously dark and gruesome." -Where the Reader Grows
"All you girls were less than human. Play things in a twisted doll house."
Olivia is taken from the sidewalk near her college and thrown into a van. Her captors, who she soon discovers are vile, sadistic monsters, abuse her immediately, both mentally and physically. Then she is taken into a house, into a locked room, where everything is cotton candy pink. The pink furniture is designed with rounded edges and corners bolted to the floor, and the seams at the bolts melted. This is where the nightmare begins. She is now a part of their collection.
There is a hotel. And in that hotel there is a room. And in that room something terrible happened…
Hugh was only ten at the time. Twenty five years have passed, but he’s stuck in that moment. Every night when he closes his eyes, he sees the blood. So much blood. On the bed, the walls, the carpet…
Now Hugh’s returning to the hotel where his life changed in a horrific instant. Something stole his childhood from him on that stormy night. He’s hellbent on finding out what that ‘something’ was.
But how do you find something that can’t be seen or touched? Hugh thinks he has the answer. He’s made a trap. Not a trap designed for flesh and blood. This trap is designed to ensnare the evil entity that haunts the hotel.
*Special hardback edition with foil cover*
The first-ever UK hardback publication of the cult horror classic, featuring a special embossed ‘maze’ case design and full-colour text. Get ready to (re)discover the terrifying, thrilling, and mind-expanding immersive classic horror that redefines the boundaries of a novel . . .
'Phenomenal . . . thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent.' Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
'A genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.' OBSERVER
'I've never read anything like it' ***** Reader review
A young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small house on Ash Tree Lane.
It soon becomes clear that something is terribly wrong - their new home is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside . . .
Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.
His work just followed him home.
The government wanted to unlock hidden abilities in the human mind.
They put subjects in extreme sensory deprivation.
All the test subjects went violently insane.
But the research continued.
Today it has been perfected.
Almost perfected.
From the author of In My Father's Basement comes another chilling novel that's a must-read for fans of horror. "Gruesome, gripping, and terrifyingly real!"
When three innocent children play a game that ends in fatal consequences, it sets in motion a series of events that will haunt their family forever…
After the horror of World War One, disillusioned army chaplain John Elliot arrives at Hern Hall, an isolated estate in the English countryside. Shrouded by mist, the mystery of its tragic past seems to haunt the shadows when John glimpses the face of a drowned child beneath the dark waters of the lake.
Despite suffering from shellshock, John has made a promise to his friend Will, who died in the trenches whilst saving John's life. It is a promise he is determined to keep.
