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Frankenstein (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,001,238 ratings — published 1818
Skeleton Crew (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 141,534 ratings — published 1985
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,768,177 ratings — published 1977
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 684,850 ratings — published 1975
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 213,063 ratings — published 2000
Bag of Bones (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 215,435 ratings — published 1998
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,274,650 ratings — published 2008
Lights Out (Into Darkness, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 751,667 ratings — published 2024
The Vision (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 16,226 ratings — published 1977
Eldritch (The Eating Woods, #2)
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avg rating 4.09 — 47,629 ratings — published 2025
Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups: A Sweetly Funny Interactive Story about Helping Cure the Hiccups for Children (Ages 4-8)
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avg rating 4.18 — 799 ratings — published 2015
Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3)
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avg rating 4.29 — 198,424 ratings — published 2019
Conclave (Devil's Night, #3.5)
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avg rating 3.81 — 109,332 ratings — published 2019
Fire Night (Devil's Night, #4.5)
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avg rating 4.01 — 77,630 ratings — published 2020
Scary in Love (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 8,352 ratings — published
Nightfall (Devil's Night, #4)
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avg rating 4.26 — 147,844 ratings — published 2020
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
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avg rating 3.77 — 456,336 ratings — published 2015
Hideaway (Devil's Night, #2)
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avg rating 3.99 — 228,865 ratings — published 2017
The Stranger in Room Six (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 4,366 ratings — published 2025
Horror Movie (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.24 — 53,679 ratings — published 2024
Tết ở làng Địa Ngục - Tập 2 - U hồn tượng đất (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 75 ratings — published
The Biting Cold: A Survival Horror Short Story (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.22 — 18 ratings — published 2014
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 975,657 ratings — published 2021
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
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avg rating 3.80 — 80,566 ratings — published 2025
A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime (Lancaster Prep, #2)
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avg rating 3.74 — 183,336 ratings — published 2022
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 466,387 ratings — published 2020
Many Bloody Returns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 14,397 ratings — published 2007
Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 25,991 ratings — published 2020
Wytches, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 17,550 ratings — published 2014
The Demonologist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 10,478 ratings — published 2013
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 6,552 ratings — published 2023
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 11,050 ratings — published 2022
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 59,056 ratings — published 2006
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
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avg rating 3.83 — 35,454 ratings — published 2023
Rouge (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 55,112 ratings — published 2023
Things We Say in the Dark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 3,512 ratings — published 2019
The Devourers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4,926 ratings — published 2016
The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,450 ratings — published 2020
Camp Damascus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 30,637 ratings — published 2023
Sacrificios humanos (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 6,932 ratings — published 2021
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
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avg rating 3.78 — 52,403 ratings — published 2024
“You might be surprised to see how frightening your wife can be."
For dramatic effect, I step back so the breeze blowing down the alleyway catches my hair, sending it into writhing snakelike locks. I stretch the seams on my cheeks into a ghoulish, haunting grimace, and let out the moan that sent a dragon quaking down to his paws.
Jack staggers three steps backward, startled and entranced, his jaw open so far it practically unhinges. When he finally finds his words, he exclaims, "My beautiful bride! I didn't think I could love you more, yet here you go tying my heart in knots. Talented, kind, and frightening?" He throws his arms around my waist and plants a kiss on the tip of my nose. "How did I get so lucky?”
― Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
For dramatic effect, I step back so the breeze blowing down the alleyway catches my hair, sending it into writhing snakelike locks. I stretch the seams on my cheeks into a ghoulish, haunting grimace, and let out the moan that sent a dragon quaking down to his paws.
Jack staggers three steps backward, startled and entranced, his jaw open so far it practically unhinges. When he finally finds his words, he exclaims, "My beautiful bride! I didn't think I could love you more, yet here you go tying my heart in knots. Talented, kind, and frightening?" He throws his arms around my waist and plants a kiss on the tip of my nose. "How did I get so lucky?”
― Hour of the Pumpkin Queen
“If that doesn't scare you away. My Alien friends will abduct you, then probe you, just for the fun of it.”
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