Books that kill: horror fiction

Recent scary fiction (or is it?)

Updated October 17, 2024
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Books that kill: horror fiction

Recent scary fiction (or is it?)

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The house of last resort : a novel
Golden, Christopher
Paper Book
Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild―selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro,...
Run time
Howard, Catherine Ryan
Paper Book
A cleverly plotted high-concept thriller from the author of The Nothing Man and 56 Days.
A haunting in the arctic
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn
Paper Book
My heart is a chainsaw
Jones, Stephen Graham
Paper Book
Some girls just don't know how to die. Jade Daniels is an outcast - half-Indian, with an abusive father, an absent mother - in Proofrock, a town that wants nothing to do with her. Now, one class away from dropping out of school, she is pouring her life and soul into her last assignment...
Holly : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
*THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King's most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a Midwestern town. Stephen King's HOLLY marks the...
Silver nitrate
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'Like its namesake, Silver Nitrate catches fire and doesn't stop burning until the end' The Washington Post 'Perfection. No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia' Kiersten White, author of...
The night house
Nesbø, Jo
Paper Book
WHEN THE VOICES CALL, DON'T ANSWER... In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne, where all is not as it seems. Richard quickly earns a reputation...
The death of Jane Lawrence
Starling, Caitlin
Paper Book
Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine...
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