Thrills & Chills

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Updated October 11, 2024
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Her fearful symmetry : a novel
Niffenegger, Audrey.
Ebook
When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home,...
Mexican Gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' THE GUARDIAN 'As rich is suspense as it is in lush '50s atmosphere' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to...
Nothing but blackened teeth
Khaw, Cassandra
Ebook
Misery
King, Stephen
Paper Book
One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery made him rich;...
Insomnia
King, Stephen
Ebook
The twelve : a novel
Cronin, Justin.
Paper Book
The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage, now an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott. 'A literary superthriller' NEW YORK TIMES THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with...
The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
The New York Times Best Seller A Barnes & Noble Best Fiction Book of 2020 A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist Steel MagnoliasmeetsDraculain this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their...
The Amityville horror
Anson, Jay
Audiobook
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Austen's witty exploration of the perils of mistaking fiction for reality During an eventful season at Bath, young, na ve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares...
The scandalous confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
Taub, Melinda
Paper Book
Miss Lydia Bennet may be the youngest, but what she lacks in maturity and responsibility, she more than makes up for in energy, fun - and magic. In this exuberant reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Lydia Bennet puts pen to paper to relate the real...
The guest list : a novel
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
Paper Book
*Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Crime Fiction Book of the Year* * The June 2020 Reese's Book Club pick* *The Times Best Crime Fiction of the Year pick* *Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award* A gripping, twisty murder mystery thriller from...
The hunting party : a novel
Foley, Lucy (Novelist)
Paper Book
*The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley - THE MIDNIGHT FEAST - is available to buy now* *The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller* EVERYONE'S INVITED. EVERYONE'S A SUSPECT. AND EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT IT. 'Ripping, riveting' A. J. Finn ...
The once and future witches
Harrow, Alix E.
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Glorious . . . a tale that will sweep you away' Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger 'A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women' Laini Taylor,...
Full throttle : stories
Hill, Joe
Paper Book
The outsider : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Now you see him. Now you don't. A horrifying crime. Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect. Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi. Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect...
The secrets of Hartwood Hall : a novel
Lumsden, Katie
Paper Book
We have always lived in the castle
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects...
How can I help you
Sims, Laura
Bird box
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
Josh Malerman's debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading. Malorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors. The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are...
The Hazel Wood : a novel
Albert, Melissa
Paper Book
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how...
The final girl support group
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her? Lynnette...
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 Sun Down Motel
St. James, Simone
Paper Book
Something hasn't been right at the Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why . . . 1982 Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But...
What moves the dead
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark,...
The house that horror built
Henry, Christina
Paper Book
Single mom Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so when she's offered a job cleaning for revered horror director Javier Castillo, she leaps at the chance. His forbidding Chicago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to bottom with terrifying props and costumes, as well as glittering...
The only one left : a novel
Sager, Riley
Paper Book
**Get the brand new, Agatha Christie-inspired suspense thriller from Riley Sager now - WITH A VENGEANCE** THE HEART-POUNDING GOTHIC THRILLER FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Everyone believes that Lenora Hope is a mass murderer.
A haunting on the hill
Hand, Elizabeth
Paper Book
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar** SIXTY YEARS LATER, HILL HOUSE IS OCCUPIED AGAIN . . . 'Scary and beautifully written, imbued with the same sense of dread and inevitability as...
The reformatory : a novel
Due, Tananarive
Paper Book
Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school...
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...
House of Bone and Rain
Iglesias, Gabino
Curdle Creek : a novel
Battle-Felton, Yvonne
Paper Book
*Winner of the 2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON NOVEL AWARD** 'A gorgeously written, surrealist folktale that goes bone deep. Compelling, thought-provoking, thrilling, haunting, Yvonne Battle-Felton's Curdle Creek is simply a marvel' Paul Tremblay, author of THE CABIN...
Cuckoo
Felker-Martin, Gretchen
Paper Book
Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived--but at Camp Resolution, everybody...
Out there screaming : an anthology of new Black horror
Peele, Jordan
Paper Book
Brace yourself for a spine-chilling journey with this New York Times Bestseller. Jordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, Nope and Him, curates this anthology of new stories of Black horror. Exploring not only the terrors...
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...
Black river orchard : a novel
Wendig, Chuck
Paper Book
A small town is transformed by dark magic when strange apple trees begin bearing fruit in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. It's autumn in Harrow, but something is changing in the town besides the...
Bury your gays
Tingle, Chuck
Paper Book
Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell. But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill...
Things have gotten worse since we last spoke, and other misfortunes
LaRocca, Eric
Paper Book
A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s--a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a...
The hollow places : a novel
Kingfisher, T.
Paper Book
PRAY THAT THEY ARE HUNGRY... Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area--only to...
Imaginary friend
Chbosky, Stephen
Paper Book
'Astonishing . . . Genius . . . A masterpiece' EMMA WATSON Christopher Reese has been through a lot by the age of seven. He will go through much more before he turns eight. All his mother Kate Reese ever wanted to do is protect him. She will have to do that...
Unbury Carol : a novel
Malerman, Josh
Paper Book
"This one haunts you for reasons you can't quite put your finger on. . . . [Josh Malerman] defies categories and comparisons with other writers."-Kirkus Reviews Only three people know Carol Evers' secret. Her best friend, who's dead. Her...
Alice isn't dead : a novel
Fink, Joseph (Fiction writer)
Paper Book
From the creator of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes a story about loving, about searching - and about the courage you need when you find the unexpected. Keisha Lewis mourned the loss of her wife, Alice, who disappeared two years ago. There was a search, there was...
The doll-master and other tales of terror
Oates, Joyce Carol
Paper Book
From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, six terrifying tales to chill the blood.A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge...A white man shoots dead a black youth...
The greatest zombie movie ever
Strand, Jeff
Paper Book
After producing three horror movies that went mostly ignored on YouTube, Justin and his filmmaking buddies decide it's time they create something noteworthy, something epic. They're going to film the Greatest Zombie Movie Ever. They may not have money or a script, but they have passion. And, after a...
The scarlet gospels
Barker, Clive
Paper Book
The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back to the early days of two of Clive Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time. The gates to Hell are open and something beckons . . . The last of Earth's magicians are living in...
When we were animals : a novel
Gaylord, Joshua A.
Paper Book
Nobody knew why, but when the boys and girls reached a certain age the parents locked themselves up in their houses, and the teenagers ran wild... Lumen Fowler knows she is different. While the rest of her peers are falling beneath the sway of her community's darkest rite of...
The midnight feast : a novel
Foley, Lucy
Paper Book
🔥 TAKE YOUR PLACE AT THE TABLE FOR THE THRILLER OF THE YEAR🔥 __________________________________________________________ Midsummer, the Dorset coast In the shadows of an ancient wood, guests gather for the opening weekend of The Manor: a...
Blood communion : a tale of Prince Lestat
Rice, Anne
Paper Book
FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his meticulously...
How to sell a haunted house
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession...
A head full of ghosts : a novel
Tremblay, Paul
Paper Book
"A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare." - Stephen King A chilling and gripping twist of psychological suspense and supernatural horror about a family ripped apart by ghostly possession and madness, all under the baleful eye of a...
Just like home
Gailey, Sarah
Paper Book
***Winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel*** 'Come home.' Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father...

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