Detective Horror

A magical circle of trees, a careless oath of love, a dead boy in the forest.In a mystical circle of trees in Carter Woods, a teenager comes to a gruesome death. His body seems worn out and aged. Soon he crumbles to dust. Inspector Hausman is faced with a mystery. His only evidence leads to an obscure case from the 1970s that was never solved. As more and more people get lost in the forest and end up dead, it becomes clear that a force of evil is at work here that should never have been awakened. Hausman must investigate a field that he has always considered pure nonsense. He delves into ...

The Baker Street Heroes Two Harry Houdini, Professor Challenger And his good friend Conan Doyle Travel to Cairo. Where their sense of sanity and stability Are turned upside down and inside out By a cult of street thugs, who worship Kali, a blood thirsty goddess of destruction. What they learn about the thugs and the horrors they perpetrate they choose To stop is not only frightening, but brewing with A magic of dark dimensions even Harry Houdini, a power wizard, has not Dealt with before.

Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is the most famous vampire tale ever told. British solicitor Jonathan Harker finds himself imprisoned in a castle in Transylvania and begins to believe his host, Count Dracula, is not entirely human. As his horror mounts, he suspects that Dracula plans to invade and conquer England, one victim at a time.

After moving into the oldest beachfront home in Kitty Hawk, Senator Reginald Forsythe hires Detective Weston Wolf to watch over his wife. The senator fears his wife may be possessed by the ghost of a woman who built the house back in 1896, Wolf's assignment is to keep Rebecca Winston Forsythe safe and make sure nothing scandalous happens that would jeopardize Forsythe's political career. Wolf soon discovers the case is more problematic than he ever imagined.

Save the woman he loves, or save humanity. Which will he choose? With the opening of the Vampire Training Academy, Roric is confident that the Agency is getting a handle on the rogue epidemic, and he can focus on other things, like getting Caroline to agree to mate with him. But when the rogues conspire to take down the school, Roric realizes the battle has just begun. The rebellion wants to bring an end to the Academy, the Agency, and, ultimately, the treaty between vampires and humans. While Roric is reeling from the surprise attack, they make their demands, holding Caroline as ransom. ...

L'agente Sara Milani e il suo giovane braccio destro, Lauro, tornano a lavorare insieme per un'indagine all'ultimo sospiro... In un piccolo paese nella ridente e florida Val Vignè si aggira un pericoloso assassino, che nessuno riesce a fermare. Ma chi o cosa sarà questa creatura che uccide, per poi svanire nel nulla? Solo due veri esperti del brivido come Lauro e Sara potranno risolvere il caso, a patto di riuscire a sopravvivere alla misteriosa mano che colpisce ogni dodici del mese, senza lasciare scampo.

Powerful executive Eliel Zetterborg has been found murdered in his upscale Helsinki home. What at first seems like a straightforward case soon proves to be anything but when it becomes clear the murderer has other targets. The only clue the police have is a photo of Zetterborg with three men whose faces have all been scratched off.

Two stories that follow the adventures of two of Sherlock Holmes's best friends. 1. Pumpkin Nightmare Harry Houdini is forced to tangle with pirates who use supernatural powers and a giant monster man named Pumpkin. 2. Ghost of a Chance Professor Challenger and a young Queen Mary of Scots go on an adventure that turns into a nightmare, when they decide to prank a Baker.

Extreme sport, a beautiful woman and the Australian outback. Private detective Jack Hamma, the manic Manooka and the beautiful Breanna Amore are climbing a sheer cliff 2,000 feet high. Breanna a seasoned climber is leading. Jack is hanging on to a wafer thin ledge. Breanna moves up, the cliff face gives way. Breanna falls Jack grabs her arm, they are dangling helpless form the cliff. Manooka their only hope, is knocked senseless by the debris. Jack is not having a good day! 'What an emotional rollercoaster of a book.’ ‘Thorogood has done a great job of channeling his inner “fatal ...

その孤島に招き寄せられたのは、たがいに面識もない、職業や年齢も様々な十人の男女だった。だが、招待主の姿は島にはなく、やがて夕食の席上、彼らの過去の犯罪を暴く謎の声が……無気味な童謡の歌詞通りに、彼らが一人ずつ殺されてゆく！　強烈なサスペンスに彩られた最高傑作。新訳決定版。

The mastermind behind all the terror and death in London is exposed. But can he be stopped? Mister Dark finally meets his father. Who is the one most to be feared? The battle to stop the terrors haunting London has intensified. Is anyone safe from the Dark Son and Dark Father? Sherlock Holmes and Watson, joined by their friends of the Brotherhood face the most deadly and murderous challenge of their lives.

Un terrible accidente automovilístico cambia para siempre la vida de los pequeños Max y Poncho, así como la del oficial Esteban Rey. Para los niños, perder a sus padres tal vez no sea la mayor desgracia, pues se verán obligados a vivir con una pariente que jamás han conocido. Esteban Rey está demasiado atormentado por su propia pérdida, y hará caso omiso de las advertencias. No detendrá su investigación hasta descubrir las verdaderas causas del accidente, y se irá convirtiendo en el mejor aliado de los niños en su intento por sobrevivir la última casa en la montaña.

Heather agrees to go camping with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him, and a secluded beach sounds like the perfect place. But the trip takes a sinister turn that brings Heather's plans to a violent end. One by one, the group begins to vanish. A year later, Heather knows she's just lucky to be alive. And now, people are asking for answers, or else she will be the one to take the blame. But the truth about what happened on that trip is far more terrifying than anyone knows....

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, the Old Time English volume of The Lock and Key Library features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Maturin, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray. This volume of The Lock and Key Library is sure to haunt and charm fans of ghost and detective mysteries alike.

It's 1918, WWI is in full swing, and a Spanish Influenza outbreak is on the horizon. In the midst of the chaos, families are being terrorized and people are being killed by a lone man with an axe. As Gianna and her friend Enzo investigate the heinous crimes, she realizes she's connected to the killer in a way she could have never imagined.

The Spring Fling formal is the most important event on Salem University’s social calendar: a night when the entire school comes together to show off dresses, dance moves, and dates. But this year, just as the party is getting started, the stench of rotten eggs washes over the crowd. In the rush to escape the awful smell, a riot nearly breaks out. Somebody tossed a stink bomb to ruin the dance -but who would pull such a prank? Quinn Hadley doesn’t know anything about it; she couldn’t get a date, and she slept through the dance. But when she awakes, she finds one of her jackets reeking of sulfur.

Everyone on campus hates Doctor Stark, the severe woman who seems to take sadistic pleasure from doling out D’s and F’s on her infamous chemistry exams. Never before has Shea had so much trouble in school, and never before has she considered something so awful as cheating, but this time she has no choice. Her scholarship is riding on the class, and losing the scholarship would ruin her. Shea sneaks into Stark’s classroom and, terrified, makes a copy of tomorrow’s exam.

Paris, France: a city of fashion, chocolate croissants, and cute boys. Colette Iselin is thrilled be there for the first time, on her spring break class trip. But a series of gruesome murders are taking place around the city, putting everyone on edge. And as she tours the sights, Colette keeps seeing a strange vision: a pale woman in a ball gown and powdered wig, who looks like Marie Antoinette. Colette knows her status-obsessed friends won't believe her, so she seeks out the help of a charming French boy.

All murder mysteries follow a simple set of rules. Grant McAllister, an author of crime fiction and professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out. But that was 30 years ago. Now he's living a life of seclusion on a quiet Mediterranean island - until Julia Hart, a sharp, ambitious editor, knocks on his door. His early work is being republished and together the two of them must revisit those old stories: an author hiding from his past and an editor keen to understand it.

Invisible Promises by Silas Thorne is a thrilling paranormal fiction novel set in the eerie countryside of England. Follow Charles Olson, a man with a unique connection to the supernatural, as he unravels the mysteries surrounding his life and those of the spirits that haunt him. Highlights: Charles Olson's journey from a carefree student to a man deeply entwined with the paranormal. The enigmatic Grand Tour of Europe that turns into a haunting adventure. Charles's marriage and the secrets it unveils about his family's past. The captivating and mysterious allure of bird life and its ...