Ghost Thriller

An exciting second ghost story in this series about paranormal investigations. Join Duncan, Paige, Nelson and Duane - the Paranormal Investigators League - on this case in Tucson, AZ. This time around, they are called to help a single father named Jack investigate the Shadow Man haunting his four-year-old son inside his restaurant. Local Tucson legend tells of a cowboy named The Chief who loved gambling and skirting the law. What does his restless spirit want with the little boy? The investigators must solve the case before anything happens to the restaurant or-- even worse-- something ...

While on a transatlantic hunt for some authentic wares to sell at her shop, Peggy is looking to forget her troubles by digging through the hidden treasures of the Scottish Highlands. With so many enchanting items on sale, Peggy can't resist buying a beautiful, old tartan shawl. But once she wraps it around her shoulders, she discovers that her purchase comes with a hidden fee: the specter of a 14th-century Scotsman.

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King & Dean Koontz" - READERS' FAVORITE From the best selling and multi award winning author of "Gated" "Asylum" and "Abra-Cadaver" comes the third installment of the anthology series "After Darkness Falls". These are stories with a horrifying beat, a black heart and a vicious twist in the tale. Here are 10 more tales to read with the lights on. TALE #1 - "Ride Like the Wind" TALE #2 - "One Hell of a Knockout" TALE #3 - "Healing Hands" TALE #4 - "The Price of Fame" TALE #5 - "Return to Sender" TALE #6 - "Heist of a...

For more than 30 years, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the 11th volume of the series, Daltow's back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. This light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows.

“I couldn’t put this down; as evidence, it is 3:20 AM, and I just finished.” “... pulls you in from the beginning and keeps you pulled in.”—Hidden Gems True crime writer Kendall Casey has always been drawn to dark stories, but her latest project leads her to a neighborhood shrouded in secrets. Located in the North Carolina mountains, The Cove is a community in which the neighbors are far from harmonious. The Guffs are openly despised, while the charming entertainers, the Robinettes, are adored by all. When Kendall’s wayward sister arrives unexpectedly and vows that she’s ...

✅ If Jack Reacher and Lisbeth Salander had a Black/Thai love child, she would be SOPHIE. ✅ Domestic abuse survivor, brilliant hacker, chronic depressive, Sophie is a complicated woman ✅Sophie’s superpower: everyone falls in love with her ✅ Likes kids and dogs better than people ✅Never, never gives up on a case. Never.Paradise is drowning in lava. What would you do to survive during a volcanic eruption? Security specialists Sophie and Jake take a job to rescue a teen girl shacked up with a dangerous meth cooker on the Big Island, and their wilderness destination turns out to be ...

Welcome to Parsons Where the Ghosts Are Burly and Tattooed and the Witches Commune With the Dead Kacie Thatcher likes to use her powers to speak to the dead and pad her wallet at the same time. However, when she's called back to her hometown to settle her estranged dead sister's affairs, she discovers a world of enchantment and murder. While not wanting to stay, one herbal potion witch, a fae, and her dead sister's familiar, a crayon kitty, persuade her to remain in town. A muscular and bald ghost also implores her to stay and help him where her dead sister left off. When a murder occurs in...

Though I was born with the ability to see the dead, I struggled with it until my brother was killed and his ghost was left behind. Now, I’m determined to figure out who is responsible for his death…the problem is that Detective Maddox Booker, the one working the case, is a grumpy and stubborn man who wants nothing to do with me and definitely doesn’t believe in ghosts. It doesn’t help that I keep finding myself looking ridiculous in front of the detective, thanks to interfering ghosts who enjoy laughing at my expense.

Every Halloween, the supposedly haunted Bell Hotel hosts its famous 'Ghost-Hunters Dinner', complete with scary stories, spooky apparitions and things that go bump in the night. But this year's event ends in a terrifying accident, and suddenly everyone wonders... Is there a real ghost loose in the hotel? Jack and Sarah are convinced that the culprit must be human: who would want bad things to happen at the classic hotel? But soon they're forced to confront their own superstitions as they find themselves on the trail of an unsolved Victorian murder.

Evil crawls its way to the surface… Buried beneath the desert lies a secret military installation harboring mankind's greatest mistake. When Shane and Ventura are dragged into this classified facility by a ruthless Military officer, they soon discover a terrifying truth: a failed experiment has evolved into something monstrous. A supernatural entity composed of hundreds of tortured souls. And it grows stronger with each victim it claims…

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 with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.

When an inheritance includes murder… As a 30-something-year-old living in her mother’s basement after her divorce, Carly Taylor never considered herself particularly lucky… until her ex-husband died and left her his house. She couldn’t wait to move into the Victorian mansion in the picturesque lakeside town of Landover, Wisconsin. But, as soon as she unpacked her stuff and got comfy, she realized why she got the inheritance. Her ex-husband’s ghost is hovering in her living room, haunting the place, and wanting her to solve his murder. Carly can think of a million people who ...

When Joyce moves into the ancient Beaumont House, she discovers a mysterious portrait known as the 'Lady' painting... Soon, eerie visions and faint whispers blur the line between fiction and reality... As she unravels the mansion's dark past, Joyce finds herself haunted, perhaps trapped, by the very story she's trying to write... 'Lady Painting' is a gothic thriller where secrets refuse to stay buried...

Detective Roese looked up, a strand of lank hair hanging across her face. Blood staining her bare hands and forearms, she kept her weight pitched forward, pressing down on the sucking chest wound, fighting desperately to prevent another tally on the list of recently deceased. “You can’t go out there. Best case, you never find him in the middle of all this. Worst, it’s a trap". Outcomes Reed had already considered and dismissed, his faith placed in the inky black K-9 partner by his side. “Even a ghost leaves a scent".

Zoe Forbes is a professional photographer who has recently escaped from a personal relationship and engaged upon trying to rebuild her life when a chance assignment takes her to the small town of Withramstowe and a mystery that challenged the very basis of her beliefs. Who us the mysterious teenager who appears to be trying to contact her? What is the secret of Enderby Hall and the Bartchester family? Intrigued, and with the help of an old friend from many years back, Greg Hollister she gets drawn ever deeper into the mystery of what may have happened somewhere in that house until finally ...

Get ready for Book 2 in the thrilling River Run Series by M.L. Bullock—Blood Run! The saga continues where the first book left off, diving even deeper into America's dark past and the mystery surrounding Mary Sanford and the infamous Fairfield Witches. In the first book, Mary Sanford, a young woman caught in the web of witchcraft accusations that turned her life upside-down. Along with her husband Andrew, she fought to clear her name, facing unimaginable hardships and heartbreaking loss. The story didn't end there; it came alive again when Sophia and Mike Boyson moved into River Run, the ...

The seal on the spell that’s been keeping my Fae side in check is due to break tonight at midnight… And I’m set to marry a man I don’t really know, and what I do know of him, I don’t particularly like. All because some stupid prophecy (from before I was even born) proclaimed as much. Talk about a crappy deal… With my Fae powers set to take over and the threat of becoming the Queen of the Winter Court becoming all too real, I find myself stuck at the bar of the Half-Moon Grill in a full-blown pity party. In walks Maverick, a bounty hunter who occasionally works for me and who’s...

Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire fiction. From the bloodsucking plant in "The American's Tale" to the bloodsucking wife in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire," he reveled in the horror created by creatures who survived on the blood of men and women.

After suffering a tragic loss, former MLB pitcher Jackson Taylor purchases a home in idyllic Lake Tahoe at a bargain price while shrugging off its dark history. When a long-dead child begins leaving cryptic messages, Jackson unearths chilling details of the home’s past, and is determined to expose the horror hidden within the haunted halls.

Ever since their on-again, off-again college romance, Erin hasn’t been able to set a single boundary with charismatic but reckless Silas, who has been chasing the next big high since graduation. When he texts her to spring him out of rehab, she knows enough is enough. She is ready to start a career, make new friends, and meet a great guy—even if that means cutting Silas off. But when Silas turns up dead from an overdose, Erin’s world falls apart.