Occult Mystery Thriller

"Matt Drabble is a name that will one day be as widely recognized as Stephen King& Dean Koontz" - READERS FAVORITE Wellspring is a small isolated community that gets cut off from the rest of the world every year when the winter storm arrives and for many of the residents the remoteness is exactly what they crave. The town's main source of income is from the medical research centre that set up shop some time ago and now financially supports the community. It has been 25 years since Isabella Morton had been driven away from the small town of Wellspring in the middle of the night as a child in...

A dark and sweeping adventure, Dreamcatcher is set in the haunted city of Derry - the site of Stephen King's It and Insomnia. In it, four young boys stand together and do a brave, good thing, an act that changes them in ways that they hardly understand. A quarter-century later, as grown men who have gone their separate ways, these friends come together once a year to hunt in the woods of Maine.

Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves. Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of 20th century history to reveal a secret society of beings who may often exist behind the world's most horrible and violent events.

It was too late to run back down toward the mainland. He felt if the twister was coming for him, he’d be plucked out of whatever niche he crawled into. “It has eyes. It can see me.” Approximately a hundred yards above the raised drawbridge, the vortex’s descent temporarily halted as if it was plotting the final trajectory. He looked around at the unaware drivers and shouted out to them. “Don’t you see what’s happening? Look up! Why don’t you see what I see?” In the city of Long Beach, New York, within a span of twenty-four hours, an ageless game of good and evil is playing...

Dan's nights at his small, quiet church have always been uneventful, filled with routine prayers and the occasional sinner seeking solace. But one evening, everything changes when a new visitor steps into the confessional-the Devil himself.

The police are convinced that Julia Ransom was guilty of the brutal murder of her husband, renowned psychic August Ransom. But after six months of investigation and media frenzy, she is free of their scrutiny, because of the lack of evidence. One afternoon she walks from her Pacific Heights home to Fisherman's Wharf, alone, unwatched - and, she realizes, happy. But not for long.

Sugar and spice and everything nice, isn’t that what succubi are made of? Too bad my fellow agents at the United States Paranormal Agency didn’t think sugar and spice was enough to keep me employed. So, I’m hitting streets with my men in tow, learning the ropes as we hunt down a para-drug dealer, selling a drug called Illuminate to the local humans. Forbidden to use my allure that comes with being a succubus, I was forced to gather clues the hard way with stake outs and undercover work. Armed with more confidence in myself than my team had in me, I embarked to stop the dealer, even if...

For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat - be sure to keep the light on whilst listening to these tales. The Last Séance gathers 20 stories, some featuring Christie’s beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, in one haunting compendium that explores all things occult and paranormal, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans.

Some stories were never meant to be uncovered. Some legends refuse to stay buried. Alex Mercer has built his career chasing myths, uncovering strange histories, and exposing the eerie unknown on The Shadow Chronicles podcast. But when he stumbles upon the forgotten diary of Jonathan Drake—a 19th-century figure obsessed with a powerful artifact known as the Sunstone—Alex finds himself entangled in a chilling mystery far beyond any story he's ever told. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Seattle’s underground tunnels hide more than just history; they conceal a ...

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Mary Fawcett refines the healing recipes she’s inherited from generations of women before her—an uncanny and moral calling to empathize with the sick. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins arrives in her small village, stoking the fires of hate, he sees not healing but the devil at work. Mary’s benevolent skills have now cast her and her young brother under suspicion of witchery. Soon, the husband of one of Mary’s patients is found murdered, his body carved with strange symbols.

Having just left a small town back in the Tennessee Mountains, Jonah was hitch hiking his way now through the Eastern part of Arkansas, there was a mountain town where some friends of his had moved to called Pine Falls. It had been years since he had visited, so he figured while he was on his way down south he would stop by and say hello to some old friends along the way. Jonah had told of how one night he had awoken to what he knew to be God Almighty's voice. This brilliant presence engulfed Jonah’s body, it was from that moment on he knew what his purpose in life was. To serve, and help...

County Cork, Ireland. Skye Brigid O'Shea is still struggling to fit in. Still branded an outsider in her adopted rural town, the ex-pat American strives to get her inherited B&B shipshape despite the flaky local help. But after waking with a fright from a dream her fae cat claims she borrowed, the discombobulated newcomer trips over a dead body in her pub. Not about to head the suspect list again, the nosy former nurse chases down clues both mundane and otherworldly.

Moonstone Bay is in a tizzy. Not only has a new village been discovered—it was hidden by magic for hundreds of years—but family members long thought dead are back and infiltrating lives that had changed in their absence. It is not all smooth sailing. Hadley Hunter is trying to keep things under wraps but she’s as excited to explore the village as anybody. There’s just one little problem. How did a body make it into the village when it was magically warded to keep people out?

It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and has nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R’lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is. The detectives discover that he was once a scientist, a student of Miskatonic University, and one of two survivors of a doomed voyage down the Miskatonic River.

Come along in this occult thriller as a man by the name of Jonah Nightingale enters a small town nestled back in the Tennessee foot hills. Who is this man, and why has he showed up in their town. The sheriff views him as nothing more then a bothersome drifter, a scam artist, seeking answers to the missing persons, and cold case files of victims gone missing or mysteriously found murdered. For the victims, there seems to be no justice for them or closure for the victims families. As it soon becomes apparent that for some reason unknown the sheriff has turned a blind eye to these cases, but ...

With a name like Quinn Calahan, I sounded as Irish as a leprechaun dancing a jig on a four leafed clover, but the truth was, I’d never been closer to the emerald isle than drinking green beer at the St Patrick’s day street party in Boston until I messed up so badly I had to leave the US. I was offered a job in a tiny village in Ireland that no one’s ever heard of. And I think that was the point in sending me there.

Twenty-something Harper Connelly has a gift. After being struck by lighting as a child, she discovered an eerie ability to locate the deceased. In Memphis, skeptical Professor Nunley wants her to demonstrate that skill at an ancient cemetery. There, Harper stands atop a grave and says there are two bodies entombed: one centuries old, but the other, a young girl named Tabitha.

Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his 11th life, a little girl appears at his bedside. "I nearly missed you, Doctor August", she says. "I need to send a message". This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow.

A mysterious doll, a centuries old curse and a vengeful witch. An antique doll comes into the possession of Paul Goodfellow, a vicar in the small market town of Dorchester. He reluctantly agrees to take it after the horrific death of its previous owner but soon regrets his decision as the rumours concerning the doll seem to be true. Paul is at his wits end until a parishioner suggests he consult the local witch, Queenie Beresford. She becomes increasingly disturbed as she realises that the doll has an evil curse attached to it. It becomes evident how dangerous the situation is when the ...