Occult Thriller

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.

Charlie Rhodes has been looking for answers her whole life. That’s why she joined The Legacy Foundation, a group of paranormal monsters hunters…who are looking for people just like her. She didn’t expect to fall in love, or find her birth parents. She didn’t expect to be hunted by an evil force. Her life isn’t what she thought it would be. It’s better. She’s hiding in the one place they’re looking for her.

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 ...

A simple road trip turned into a ghostly adventure for author, Victoria Mundae. When driving through Texas, she found herself in a small town, located in the upper corner of northeast Texas. She was far away from the life she knew and about to experience something which would change her life forever. Following her intuition, Victoria decided to spend the night in the Jefferson Hotel, a historic and renowned haunted location. When checked in, she was listed as the only guest, but it wouldn’t take long for her to discover, she was the only living guest.

Without the threat of the Witch’s bloody harvest, the family elders have fallen into chaos. Internal squabbling has left them blind to this new enemy in their midst. Local legends have barely begun to fade when a group of tourists go missing. Some say the Witch has returned. But Basheba, Mina, and the others believe it could be something even worse. As the survivors dig deeper, they discover that one of their own may have been corrupted by an ancient evil - a power greater than anything they have faced before. But is the Bell Witch behind all this?

When the ghost of a murder victim appears in Last Chance Books, middle-aged bookstore owner, Willa Chance, must find the ghost's killer or risk being haunted with its unwanted advice forever. Too bad the ghost suffers from amnesia and only has a few scant clues as to the identity of the killer. That's okay, though, because Willa has a pretty good idea who did it...until her investigation turns up additional suspects with curious motives.

Continuation of the story from the Westbourne Cottage Curse, Murder on the Beach, a Premier Class Mystery and The Louvre Legacy. Retired psychology professor John Castellanos has become caught up in a dangerous game of wits and survival. This game is run by a mysterious and ancient secret society called The Illuminés of Paris. This secret group has quietly influenced every major revolution and conflict over the past three hundred years. They have challenged John, but the reasons for this deadly call are still unclear. John's life has already been marred by several attempts on his life, all...

If you enjoyed Scream, Halloweed, and Insidious, you'll love In Sight The lone survivor of a vicious serial killer who claimed the lives of thirty-one women, including her sister. But what the movies don’t show is that the Final Girl doesn’t get to live happily ever after. Scarred both physically and mentally, she is haunted by memories that her prescriptions can’t suppress. That can’t be washed away with whiskey. But what haunts her, even more, are the things she can’t remember. Cory tries to force herself to live her life. To live on her own. To be strong in public. To connect ...

Wandering the streets of Edinburgh late at night isn't usually the safest thing to do but I needed to. The police had a killer on the loose and had no clues. It had struck at least twice and I knew that the killer was not of our world. It was a Demon. I had found a tiny trace of its movements and now, as I moved into the alley, I knew I would find the latest victim. Who should I call first? Bishop Michael to inform His Eminence that a demon stalked the streets of Edinburgh? Or the Police? I hoped they didn't ask too many questions about why I happened to be there. The Police it was, Bishop ...

Aspiring supervillains (and super nerds) Jonathan and Andrew attempt to hold their own in a town full of monsters, while eleven-hundred-year-old vengeance demon Anya is just looking for something to give her life purpose again, spending her days working at an evil juice bar. But soon word gets out that there's a new Big Bad on the scene, one more powerful and more destructive than anyone who has come before. She, of course, is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And she's hell-bent on rooting out all of this reality's evil by any means necessary.

The cursed families of Black River are about to make their final stand. On one side are the survivors of the ancient curse, a nightmare that has plagued their bloodlines for centuries. And standing against them is the sinister and twisted Bell Witch, an evil spirit who lives on in a new host.... Powered by the souls of her victims, the witch’s malignance infests the woods surrounding Black River.

School’s out for summer and that means one thing to Parker, Chloe, and their four friends: a well-deserved camping trip in the Pine Barrens, a million-acre forest deep in the heart of New Jersey. But when old grudges erupt, an argument escalates into the unthinkable, leaving one of them dead and the killer missing. As darkness descends and those left alive try to determine a course of action, the forest around them begins to change....

Connie's mother asks her to sell an abandoned house once owned by her grandmother in Salem, Mass. Relunctantly, Connie moves to the small town and inhabits the crumbling, ancient house, trying to restore it to a semblance of order. Curious things start to happen when Connie finds the name "Deliverance Dane" on a yellowed scrap of paper and begins to have visions of a long ago woman condemned for practicing "physick," or herbal healing, on her neighbors in 1690s Salem.

Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. Central characters include the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman (who is the brother of a character killed in Legacies) and his three Yakuza bodyguards, plus Hank Thompson, the Kicker cult leader from Bloodline. The cult, the businessman, the Yakuza, and the Kickers are looking for the sword as well.

Marzie will need to deploy every magical skill she's acquired to keep her town on track, a killer from striking again, and her potential daughter-in-law from bringing down a curse on the entire clan.

The inevitable moment of crisis has arrived, and it's left Castor with blood on his hands. Castor drowns his guilt in cheap whiskey, while an innocent woman lies dead and her daughter comatose, his few remaining friends fear for their lives, and there's a demon loose on the streets. But not just any demon - this one rides shotgun on Castor's best friend's soul and can't be expelled without killing him.

Retired Guild Artemis Inquisitor Georgia Drake has left the paranormal world behind after the death of her partner in the line of duty. Along with her job investigating crime and murder. With her Hades Guardian mastiff, Benjamin, and raven pair for company, she moves her entire life across the continent to escape not only the loss but her oppressive and powerful family. But someone like George isn't meant for a nice, quiet retreat to the normal human world. The biggest problem?

Mackenzie keep is cursed so the local’s say. But Audrey’s partner bought it anyway. The pipes are making a terrible racket, at least she hopes it’s the pipes, after all, what else could it be? Audrey’s partner surprised her when he told her he’d bought MacKenzie Keep, then he left on a red eye out of London the next day leaving her to move in on her own. Audrey was furious but needs must, and Audrey moved in. When the keening started she put it down to old pipes. When a woman appears in Audrey’s kitchen bearing the name MacKenzie, Audrey is unnerved but she listens to her story....

There's a new fairy in town, and no one in Nightmare, Arizona, is happy about it. Olivia Kendrick learns why when she and Annabelle team up to help out at the annual Nightmare Fall Festival. When Annabelle is found dead inside the corn maze the night of the festival's kickoff party, the police don't think it's murder. Olivia and her supernatural friends at Nightmare Sanctuary Haunted House know better, and it will be up to them to catch the killer.

In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.