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  • The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    After the dramatic events of The Creeping Shadow, the Lockwood team (plus Quill Kipps) deserve some well-earned rest.So naturally they break into the Fittes Mausoleum, on a perilous mission to discover the truth about London's top ghost-hunting agency, and its sinister leader.What they discover will change everything.But there's little time to ponder...
  • The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

    The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    After leaving Lockwood & Co. at the end of The Hollow Boy, Lucy is a freelance operative, hiring herself out to agencies that value her ever-improving skills. One day she is pleasantly surprised by a visit from Lockwood, who tells her he needs a good Listener for a tough assignment...
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  • The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

    The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 25 ratings
    Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade – but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory. As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals...
  • The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    The Dex-Files by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    The truth is out there... The Dex-Files is a compilation novel that accompanies the Experiment in Terror Series and is not to be-read as a stand-alone. In the Dex-Files we find a variety of scenes and chapters from the enigmatic Dex Foray's POV from books #1-6 in the series. Some of these scenes have been previously published, albeit from Perry's POV, while other scenes are completely new...
  • The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines...
  • Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Marked / Betrayed / Chosen / Untamed by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling book series that follows 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, OK, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her...
  • On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    On Demon Wings by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    When the life you wanted has crumbled beneath your fingers, there’s nothing left to do but pick up the pieces and soldier on. You’ve done this before. But what happens when you no longer feel like yourself anymore? When fires spontaneously start-up around you, when you hear growling coming from underneath your bed, and you no longer recognize your face in the mirror...
  • Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Into the Hollow by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 49 ratings
    Perry Palomino has fought her demons – and won – but the battle is far from over. She’s now left broken and on her own, leaving behind her life and family in Portland to focus on giving Dex Foray – and the Experiment in Terror show – a second chance. But their past mistakes continue to tease and test their relationship, as does the wild and desolate terrain of the Canadian Rockies...
  • Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Between Family by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When someone tries to threaten me by telling me they know my name, I take that personally.G’day. I’m not really a pet anymore, but you might as well keep calling me Pet. It’s not like I’m gunna tell you my name anyway. And if I sound stroppy, well, I am. First, I was threatened. Now, someone has cut off my house from the human world and left my emotional support vampire on the human side...
  • The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 132 ratings
    Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way...
  • The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

    The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic.Everyone has secrets. Mags’s has teeth.Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring for her ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeouts with a girl who has a boyfriend...
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    mystery  horror  fantasy  young adult  queer  contemporary  dark  death
  • Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Scorched Heart by Helen Harper

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    My parents were brutally murdered when I was five years old. Their killer has spent the last twenty five years in prison for his terrible crimes - but I still have unanswered questions. After all, I am the phoenix. When I die, I am reborn in fire and brimstone. It happens again and again and again. I have no idea where my strange ability came from and nobody to ask...
  • Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Between Kings by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    G’day. I’m Pet. Heirling. Biter of fae lords. Trouble.I have a lot of names these days—including my own, real name. Unfortunately for me, someone else knows that name too; not to mention the names of my other heirling friends. Now those heirling friends have disappeared, stolen by the current King Behind for a fight to the death where only one contender to the throne remains...
  • Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Firestorm by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. In a world of lava and fire, I am about to face my hardest trial yet. Not one of strength, or power, but intrigue and manipulation...
  • Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Between Frames by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Two fae is company, but a company of fae is trouble.Which is exactly what we’ve got. Trouble, I mean. Well, and fae. Lots of fae.Something or someone is stalking and killing high-level fae around Hobart—tearing out hearts and leaving a trail of bloody bodies behind. Fae don’t like it when they’re the ones getting killed, so of course they came to hire my owners.Owners, you ask?Hi. I’m Pet...
  • The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    The Crawling Darkness by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Ghost removal specialist Ellie Jordan must face a dangerous, shape-shifting entity that she and Calvin have encountered once before, with tragic results. The spirit has the power to reach into the minds of living and feed on their fears, taking the shape of their worst nightmares, and it has awoken in search of new victims...
  • Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Boundary Born by Melissa F. Olson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Something wicked is at work in Colorado’s supernatural community. Vampires are being paralyzed or killed with poison…a weapon favored by witches. This offense threatens to break apart the already-fractured alliance between witches and the undead.The state’s cardinal vampire, Maven, summons boundary witch Allison “Lex” Luther to stop the killing before it ignites a war...
  • Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Breakwater by Shannon Mayer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. As an Ender, one of my father’s Elite guards, it’s my job to do as I’m told...
  • Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

    Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 73 ratings
    boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.The adventure that began with "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" and continued in "Hollow City" comes to a thrilling conclusion with "Library of Souls...
  • Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    They are my harvest, and I will reap them all. Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock...
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    mystery  suspense  fantasy  urban fantasy  paranormal  m-m  magic  fae
  • Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong

    Spell Bound by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    At last, in the novel every Kelley Armstrong fan will need to own, all the major heroines and heroes of Otherworld are united. It's been 10 years since Bitten, the first novel in Kelley Armstrong's New York Times best-selling Otherworld series. In that time, hundreds of thousands of fans have ravenously devoured the adventures of Armstrong's witches, demons, and werewolves...
  • All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Vie Eliot has survived a new high school, an abusive father, and the murderous Mr. Big Empty. Now, as Vie searches for Mr. Big Empty, he also finds himself facing an unexpected how to be a good boyfriend.When a mysterious drifter named River disappears, though, Vie finds himself dragged into finding the missing boy...
  • The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 99 ratings
    HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating...
  • Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Between Floors by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    I’m not supposed to push through the boundaries of reality without supervision. I’m definitely not meant to drag a cop Between with me. But stuff happens, you know? Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not Pet, exactly. I am a pet. Nothing too hard; I just cook and clean for the Behindkind who took over my house. Easy. But now one of my owners has gone missing...
  • The Storm We Face by Katie May

    The Storm We Face by Katie May

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Well... So far, my apocalpytic upbringing has not been peaches and daisies (if that is how the saying goes). Or is it peaches and pansies? Fighting off feral beasts, surviving natural disasters, and coming face to face with the worst that humankind has to offer is quite tiresome. Psycho ex-girlfriends? Check. Creepy monsters/zombies? Check. Orgasms? Not check. Yet...
  • Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Red Fox by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 52 ratings
    With Book Two of the Experiment in Terror Series, Perry Palomino and Dex Foray trade in the stormy Oregon coast for the unforgiving deserts of New Mexico. In the for­got­ten town of Red Fox, New Mex­ico, a Navajo cou­ple is tor­tured by things unseen and by motives unknown...
  • A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in...
  • The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

    The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 45 ratings
    “Do you trust me?”With his dying words, H—Jacob Portman’s final connection to his grandfather Abe’s secret life entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly con­tacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. Save Noor—Save the future of all peculiardom...
  • The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 40 ratings
    The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida...
  • Wolf Mate by M. Guida

    Wolf Mate by M. Guida

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final battle is here. I have to prove that I'm worthy of the crown.Everything rests on me.But I'm willing to accept the challenge.I want justice for my parents' murder and my demon wolves' enslavement.My enemy doesn't play fair, and I know it's an ambush.Bring it on, dude. Win or lose, I'm ready...
  • Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Fearscape by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Vours: Evil demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hour of the winter solstice. It's been a year since Reggie first discovered the Vours, and the winter solstice is approaching once again. It will be another night of unspeakable horror for those unlucky enough to be taken by the Vours, because this time, she won't be able to stop them...
  • House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 78 ratings
    A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night.Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange...
  • Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

    Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 62 ratings
    In the shocking finale to the bestselling series that began with Stalking Jack the Ripper, Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer---or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy...
  • Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Soulstice by Simon Holt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The Vours: Evil, demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on Sorry Night, the darkest hours of the winter solstice. Six month... Since Reggie first discovered the existence of the Vours in a tattered journal. Since she learned to overcome her fear and destroyed a Vour to save Henry...
  • Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Between Shifts by W.R. Gingell

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    There’s a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager’s office. And there’s definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms. Hi. I’m Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet. I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody’s gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures...
  • The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    The Hunter by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    He sold her the game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom’s birthday party, she chills to the warning: “Entering the Shadow World can be deadly. Do so at your own risk.” Spellbound, they piece together the rooms with their darkest nightmares...
  • The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Only days have passed since Vie Eliot’s murderous half-brother—a dangerous, out-of-control psychic—was stopped from killing the people Vie loves most, but Vie is ready for his life to return to normal. He has plans. Big plans. Make the cross country team, pick up his grades, and spend a lot of time with his boyfriend...
  • The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    The Gifts That Bind Us by Caroline O'Donoghue

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    A spellbinding supernatural teen drama - and sequel to All Our Hidden Gifts.Maeve and her friends have revealed their powers and banded together as a coven: Roe can pick locks, Lily sends sparks flying, Maeve can read minds and Fiona can heal any injury. And even better than their newfound talents? Roe and Maeve are officially an item...
  • Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Recombinant by Shannon Mayer, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From NYT and USAT bestselling authors Denise Grover Swank and Shannon Mayer comes a new twist on the world of vampires . . .In the city that never sleeps, nightmares live in the darkness . . .A series of grisly murders begin to pile up in New York City, murders that have no rhyme or reason and no leads. Unless one chooses to believe that the supernatural is possible...
  • Hollow Heathens Young Adult: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Hollow Heathens Young Adult: Book of Blackwell by Nicole Fiorina

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A forbidden, timeless, and haunting love story.Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  fantasy  paranormal  dark  witches  new adult  magic
  • Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Oblivion by Kelly Creagh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 30 ratings
    This electrifying conclusion to the Nevermore trilogy takes one last trip to the dream world of Edgar Allan Poe to reveal the intertwined fates of Isobel and Varen.The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? —Edgar Allan PoeThe fine line between life and death blurred long ago for Isobel Lanley...
  • Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 111 ratings
    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children was the surprise best seller of 2011—an unprecedented mix of YA fantasy and vintage photography that enthralled readers and critics alike. This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended...
  • Remember Me by Christopher Pike

    Remember Me by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Shari Cooper hadn't planned on dying, but four floors is a long way to fall. Her friends say she fell but Shari knew she had been murdered. Making a vow to herself to find her killer, Shari spies on her friends, and even enters their dreams. She also comes face-to-face with a nightmare from beyond the grave...
  • The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    The Killing Season by Meg Collett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In the far Alaskan north, there are places the winter sun cannot reach. Places where light won't shine for months. These are the places we hunt the monsters who feed on fear. So begins the Killing Season. For the next sixty-five days, we will face the darkness. Some will hunt the aswangs in the ever night, but I, Ollie Andrews, am here for one purpose: to search for answers to my past...
  • Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Guns and Graveyards by Katie May

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I have blood on my hands. Blood that isn't mine. I had thought I had escaped my past. I had thought I had finally freed myself. But can you really escape your monsters? With a gang war looming on the horizon, bodies piling up, and a strange new student claiming ties to the Shadow Man, I find myself looking into my past...
  • Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Dream On by Kerstin Gier

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    Things seem to be going well for Liv Silver: she's adjusting to her new home (and her new family) in London; she has a burgeoning romance with Henry Harper, one of the cutest boys in school; and the girl who's been turning her dreams into nightmares, Anabel, is now locked up. But serenity doesn't last for long.It seems that Liv's troubles are far from over--in fact, suddenly they're piling up...
  • Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A deliciously dark bubblegum-gothic fairytale from a stunning new Australian talent. ‘He's gone the same way as those little birds that bothered me with their awful songs! And you will too, you and your horrible heart-music, because you won't stay out of my woods!' There's a dead girl in a birdcage in the woods. That's not unusual. Isola Wilde sees a lot of things other people don't...
  • The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters...
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