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  • The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 64 ratings
    When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . .For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions.Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career...
  • The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 3 by Mokumokuren

    The Summer Hikaru Died Vol. 3 by Mokumokuren

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A strange man arrives to investigate the strange occurrences that seem to be happening more and more frequently around the village. Everything seems to be linked to the mountain where Hikaru died and “Hikaru” came from..
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  • The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren

    The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 by Mokumokuren

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 31 ratings
    It has Hikaru’s face. It has Hikaru’s voice. It even has Hikaru’s memories. But whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn’t Yoshiki’s best friend. Whatever it is, it’s dangerous. Carrying on at school and hanging out as if nothing has changed―as if Hikaru isn’t gone―would be crazy...but when it looks so very like Hikaru...and acts so very like Hikaru..
  • Casket of Souls by Lynn Flewelling

    Casket of Souls by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The Nightrunners are back in this gripping novel full of Lynn Flewelling's trademark action, intrigue, and richly imagined characters. More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country...
  • The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce

    The Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    3 novels in 1 The Darkangel; A Gathering of Gargoyles; The Pearl of the Soul of the World...
  • Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

    Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Blood sings to blood, Froi . . . Those born last will make the first . . . For Charyn will be barren no more. Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home... Or so he believes... Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been trained roughly and lovingly by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his quick temper...
  • Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling

    Shadows Return by Lynn Flewelling

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 39 ratings
    With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan.… After their victory in Aurënen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to Rhíminee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it is difficult for them to settle in...
  • The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

    The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 59 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs...
  • Slaying Isidore's Dragons by C. Kennedy

    Slaying Isidore's Dragons by C. Kennedy

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    5 Best friends, 4 Vicious brothers, 3 STD tests, 2 Guys in love, 1 Car bombing & nowhere to runFollow the burgeoning love of two teens during the worst year of their lives. Irish-born Declan David de Quirke II is the son of two ambassadors, one Irish and one American. He is 'out' to his parents but to no one else...
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    mystery  queer  young adult  m-m  contemporary  abuse  suspense  dark
  • The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

    The Honeys by Ryan La Sala

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat.Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance...
  • Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

    Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensation and author of The Society for Soulless Girls… Penny Paxton is the daughter of an icon. Her supermodel mother has legions of adoring fans around the world, and Penny is ready to begin her journey to international adoration, starting with joining the elite Dorian Drama School...
  • The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin

    The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Ryan LaSala and Trang Thanh Tran: a sinister tale of the supernatural, sisterhood, and the shadows that rule our darkest desires, New York Times best-selling author Judy I...
  • The Depths by Nicole Lesperance

    The Depths by Nicole Lesperance

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A tropical island full of secrets. Two Victorian ghosts, trapped for eternity. And a seventeen-year-old girl determined not to be next.Eulalie Island should be a paradise, but to Addie Spencer, it's more like a prison.Forced to tag along to the remote island on her mother's honeymoon, Addie isn't thrilled about being trapped there for two weeks...
  • Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault by Candace Robinson

    Quinsey Wolfe's Glass Vault by Candace Robinson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    YOUNG ADULT EDITION OUT OF PRINTA girl without answers. A boy who wants to help her. A mysterious museum that some see... And some don't...Perrie Madeline lives a simple life. Her only concern is deciding whether or not to let herself fully fall for August Hartley. That is, until a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault, appears overnight and people around her begin to go missing...
  • Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger

    Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author of The DUFF Kody Keplinger and artist Sara Kipin reimagine an iconic DC antihero with a gothic-horror twist.There's something unusual about Pamela Isley—the girl who hides behind her bright red hair. The girl who won't let anyone inside to see what's lurking behind the curtains. The girl who goes to extreme lengths to care for a few plants...
  • Blood of Wonderland by Colleen Oakes

    Blood of Wonderland by Colleen Oakes

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The queen will rise.Dinah has been exiled from Wonderland. The vicious father she always feared has framed her for the brutal murder of her brother and turned the kingdom against her. Now hiding in the lush and mysterious Twisted Wood with only her war steed at her side, Dinah is faced with a choice...
  • All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

    All That Consumes Us by Erica Waters

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Everyone knows the students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. So when Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she takes it. But once she’s settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory the academy calls home, something strange starts to happen...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  magic  queer  fantasy  young adult  paranormal  f-f  dark
  • This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

    This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Bravery, danger, and intense passion. How does obsession begin?Victor and Konrad are the twin brothers Frankenstein. They are nearly inseparable. Growing up, their lives are filled with imaginary adventures...until the day their adventures turn all too real. They stumble upon the Dark Library and discover secret books of alchemy and ancient remedies...
  • Seasons of Chaos by Elle Cosimano

    Seasons of Chaos by Elle Cosimano

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Holly Black and Victoria Schwab, this enthralling duology follows Jack and Fleur, star-crossed lovers trapped in an endless cycle of death.As immortal Seasons, Jack and Fleur wielded powerful magic in their roles as a Winter and a Spring...
  • Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow

    Sorrow's Knot by Erin Bow

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In the world of Sorrow’s Knot, the dead do not rest easy. Every patch of shadow might be home to something hungry and nearly invisible, something deadly. The dead can only be repelled or destroyed with magically knotted cords and yarns. The women who tie these knots are called binders. Otter is the daughter of Willow, a binder of great power...
  • Absent by Katie Williams

    Absent by Katie Williams

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When seventeen-year-old Paige dies in a freak fall from the roof during Physics class, her spirit is bound to the grounds of her high school. At least she has company: her fellow ghosts Evan and Brooke, who also died there. But when Paige hears the rumor that her death wasn't an accident--that she supposedly jumped on purpose--she can't bear it. Then Paige discovers something amazing...
  • My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham

    My Dearest Darkest by Kayla Cottingham

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    WILDER GIRLS meets THE CRAFT in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: What price would you be willing to pay to achieve your deepest desires?Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy... but she's also not what she seems. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river...
  • Keep You from Harm by Debra Doxer

    Keep You from Harm by Debra Doxer

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Secrets… They weigh you down. I’ve kept a secret all my life. It’s my mother’s secret, too. I inherited it from her along with a unique ability that only we possess. She’s gone now, another victim of addiction. If her death isn’t enough to bring me to my knees, her betrayal flays me to the bone. Because the secret my mother and I have been keeping is just one of many she’d kept...
  • The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

    The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide.All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets...
  • Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes

    Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    Only queens with hearts can bleed.This is not the story of the Wonderland we know. Alice has not fallen down a rabbit hole. There is no all-knowing cat with a taunting smile. This is a Wonderland where beneath each smile lies a secret, each tart comes with a demand, and only prisoners tell the truth.Dinah is the princess who will one day reign over Wonderland...
  • Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson

    Dark Breaks the Dawn by Sara B. Larson

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Book one in a haunting and romantic YA duology packed with action, romance, and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of the Defy trilogy, Sara B. Larson. On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Evelayn of Eadrolan, the Light Kingdom, can finally access the full range of her magical powers...
  • Briar Rose by Jana Oliver

    Briar Rose by Jana Oliver

    Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A dark and sexy reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale from the author of THE DEMON TRAPPERS.For Briar Rose, life is anything but a fairy tale...
  • Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey

    Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Far away on Wilde Island, Princess Rosalind is born with a dragon claw where her ring finger should be. To hide the secret, the Queen forces her to wear gloves at all times until a cure can be found, so Rosalind can fulfill the prophecy to restore the family to their rightful throne.    But Rosalind’s flaw cannot be separated from her fate...
  • The Orphanage of Gods by Helena Coggan

    The Orphanage of Gods by Helena Coggan

    Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Twenty years ago, the humans came for their gods.In the bloody revolution, gods were all but wiped out. Ever since, the children they left behind have been imprisoned in an orphanage, watched day and night by the ruthless Guard. Any who show signs of divine power vanish from their beds in the night, all knowledge of their existence denied.No one has ever escaped the orphanage.Until now...
  • White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

    White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

    Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity...
  • The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

    The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

    Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 82 ratings
    Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBSSet in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.”There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . .
  • The Fall by Bethany Griffin

    The Fall by Bethany Griffin

    Rated: 3.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Madeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin. Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own...
  • Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

    Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men...
  • The Blessed by Tonya Hurley

    The Blessed by Tonya Hurley

    Rated: 3.07 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the author of the New York Times bestselling Ghostgirl series, the start to a captivating and haunting teen trilogy about three girls who become entangled with an enigmatic boy; a boy who believes he is a saint. What if martyrs and saints lived among us? And what if you were told you were one of them? Meet Agnes, Cecilia, and Lucy. Three lost girls, each searching for something...
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