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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..
  • 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...
  • Arising Son by Marie Montine

    Arising Son by Marie Montine

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan Reyn has special abilities that allows him to help people with thier ailments.But he also has abilities that can annihilate everyone in the town, he just doesn't know it yet, and they are awakening...He goes to the one person who can help him with his conflicting nature.His Cassandra Wynstrom.Arising Son is the sequel to Mourning Grey, taking place twenty years after the Great War...
  • No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    No Time to Die by Elizabeth Chandler

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Message from a dead girl... It's too late to call back. Jenny will never speak to Liza again. But it seems that even from beyond the grave, Liza is begging her sister for help.... They say it's a serial killer. Is it? Jenny can't afford to trust anyone. Now she's here, in Wisteria, anonymously registered at the Chase College theater camp where her sister died...
  • The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young

    The Deep End of Fear by Elizabeth Chandler, Sandy Young

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Let Sleeping Ghosts LieTwelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook child, Patrick. The seven-year-old says he talks to Ashley by the pond. He does dangerous, deadly things because, he says, "Ashley dared me to...
  • White Walls by Lauren Hammond

    White Walls by Lauren Hammond

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Adelaide Carmichael knows that she's lost her mind. She's aware that she's being sent to The Oakhill Institution, but she's been told that she's being sent there to get better. She's been told that the staff is there to help. And it doesn't take Adelaide long to discover that she was very, very wrong about The Oakhill Institution. Patients roam the halls like zombies...
  • Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

    Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two transgender teens end up in a small, isolated town, where they must escape the locals who plan to sacrifice one of them to an ancient monster that only eats girls. A pulse-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Midsommar and Hell Followed with Us!Erin and Max are two transgender teens trying to get to California...
  • Happiness, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Happiness, Vol. 3 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A supernatural story of sexual awakening, growing up, and suburban vampirism, Happiness follows a dorky boy who is attacked by a girl in an alley. She sucks his blood and gives him a choice: life or death...
  • Rise by Ellen Goodlett

    Rise by Ellen Goodlett

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, a step closer to the crown that will allow one of them to rule over Kolonya. But the sisters' pasts continue to haunt them. Each hides a secret marked with blood and betrayal, and now their blackmailer is holding nothing back...
  • 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...
  • My Sister's Reaper by Dorothy Dreyer

    My Sister's Reaper by Dorothy Dreyer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Zadie’s first mistake was telling the boy she liked she could bring her dead sister back to life. Her second mistake was actually doing it. When Zadie accidentally messes with the Reaper’s Rite that should have claimed her sister Mara, things go horribly wrong...
  • 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...
  • Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks

    Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her...
  • Verum by Courtney Cole

    Verum by Courtney Cole

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The truth shall set you free. My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning. My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets. Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore. The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me...
  • Gilt Hollow by Lorie Langdon

    Gilt Hollow by Lorie Langdon

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Willow Lamott’s best friend is a murderer, and no one in the small town of Gilt Hollow will let her forget it. For four long years, she’s tried to fade into the background—but none of that matters when Ashton Keller comes striding into school, fresh out of juvie and fueled by revenge. The moment their eyes meet, Willow no longer feels invisible...
  • 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...
  • We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean

    We'll Never Be Apart by Emiko Jean

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Murder. Fire. Revenge. That’s all seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe thinks about. Committed to a mental ward at Savage Isle, Alice is haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, Jason. A blaze her twin sister Cellie set. But when Chase, a mysterious, charismatic patient, agrees to help her seek vengeance, Alice begins to rethink everything...
  • 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...
  • The Darkest Lie by Pintip Dunn

    The Darkest Lie by Pintip Dunn

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    “The mother I knew would never do those things. But maybe I never knew her after all.”Clothes, jokes, coded messages… Cecilia Brooks and her mom shared everything. At least, CeCe thought they did. Six months ago, her mom killed herself after accusations of having sex with a student, and CeCe’s been the subject of whispers and taunts ever since...
  • The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong

    The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for.Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn’t dare reveal.The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with “issues.” But that’s exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee

    The Unquiet by Jeannine Garsee

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Rinn Jacobs has secrets: One, she’s bipolar. Two, she killed her grandmother. After a suicide attempt, and now her parents' separation, Rinn and her mom move from California to the rural Ohio town where her mother grew up...
  • The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers

    The Vanishing Game by Kate Kae Myers

    Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Jocelyn follows clues apparently from her dead twin, Jack, in and around Seale House, the terrifying foster home where they once lived. With help from childhood friend Noah she begins to uncover the truth about Jack's death and the company that employed him and Noah...
  • Daughter of Darkness by Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr

    Daughter of Darkness by Katharine Corr, Elizabeth Corr

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Enter the Underworld in an epic new fantasy, where the Gods of ancient Greece rule everything but fate.Deina is trapped. As one of the Soul Severers serving the god Hades on earth, her future is tied to the task of shepherding the dying on from the mortal world - unless she can earn or steal enough to buy her way out...
  • Initium by Courtney Cole

    Initium by Courtney Cole

    Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I never knew what the consequences would be. I say that like it’s a defense, an excuse. It’s not. It’s simply the truth. I never knew what he would become to me. Through everything, he’s become everything. My rock, my air, my love. My everything. And then…. Things changed. Because it was wrong. Because sometimes, our sons must pay for the sins of their fathers...
  • The Companion by Katie Alender

    The Companion by Katie Alender

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 36 ratings
    The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home...
  • Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    What’s your worst nightmare? For Ivy Jensen, it’s the eyes of a killer that haunt her nights. For Parker Bradley, it’s bloodthirsty sea serpents that slither in his dreams. And for seven essay contestants, it’s their worst nightmares that win them an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at director Justin Blake’s latest, confidential project...
  • Beautiful Nightmares by Lauren Hammond

    Beautiful Nightmares by Lauren Hammond

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The epic, final installment in the Asylum Trilogy. Sanity is a funny word. Sanity. Sanity. To be sane. To have clear thoughts. To be able to distinguish the difference from fantasy and reality. I used to think that my sanity was still intact. That all of my marbles were still in the bag known as my mind. That I would never—EVER—let Oakhill get the best of me...
  • Happiness, Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Happiness, Vol. 1 by Shuzo Oshimi

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    THE THIRST Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. HIs life is a serise of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful...
  • The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy

    The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Eleven years ago, Stella and Jeanie disappeared. Only Stella came back.Now all she wants is a summer full of cove days, friends, and her gorgeous crush - until a fresh corpse leads Stella down a path of ancient evil and secrets.Stella believes remembering what happened to Jeanie will save her. It won’t.She used to know better than to believe in what slinks through the shadows. Not anymore...
  • 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...
  • I Am Her Revenge by Meredith Moore

    I Am Her Revenge by Meredith Moore

    Rated: 3.53 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She can be anyone you want her to be. Vivian was raised with one purpose in life: to exact revenge on behalf of her mother. Manipulative and cruel, Mother has deprived Vivian not only of a childhood, but of an original identity. With an endless arsenal of enticing personalities at her disposal, Vivian is a veritable weapon of deception. And she can destroy anyone...
  • 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...
  • Thorn Abbey by Nancy Ohlin

    Thorn Abbey by Nancy Ohlin

    Rated: 3.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Nothing is as it seems in this darkly romantic tale of infatuation and possession, inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Becca was the perfect girlfriend: smart, gorgeous, and loved by everyone at New England’s premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey. But Becca’s dead. And her boyfriend, Max, can’t get over his loss. Then Tess transfers to Thorn Abbey...
  • Chain Letter by Christopher Pike

    Chain Letter by Christopher Pike

    Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When Alison first read the chain letter signed "Your Caretaker," she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about tha tawful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it.One by one, the chain letter was coming to each of them ..
  • 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...
  • The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude

    The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude

    Rated: 3.41 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Stay on the roads. Don’t enter the woods. Never go out at night.Those are the rules in Rowan’s Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton’s family has lived for centuries. It’s an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it...
  • 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 Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters

    The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters

    Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real--and she could prove it...
  • The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    The Cemetery Boys by Heather Brewer, Z Brewer

    Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Stephen is forced to move back to the nowhere town where his father grew up, he’s already sure he’s not going to like it. Spencer, Michigan, is like a town straight out of a Hitchcock movie, with old-fashioned people who see things only in black-and-white. But things start looking up when Stephen meets the mysterious twins Cara and Devon...
  • Rooms by Lauren Oliver

    Rooms by Lauren Oliver

    Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane —a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in shocking, surprising, and moving ways Wealthy...
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