Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, […]
Theodora Corvus can hear the whispers of her crumbling home. She can hear the whispers of Kingsward Manor, her place of employment. She sees the watchers by the lake, black-eyed and waiting. But Broken Oak is silent. Broken Oak is empty. When Theodora takes the job as governess to young Ottoline Thorne, she leaves behind […]
An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals … a used hangman’s noose … a snuff film. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as an item he learns is for sale on the Internet. For a thousand dollars, Jude will become the […]
Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of […]
Join five friends as they unwittingly embark on a perilous journey to a purportedly state-of-the-art tourist attraction – a haunted island. When they soon discover that they have been lured into a trap, the group must band together to endure the terrifying ordeal of surviving the night while being relentlessly hunted by the most dangerous […]
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …” Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county’s showpiece. Rebecca made it so – even a year after her death, Rebecca’s influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter’s shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her […]
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, […]
Brother follows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional and deeply disturbing traditions. Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on […]
What would you do to save a loved one?Robert’s mother, Helen, is ravaged by cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losingthe last member of his family. Robert’s friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tell him an unholy storyand leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in […]
Perfect for fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Marie Benedict, this riveting novel takes you inside the scandalous courtship and catastrophic honeymoon aboard the Titanic of the most famous couple of their time—John Jacob Astor and Madeleine Force. Told in rich detail, this novel of sweeping historical fiction will stay with readers long after turning the last page. […]
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