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Horror: Adult Books Read a book from the list, or one of your own choosing
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Ghost Station
by S. A. Barnes
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
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Nestlings
by Nat Cassidy
When they win an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings, new parents Ana and Reid get the lucky break they've been waiting for until disturbing events occur, unease and paranoia set in and needle-like bite marks appear on the baby.
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
Rendered a latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which she emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.
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The Reformatory
by Tananarive Due
In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
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What Grows in the Dark
by Jaq Evans
When fake spiritualist Brigit returns home to investigate the disappearance of two teenagers, the case eerily echoes her own sister's death 16 years earlier.
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Cuckoo
by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived-but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person. Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it's too late. The fate of the world depends on it.
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Red Rabbit
by Alex Grecian
Witch hunter Old Tom and his mute ward, Rabbit, are out to collect the bounty on a witch and are joined by two vagabond cowboys and a schoolteacher with nothing left to lose as they barrel through the Wild West in a stolen red stagecoach, encountering monsters more wicked than the woman they're tracking.
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Never Whistle at Night
by Shane Hawk
Celebrating Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, intricate family legacies, desperate deeds and unsettling acts of revenge.
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This Wretched Valley
by Jenny Kiefer
The first person to climb an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, Dylan, a rising star in rock climbing, goes missing, and when three bodies are discovered in various states of decay, each mutilated, there is still no trace of her, dead or alive.
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Holly
by Stephen King
Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
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Lone Women
by Victor LaValle
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the“lone women” taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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This Thing Between Us
by Gus Moreno
When his wife is killed, Thiago, with politicians all looking to turn her death into a symbol for their own agendas, holes up in a secluded cabin in Colorado where he cannot escape from the evil feeding on his grief and rage, determined to make its way into this world.
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
When the arrival of Eduardo Lizalde sets in motion a dangerous chain of events, Carlota Moreau finds her carefully constructed world falling down around her as passion is ignited in the sweltering heat of the jungle where a motley group of monstrosities await.
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Thunderhead
by Douglas J. Preston
Sixteen years after her father's mysterious disappearance, archaeologist Nora Kelly follows in his footsteps, guided by an enigmatic letter, as she embarks on an expedition into the remote canyon country of southeastern Utah to search for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold.
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The Last Time I Lied
by Riley Sager
An artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends.
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The Terror
by Dan Simmons
Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a mysterious and insatiable sea monster that is stalking the men trapped in the Arctic ice, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin.
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Murder Road
by Simone St. James
In 1995, newlyweds April and Eddie, making a wrong turn, pick up an injured hitchhiker who later dies and, now suspects in a series of unexplained murders, must dig into the town's history to clear their names and discover there's something supernatural at work on that horrible stretch of road.
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Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Situated high up in the mountains, Camp Damascus offers a sin-free and “saved” life to its ultra-conservative Christian patrons as the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in America, while hiding a host of very unholy secrets.
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The Gathering
by C. J. Tudor
When a boy is found with all the blood drained from his body, Detective Barbara Atkins must determine if a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs, is responsible, or if she's dealing with a twisted psychopath as she uncovers secrets darker than she ever could've imagined.
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Where the Dead Wait
by Ally Wilkes
Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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