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The darkly thrilling follow-up to Blood Like Mine - a New York Times Best Horror Book and CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger-shortlisted novel. 'Neville might well be Stephen King's rightful heir' WILL DEAN YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR YOUR FAMILY. EVEN IF THEY ARE MONSTERS. Rebecca Carter is back from...

On a snowy December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a man in a pickup truck—Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered by anyone they meet.

It’s the mid-'90s. Grunge and flannel are fading as the Spice Girls and Hot Topic conquer the malls. Cherry gloss glistens on the lips of the youth. Modems hiss as America comes online. And in a fog-drenched cove at the edge of New England, something terrible awakens when a fisherman reels in a gruesome catch: the remains of a young woman. Remains still pulsing with furious life.

Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died.

An undead mother and daughter face down a strange community of killers in the fantastically sinister conclusion of the Blood Trilogy. “This is a terrific novel that takes the fast pace and tension of crime fiction and injects it with the explosiveness of a great vampire story.” —The New...

Concludes the journey begun with Blood Like Mine, one of the New York Times Best Horror Books of 2024 and shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award 2025. Perfect for fans of Let the Right One In and Stephen King. A mother and daughter on the run, plagued by a monstrous hunger. A...

Katja has long spent her life buried in the pain and sorrow of her past, a vampire abandoned to her fate for over 300 years, she never expects to meet another who could help her reclaim her existence. Raven, a poet and fellow lost soul, could be the one to spur her on, but in order to have the future she has only begun to grasp, she must uncover the truth about her origins and the awful event which left her alone centuries before. If she cannot face her past and reclaim her strength, she will lose everything.

Angels and Demons, Myths and Legends... It's been six months since Reginald Baskin became a vampire too fat to live happily with the beautiful undead — six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that safety does not come with power. These days, Maurice is Deacon of the Vampire Nation, but plenty beneath Maurice are still plotting to depose him … or dispose of him. But when a new and ancient threat rears its head, the Nation faces extinction and the truest of deaths — and Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki might be the only vampires who can stop it.

Take a chill pill, get ready to catch boogie fever, and turn it up to 11! Do You Fear Like We Do is set in an alternate scary ’70s where "disco inferno" isn’t just a song tile, an FM radio DJ who works the graveyard shift finds out what "catch you on the flipside" really means, and a rock band faces death flying the not-so-friendly skies. Stories include "Tiny Danger", "Comfortably Dumb", and "While My Guitar Gently Reaps". 

An eerie howl draws Hannah and Cooper to Main Street during a snowstorm, and what they find confuses them. There’s some sort of monster stalking the downtown area, and a woman has appeared out of nowhere in the creature’s wake only to collapse in front of them. Before Hannah can call for help, the woman disappears, leaving a mystery and a monster hunt on the menu.

Having discovered many of Anton's secrets, Katja must now seek out Raven and attempt to rescue him from the nightmare that his life has become. As she seeks him out, Raven is being eaten up by the horror of his own past. A past full of guilt, pain, and a terrible revenant who is more than she seems. In time, these two paths will come to meet and a final confrontation that could mean the end of so many things will be in store.

El Paso, Texas: Rebecca Carter awoke on a morgue table with only two desires: to find her daughter, Moonflower; and to sate her gnawing hunger. Rebecca sets out on a desperate quest, fighting her murderous craving for blood, and pursued by a vengeful FBI agent.

Sigmund Harte - army vet. Detective. A lucky guy pursued by unexplained fires and explosions. A sweet and loving man, crushing hard on his older PI partner. David Rhea - wilderness guide. Wind master. Recluse. When the young Sigmund confesses his affections, he responds...poorly. Lucky for Sig, Cooper and Ash adopt him, determined to teach him elemental control and love alike. Will their incendiary threesome last, or will David Rhea wake up and claim the man who threatens to slip away...forever?

Princess Allanna has been promised to a ruthless Elven regent whose schemes threaten the Fae realm. But her heart belongs to Sir Drake, the knight she is forbidden to love. Determined to defy her fate, Allanna risks everything to be with him.

After a devastating breakup, loser Marty Melon doggedly reassembles his shattered self. Self-esteem boosting Ted Talks, muscle-crushing kettlebell swings, and key episodes of The Golden Girls transform him from zero to B-list hero. This suicidal reject, turned pick-up artist, turned sensitive new age guy, finally has it all: a house, the quirky woman of his dreams, and abs. F#%k you, world, he thinks with alpha confidence. "Challenge accepted," the world replies, and everything goes to zombie sh*t.

As soon as he had the woman up and moving, he followed suit. He planted his hand on the railing, braced himself, then jumped up, twisting as he did so, landing on his backside on the metal railing, feet facing up toward the second floor. A spiral of lethal silk splattered on the steps and sparked in the exact spot he vacated a second ago.

In this gothic-styled ghost story that simmers with strange, Warren shows once again her flair for exploring the mundane - themes of love, loss, grief, and guilt manifest in a way that is both hauntingly familiar and eerily askew. People come to The Angelsea, a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned and desperate, who speak through the sleeping inhabitants.

After years of struggling with his family and especially his own ghosts and haunted past, Oliver needs to confront his demons and move on. But whilst playing what they think is a harmless game on holiday in a lodge, Oliver and his friends find out just how real your past can be in your present. In a panic, the friends make a fatal decision. Now the past has come to haunt them, and the friends realize just how fragile their own realities, as well as their bodies, really are. Who will last the night, and who will have to stay forever?

When Sarah posts on social media that her boyfriend dumped her to hit on other women, the last thing she ever imagined was that it would kickstart a killing spree. While she and her best friends, Megan, Rita, and Alana, continue with their lives and post their woes on social media, the dead bodies pile up. Will Sarah be able to figure out who is behind the deaths and protect her friends and their loved ones before it's too late?

Thomas, Ronald, and Wade are three guys just doing the best they can. Trouble is, their best is downright apocalyptic.