Books with category Haunting Tales
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What Feasts At Night

2024

by T. Kingfisher

Alex Easton, retired soldier, returns in this novella-length sequel to the bestselling What Moves The Dead. When Easton travels to Gallacia as a favor to Miss Potter, they find their home empty, the caretaker dead, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence.

The locals whisper of a strange breath-stealing being from Gallacian folklore that has taken up residence in Easton's home... and in their dreams.

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020

by Iain Reid

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”

And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.

A man and his girlfriend are on their way to a secluded farm. When the two take an unexpected detour, she is left stranded in a deserted high school, wondering if there is any escape at all. What follows is a twisted unraveling that will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

This novel is a deeply suspenseful and irresistibly unnerving debut that will have you on the edge of your seat, with a plot that crescendos into a harrowing ending you will never see coming.

The Elementals

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty... except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid air.

The McCrays and Savages, two fine Mobile families allied by marriage, have been coming to Beldame for years. This summer, with a terrible funeral behind them and a messy divorce coming up, even Luker McCray and little India down from New York are looking forward to being alone at Beldame.

But they won't be alone. For something there, something they don't like to think about, is thinking about them... and about all the ways to make them die.

Blackbird House

2004

by Alice Hoffman

In Blackbird House, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in a small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod. This place is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl in love with books and a man destined to betray her; Lysander Wynn, whose life changes with the arrival of a boarder wearing red boots; and Maya Cooper, who discovers the true meaning of love between her parents.

From the British occupation of Massachusetts to the modern world, families are inexorably changed by the people they love and the lives they lead inside Blackbird House. These interconnected narratives are as intelligent as they are haunting, as luminous as they are unusual. The past both dissipates and remains within the rooms of Blackbird House, filled with terrible secrets, inspired beauty, and a spirit of coming home.

Welcome to Blackbird House, a glorious travelogue through time, fate, loss, love, and survival.

Second Glance

2004

by Jodi Picoult

Second Glance is an intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, set in the small town of Comtosook, Vermont. When odd, supernatural events plague the town, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. Despite his best efforts, life clings to him since his fiancée's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves.

In Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death.

Jodi Picoult's enthralling and astonishing story delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history—Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s—to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

The White Road

2003

by John Connolly

John Connolly takes readers into the dark and mysterious world of private detective Charlie Parker. When the daughter of a South Carolina millionaire is brutally raped and murdered, a young black man faces the death penalty for the crime. It's a case steeped in old evil, and old evil is Parker's specialty.

Parker is drawn into a living nightmare, a chilling dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger that never arrives. This is not just an investigation; it's a descent into an abyss where dark forces threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, and even his soul.

In a prison cell far to the north, an old adversary plots revenge, utilizing the very men Parker is hunting and a strange, hunched creature with its own secrets buried by a riverbank. This undiscovered killer, Cyrus Nairn, adds to the growing tension.

Soon, all these figures will face a final reckoning in the southern swamps and northern forests—distant locations linked by a single thread, a place where the paths of the living and the dead converge. This place is known only as The White Road.

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