Secondhand Horror Books

THE BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE READ TO BE BELIEVED 'Utterly brilliant, a genre-defying masterpiece''I've never read anything like this before''Singular, unsettling and unforgettable''A modern classic in the making''Monumental... One...

'My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her ...'Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is the survivor of a private disaster...

The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit...

Six years ago, the king of Casmantium's schemes shattered the balance between griffins and humans, and nearly led to disaster for both. Now the balance may be tipping once more...

You know me. I am Meredith Gentry, princess and heir apparent to the throne in the realm of Faerie; one-time private investigator in the mortal world. To be crowned queen,...

'Starve Acre may well be his best novel so far' The Times'A tour de force of physiological fantasia' Sunday Times'Hurley's horror is beautifully written and triumphantly creepy' Mail on Sunday'Expertly...

Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them,...

The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette WintersonA ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative...

Robert Caligari is a thoroughly evil thirteen-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realizes just how much he loathes the...

Martie Rhodes, a happily married, successful video games designer, takes an agoraphobic friend to therapy sessions twice a week. Each trip is a grim ordeal, but the experience has brought...

The supernatural community in Bon Temps, Louisiana is reeling from two hard blows: the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina, and the manmade horror of the explosion at the vampire summit...

Now it's the turn of the weres and shifters to follow the lead of the undead and reveal their existence to the ordinary world. Sookie Stackhouse already knows about them,...

WAITING FOR TED charts the destruction of Rosalind and Ted's relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue. Rosie comes from a wealthy, upper- class background. She dreams of...

The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and...

After Paige Winterbourne is ousted as leader of the American Coven of Witches, all she wants to do is hide under her duvet for a few months. Let the supernatural...

'The ardeur made me a sort of living vampire who fed off sex, but with the downsides came some interesting upsides.'Jason is a werewolf. He's one of my best friends...

Y'all need to get yourselves together. Here's a newsflash from the only High Priestess you have left at this dang school: Zoey isn't dead. And believe me, I know dead....

The new thriller from Dean Koontz is an emotional rollercoaster telling the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man - a story that will challenge the...

A taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime and sympathetic, a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back' Karin Slaughter...

Half dragon, half woman, can she save her friend's soul - without losing her heart?Mercy Wilson is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area, but she's also more -...

There's nothing wrong with a new music store opening in town - unless the new owner is the Devil himself. He isn't too happy that Nicki Styx, recently able to...

ALL WILL BE FORGIVEN, IF ALL CAN BE FORGOTTEN.The dilapidated seaside town of Saltwash isn't a place that Tom Shift would have chosen to come to at all, let alone...

Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires!Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail...

In the dazzling new thriller from the master of dark suspense, the hand of fate reaches out to touch an ordinary man with greatness. So long as he is ready....

THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK THE WHISPER MANThe victim was his friend. So was the murderer.'Hugely atmospheric and deliciously...

'Barrowbeck casts a real spell - or is it a curse?' Mail on SundayFor centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, have lived uneasily with...

Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a...

The cataclysmic conclusion to Koontz's brilliant reworking of the classic tale. The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors...

Some mysterious deaths linked to a second hand camera, a boy trapped inside a computer game, a frightening journey on a bus that doesn't seem to exist and a terrifying...

One by one, the children of Moonlight Bay are disappearing. No one knows if they are dead or alive. Christopher Snow, suffering from the rare disorder xeroderma pigmentosum, has glimpsed...

It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She's settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers...

"They Kill plunges readers deep into the heart of pulse pounding supernatural horror with a story that could only come from the mind of Tim Waggoner." - This is HorrorWhat...

If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of...