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Haunted Setting
A place soaked in dread. Something terrible happened here. And it hasn't finished happening.
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Stay Buried
Jennifer McMahon · Horror
From the New York Times bestselling author of Children on the Hill comes a queer folk horror in which a woman must confront decades of secrecy and…
gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery · haunted setting · revenge plot
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Spoiled Milk
Avery Curran · Horror
“The haunted lesbian boarding school horror show we always wanted.
dark academia · gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · found family · paranormal romance
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Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield · Horror
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe.
gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · Horror
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs.
gothic atmosphere · psychological thriller · haunted setting · second chance romance · trauma recovery
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · Horror
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom.
psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · trauma recovery
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We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer · Horror
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque…
haunted setting · psychological thriller · closed circle
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On Sundays She Picked Flowers
Yah Yah Scholfield · Horror
“A ferociously talented writer. Scholfield writes with insight, beauty, and the wildness of real art.” —Victor LaValle, author of Lone Women In this…
gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · psychological thriller · survival
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And the Sea Gave Up the Dead
William Friend · Horror
For fans of Jennifer Thorne's Diavola and We Have Always Lived in the Castle comes William Friend's latest stunning novel where grief, mystery, and…
gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · trauma recovery · ghosts · small town
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The Winter Folk
Jen Julian · Horror
A woman returns to the mysterious lodge in the woods where she once worked, and to the inscrutable creature that bound her there, in this haunting…
gothic atmosphere · slow burn · haunted setting · paranormal romance · trauma recovery
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These Walls Remember
Del Sandeen · Horror
When two estranged sisters inherit a home possessed by the horrors of its dark past, they must work together to survive in this viscerally chilling…
gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · found family · psychological thriller
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Phantasma
Kaylie Smith · Fantasy
Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game. Stay alive. And don’t fall in love. When Ophelia’s sister disappears, there is only one…
enemies to lovers · dark academia · haunted setting · forbidden romance · quest · twist ending
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