Occult fiction Books

"[An] exercise in the macabre, the bizarre, the psychologically unaccountable ... worked out with conspicuous craft and dexterity ... ingenious, accomplished." - Times Literary Supplement"[A] masterful blending of suspense, horror and deep-etched...

Arson and old lace.When your not so very departed great-great-aunt relies on her old belongings to cling to her particular form of spectral life force, what do you do when some of them come up for auction in Tuscany?Travel to Italy, of course!But what...

No one knows about them. No one is ready. The false gods are coming.In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon.That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl.What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good...

Today's tasks:1.Escape from underground cell2.Recruit snarky d-bag werewolf to help3.Invade demon realm and rescue a girlFor wizard detective, Otto Schneider, magic has always kept him out of trouble. Now it's working in reverse ...... and he's just...

When is a vampire bite not a vampire bite?Get ready for another thrilling cozy adventure with Juno, our sassy cat, and her trusty sidekick witch, Zandra Crypt. In their latest escapade, they're investigating the bizarre case of a witch who's...

It's time for Night Mare and murder!Crimson Cove is full of tourists, here to enjoy the Reverence Festival. Bring on the parade, food, and fun.I love a festival, but not when a non-magical is murdered, threatening the future of Crimson Cove if our spells...

Tempest gets a gift she wasn't expecting this season!Tempest Crypt and Wiggles are looking forward to some festive fun in Willow Tree Falls. Snow is falling, the decorations are up, and the parties are in full swing.A visit to the Christmas tree lot...

Is this the mystery that defeats me?As a magical cat living in the enchanting town of Crimson Cove, I've always had a front-row seat to the extraordinary. But my fur's been standing on end lately with the wild happenings around here. The weather has gone...

As the town of Fairy Falls holds the paranormal world's annual Halloween celebrations, Blair finds herself playing host to the leaders of the region's most prestigious witch covens. Donating her room to a grumpy elderly witch is bad enough, but when a...

Blair Wilkes faces her toughest challenge yet: meeting her boyfriend Nathan's family. That means being on her best 'normal' behaviour -- no weirdness, no magic, and definitely no unexpected appearances from her unpredictable cat, Sky.Blair's life is...

Blair's life is starting to look up. Life is back to normal, she's found a clue about her family history, and her relationship with Nathan might finally be getting somewhere.Naturally, that's when a dead body shows up in her boss's office.With the...

RED SKY ALL NIGHTby Derek HeathThere's something up in the mountains...On the Welsh border, legends of a brutal creature haunt villagers and terrorise tourists. The fields are empty of livestock. Hikers are warned to stay out of the hills. But someone...

Another day, another magical monster to hunt.Perry and her new team have barely had time to recover from their first mission before they're assigned to another - this one taking them outside of their castle as they travel to a small fishing community to...

Welcome to Hawkwood Hollow, where the dead outnumber the living.Maura has faced her fair share of monsters since moving to the haunted town of Hawkwood Hollow. When a series of disappearances in the area suggests a more sinister cause than a simple...

The triple murder and failed suicide that took place at 37 Fantoccini Street in 2001, raised little media interest at the time. In a week heavy with global news, a 'domestic tragedy' warranted few column inches. The case was open and shut, the inquest...

HURTING MY GIRL IS AN UNFORGIVABLE SINMy neighbor doesn't know I have a key to her house. Doesn't know I watch her sleep or that the dreams of me she has aren't merely dreams. She doesn't know she's my girl, who I've claimed in a blood ritual that will...

Detective Dougie Woodbridge embarks on a fresh start in an unfamiliar town, accompanied by his daughter. In a mere matter of days, regret sets in as a string of bizarre events unfolds.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of those authors whose literary creation is much more famous than the man himself. Those who do know the name Arthur Conan Doyle tend to know him only as the inventor of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. A...

A disturbing psychological thriller from the author of the AUTUMN and HATER novels (optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro).Heading home late after a night out, Adam and Lucy Logan are involved in a horrific road rage incident. Their...

Gratiana Chanter's novella The Witch of Withyford: A Story of Exmoor, containing her own illustrations, was first published by J. M. Dent & Co. in May 1896. In it, Nance Darvel, a gruesome woman who lives in a hovel, is intent on punishing a slight...

The final days of war fall upon Hathin and the others as they join forces with the Rising. The Grigori and vampires have successfully set free Samyaza, and Hathin and Elizabeth have lost someone very dear to them. As new developments take place,...

Mind reader Kalli Ballas decides to go for a much-needed girls' weekend to visit her new fortune teller friend, Sunny Meadows, never imagining she's headed on a road trip to ruin...The remodel turning their joined apartments into one big house is done...

The holiday season is a big deal for both OCD introverted fashion designer, Kalli Ballas, and boisterous extroverted Detective Nik Stevens... Their families go all out, but this is the first time Kalli and Nik will be spending it together as an...

NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the sixth book of the Psychic Solutions Mystery series: What happens when the solutions aren't sensible?Head of the Sensible Solutions Agency Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs doesn't have time to puzzle out why a...

After surviving a brutal and senseless attack on the grounds of her university, Clara finds herself bonded in an inexplicable way with other survivors. They call themselves the "Knot," and together they discover some doors should not be opened and some...

The night of Nan's eighteenth birthday was spent on graveyard duty at the Sequoyah Boarding School for Orphan Indians. You would think that it would have been a quiet night. However, the apparition of her grandmother and her message changed the course of...

When a normal exhumation at Pine Brook Cemetery in Hobart, Massachusetts goes horribly wrong, Police Chief Amanda Pierce is confronted by a a ancient being as old as man. As destroyed caskets and missing bodies pile up, Amanda must struggle against a...

Whom Gods Would Destroy, Part I: The Architects of Hell is the first part of a trilogy uncovering the paranormal mysteries and secret histories of the First World War, blending fact and fiction into a metatextual tapestry of modern monsters and ancient...

What happens at death? What horror lurks in the dark? What if ghosts are not what they seem? What if aliens are not what they appear to be? what if hallucinations were not just "in the head?" This book is full of strange and unique stories. There are...

When thoughts can kill.After the suspicious suicides of several student test subjects, Paula Crenshaw, research assistant in Paranormal Sciences at small town Blackridge University and budding telekinetic, suspects they may be connected to a little black...

Josie's grandfather always dropped candy from the bridge, so she did too. It was a fun way to keep his memory alive, and what could it hurt?Josie and Simon's friendly childhood prank war began on Halloween in grade one and continued until Simon left...

FIVE weird, disturbing, chilling tales. A young woman with a horrifying secret embarks on an erotic adventure punctuated with bloodshed...A displaced holiday figure enacts his messianic calling in the cavernous subway below New York City...Two...

After forging a deal, the only path forward is the one for which you bargained; ensure it is what you genuinely wish it to be, because not even death will release you. Drucilla Blackwood is an unassuming, average woman who stumbles upon a unique and...

Ethel Arsenault's been hearing noises in her brother's house ever since she arrived from Summerside, but when he turns up dead, could the supernatural be to blame, or her sister-in-law Dolly whose been caught talking to herself when night falls? Ethel...

Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control children's minds.Nicholas Hush, 1960s record producer, has a vision for the future of...

Richmond simmers on the edge of damnation. Vampires stalk the streets, leaving a trail of death and chaos. In the gripping sequel to "The Survivors," author J.E. Kraft brings readers back into a world overrun by vampires, where survival hangs by a thread...

From Elgin-award nominated author Ronald J. Murray comes a collection of novelettes and short stories that all contain elements of betrayal, and comfortably fit into such horror subgenres as psychological, supernatural, Lovecraftian, and erotic. Explore...

Aqua mortem lapis mallum. What is entombed deep within Enmity Pond? Something that has captured the lives of many who dare to speak the chant into its mysterious and deadly waters. And for a group of college friends, it's the twisted thrill ride they...

How Love Came to Professor Guildea: Professor Guildea is an extremely unsentimental man-he doesn't need nor want anyone's affection. He has his work, and that is enough. Until one evening when he sees a figure in the park, and crosses the street to...

The gentleman with the wicked, brown eyes, the beautiful young man whose image had been immortalized more than two centuries before by the artist's brush, seemed much more than pigment and paint and canvas. When best-selling author Rachael Lafferty sees...