Dark Dark fiction
Dive into the chilling world of dark fiction with our curated list of the best books. Explore haunting tales, psychological thrillers, and macabre stories that will leave you spellbound.
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The Girl Next Door
by Jack Ketchum
In suburbia in the 1950s, a dark side emerges for teenage Meg and her crippled sister--captive to an Aunt, who is descending into madness. ""The …
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Fevre Dream
by George R. R. Martin
When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly …
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Zombie
by Joyce Carol Oates
After Quentin P, a convicted sex offender, is paroled, he embarks on a series of murders, in a chilling book that is told from Quentin's …
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Tap, Tap
by David Lozell Martin
The author of the bestseller Bring Me Children delivers a ruthlessly physcological thriller. What if your best friend started killing your worst enemies? For Roscoe …
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The End Of Alice
by A.M. Homes
From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide …
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A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
When Hank Mitchell, his brother Jacob, and a friend find four million dollars their plan to keep it eventually starts to ruin their lives.
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The Jimjams
by Michael Green
The mild-mannered retirees newly arrived at the exotic resort of Blue Turtle Island are threatened by weird predatory creatures who sow seeds of insane, burning …
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Kaleidoscope Eyes
by Graham Watkins
While Durham, North Carolina, epidemiologist Sam Leo uncovers a pattern of unsolved crimes that are apparently rape-murders, his friend, pathologist Stephanie Dixon, discovers a kaleidoscope …
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Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King “The oldest and strongest emotion of …
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The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features: THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was …