Blood Secrets
10 best books like Blood Secrets (Craig Jones): Burnt Offerings, The House Next Door, The Willows, The Elementals, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, Blood Rubies, Cast A Cold Eye, The Fisherman, The Haunted Looking Glass, Elizabeth
| Author | Robert Marasco |
| ISBN | 0440009286 |
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved...
| Author | Anne Rivers Siddons |
| ISBN | 0061008737 |
Thirty-something Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of the newly bustling Atlanta. Life is made up of enjoyable work, long, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the vacant lot next door, a wooded hillside they'd...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1587156520 |
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...
| Author | Michael McDowell |
| ISBN | 0380783606 |
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...
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
| Author | Grady Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1594749817 |
Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.
Where did they come from? Where did they go?...
BLOOD RUBIES
It would bring bad luck, they said. But she split her pair of ruby earrings and gave one to each of her beautiful twin babies. Within hours she was burned to death in a fire. The twins lived.
KATHERINE
Raised by a poor, childless couple, Katherine was shy and withdrawn,...
| Author | Alan Ryan |
| ISBN | 0812525434 |
This was one of the very best ghost story novels I've read in recent years. It's extremely quiet and understated, but the unsettling atmosphere slowly builds at an almost pitch-perfect pace. It concerns an American writer who decides to rent a house in a remote and insular coastal village in Ireland...
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1939905214 |
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0940322684 |
The Haunted Looking Glass is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied...
| Author | Jessica Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1557850011 |
Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day that she looked into the mirror and saw the truth. Her family wouldn't have believed it even if she had told them - which she had no intention of doing. Elizabeth had far different plans for them - and only God could help them. He...
4.5/5 STARS!
Bernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!
An artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait....
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0671421611 |
CHILDGRAVE is a beautifully written quiet horror story, with a sketchy small town lurking in the background. By the time the secrets of the town are revealed, it's too late for the reader to turn back.
As I get older, I find myself more and more drawn to quiet horror. I can do without gore and torture...
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0890833036 |
"What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? ... What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?"
Baxter is a sociopathic bull terrier who is on the hunt for his perfect...
| Author | Andrew Michael Hurley |
| ISBN | 1473619866 |
Every autumn, John Pentecost returns to the Lancashire farm where he grew up to help gather the sheep from the moors. Generally, very little changes in the Briardale Valley, but this year things are different. His grandfather - known to everyone as the Gaffer - has died and John's new wife, Katherine,...
| Author | Elizabeth Engstrom |
| ISBN | 0688041752 |
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
