The Bleeding Crown
The knife slips into the leather with a hiss, each stroke a prayer against the dark. Aldara Voss has spent years running from the thing that wears her mother’s face in the mirror,
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Paranormal Horror books
Every book here is tagged paranormal and filed under Horror. Read the first chapters of all 10 of them free, with no account and no card.
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Paranormal Horror on the shelf
The Hollowing Season
When Maren Calloway arrives at the decaying farmhouse on Hollow Creek Road, the hearse is already gone and no one has thought to wait for her. The town has closed ranks around her
The Hush Before Larkspur
Margot Halloway arrives at the Halloway estate on the worst night of the year, carrying a brass key she has never used and a notebook full of her grandmother Agnes's unfinished sen
The Hollow Beneath Millhaven
When Isadora Voss steps off a bus into the dying October town of Millhaven, she expects only grief, dust, and the quiet labor of settling a dead relative's estate. Instead, she fin
The Hollow Beneath Willow Creek
When Eleanor Vance receives word that her estranged grandmother has died and left her a crumbling farmhouse in Willow Creek, Vermont, she expects closure, not a haunting. The house
The Hollow Beneath the Bell
When folklorist Elena Vass travels to the remote Finnish village of Salka Mound to record the legend of a bell lost beneath a drowned church, she expects folklore, not faith. The v
What the Hollow Keeps
Nine years after fleeing his cursed hometown, Reese Dark receives a call that drags him back to Briarvale, a nowhere town where the blacktop unspools into dust and the dead do not
The Hollow Beneath the Pines
Caleb Marsh has nowhere left to go when he inherits a rotting house at Raven Hollow from a grandfather who refused to acknowledge him. Inside, beneath plaster that bubbles like ski
The Hollowing Season
Maren Ashworth hasn't spoken to her sister in eleven years. Now Eliza is dead, and Maren has come to the remote town of Briarvale to sort through what she left behind: a drafty hou
The Hollow Crown
When Eleanor Vance arrives at Ashworth Manor, the moors are already weeping rain against black stone. She has come to bury her uncle Callum and claim what remains of her family's c