Kindle Horror Books

H.P. Lovecraft once said, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Horror novels, and all the subgenres of horror, play off this fear of the unknown, giving readers a viscerally frightening experience. From psychological horror to ghostly hauntings, these books will make you want to sleep with all the lights on.

The Book of Souls

Kevin Moore

The dead don’t come back, but some never leave… Jack Kelly remembers everything about his wife and children. The wonderful smell of his wife’s hair, the way she whispers to him at night. His three children running through the house, the sound of their laughter. That was his life before the accident. His near-death experience ... Read more

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South Side Alchemy

J. M. Sawyer

Jordan Peele’s Get Out meets Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. Abandoned at birth on Chicago’s South Side, Henry Lewis’s life could have easily become a cautionary tale. But the good nuns at St. Vincent’s Orphanage prepared him for a life outside their walls. . . even if he was Black. Twenty-five years later, ... Read more

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Free: Torn Pages

Ralph Burton

After a winter of snowball fights and photo-taking, fifteen-year-old David Flint isn’t looking forward to the onslaught of exam season. Nervous and prone to panicking, it would be a miracle if he even makes it through the next week. The weather is getting oven-hot and the trees are looking unusually life-like. A school trip into ... Read more

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Free: The Black Velvet Dress

J.E. Clarkson

When a young woman buys a mysterious vintage dress, little does she know how much her life will change and that everything is tied to the garment’s dark past. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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A Lunatic’s Laugh

S. T. Blake

Lilli Ashler was an actor who found fame in a play called A Lunatic’s Laugh, then she disappeared from public view. When Lilli dies, her granddaughter, Dominique, inherits her Gothic Irish mansion, which stands opposite a notorious asylum where the writer of A Lunatic’s Laugh spent time as an inmate before he dashed his head ... Read more

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Dog Flight and Other Short Horror Stories

D. T. Adams

Seven frightening short horror stories. Meet a ruthless artist who’s determined to paint the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. Watch as a hapless man gets tasked with committing murder. See an arrogant time traveler makes a grave mistake. And more … $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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I’ve Never Told Anyone

Kris West

“I know it sounds crazy, but I swear it’s true…” High up in a firewatch tower. Down a desolate country road. Inside a cookie-cutter house in the middle of the suburban sprawl. Ghosts, creatures, and demons are everywhere, waiting for their next victim. I’ve Never Told Anyone is a collection of eleven such stories. Inside, ... Read more

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Dead Silent

Ivan Blake

Chris Chandler is on the run from the press and the furious citizens of Beamishstock, Maine. He agrees to house-sit an isolated estate near Lewis, Vermont with a history and a curse that stretches back to the Albigensian Crusade. There, Chris soon learns that one of the town’s prodigal sons, Gilbert Burgoyne, has recently returned ... Read more

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The Book of Demons

Kevin Moore

The Book of Demons, the much-anticipated sequel to The Book of Souls, finds Jack Kelly in the fight of his life. This time, he’s not battling ghosts. His nemesis is the shapeshifting necromancer, Mr. Philips, who inhabits both the world of the living and the world of the dead. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Pixies

Ralph Burton

Lily last saw the dreaded pixies when they killed her father and confined her to this orphanage, a castle buried in the middle of the woods. Now, nine years later, when a regiment of soldiers arrives with black boxes carrying ancient Egyptian monsters, Lily is about to have a reunion. Only she knows the pixies ... Read more

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Twitching Light

Alyssa Hazel

Twitching Light is a short story and poetry collection that seeks to answer this question through the exploration of the fantastical, bizarre, and disturbing niches of our world. So light your candles and grab your vorpal blades, for an Orphic journey lies before us. $8.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Rougarou War: A Wild-Eyed Southern Boyz Prequel

Richard R. Rose

This second installment in the award-winning Wild-Eyed Southern Boyz series ties up unanswered questions in Book 1 and ties into our modern day heroes’ next big adventure. Set in Townsend, TN in 1901, Pinkerton Detectives William Rue and Johnny Walking-Stick are hired by the Little River Lumber Company to investigate strange occurrences that has halted ... Read more

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Free: Another Haunted Painting

Amanda Lawrence Auverigne

Jason is a popular paranormal YouTuber. He has a large collection of creepy artifacts. He buys a painting from a mysterious seller. After the painting arrives, Jason discovers that the painting is haunted. And his life is in danger. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Doctor Leviathan volume one

James Banks

Doctor Leviathan volume one is a 150 page black and white horror graphic novel that takes place in a dystopian future. In this world the world is overrun with monsters and mankind discovers that if it is to survive then it will need a special monster to protect them from other monsters. The name of ... Read more

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Free: The Sugar Skull

Manuel Ruiz

There is a dark place between desire and obsession… Ricky just wants to graduate, win the hand of his best girl, and escape his addict mother. However, a strange midnight visit and the arrival of an enchanted sugar skull turn his world upside down and lead to a battle for his soul. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Book of Souls

Kevin Moore

The dead don’t come back, but some never leave… Jack Kelly remembers everything about his wife and children. The wonderful smell of his wife’s hair, the way she whispers to him at night. His three children running through the house, the sound of their laughter. That was his life before the accident. His near-death experience ... Read more

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Free: The Seven Hungers: Brine Council

Morgan Quaid

You’re next urban fantasy thriller! Newly reinstated sorcerer, Ambrose Drake must face down an army from the briny depths and halt the birth of an elder god, all while struggling to control the demon creature trapped in his body. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Far From Paradise

Wayne Hopkins

Here lies twelve grounded unique and harrowing horror stories written by Wayne Hopkins. Through out this collection, numerous appeals of the horror genre are explored through contemporary tales as well as atrocious imagery. Some stories revolve around simple frights while others have the skin of the metaphysical; from something trivial like the irrational fear of ... Read more

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Down

Augustine Pierce

Heather, her Egyptologist husband Patrick, and their friends Leigh and Bradley travel to Egypt for a whirlwind tour of the major sites. But Heather starts to experience disturbing phenomena. She has vivid dreams of the gods and wakes muttering strange chants. She sees mysterious shadowy figures everywhere they go. She soon realizes the darkest forces ... Read more

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Free: Salem to Salem

Ralph Burton

Abigail Mitchell is her colony’s witchfinder. When someone goes missing, the colony turn to her. She takes her crossbow and heads into the mountains to kill the witches: mysterious outsiders wearing pig masks and cooking human flesh in their cauldrons. She has her own problems back in the colony. Her mother and father are afraid ... Read more

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Free: A Bitter Disappointment

Amanda Lawrence Auverigne

After their wealthy employer dies, a nurse and a chauffeur participate in a gruesome treasure hunt for the dead man’s hidden gold. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Pack Hunters

Lee Cushing

Catherine Jordan is an operative for a secret organisation that hunts down evil. Her next mission far outweighs any other she has ever experienced, this time the risks are personal – they involve her girlfriend Daphne, who has gone missing when a plane is hijacked, a beastly tropical island and a deadly lottery where nobody ... Read more

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Necrosis

C. L. Schneider

Amidst the chaos and fear of an apocalyptic virus, a mother fights to protect her daughter from the rotting remains of society. How far will Amy go to keep them both alive another day? How far would you—when every breath could be your last? $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: Dog Flight

D. T. Adams

Seven frightening short horror stories. Meet a ruthless artist who’s determined to paint the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. Watch as a hapless man gets tasked with committing murder. See an arrogant time traveller makes a grave mistake. And more … Free on Kindle.... Read more

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The Order of the Following

Lee Hall

The occult can take many forms. From mind hive monsters that live on the fringes of small towns to the remnants of those who hunt and take them down. In between you’ll find vampires, witches and of course the good guys who eventually band together to fight the darkness. This is the Order of the ... Read more

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Prayers for Evil: A Novel

P.G. Smith

Terror strikes a small Maine village when an ancient curse rises up from the ashes of medieval rituals and the Nazi obsession with the occult. Chris Murphy arrives in Maine with his little daughter to take on a new job assignment. On the rebound from an ugly divorce, he seeks a new life and a ... Read more

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Prey for Dawn

Christopher Michael Blake

Walnford Plantation is a place haunted in history, forgotten in the annals of time, and abandoned since the atrocities committed there during the civil war. But the horrors occurring at Walnford Plantation have just begun as a private detective searches for a woman’s missing sister and husband. A cheating wife plots to kill her husband. ... Read more

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Free: Born To Die

Sawyer Black

Only his memories can kill him. Casey Marlowe’s life is a nightmare. Every horror his disturbed mind dreams up manifests physically to haunt his waking days. But his use of The Gossamer threatens to tear the fabric of reality apart. If he saves himself, he might destroy the world.  Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Floating Hair

Ethan Koil

Floating Hair is a bleak, brutal, and unsettling horror novel. If you are looking for something cozy, this really isn’t it. (Trigger warning: Also contains doomed romances…) $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Free: The Keepers

Tan Van Huizen

There is evil in the swamp–the place where spirits dwell. Everyone in Titicut Township knew Carl Jenkins suffered from paranoid delusions, but what truly haunted him was far darker in nature. Whatever the small-town talk, only Carl and the shadow force of keepers (headed by Chief of Police, Elias Hicks) knew the truth. Free on ... Read more

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Requiem for Miriam

Len Handeland

Sidney and Miriam seem to be the perfect, successful New York couple, but their marriage is a tragic sham. When Sidney’s glamorous mistress, Tori, urges him to get rid of his troublesome wife, a murderous series of events ensues. Sidney kills Miriam in a fit of rage, and with her last breath, she curses him; ... Read more

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Father of Lies – A Darkly Disturbing Occult Horror Trilogy

Sarah England

  Father of Lies is the first in a trilogy of occult horror novels based in the north of England, followed by Tanners Dell and Magda. ‘Ruby is the most violently disturbed patient ever admitted to Drummersgate Asylum, high on the bleak moors of northern England. With no improvement after two years, Dr. Jack McGowan ... Read more

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Grave Dangers: A Thriller, Suspense, and Horror Collection

Maegan Beaumont

What’s dead doesn’t always stay buried. Whether it be in a small town, an abandoned asylum, or a bustling city, no one is safe from the ugliest parts of human nature. A social media influencer, a college student, a detective – titles make no difference when death plays Russian Roulette. Question is, who will be ... Read more

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Free: Closed Campus

Gayle Katz

A zombie outbreak might be the end of her. I’m Jane. And I just started spending my nights locked in the school radio station. Lucky, too, that’s what saved my life when it happened. But if the zombies get in, it’ll be my tomb. With communications down, a campus littered with baddies, and my anxiety ... Read more

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Lucy (THE FADING LIGHT Book 1)

Alan Aspinall

A serial Killer is stalking the streets of London, six women have already met their end at his hands. But the killer is about to find out that there are far more terrifying things walking the night then just himself $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Insight

Richard Coiley

With extracts taken from the perspective of the dammed, come five chilling short stories, and through their eyes, you will witness their nightmare. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more

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Limbo

Richard Coiley

When you die, you die alone and so begins a journey into the unknown, where the decisions in life will guide your fate in death. So consider this; how far would you go to change the destiny of a sinner, if it was someone you loved and what would be the ultimate price for their ... Read more

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Free: The Dead Travel Fast

Scott Cook

The line between a hero and a villain is often thinner than we imagine… Vlad 3 Dracula, prince of Wallachia and defender of Christendom. Count Dracula, who inspired one of the greatest horror tales in history… are both alive in the same extraordinary man… a man who’s past holds the key to defeating a new ... Read more

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Free: Mountain Of Fangs

Carlo Hart

When Kevin and Faith moved to Frazier Mountain they were looking for a quiet forest getaway. What they found was a mountain haunted by their own nightmares. Can they stop the evil before it devours their souls? Vampires, mutant bunnymen, wercoyotes, and reptilians, lurk in the shadows on the Mountain Of Fangs. Free on Kindle.... Read more

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Pack Hunters

Lee Cushing

Catherine Jordan is an operative for a secret organisation that hunts down evil. Her next mission far outweighs any other she has ever experienced, this time the risks are personal – they involve her girlfriend Daphne, who has gone missing when a plane is hijacked, a beastly tropical island and a deadly lottery where nobody ... Read more

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