Horror, Mystery & Thriller

Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative—her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches—to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white...

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables,...

A masterpiece of eerie suspense, Lindsay’s cult classic tells the sinister and richly atmospheric story of the disappearance of three pupils of Appleyard College for Young Ladies during a school picnic. A classic of Australian literature, Picnic at...

The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to...

She’s twelve. He’s dead. But together they’re going to save the world. Hopefully. Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny series. That didn’t really work, did it? If you’ve read the...

“One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New YorkerFrom the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be FeministsFifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in...

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern...

Horror legend Ray Russell’s haunting and macabre stories, including “perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written” (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete...

Ruta Sepetys is a masterful historical fiction author, and I Must Betray You is no exception. Set in the not-too-distant past — 1989, to be exact — I Must Betray You follows 17-year-old Cristian Florescu in Communist Romania as he grapples with his...

A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there...

In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old María...

“Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here.From New York Times bestselling author Adrienne...

In this sequel to Karin Slaughter's Pieces of Her, Andrea Oliver is now a US Marshall. If you were not familiar with Oliver's fierce determination to do the right thing then start here with Girl, Forgotten. You will finish the read remembering her, and...

If you enjoyed Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, then here’s ANOTHER club for you to join! Grab a pencil, a tumbler of scotch and deep need to solve a local murder. Make that TWO local murders. On second thought, make that THREE local murders...

Now with a beautiful new series look, Christie’s classic mystery in which a murder is announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.   The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn...

Now with a beautiful new series look, Miss Marple may be on holiday at a fancy London hotel, but she’s back on the case when a mysterious guest checks out…   When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking...

Now with a beautiful new series look, Miss Marple receives a letter from a dead man instructing her how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.   In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently...

Soon to be an original Netflix series!From the author of The Wicked Heart and The Immortal comes a beautiful and haunting novel about a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality.Rotterham Home was a hospice for...

The New York Times bestselling series is now a graphic novel — Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .   What do you...

“Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell.” —Janet Maslin, New York Times   The publication of Joe Hill’s beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim...