Darcy Coates
Author
Language
English
Description
When their mother is hospitalized, Tara and Kyle are sent to stay with their only remaining relatives, their grandparents. It's the first time meeting May and Peter Folcroft. The elderly couple is friendly at first and the house, hidden in the base of the mountains, is full of nooks to explore. But strange things keep happening. Peter paces around the house late at night, obsessed with the lake where his sister drowned. Doors slam and curtains shift...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer...or something far darker? She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe--which is why it's such a shock when Hope is taken. Desperate to get her back, Abby tells the police everything she knows, but they claim...
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Keira wakes in a strange forest, she can remember only two things: she can see ghosts, and strange, mask-wearing men are hunting her. She seeks shelter at a church, and the kind pastor offers to let her stay in the groundskeeper's cottage for a few days. But the cottage is situated behind the graveyard, and its spirits are only too eager to make themselves known. This sleepy, quaint town has dark secrets from the past that continue to haunt...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leigh Harker is certain her house is haunted. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms outside her bedroom door at night, watching her...waiting for her to finally let down her guard and fall asleep. Despite appearances, despite all logic, Leigh knows she's no longer alone. Pushed to her limits but unwilling to abandon her beloved home, Leigh's determined to find answers. But the more she digs, the more she begins...
5) Gallows Hill
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations, living and working on the beautiful grounds where they grow their famous grapes. However, there's something at play on the property, and the locals whisper that the site of the old prison yard, located on what is now winery property, is cursed. Margot, daughter of the winery owners, has not seen her childhood home in years, but when Margot's parents die unexpectedly, she inherits...
Author
Series
Black winter volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clare and Dorran may have survived the city, but their relief is only temporary. Dorran is sick, and rapidly worsening. Clare fears the only way to save him might lie in the mysterious Evandale research station, supposedly one of the few remaining human refuges. But the station is three days' journey, and Clare isn't certain that their small group can endure that long. Because they not only need to survive the hollows...but survive each other. The...
Author
Series
Black winter volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winterbourne Hall is not safe. Clare and Dorran scramble to secure the ancient building in an effort to protect themselves from the ravenous hollow ones, but that isn't their only concern. Somewhere far away, Beth is alive, but she's trapped, and her oxygen is running out. Hundreds of kilometers separate Clare from her sister. The land between them is infested with monsters, and the roads are a maze of dead ends. She knows she can't survive the trip...
Author
Series
Black winter volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The world continues to change. Each passing day twists it further, and pushes the surviving humans closer to the brink of extinction. But, for the first time, there is hope. Clare and Dorran set their sights back on Winterbourne Hall. It's a daunting journey, but vital. Humanity needs more refuges--safe areas where food can be grown without attracting the attention of the hollow ones. Winterbourne promises to provide that. But their home is no longer...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and that restless ghosts still roam the halls. But when Adrienne inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline...until night falls. As she uncovers more of the house's secrets, Adrienne begins to believe the whispered rumors may be horrifyingly true. Chasing the threads of a decades-old mystery, Adrienne realizes she's become the prey to something deeply...
Author
Series
Black winter volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2020.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then...nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do...
11) Craven Manor
Author
Publisher
Black Owl Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper's position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion's front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs litter the marble foyer. It's clear no one has lived there in a long time. But an envelope waits for him inside the doorway. It contains money, and promises more. Daniel...
Author
Language
English
Description
I live next to a haunted house. I began to suspect something was wrong with the gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back to pack up their furniture. No family stays long. Animals avoid the place. Once, I thought I saw a woman's silhouette pacing through the upstairs room ... but that seems impossible; no one was living there at the time. A new occupant, Anna, has...
13) Dead of winter
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters and rapidly dropping temperature, Christa believes...
14) From below
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
469 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The SS Arcadia vanished during a routine voyage. A strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, but no trace of the ship, or of its crew, could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course. A small team are granted permission to dive to it. Their purpose is straightforward: explore the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable...
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Keira woke in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: she can see ghosts, and frightening, mask-wearing men were hunting her. She thought she would be forever haunted, but now, with the help of unexpected new allies, she's coming into her own. Yet the dead still whisper to Keira at night, and soon she'll be faced with an insatiable darkness--a powerful ghost fueled by rage and a dreadful, dangerous hunger that can never be quenched."...
16) The hollow dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men...