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Catriona Ward

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CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. Her forthcoming novel, Nowhere Burning, will be published by Tor Nightfire in the US and Viper Books in the UK this year. `Her last book, Looking Glass Sound, was a USA Today bestseller. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial (2022 - Viper, Tor Nightfire) was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. Stephen King called Sundial ‘Authentically terrifying…. Do not miss this book.’

Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street (2021
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Average rating: 3.76 · 251,264 ratings · 43,378 reviews · 28 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Last House on Needless ...

3.80 avg rating — 154,371 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions
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Sundial

3.78 avg rating — 26,245 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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Looking Glass Sound

3.45 avg rating — 18,787 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions
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Little Eve

3.73 avg rating — 11,442 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions
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Night and Day in Misery (Th...

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The Girl from Rawblood

3.38 avg rating — 3,733 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions
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Nowhere Burning

3.69 avg rating — 2,948 ratings — published 2026 — 13 editions
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Sundial - Sneak Peek

3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings2 editions
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“Anyway the trick to life is, if you don’t like what is happening, go back to sleep until it stops.”
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“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
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“Everything in life is a rehearsal for loss. Only the smart people know it.”
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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward

This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street.

All these things are true. And yet they are all lies...

You think you know what's inside the last house on Needless Street. You think you've read this story before. That's where you're wrong.

In the dark forest at the end of Needless Street, lies something buried. But it's not what you think...
 
  19 votes 40.4%

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane by Henry Farrell Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Henry Farrell

The literary classic that inspired the iconic film - the story of two sisters and the hell they made their home.

Once an acclaimed child star of vaudeville, Baby Jane Hudson performed for adoring crowds before a move to Hollywood thrust her sister, Blanche, into the spotlight. As Blanche's film career took off, a resentful Jane watched from the shadows as her own career faded into obscurity - until a tragic accident changed everything.

Now, years later, the two sisters live in a decaying mansion, isolated from the outside world. Crippled by the accident, Blanche is helpless under the control of her abusive sister, who is slowly descending into madness. And when Baby Jane decides it's time to revive her childhood act, she won't let anything - or anyone - stand in her way.

This edition features exclusive extra material: three previously unpublished short stories by Henry Farrell, including the inspiration for the movie Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and an introduction that reveals how the original novel came about as well as the behind-the-scenes drama of the iconic film starring Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, now recreated in the TV show Feud.
 
  8 votes 17.0%

The Fog by James Herbert The Fog
James Herbert

A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanation, leaving behind a trail of misery and horror. A yawning, bottomless crack spreads through the earth, out of which creeps a fog that resembles no other. Whatever it is, it must be controlled.
 
  7 votes 14.9%

Kill Creek by Scott Thomas Kill Creek
Scott Thomas

At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests…

When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won’t be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.
 
  7 votes 14.9%

Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1) by Mo Hayder Birdman
Mo Hayder

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery - young, driven, unshockable - is called to one of the most gruesome crime scenes he has ever seen. Five young women have been ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. Subsequent post-mortems reveal a singular, horrific signature linking the victims.

Soon Caffery realises that he is on the trail of that most dangerous offender: a serial killer. Beset by animosity within the police force, haunted by the memory of a very personal death long ago, Caffery employs every weapon forensic science can offer to hunt him down.

Because he knows that it is only a matter of time before this sadistic killer strikes again ...
 
  6 votes 12.8%

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