Rick Hautala

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1986
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Poltergist: The Legacy

1 - Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Hidden Saint (Oct-1999)

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • Night Stone

    HIDDEN TOYS The old house in Maine gave Beth the creeps. She couldn’t believe they were really moving in, if it weren’t for the wooden doll she had found in the closet of her new bedroom, she would have been miserable. But the strange hand-car...

  • Moonwalker

    IN DYER, MAINE, THE DEAD WON’T STAY BURIED! The people of Dyer liked their quant little farming community just the way it was. So they didn’t question the bizarre, unexplained disappearances that had begun to plague their town. No one talked...

  • Winter Wake

    EARLY GRAVE Glooscap Island, off the coast of Maine…shrouded in fog…ringed by icy gray water. Here the Carlson family comes home to a tortuously intensifying nightmare -- first in the guise of a beautiful but calculating woman, then in the s...

  • Dead Voices

    ONLY THE DEAD ARE TRULY SAFE. A young girl is killed on a desolate highway. A mother agonizing by unceasing guilt. In the vivid light of day, in the nightmare depths of sleep, her daughter calls to her from the grave. And soon she’ll know if t...

  • Cold Whisper

    Tully. He made Sarah’s every wish come true. He appeared to her eyes alone and spoke so that only she could hear. Sometimes Sarah wondered if it was all her imagination. But the things that Tully made happen were all too real. And, as Sarah grew up...

  • Little Brothers

    It has been five years since Kip Howard saw his mother killed horribly by a blur of "little brown things." Five years of nightmares and a terror of dark places. Five years of struggling to overcome what must have been just his imagination... But t...

  • Dark Silence

    November, 1694. Rachel Parsons, an accused witch, is hanged at the Gallows Tree in Summerfield, Maine. Before she dies, she curses all who live on her land. Her words end with the creak of the rope as the ladder is pulled out from under her. Autum...

  • Ghost Light

    Cindy Toland knows that her sister’s violent death was no accident. She knows her abusive brother-in-law too well…knows the dark, brutal things he’s capable to doing. That’s why she took her niece and nephew away into the night -- away from a...

  • Twilight Time

    THE DOOR TO THE PAST IS ... THE GATEWAY TO HELL Jeff Wagner has come home to Maine. HOME ... where, years ago, unspeakable fear and abuse ruled his life. HOME ... where Jeff and his sister sought secret, sinful refuge in each other's arms. HO...



  • Shades of Night

    THE COLORS OF FEAR From the moment she and Vincent move into their new home in Maine, Lara DeSalvo is tormented by killer migraines and eerie visions: a young woman with a pale face and glowing eyes who warns of an unnamable danger…her mother, d...

  • Wraith

    David Robinson's life has taken several bad turns. First, his daughter dies. Then his marriage crumbles and his career as a mystery writer falls apart. But after he is killed in a hit-and-run accident, David quickly learns that he will face his most ...

  • The Mountain King

    The mountain stood proud and alone, shrouded in mist and snow, and surrounded by legends and fear. Some said a demon resided on the rocky slopes, an unholy thing that periodically emerged from the mist to claim a life. Mark Newman had hiked the trail...

  • Impulse

    In the shadowy quiet of a secluded Maine house, a terrified woman goes to a box in the closet, and removes a gun… From the crime-ridden streets of New York City, a homicidal madman drives north, his mind beset by demons, his heart bursting with ha...

  • Poltergeist: The Legacy: The Hidden Saint

    Poltergist: The Legacy - 1

    The ghostly visitation from a young boy killed in a terrorist bombing sends Alex Moreau on a journey to keep the child's mother from a desperate act that would endanger her own soul and unleash an evil force on the world...

  • Bedbugs

    From the darkest recesses of Boston's subway tunnels to the deepest snow-filled forests of Maine, a spine-tingling collection of terrifying tales spans the career of this bestselling master of horror. Original....

  • Grave Tales

  • Cold River

    After the death of his wife, Ben Skillings is a man on the edge. Haunted by grief and unable to sleep, he spends most of his nights sitting on a park bench on the river's edge. But there are things that happen late at night in the town of Northbrook,...

  • Flint and iron

    in In the Shadow of Evil

    TIM WAGGONER * JEAN RABE * RUSSELL DAVIS ISAAC SZPINDEL * RICK HAUTALA JULIE E. CZERNEDA * JANE LINDSKOLD BROOKS PECK * MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT JODY LYNN NYE * GREGORY BENFORD TANYA HUFF * MICHELLE WEST * FIONA PATTON The struggle between goo...

  • Occasional Demons

    Since his first novel, Moondeath, was published in 1980, Rick Hautala s novels and stories have entertained millions of readers around the world.

    Now, as a companion volume to Bedbugs, his first career-spanning collection of short stories, Cem...



  • Rough Winds

  • Indian Summer

    It's Friday, October 6th, the third day in a row the temperature has hit the high eighties. A genuine Indian summer heat wave. Twelve year-old Billy Crowell and his friends are playing homerun derby at Pingree Park when the town's fire horn starts ho...

  • Untcigahunk

    It has been five years since Kip Howard saw his mother killed horribly by a blur of "little brown things." Five years of nightmares and a terror of dark places. Five years of struggling to overcome what must have been just his imagination…But the "...

  • Glimpses

    One of 2012's HWA Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, Rick Hautala had a writing career that spanned more than three decades. From Moondeath, his first novel published in 1980, to the republication of his best-selling novel The White Room (DRP, 2012)...

  • The Demon's Wife

    Claire McMullen is just an ordinary woman -- until you look at her long, beautiful bright-red hair. She has a job she hates, a roommate she tolerates, and she spends her weekend nights bar-hopping, looking for her "Mr. Right." One cold, rainy night s...

  • The Siege

    Previously published as Moon Walker and with a new introduction from Matthew Costello.In Dyer, Maine, the dead won't stay buried!The people of Dyer liked their quaint little farming community just the way it was. So they didn't question the bizarre,...

  • The Cove

    Most people who visit coastal Maine see only the stark and rugged beauty of the pine groves and rocky beaches. But for those that live and work there, it's very different. THE COVE tells the tale of a family, deeply rooted in Maine, and of a town whe...

  • The Dead Lands

    In a place Abby calls the Dead Lands, she aids individuals trapped by unfinished Earthly business and helps them move on. Abby meets Megan McGowan there, a sixteen-year-old girl who fell to her death on the rocky shores of Mockingbird Bay. Megan can'...

  • The White Room

    Heading for Hilton, Maine, to spend the summer restoring his old childhood home, Tim and Polly Harris and their young son, Brian, encounter more than they had bargained for when human bones are found at a nearby construction site, Brian nearly drowns...

  • The Big Tree

    In this beautiful and chilling tale, Rick Hautala moves us with a coming of age story like no other. It's 1960. A young boy and his friends spend most of their time in the treehouse they built in The Big Tree in front of Old Lady Wayrenen’s front y...



  • Four Octobers

    Four Octobersby Rick HautalaThe days are getting shorter, and the wind blows cold from the north. Afterthe maple and oak leaves turn from green to bright reds, golds, and oranges,they wither, fall, and die, clattering like old bones as they blow down...

  • Looking Glass

    IT'S IN YOUR HOUSEYou think you've built your dream house. But you're wrong. Dead wrong. You think you've built the perfect place for you and your husband to raise your kids. But listen to the warnings. The whispers in the night. The threats scrawled...

  • Follow

    Surviving a serious car accident, Pamela Gardner walks away from the hospital physically unharmed -- yet haunted by missing time, blackouts, and visions. A shadowy killer is closing in, but is he just a figment of her fractured imagination? As darkne...

  • Unbroken

    Kiera David is haunted by dark memories and terrible headaches. Her friends -- and enemies -- are dying. At each murder scene, witnesses report seeing a woman resembling her. She can't possibly be responsible. But if she isn't -- who is?(originally p...

  • Waiting

    Alone …For the first time in her life, Allie Prescott is alone. She’s left her husband, Jack, and moved out of their comfortable home. Now she’s living in a small second-floor apartment in a not-so-nice part of town and working as a waitress in...

  • Cemetery Dance Select: Rick Hautala

    The Cemetery Dance Select series spotlights some of our favorite authors with a sampling of their short fiction: award-winners, stories readers consider their best, or ones that had a significant impact on their career—or neglected favorites t...

  • A Little White Book of Ghost Stories

    The fourth in the Little Book Series II is Rick Hautala's A Little White Book of Ghost Stories, which collects together some of his most signature ghost stories and several excerpts about writing from his autobiography, The Horror, The Horror! ȁ...

  • The Wildman

    From New York Times bestselling author, Rick Hautala, comes a taut suspense thriller set in the dark woods of Maine.Jeff Cameron is going back to Camp Tapiola on Lake Onwego to meet several old friends and reminisce about their childhood experiences ...

  • Chills

    A blizzard is slamming into Vermont, but it doesn't matter to Meg Clark. She knows she'll be trapped in her music store in the shopping mall overnight with a small crew of her employees doing one final inventory.But after they're locked in for the ni...

  • Beyond the Shroud : A Wraith : The Oblivion Novel

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  • Moonbog

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    The evil glow of the moon lit the path as twelve-year-old Billy Wilson walked past the bog. He knew he shouldn't have gone near the inky shadows of the swamp -- but something forced him to come closer to the yawning darkness, the suffocating tangle, ...

  • Moondeath

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    Cooper Falls in a small, quiet New Hampshire town, the kind you’d miss if you blinked an eye. But when darkness falls and full moon rises, and uneasy feeling filters through the air; an unnerving foreboding that causes the skin to prickle and the b...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rick Hautala has published 41 books.

Rick Hautala does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chills, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Rick Hautala, Night Stone, was published in October 1986.

No. Rick Hautala does not write books in series.
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