Fiction - Gothic

Old Saint Paul's, Volume 1, by William Harrison Ainsworth, is a historical novel set in 17th-century London. The story vividly portrays the city's social life and tumultuous events, including the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Ainsworth masterfully...

Author: Rachelle AyalaISBN-13: 9798338914632Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25d

It all started with one little lie. Maybe she thought she was doing the right thing. That the worst was behind her and no one had gotten hurt, but oh how naive the black haired beauty was. It's been two years and fate has...

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom is a novel by Tobias Smollett first published in 1753; It was Smollett's third novel. The central character is a villainous dandy who cheats, swindles and philanders his way across Europe and England with little concern for the...

Unique Elements About the Author Historical Context Jane Austen's WITTY SATIRE of Gothic novels at the turn of the 19th century. NORTHANGER ABBEY, written by BRITISH author JANE AUSTEN, is a coming-of-age novel with a satirical turn first published in 1817, posthumously, in the...

Discover the dark inspiration behind Dracula in this thrilling Gothic prequel. Before Dracula became legend, Abraham Stoker lived the nightmare. A Gothic masterpiece where Victorian horror collides with the brutal history of Vlad the Impaler.Abraham Stoker never imagined his fascination with the macabre would...

In Elizabeth Gaskell's "A Dark Night's Work," readers are transported to Victorian England, where social class and moral dilemmas intertwine with themes of secrecy and guilt. This compelling novel explores the intricate tapestry of 19th-century English life, delving into the customs and societal pressures...

"The Vampyre" is a short work of prose fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley. The same contest produced the novel Frankenstein;...

Step inside the world of curses, haunted places, and Gothic horror... if you dare.Gothic Blue Books were the dark cousins of chapbooks, and their popularity peaked between the 1800s and early 1900s. They were abridgements-shorter versions of Gothic novels-which made them cheap and widely...

Damnation follows billionaire vampire Alexander Graves, head of the powerful Medai Clan and Ruler of the Elder Council as he falls for Natalia, the exiled heir of the once powerful Forsaken, now clanless vampires who roam the fringes of the vampire world. Their union...

A village at the edge of the Northern forest has lived in peace for centuries; free from the curse of their Ancestors. The attacks of the Beasts faded into the distant past; no more than myths and legends. One fateful night the full moon...

Rebecca was a writer but she used the name Gothia as she wrote paranormal romances. She finds her dream house but soon it turns out to be a nightmare as she finds three ghost. Ghost who were tied to her by blood and spirit....

Jeune Moreau learned early that love was conditional. Her father's love came with requirements she could never meet. Her mother's love ended at the bottom of a staircase. The only constant in her life was Elias, who refused to leave her side, who cared...

has called to her all her life, but she could never reply. . .Midonia, a freelance interplanetary transporter, is on thin ice after a fatal accident on the job. So she doesn't argue when she's given the tedious task of flying devout Sister Irena...

I woke on a metal table with stitches around my throat and a man leaning over me, calling me a name that didn't fit.My husband said there had been an accident. He said the grafts were necessary, that the scars would heal, that I...

Iris's life unravels the night the monsters from the vampire lore she's obsessed with descend upon her world-ancient, ravenous, and all too real. She loses the love of her life and the illusion that anything was ever safe. What follows is an existence drenched...

In 2009, Vivian Exeter composed a novel that would transform the American literary underground. Circulated online after Exeter's death at the age of 18, The Unwritten Room was hailed as a groundbreaking experiment in Gothic literature and quickly attracted a cult following. This first-ever...

Tanya Libby can hear the dead-and she wants nothing more to do with them. Burch Kinney can't see or hear a thing, but he makes his living pretending he can. When the two are hired to investigate a remote Maine house notorious for its...

A Song on Salt Air is for fans of gothic literature, unreliable narrators, inspired by selkie folklore. An atmospheric, coastal gothic novel about fighting against the role you've been cast and the stories that follow us, whether we'd like them to or not. When...

Westchester County, NY, February 1934. Seeking a fresh start, Clara Dawson accepts a position at Sablehurst Manor, assisting her writer friend Vincent as he documents the estate's infamous haunting. Ten years earlier, a young woman drowned in the manor's pond, and now her presence...

A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumored witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. In this game, there's one rule: survive. Orphaned after her father's political campaign...

Prague, 1622. Occupation. Resistance. Forbidden desire.Six months after her father's execution, Kateřina Černá forges documents to help dispossessed Czech families reclaim what the Habsburgs stole. One mistake means the pyre.Father Dominik Rainer is the perfect Jesuit administrator: efficient, obedient, and dead inside. In Seville,...

The Winged Man; or, 'Twixt Midnight and Dawn (1913) by E. Dudley Tempest marks the last major evolution of the Spring-Heeled Jack myth. First serialised over twenty-eight issues of The Wonder (1913) and here presented as a continuous narrative for the first time, the...

Fate tore us apart. The mob brought us back together.Leonardo Caruso was destined to rule the mafia.With his dark gaze and smoldering intensity, he was no angel.But our passion burned in secretin the heat of those immortal nights.All to end one day in heartbreak.Finito.Now,...

Author: H. D. CarltonISBN-10: 1638936013ISBN-13: 9781638936015Publisher: ZandoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2026Pages: 608Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.53d

Author: Wesley HeffronISBN-13: 9798318822148Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Chris McGinleyISBN-10: 1971774022ISBN-13: 9781971774022Publisher: Fringe PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2026Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Sarah ColeISBN-13: 9798259316201Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

Author: Jb LangleyISBN-13: 9798234083487Publisher: Jb LangleyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/23/2026Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: Michael EvanichkoISBN-13: 9798234077295Publisher: Michael EvanichkoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2026Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: Róisín R. KellyISBN-13: 9798235556218Publisher: Black Bell BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2026Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61dLarge Print

Author: Alyson HassonISBN-10: 1069634433ISBN-13: 9781069634436Publisher: Alyson HassonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.16d

With a full cast recording and stunning sound design, this audio edition will immerse the listener in the novel's atmospheric world.The haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author, written into...

Steinau au der Stra e, Germany, Anno Domini 1532.After the death of his neighbours, elderly notary Wilhelm Anwalt waits for the moon and the dead to rise. As he does, he commits to paper the memories of his youth and early marriage in the...

Power in the hills moves differently.It does not announce itself. It waits. It watches. It chooses.When Ben is asked as a teenager to stand as godfather to his cousin's unborn child, he does not yet understand what that title will demand. Through the years...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's singular masterpiece-an unforgettable Gothic tale set against the windswept Yorkshire moors, where landscape and emotion feel inseparable. When the foundling Heathcliff is brought to the Earnshaw household, his fierce attachment to Catherine Earnshaw becomes the defining force of their...

The girl races toward me, like a bird seeking shelter from the storm. She doesn't realize I'm a far worse predator than the one she's fleeing from.I'm Dmitri Morozov, soon to be Pakhan of the most powerful Bratva in New York and St. Petersburg.People...

The Wizard of Oz meets Stranger Things and The Spiderwick Chronicles in this riveting, dark portal romantasy from author Renna Ashley.Beware the shadows. They'll pull you in and never let go.For Klara Whitlock, moving into her grandmother's old house is supposed to be a...

The Wizard of Oz meets Stranger Things and The Spiderwick Chronicles in this riveting, dark portal romantasy from author Renna Ashley.Beware the shadows. They'll pull you in and never let go.For Klara Whitlock, moving into her grandmother's old house is supposed to be a...

Ten of Mary Shelley's best short stories that push the boundaries of Gothic literature Mary Shelley is most known for Frankenstein, but in the years following the release of her magnum opus, which were beset by the loss of several children and her husband,...

Experience timeless classics like never before in this Grand Type Collector's EditionWith clear, easy-to-read formatting, this edition is designed for readers who prefer or require larger text without sacrificing the excitement of the original.Large Print Features: 18-point font: Generously sized text for maximum readability...

Experience timeless classics like never before in this Grand Type Collector's EditionWith clear, easy-to-read formatting, this edition is designed for readers who prefer or require larger text without sacrificing the excitement of the original.Large Print Features: 18-point font: Generously sized text for maximum readability...

Being from northside, I always thought I lived in a dangerous world. But nothing could prepare me for when I entered the royal world. Every glittery thing is an illusion. Even the fake crown upon my head. And I'm being hunted for it.Author: Jessica...

A bold, unsettling, and sinister collection of stories that asks what monster means.What is a monster? The word encompasses the grotesque, the immoral, or the merely wondrous. Mythical creatures, corrupt executives, and cruel exes are all monsters. Monsters live among us. Sometimes the monster...

Using the mid-twentieth century microhistorical example of the so-called 'Mummy in the Cupboard Murder', Lizzie Seal examines the significance of the Gothic to understandings of crime.Author: Lizzie SealISBN-10: 1032853204ISBN-13: 9781032853208Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2026Pages: 166Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Cazlandt, the first of the archmages, seeks atonement.He travels to the corrupted realm of Urbus to discover a spell capable of reaching beyond the final curtain, to undo his murder of a friend seven centuries ago. Guided by a swordsman with his own haunted...

Auriol by William Harrison Ainsworth Auriol or, The Elixir of Life is a novel by British historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. Auriol, written 1844, is slightly unusual in the Ainsworth repertoire as the action is entirely couched as a fantasy, so that the supernatural...

First published in 1818 at a time when the Gothic genre was much in vogue, Nightmare Abbey is a novel by Thomas Love Peacock that displays many Gothic conventions. Peacock's characters are said to be based on his own friends and on other real...

ith the fall of the Abyssial Obsidian Gold City, war has waged in Primosaec for 16 Milenius between the First bloods of Arinviatal, the pure bloods of Primordia and the Rift born of evolution. With the War Games of the Anikhaziri drawing to a...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The original pronunciation of Jekyll was "Jeekul" which was the pronunciation used in Stevenson's...