Fiction - Gothic

My husband hates me. But he's also the only man who can save me. Taken by a stranger, Santiago is my only hope. Except that I don't know if he's dead or alive. And for as cruel as he can be, the thought he...

A gift from the heart is the best gift of all...When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother--she was raised by one of the worst. Torn between telling...

You will take this bride.To have and to hold from this day forward.Till death do you part.This will be your solemn vow.You have no choice.Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be...

Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition. Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading In this novel, we will follow the story of Gabriel John Utterson, a...

My name is Olivia, and I am an empath. Not only can I see and feel people's emotions, I can use this information to look into their minds and find their deepest darkest secrets. Now they want me to interview someone new, a dangerous...

Some houses hold secrets that are meant to be kept forever...When Eliza Sullivan inherits an estate from a recently deceased aunt, she leaves behind a grievous and guilt-ridden past in New Orleans for rural England and a fresh start. Eliza arrives at her new...

"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë'"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness.-Raymond Williams...

Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (1799) is a novel by American author Charles Brockden Brown. Combining the suspenseful style of Gothic fiction with such thematic interests as consciousness, morality, and truth, Brown's novel shows the profound influence of European literature on his...

Reynolds, a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray, was a prolific writer of popular fiction who has been called the most popular writer of his times. Set in Florence in the early 1500s, Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf tells the story of how Fernand Wagner becomes a...

Young, honest Caleb Williams enters the employment of Squire Ferdinando Falkland - a cultured, kindly gentleman who harbours a dreadful secret. When his curiosity uncovers the truth, Caleb finds himself the victim of false accusations, persecution and a corrupt system of justice. His vulnerability...

Heartbreak compelled Calpurnia Cottonwood to throw herself into the Mobile River, but her only friend refused to let her die. After their escape from Seven Sisters, Muncie and Calpurnia flee to Haiti in hopes of finding peace and freedom. However, the journey isn't an...

Author: Sawyer BennettISBN-10: 1078708878ISBN-13: 9781078708876Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2019Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d

Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and...

A one- legged Surfing Knights spills his guts. "Wandering Minstrel, your tall tales are nuts!""Carry they not but a pickle of truth.Your board of pine stories hurt me like this tooth."But all historians add spice and punch.Wandering Minstrel retorts, "You were lunch!"A teller of...

They call me a monster.Murderous and hateful.Beautiful but broken.Nothing can calm the ever raging storm inside of me. As the ruthless leader of the Doubeck family there is a certain standard of brutality, I have to uphold. Then I meet her. Beautiful, innocent, and...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this...

Edith Nesbit's natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children's author. But beyond her beloved children's stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural. Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked,...

Fans of psychological thrillers and gothic-noir, look no further than Girl on a Swing, by D. B. Wright, an intense and horrifying account of a young girls victimization at the hands of her family. What would you do if you found yourself at the...

Repressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady's maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary...

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic." --EW One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN - Newsweek - Vulture - PopSugar - Parade - BuzzFeed - E!Online - TimeOut - Woman's Day - Goodreads -...

The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-of-the-century tale of innocence corrupted by secrecy, and the grace of second chances. Cathy and her brother, Rob, have forged a passionate refuge against the terror of loneliness and...

Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's...

"Victoria Holt has a wonderful way with suspense, with atmosphere, and with a haunted heroine."--NewsdayWhoever disturbs the sleep of the kings will die . . . For centuries the tombs of the Pharaohs had been haunted with this curse. And when to eminent archaeologists...

"Some towns change with the times while others seem to fall through the cracks, entering an oddly timeless domain. The latter is the case with Strathleven, in which the rituals and darkness of the past seem always to be glimmering just below the surface...

As a bad moon rises, trouble's on the way . . . Everything was all right until that photograph showed up in my mailbox. No, that isn't true. Nothing has been all right since my sister vanished into thin air. The sign outside my...

Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood, Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives.Author: Clint CatalystISBN-10: 0916397653ISBN-13: 9780916397654Publisher: Manic D PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 160Format:...

Dostoevsky's last and most famous work, The Brothers Karamazov is often considered his greatest novel as well. A tale of human passions, it will leave you changed after the final page.Author: Constance Garnett, Fyodor DostoevskyISBN-10: 1495969053ISBN-13: 9781495969058Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2014Pages: 350Format:...

On September 23, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, published its first installment of Gaston Leroux's Le Fant me de l'Op ra (The Phantom of the Opera). This type of serialized publication, in France called a "feuilleton," was common from the middle of...

"Herbert West-Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. An unnamed narrator recounts his experiences with Herbert West, a brilliant but narcissistic young man who believes that the dead can be brought back to life and endeavours to prove himself...

Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birthright is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes. Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one...

MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to...

An episodic novel about Charles Strickland by the author of "Of Human Bondage."Author: W. Somerset MaughamISBN-10: 150861962XISBN-13: 9781508619628Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2015Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symbol of science gone awry. Shelley's masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books. This, the 1818 edition, published anonymously, contains...

In 1873 San Francisco, Ann Lovell, a young woman desperate to change her future, dares to take on the position of governess to the sons of the mysterious and enigmatic Benedict Trevelyan. She refuses to believe in the dark rumors of a cursed family...

The foremost teller of scary stories in his day and a profound influence on both the novelists and filmmakers of the 20th century, Anglo-Irish author JOSEPH THOMAS SHERIDAN LE FANU (1814-1873) has, sadly, fallen out of scholarly and popular favor, and unfairly so. To...

"Miss Lucy is essential reading for anyone interested in Bram Stoker or his bestknown work Dracula. Orem, who is obviously knowledgeable about Stoker's life, and especially his work with the Lyceum Theatre, has created a haunting novel that explores possible origins. Anyone interested in...

Zarian Kane is a vampire librarian framed for treason.Gerald Harris's life is in upheaval after losing both parents and realizing his aunt is a ghoul.Czun Elje is a werewolf, captured as a child and raised as a pet.Grey Nyhte has an abusive father with...

A familiar chill runs down your spine. You've been here before: the abandoned house on the hill, the dark hallway with the creaking floorboards, the ancient cemetery veiled in mist, the rutted pathway to a lonely place. You know these stories, or do you?...

" A] delicious literary Gothic debut." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE"Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each hypnotic step." - THE WASHINGTON POSTA...

The Wyvern Mystery is a 19th century gothic mystery. The story is about a young orphaned girl named Alice Maybell, her haunted past and the present dark atmosphere that makes a chilling and suspenseful tale. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish...

In an old, gloomy New England mansion, a woman opens a shop to support her brother, recently returned from prison. She takes on a border, and a distant relative--a beautiful, lively young woman--comes to live with them as well. The fragile bond between this...

A dutiful daughter. A prince forced to find a bride. If the shoe fits...Once upon a time...When the Emperor's army comes recruiting, Mai signs up, seeing it as the perfect escape from her stepmother and a lifetime of drudgery. Armed with her mother's armour...

A post-mortem photographer unearths dark secrets from the past that may hold the key to his future in this "sensual, twisting gothic tale...in the tradition of A.S. Byatt's Possession, Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights" (BookPage). All love stories are...

A large creepy estate, mysterious twin brothers, family secrets, a diabolical invention known as the bone machine, and a young girl who is not at all human. Meet the Westwoods: a father whose inventions often create death and despair, his twin sons who are...

Fire in one hand, ashes in the other Studious tutor Emmy McKay fell in love with Cash Kingston over a biology textbook, never expecting the high school football hero to give her a second thought. But his feelings for her burned just as hot....

A 2020 Nominee of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, John W. Bateman's Who Killed Buster Sparkle? is more than a must-read....it's a must-be in the modern canon of literature.When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost...

When The Monk first appeared in 1796, critics were shocked and outraged. That a Member of Parliament should publish a novel filled with blasphemy, rape, murder, incest, rotting corpses, and devil worship was unthinkable and unprecedented. But efforts to suppress the book failed, readers...

Robert Louis Stevenson's all-time classic "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde".Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1936594641ISBN-13: 9781936594641Publisher: Tribeca BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2011Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

King Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys' line,...