Fiction - Gothic

A cursed ring. A forgotten grave. A magical enemy. Can Annabella escape her family's fate?Annabella has done her best to put behind her all memories of her childhood being raised as an unwanted ward in the gothic family mansion. As the secretary to the...

Enjoy this new revised edition of USA Today bestselling author Steffanie Holmes' most popular paranormal romance. Contains bonus never-before-read scenes When Elinor Baxtor arrives at the dilapidated Marshell House to settle the estate of her law firm's oldest client, she can't help but feel...

Principality of Moldovia, 1509While her beloved husband is away at war, Agata manages their estate and dairy. One night, she is called to assist a first-year heifer. She does not know a vampire lurks in the darkness. Agata wakes in the birthing barn disoriented,...

This volume contains the six romances: Leixlip Castle, by Charles Robert Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer, byCharles Robert Maturin The Mysterious Mansion, Honor De Balzac The Flayed Hand, by Guy de Maupassant The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (Anon.) The Mysterious Spaniard (Anon.).Author: Robert...

In 1757, Moonfleet is a small village near the sea in the south of England. It gets its name from a formerly prominent local family, the Mohunes, whose coat of arms includes a symbol shaped like a capital 'Y'. John Trenchard is an orphan...

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon finds herself the victim of local...

In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five different tales, presented as selections from the posthumous papers of the occult detective Dr. Martin Hesselius. The title is taken from 1 Corinthians 13:12, a deliberate misquotation of the passage which describes humanity as perceiving...

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 work is commonly known today as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or simply Jekyll...

When the skeletal remains of a young woman and her baby are found entombed behind the kitchen wall of a historic Tudor house, Cassandra is overcome with grief. She seems to know who the young woman was, but not how she knows, or how...

A burned-out trauma doctor at a crossroads returns home to help out at a small-town family practice, a coffee shop owner with a second chance at living, is she just what the doctor needs?Doctor Adam Sinclair is at a crossroads, burned-out and searching, after...

If they can overcome their past these cowboys will make great husbands.A tragedy he can't forget or forgive, a child she'll fight for. Will a little boy's love bring them together and heal their hearts?After her sister dies, Annie Ridgeway learns her six-year-old nephew...

A dog walker with a secret crush and a jilted fireman with no desire to risk watching his heart go up in flames ever again.Fire Chief Brad Sinclair had his future planned and then his fianc e married someone else and left him and...

First published in 1899, this graphic depiction of urban American life centers around its title character, McTeague, a dentist practicing in San Francisco at the turn of the century. While at first content with his life and friendship with an ambitious man named Marcus,...

When orphan Charlotte Herring arrives at Ivywood Manor, nothing in her experience has prepared her for the gauntlet of living in the ancestral home of the discordant van Kirks. Mr. van Kirk's decision to adopt her is as cloaked in silence as is the...

He swore off women, she swore off men...Jason Pickering Goddard's career as a playboy hockey star comes to a dramatic halt when he tragically damages his legs in a car accident. Swearing off women, he decides to stand in as Director of Special Events...

First published in 1889, this volume contains Louisa May Alcott's short stories "A Modern Mephistopheles" and "A Whisper in the Dark". Although best known for her children's classics, Alcott also wrote many "blood and thunder" stories in her early years. Her favourite of these...

The most powerful and feared vampire disappeared at the height of his powers and passed into legend. Most vampires think he's dead. He is not dead. Terrill has gone into hiding to evade his bitter enemy's wrath, and has vowed never to kill another...

Young Sarah Jane Anderson can't believe the house she was hired to clean was... that one. Old, overgrown, and shunned, the interior of the house is another world.Inside she meets the ailing lady Bethany Van Doren who is suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Sarah is...

Reproduction of the original: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BronteAuthor: Anne BronteISBN-10: 3734082633ISBN-13: 9783734082634Publisher: Outlook VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2019Pages: 450Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the 'otherness' of animals as viewed by humans, and employing cutting-edge theory on non-human...

The Day of the Dead: Sliver Fictions, Short Stories & an Homage is a series of collisions between genders in the realms of sexuality, relationships, art and grief in three sections: Men & Women, Muses and The Dead. Owen explores secrecies, abject pasts, misunderstood...

The Grim reaper's scythe isn't to harvest your soul...... he's there to protect you from the monster in wait. There is a painting in my house during the day...... that turns into a window at night. I can hear the last words that were...

First published in 1790, A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by best-selling author Ann Radcliffe. The villainous Marquis of Mazzini returns to his original Castle after a long absence when he one of his servants, Vincent, passes way. His daughters, Julia and her...

Full text.An enthralling work of Gothic fiction, modelled on the Arabian Nights.William Beckford's Vathekis a story with elaborate imagery, sardonic humour and an unforgettable gallery of grotesques - which describes a journey to the halls of Eblis, or Hell, in the pursuit of knowledge.Author:...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne BrontAuthor: Anne BrontëISBN-10: 1974607496ISBN-13: 9781974607495Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2017Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.41d

Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818) published The Monk: A Romance to great sensation and scandal in 1796 - before he was 21 - made even more so when it was revealed that the author was a member of Parliament. The book is a prime example...

An engrossing, fanciful collection of stories, written with insight, wisdom, and humor, O Monstrous World is full of cinematic plot twists and literary miracles. These are stories about lawmakers, karate teachers, antique dealers, monster hunters, and even professors told with authority and humor. Josh...

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear Book #4 of 20 in the SDE Classics Science Fiction CollectionYoung scientist Victor Frankenstein, grief-stricken over the death of his mother, sets out in a series of laboratory experiments testing the ability to create life...

A boy's mother lies upstairs seriously ill, and in every crash of thunder or hollow chime of the clock he seems to hear a portent of her death.--A scholar of the occult finds his marriage threatened by horrifying and otherworldly noises emanating from the...

If Lady Claire Albright had one wish, it would be to forget brooding, powerful Lord Flavian Monroe. But even after two years of bewildering silence, she yearns to touch his sinuous arms and feel his calloused hands upon her cheeks. Then, on the brink...

The body of a young girl, found floating in the icy waters of Scarborough Marsh... Six men, over a span of thirty-five years, disappear without a trace... A harbinger of evil, so ancient it defies memory, surfaces on the rocky shores of Mateguas... Journey,...

'As Cecilia advanced from the door, she thought the figures on the coffins began to move, their marble features became fleshy​--the lights they held waxed pale​--a strong sulphureous vapour rose from the tombs. Horror overwhelmed her, and again she made an effort to depart;...

In a Glass Darkly is a collection of five short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in 1872, a year before his death. The stories, which belong to the gothic horror and mystery genres, are presented as selections from the posthumous papers of...

After a family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe decides to travel from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Bront 's fourth novel. In 1842 Charlotte...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront . It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront s' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal...

"I breathe freely in the neighbourhood of this lake; the ground upon which I tread has been subdued from the earliest ages; the principal objects which immediately strike my eye, bring to my recollection scenes, in which man acted the hero and was the...

"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Strange Case of Dr...

The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her...

Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition who is strapped to a wooden table and tortured, while a razor sharp pendulum dangles from the ceiling.Author: Russell Lee, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1515353168ISBN-13: 9781515353164Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2015Pages: 42Format:...

Christopher Glowry is a morose man who lives with his son, Scythrop, in a partially run down family mansion, Nightmare Abbey. He surrounds himself with like minded servents and "friends". Recovering from a lost love, Scythrop throws himself into his plan of reforming the...

Edgar Allan Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin is back for his third and final case. This time he investigates the stolen letter of an unnamed female who is being blackmailed by the devious "Minister D."Author: Russell Lee, Edgar Allan PoeISBN-10: 1514619288ISBN-13: 9781514619285Publisher: Createspace...

THERE are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the...

A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawney's father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the Egyptologist's bizarre home, and the couple soon find they are battling ancient forces greater than they previously could have imagined. The Egyptian queen Tera has been awoken, and is coming...

The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and...

"This edition makes an essential contribution to our current debates about and growing interest in Sarah Fielding." -- Carolyn Woodward, University of New Mexico Author: Sarah FieldingISBN-10: 1551111209ISBN-13: 9781551111209Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/26/2004Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d

After being convicted of thirteen barbarous murders--including that of his pregnant wife--Eric Adair has been sentenced to spend the remainder of his life alone in a cell at the Institute for the Criminally Insane. The only problem is that Eric hasn't been alone in...

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. At three, Helen lost her mother, and the beloved grandmother...

"Debuting author Andreas layers a sense of foreboding with spats of violence to create a sinister and atmospheric story that will appeal to horror fans." --BooklistWhen three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are hurried into separate foster homes...

Between 1819 and 1820, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda, her second novel following the classic Frankenstein. The story is reminiscent of Shelley's own life, if not outright autobiographical, with characters resembling herself, her husband Percy Shelley, and her father William Godwin. Matilda is an often...

Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1613829159ISBN-13: 9781613829158Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/07/2012Pages: 88Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d