Fiction - Gothic

In Old Gate, Virginia, stands a grand house built by Randolph Bliss, a charming New York carpetbagger who, in 1878, shook off dire warnings to build his home elsewhere. For the ground beneath Bliss House is tainted with the kind of tragedy that curses...

"The Vampires" (Hardback Edition) is a collection of classic tales about those aristocratic predators who haunt dreams and lust for blood from beyond the grave. It includes stories from Dracula creator Bram Stoker and literary greats M. R. James and Henry Kuttner, the first...

Sadie, Fin, and their two children were a perfectly ordinary family. Even if Fin felt taken for granted sometimes. Even if their introverted son, Liam, had terrible nightmares and knew things he shouldn't.But everything changes the night Sadie is viciously assaulted by former client...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story...

This book is also available in large print (font size 16) and extra large print (font size 24). Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats...

A London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. A classic novel. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in six days while ill with tuberculosis and the influence...

I, who write this, am a dead man. Dead legally-dead by absolute proofs-dead and buried Ask for me in my native city and they will tell you I was one of the victims of the cholera that ravaged Naples in 1884, and that my...

She never wanted to return. He wants nothing more than for her to leave. But the fire between them is as strong as the past that haunts them. Annie Freemont grew up on the road, immersed in the romance of rare things, cultivating an...

For Reece Hensley, the extraordinary Barclay Manor was somewhere she would never be welcomed. However for her sister Olivia, it was a fantasy kingdom, where their beautiful Aunt Norah had married her prince, Garrett Barclay, and went there to live only to disappear. Reece...

When a young woman called Margaret hears strange noises from her father's bedroom, she investigates only to find him unconscious and bloodied on the floor of his room. She follows his previously-written instructions to, in such a situation, not move the body and watch...

Regency Gothic Romance Note: Previously published under the title of Carisbrooke Abbey When Miss Hilary Wentworth takes up an appointment at Carisbrooke Abbey, little does she suspect it will lead her into a whirlwind of mystery and romance. Her employer, Marcus, Lord Carisbrooke, is...

A slave-diver is hunted in the life-devouring Moluccas... Salvage Optic is the tale of a young man's adventure in the Dutch East Indies in 1674, a tropical hell where English-Balinese youth William Harroway is constantly reabsorbed into one form of slavery or another, no...

Victor Montenegro is a respected diplomat, a revered illusionist, and a treasure hunter who is applauded and envied for his uncanny ability to find historical treasures. In the town of Montenegro, California, Victor hires Valentina Santa Cruz, an aspiring anthropologist, to educate his nephew...

Regency Gothic Romance Note: Previously published under the title of Stormcrow Castle Helena Carlisle turns down a convenient engagement because she is looking for more than a suitable match. Little does she expect to find it at Stormcrow Castle. When her aunt, the housekeeper...

Based on real events from the life of a prominent American lawyer, Daniel Webster, this short story explores themes of patriotism, slavery, and Hell as the fictionalised Webster attempts to save a man's soul from the Devil. First published in 1936, The Devil and...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Marie CorelliISBN-10: 1505594006ISBN-13: 9781505594003Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

"A true psychological thriller that will leave you breathless." --Wendy Walker, bestselling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Emma in the NightEmotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she'd found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath. Both very private people, they've kept their...

The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune, she thinks she may...

Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula.It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power...or that...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Ann Ward RadcliffeISBN-10: 1503129764ISBN-13: 9781503129764Publisher: Createspace Independent...

In his riveting debut novel, The First Vampire, John Davies provides an alarmingly plausible explanation of why and how the first human was transformed into a vampire, against a backdrop of factual Eastern European history. In 1414, a priest and gifted singer from the...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences...

Solicitor Jonathon Harker is lucky to escape with his life after he is duped into visiting Dracula's castle. But while recovering from his ordeal, he doesn't realize that his enemy is travelling to England, where his young wife-to-be and her friend, Lucy, reside. When...

From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel--set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living. Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense...

The Portent was first published in 1864. An Eerie, supernatural tale similar in tone to Edgar Allen Poe and other gothic works. A Spine-tingling tale about a young man in charge of an estates library who falls in love with the mysterious young lady...

In 1897 Bram Stoker wrote a classic horror story that has spawned hundreds of imitators but has never been surpassed. From Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire to such writers such as Stephenie Meyer, the story of the vampire--and the godfather of them all,...

Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a solitary life until she secures a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. Her employer is the handsome and mysterious Mr. Rochester. But who is the ghostly woman who roams the halls at night? What dark...

A classic coming of age story, "Jane Eyre" is the tale of its title character, a poor orphaned girl who comes to live with her aunt at Gateshead Hall. While there she endures great emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her aunt...

A searing, sensual novel with photographs, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be weaves together southern fabulism and gothic fury. At this devil's crossroads of the King James Bible and the Egyptian Book of the Dead emerge the ghosts and realities of...

Melanie K. Hutsell's debut novel, The Dead Shall Rise, uses magical realism and the earthy authenticity of Appalachia to create its modern folktale world, both beautiful and baleful. It is set in the mountain village of Beulah Creek, whose ordinary inhabitants are unsettled by...

There's an unknown mountain in Appalachia called Devil's Oven, a place where extraordinary, dark things have been happening for centuries. Now, the mountain has given Ivy Luttrell, a lonely seamstress, the power to fashion herself the perfect man. But instead of bringing Ivy happiness,...

Return once more to the gothic realm of Joseph Vargo and discover the passion, mystery and horror that lie in wait deep within the shadows of the Dark Tower. In the ancient catacombs beneath the Dark Tower, a slumbering evil has been awakened. Fearsome...

In all Chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order. Now, imagine if the Horsemen were already among us, and imagine if the Fourth had a name. This is the story of an immortal soul. It is the story of a...

Averilla del Alvaretti is set to marry the Conte della Piacca, forced into the union by her unfeeling uncle, when she meets the handsome Sylvio di Rosalva and falls in love with him. But Sylvio's behaviour and origins are mysterious, and despite his professions...

The Forest of Valancourt is the story of young Lucien, who sets out to find his origins and prove himself worthy of the love of the young countess Adelaide. But he gets more than he bargained for when he saves the life of a...

"His foot struck against something, he stumbled, and had nearly fallen; he stooped to examine what it was, and his hand rested on the face of a human being, cold, putrid, and clammy " Young Edgar's father, the noble Baron Fitz-Elmar, has been mysteriously...

"The sound approached towards him -- the chains rattled vehemently; scarcely had he sprung from his chair, and seized his sword, ere the door flew open, and a spectre, whose arms and legs were fastened with heavy chains, with a naked body covered with...

Set in France during the Dark Ages, where the good Count Richard has mysteriously disappeared and the usurper Albert and his evil wife Brunchilda reign tyrannically in his place, The Animated Skeleton is a masterpiece of Gothic horror. Brunchilda has marked out the unfortunate...

Ghostlight, this wonderful contemporary fantasy by New York Times bestseller Marion Zimmer Bradley was named "Best Fantasy Novel of the Year" by VOYA when it was first published. Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others...

In autumn of the year two thousand sixteen, I gave morbid birth to; A Scarlet Collection of Monsters and Madmen.A book that's taken me nearly a decade to complete with the brilliant help and collaboration of real life monsters and madmen. The very same...

First published in 1911, Ethan Frome is widely regarded as Edith Wharton's most revealing novel and her finest achievement in fiction. Set in the bleak, barren winter landscape of New England, it is the tragic tale of a simple man, bound to the demands...

The first great horror story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde appeared in 1886 and was an instant literary sensation. Robert Louis Stevenson was at the heights of his powers when he penned this chilling tale that shocked Victorian readers. The...

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr. Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr. Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover...

Asset File 4-7: Elizabeth Watkins Genotype: NonhumanThat's the only information Jayson Masters has about his newest assignment. To learn more, he'll need to infiltrate her life in the most intimate of ways without getting too close.Game on.Lizzie's new neighbor is loud, seductive, and ridiculously...

Vampires are at war, Erin is in love, and those she cares about are in grave danger.When Sanguans attack Washington, D.C., the Spectavi respond but struggle to deal with the most powerful of their enemies. As the war escalates, Erin finds herself hunted, torn...

In the Dark Ages, in France, the first vampires came to be. Erin knows the accepted version of the story, but she's also heard that there's more to be told.While humanity struggles through ever-darkening nights, an ancient evil wreaks havoc upon the world. Erin...

Erin is desperate for revenge.As she discovers all she's capable of, she's pushed toward conflicting sets of values and drawn to someone untouchable. More secrets and history of the Sanguans and Spectavi could shed new light on Erin's mysterious past, teach her about the...

Twenty-two-year-old Erin Rose wakes up one morning with no memory of her past. She's in a strange apartment with only one clue: a vampire bite scar on her neck.Determined to unravel the mystery of her true identity, she contacts the Spectavi vampires, who drink...

Professional Cook and Hurricane Katrina survivor, Desmond attempts to pull his professional and social life together in a small Southern Virginia city. His attempts only strengthen a belief in his dark Nick-Name: Demon.Author: Kenneth Strader, K. L. MillerISBN-10: 0615672442ISBN-13: 9780615672441Publisher: Thoughts CondolidatedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2012Pages:...

Strange things were happening in Drake House: A perfect rose appearing on a pillow...an antique dress materializing out of nowhere...a mysterious spirit roaming the halls... Five years after Rachel Lindquist had left California to chase her dreams, she returned home to care for her...