Fiction - Gothic

Although otherwise ignorant and ineffectual, McTeague has managed to eke out a meager career as an unlicensed dentist. His dreary existence rapidly improves upon meeting and marrying Trina, whose possession of a winning lottery ticket further brightens their lives. But Trina's lust for money...

In this chilling Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novel, a small, quiet Midwestern town is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild. When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldn't have guessed she would become a...

From the author Time magazine calls "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world," comes an elegant and gripping new novel that blurs the line between psychological suspense and Gothic horror. Kerstin Krist arrives at the vine-covered Lydstep Old Hall in rural Essex to...

A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but...

Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this page-turning tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family estate in England, but instead of comfort finds chilling secrets and lies.Miranda's life and...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series"Masterful...scary and smart, working as a horror story but also a philosophical inquiry into the nature of will and love. Perry did as much in her richly praised novel The...

NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIESA Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year *...

Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women's fiction debut with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns to France to sell her family home and finds an unexpected chance to start...

From the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Black Sunshine and River of Shadows comes a new dark vampire romance about the vampire known as Dracula.Once there was a man who fell deeply in love with a woman he could never...

SOME WITCHES CAST SPELLS, OTHERS SLAY KINGS.A mysterious Grimoire. A marriage full of dark secrets. A History sculpted by a quartet of Sister witches. For three hundred years, Sister Autumn has incited wars, burnt villages, killed kings, and released plagues at the bidding of...

In "The Axe" a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the...

In a town enamored with its Unhallowed Horseman legend, a distraught teenage boy must come to terms with his personal demons, and perhaps the Horseman himself. Set on All Hallows' Eve, psychological thriller The Unhallowed Horseman takes place against the backdrop of a seemingly...

I live in a world where secrecy reigns. A Society rooted in power, wealth, and long-held dynasties. Where men are Kings, and women are pawns. For as long as I can remember, I've dreamt of escaping the shackles of my expectations. But it can...

The Reaper is out for blood, How fast can you run?You've taken something that isn't yours, When will you learn?There's nowhere you can hide, What choice do you have?She can smell your fear, Who can help you now?You can't avoid the scythe, Why do...

She fled in the dead of night, Where will she run?No stone left unturned, Who will feel my wrath?A few steps behind her every move, How many more will suffer?Her punishment will be severe, When will she be aware?With each swing of her scythe,...

The Reaper is hot on your tail, What have you done?You've made it onto her list, Who did you hurt?The hunt is just the beginning, How far can you run?Your soul is hers to reap, Where can you hide?Watch out for her scythe, Why...

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . .Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Arctic, but she doesn't know why or how. . ....

"Enchanting. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast's ache to be cared for and belong. This book broke my heart and put it back together again."--Allison Epstein, author of A Tip for the...

A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying...

"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."André Malraux GreerAfter my mother died, I made it my mission to connect with my only other living relative, my grandfather, Sterling Richmond. She'd fought since I was born to keep me...

The first time we met, it was an accident.The second was the night my mother told me she was marrying his father. I didn't know his name then, but I do now: Hayes Ambrose. Captain of the swim team. Popular, gorgeous, the guy every...

What if you could write a new ending for yourself?England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and becomes jealous of Evelyn's...

Our tale truly began the day I awoke the heart of a monster.Together, we were more than a tale of obsession.We were the impossible that happened.The scorching combination of two opposite aromas that had stopped battling their desires to plunge into the void together.We...

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Author: Charles DickensISBN-10: 3375000812ISBN-13: 9783375000813Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2022Pages: 556Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.Author: Charles DickensISBN-10: 3375000804ISBN-13: 9783375000806Publisher: Salzwasser-VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2022Pages: 556Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 1.24d

This book offers new insights on socially and culturally engaged Gothic ghost stories by twentieth century and contemporary female writers; including Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Toni Morrison, Ali Smith, Susan Hill, Catherine Lim, Kate Mosse, Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Michele Roberts, and Zheng...

Why am I so angry?Why does the need to make another bleed reside within me?Easy, genetics right?I'm nothing like my mother and my father is dead.Now what?Whitsborough is a town that's shiny on the outside but rotting on the inside.Unearthing one secret here means...

Thinking of your journeys, are in the reminded state of mental gymnastics, the exercise is of the mind's eye not on the face. The dream is inside, where I live with the people who had everything and nothing at all, coming to terms with...

Thinking of your journeys, are in the reminded state of mental gymnastics, the exercise is of the mind's eye not on the face. The dream is inside, where I live with the people who had everything and nothing at all, coming to terms with...

Welcome to his nightmare . . . There's a sinister man about London town with something of the night about him. Mr Hyde is mad, bad, and has a penchant for bumping off kindly innocents. Will his friend Dr Jekyll be able to stop...

"An exemplary edition!" -- Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton University Author: Jane AustenISBN-10: 1551114798ISBN-13: 9781551114798Publisher: Broadview Press IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2002Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d

A whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess--lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries....

Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was...

Diana Corbett's childhood was plagued by unceasing dreams of smoke and flames. The nightmares went away, until the noted travel writer's first night on assignment in Louisiana ... when they returned with a vengeance. Could the handsome Cajun, Amos Boudreaux, be the key to...

"I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in straitwaistcoats."Judging only by the many thousands of books, films and TV series about vampires, Dracula must be one of the most influential novels in history. Stoker introduced many...

In World War Two, Oxford academic Dr Iana Jenkins discovers an unknown medieval chronicle by the nun Mary of Shaftesbury. Mary confides that she was at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191 when its monks exhumed the bodies of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. However, the...

A modern gothic thriller set in a decaying urban environment and lush mutant wilderness.Solari wasn't alive when the ozone layer split like a gutted fish above Tasmania and spilled radiation over the edge of the stratosphere, but she's living with the consequences-the mutations, the...

Tales of horror and fright based on the works of HP Lovecraft awaits the reader.Author: Robert M. PriceISBN-10: 8839007059ISBN-13: 9798839007055Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2022Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d

We've picked their poison, and made it count.Something theycan't live without.Whether it be sweet or quietly deadly, we've overwhelmed them with a medley.It's more than they can bear--Read on if you dare. Exquisite Poison is a collection of poems & short fiction in an...

John Ajvide Lindqvist's international bestseller Let the Right One In is "a brilliant take on the vampire myth, and a roaring good story" (New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong), the basis for the multi-film festival award-winning Swedish film, the U.S. adaptation Let Me...

Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. And yet, aside from some regularly anthologized short stories...

Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he...

Startling and provocative new horror fiction from Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, J.T. Bundy, Zachariah Claypole White, William Curnow, Brian Evenson, Dan Howarth, Kirstyn McDermott, Richard Strachan, Megan Taylor, and Charlotte Turnbull.Plus opinion, reviews, illustrations, and commentary.Author: Michael KellyISBN-10: 1988964415ISBN-13: 9781988964416Publisher: Undertow PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2022Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight:...

The Mellings and Davenports don't go quietly into the Roaring Twenties. Settled with his new wife and expanding family, Alexander Melling is once again jubilant, but not everyone is pleased to see him successful with Magdalene by his side.Embittered Phoebe Davenport seeks to claim...

A small basement cell. A dirty bed. A chair.These are the confines of Little Swine's world. Prisoner of Momma and subject to the tortures of Boy, her life is a living hell. Momma is a disturbed woman. Her plan is simple: Momma wants a...

Welcome to Satan's Playground.I've toyed with every sin under the sun.Grown men get wrapped around my finger and discarded.I've killed to protect Satan's Paradise.But when the higher ups tell me to save someone?Yea, that's when my life starts going sideways.There's no one here I...

Welcome to Satan's Playground.I've toyed with every sin under the sun.Grown men get wrapped around my finger and discarded.I've killed to protect Satan's Paradise.But when the higher ups tell me to save someone?Yea, that's when my life starts going sideways.There's no one here I...

From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding adventure about a strange power lurking in the Arkansas Ozarks, and the group of friends obsessed with finding it. Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, Arkansas, the small town they all fled after high...

Six classic nineteenth century tales of 'gothic' horror from Benediction Classics: Leixlip Castle and Melmoth the Wanderer (abridged) by Charles Robert Maturin, The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac, The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant, The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (Anon.)...