Fiction - Gothic

October 1925 Severine DuNoir has returned home and continued to investigate the death of her parents. She has, however, reached a roadblock. As she tries to break through, she comes across an unexpected offer of help. While she delves into the history of her...

The year is 2040 and wealthy organizations have become the de-facto governments of the world dictating the public policy of many people's lives.One organization stands above the rest, the Zaragoza Consultancy Agency, born out of crises from World War II, no other company has...

First published in 1819, Walter Scott's historical novel tells the story of the tragic love affair between Lucy Ashwood and Edgar Ravenswood, set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland. This classic story of love amid two warring families is the inspiration for Donizetti's...

" James] is the most intelligent man of his generation." -T. S. Eliot "The economy of horror is carried to its last degree."-Edith Wharton "The most hopelessly evil story that we could have read in any literature"-The Independent Henry James' The Turn of the...

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...

Nora Smith may be the best rat-catcher, pickpocket, and liar in gas-lit London, but her skills can't help save her brother when he is killed in a fight. That's when Aleister Blake appears, a man who offers to reclaim her sibling from death. For...

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (in one letter he claimed to have written it in ten weeks, but other correspondence suggests that he had at...

American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers were often relegated to inferior status,...

I'm the Tsar's heartbeat, his entire world . . . AnastasiyaI finally submitted to the darker side of Happily Ever After, claiming my throne as the Tsariana.After all, Simeon left me no other choice-all his love or nothing.But it's never that easy to be...

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from...

Mine," he said. "You are simply mine. And I am yours... always. Ian Blake, Lord Dumbarton, is either being haunted or going mad. But when his aged, spinster cousin arrives at his ancestral home, Dubhmara, with a young and achingly beautiful companion in tow,...

S. C. Watson's Baja Bad is a powerful collection of stirring original gothic and southwestern poems and prose. It's traditionally concise and carefully crafted sounds, rhythms, imagery, symbolism, and technical devices echo the senses, inspire the imagination, and enlighten both our personal perceptions and...

S. C. Watson's Baja Bad is a powerful collection of stirring original gothic and southwestern poems and prose. It's traditionally concise and carefully crafted sounds, rhythms, imagery, symbolism, and technical devices echo the senses, inspire the imagination, and enlighten both our personal perceptions and...

Bram Stoker's Dracula is certainly the most famous vampire story, and its popularity has only grown with time.Dracula "was in life a most wonderful man: soldier, statesman, and alchemist--a student of the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains. He...

For Family. For Honor. Discarded by her husband who then sells her as a pleasure worker, Hope secretly enters into an Indentured Servant contract with a strip club owner to avoid being given to an unknown master. But she soon realizes that he has...

Do you want to read The Strange Case of DR. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? If so then keep reading... A London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work...

Do you want to read The Strange Case of DR. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? If so then keep reading... A London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work...

Kate agrees to an arranged marriage with the mysterious Thomas Westwood to save her family's estate, but not everyone welcomes her at Wishwood, her husband's crumbling manor. The family members talk about a curse, lights move through the ruins at night, and Kate's maid...

A football player who's lost. A woman in danger of losing all she loves. Could he be the Christmas Miracle she's been praying for?Pro football player Tucker Jackson has a chip on his shoulder. His mother died when he was young, his father threw...

Santa Claus and Shifters. This Christmas, she will believe in both. Holly has a plan, and it doesn't include the sexy ex-marine who enters the bakery looking for a job. With an unknown foe hunting her, and the people closest to her keeping secrets....

Jamie is on the run. Nobody taught her how to be a vampire; no one told her the Rules of Vampire. How was she supposed to know her limits? Now the vampire hunters want her dead, and the Council of Vampires is looking for...

Dr. Cheryl Blumenthal is hired as Hospital Director for a rural North Carolina hospital. As she transitions from her role as doctor to administrator, she is shocked to find the hospital is in financial ruin. The situation worsens when she discovers embezzlement that may...

Much before Bram Stoker's Dracula, there was "The Vampyre: A Tale,". The book tells a fascinating tale of vampirism in the early 19th century.Author: John William PolidoriISBN-10: 9386780593ISBN-13: 9789386780591Publisher: Alpha EditionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2017Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.10d

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. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between...

Dark prophecies and ominously symbolic events beset the romance of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, and Lucy Ashton, daughter of the man who has displaced the ancient Ravenswood family from its ancestral home. Sir William Ashton, the wily and self-seeking Lord Keeper of the Great...

Wieland unspools as a dark and mysterious American tale. The plot, complex and intricate, begins with a bit of history concerning the immigration of the Wieland family and the somewhat fantastical rise and fall of the father of the novel's protagonists, Clara and her...

Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily ambiguous...

We were sitting around the camp fire, some thirty miles north of a place called Taqui, when Lawson announced his intention of finding a home. He had spoken little the last day or two, and I had guessed that he had struck a vein...

She went in search of her past...and found danger in the present.Former seamstress Clara Blackwood seems to have found happiness at last. Now a blissfully married baroness, she is mistress of a grand estate. But soon a mysterious summons shatters her contented life. The...

Winner of the 2015 Daphne du Maurier Award in historical mystery/ suspense Can a curse strike twice in a woman's life? In 1854, Clara Crofton was dismissed from her chambermaid position at Gravesend Hall for falling in love with the younger son of the...

Dracula is a horror novel about a vampire traveling to London from Transylvania in the late 1800s. The book is written in the form of diaries and letters by different characters in the story. Dracula opens with Jonathan Harker, a young salesperson traveling to...

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New York Times Bestselling Author's new ROMANTIC SUSPENSE has readers, bloggers, and authors raving, The Best Book of the year! Alexander Kingwood IV is a dark prince who wants to be King. Sara Jane Grayson is the woman he wants as his queen. When...

The Curse of the Red Crystal and Other Gothic Tales celebrates gothic horror. These eleven tales of terror span the distance from Victorian times to the present day, from Egyptian tombs to modern streets, from creaking ships to stately mansions, and from good intentions...

A century-old crime menaces the present in this spine-tingling tale of supernatural suspense Antiques dealer Nell West is valuing the contents of her late husband Brad's childhood home, Stilter House. Set on the remote Derbyshire Peaks, there was once a much older property there,...

1950 and Flis is returning to Australia after almost twenty years away in Wellington, New Zealand. In all that time she has had no contact with her younger sister Gladdie who is missing, presumed dead. Flis is determined to find out what happened to...

I used to be a recluse, but no more. Harley helped me fight my dark past, and now it's my turn to help her. But she's not here. I have to find her. I have to show her what I'm willing to do for...

Everything comes at a price. What if this one is too high even for him to pay?Jackson Ludlow, the recluse billionaire of New York, is beautiful and captivating but also damaged and alone. He thinks he is the only one with secrets, but he's...

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Justine is a painting, a doppelg nger and a woman of beguiling beauty. Set in contemporary London, Justine is a story of a man's obsession with a woman - or is it two women? For Justine...

A simple mission turns deadly as the Daughter of Death is kidnapped by an old enemy seeking revenge. Now it's up to me to find her and I will kill anyone who steps in my path. The Son of Chaos isn't playing. I'm armed,...

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle - "A...

This book is also available in dyslexia-friendly and annotation-friendly editions. See firestonebooks.com for more information - including bulk discounts for schools.Author: Anne Rooney, Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1717049184ISBN-13: 9781717049186Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2018Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.20d

In Victorian London, during a prolonged and pernicious fog, fantasy and reality are about to collide--at least in one man's troubled mind. A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and...

NYT & USAT Bestselling AuthorTatiana Sinclair has lived a perfect noblewoman's life, until the night her brother forces her to cover up a murder. Haunted by the only witness to their deeds, the intensely sensual Count Spoleti, Tatiana is led into a world she...

"David Andreas was a super-talented contributor to Fangoria during its glory gory days. His fiction debut bodes well for readers of unique and scary horror." --Tony Timpone, former editor, Fangoria magazineWhen three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are...

Kick back and enjoy this mini-anthology of spine-tingling short stories from Diane Wing, author of Thorne Manor And Other Bizarre Tales and Coven: Scrolls of the Four Winds. Another Walk in the Park: A familiar walking path leads to a disturbing encounter in an...

Discover the mesmerizing tale of two personalities in a war over the soul of one man. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a tale of Victorian horror. The personalities of the pleasant Dr. Jekyll and the violent Mr. Hyde vie...

Excerpt from Vathek: An Arabian Tale Vathek's own taste for learning was quite as insatiable as his zeal for sin he wished to know everything, even sciences that did not exist. But his nature, compared to hers, was indolent and pleasure seeking his opportunities...

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...

This novel is the story of Conrad, son of Manfred of the house of Otranto. This thrilling tale abounds in adventure, suspense, and supernatural occurrences. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favorite among his...