Fiction - Gothic

In this intricate tale, a woman untangles her enduring bond with an heiress who she is still trying to understand... Chicago, the turn of the 21st century. Our narrator--always there and never entirely present--recounts her decades-long relationship with the heiress, Katherine Stern. Through the...

A forgotten well, a moonlit holler, the hush between thunderclaps.These are the echoes the Ozarks keep.In Unspoken Water and Other Echoes from the Ozarks, author BJ Roshone weaves a haunting tapestry of folklore, fear, and faded memory deep in the heart of the Ozark...

" The best kind of vampire story--one in which the real evil is us." --Peng Shepherd "Deliciously monstrous and demanding of our attention, Anna Kovatcheva crafts a feminist vampire story like no other." --Ms, Magazine A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel:...

From the first night I bedded her I knew I was playing with fire. Now I must face the consequence. I betrayed my best friend. A man who was more a brother to me than my own blood. And now I fear I have...

Great Expectations reflects on an orphan nicknamed Pip. The plot revolves around his life and depicts the education of Pip. The novel traces the psychological growth of Pip in three stages: Pip spent his childhood in the marshes of Kent, his journey from rural...

Tony faces a potential new world of riches and power beyond his imagination after his best friend Geoff helps him get elected into a secret, exclusive club from around the world called The Nostradamus Society. The owner, an elderly Russian count, holds the meetings...

A fresh take on a gothic novel, featuring a small town, a local legend and ghost, and a wealthy family residing in their mansion on the hill.Author: Elizabeth KramerISBN-10: 1544148550ISBN-13: 9781544148557Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/26/2017Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Gillian's Marsh, 1866. The foul and treacherous wetlands where a young woman, Louella Lee, ends up after escaping the horrors of her puritanical home in the town of Gillianswick. Collapsing in the black woods near the marsh, she is found by Red, a loner...

Dartmoor is a shadowy, mist-shrouded frontier largely unknown to Isabella Cole, a young woman who resides in Plymouth and is employed as a valuations clerk to a local auctioneer. It is 1898 and her occupation is uncommon for a woman. Her employer is invited...

A contemporary Gothic tale of horror, blood, sex and corruption.Ankerita sacrificed herself, saving the life of her friend, but a promise she made to an enchantress from the sixteenth century hauls her back.The world she returns to has changed.Strangers from pre-history are waking to...

According to ancient folklore in Scotland and northen England, the yellowhammer bird is said to drink a drop of the Devil's blood every May Day morning, but for pretty, young, Catriona McPhee in rural Argyll in 1846, this mere titbit will never satisfy her...

Charity considers herself damaged goods. She's more than hesitant to enter into a new romantic relationship, but when she has car trouble, a handsome mechanic rescues her. He calls himself James, and she thinks for a moment this might be the guy. She learns...

First published in 1831, "Crotchet Castle" is the sixth novel by Thomas Love Peacock. Similar to his previous novel "Headlong Hall", the story revolves around an interesting group of obsessive eccentrics and their witty and entertaining conversations. The story begins with a gathering in...

First published in 1818, "Nightmare Abbey" Is a novella by Thomas Love Peacock and his third long work of fiction. It is a Gothic satirical tale that follows Christopher Glowry, Esquire, a melancholic widower who lives with his only son Scythrop in Nightmare Abbey,...

The Italianor the Confessional of the Black PenitentsA RomanceAnn RadcliffeThe Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lifetime (she would go on...

Set in the turbulent years of late medieval Central Europe, Strangle Rats is a surreal fantasy, reminiscent of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. A poor, mute woodcutter's son is cruelly banished to a gloomy primeval forest where dangerous wolves and Strangle Rats roam. A...

"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...

Carwin the Biloquist (1798, 1805) is a story fragment by American author Charles Brockden Brown. A prequel of sorts to the novel, Wieland, Carwin the Biloquist provides backstory for the character of Carwin, a man with the uncanny ability to perfectly mimic any voice....

Passions become obsessions. Obsessions become manias. And sometimes, manias turn into nightmares. What happens when one wants so badly that all else, including sanity and self, is consumed by the bonfires of desire? What happens when one achieves the dream, only to discover the...

The Man Behind the Glass is based around a character called Septimus Blackwood, a Victorian photographer with a difference. The tale is set in London's East End in the year 1860. A mysterious Gothic adventure of a man's quest to capture life and cheat...

Escaping a fire, imprisoning her ex-boyfriend and threatening vampires with a corkscrew is not what a girl normally expects to happen at Christmas.Resentment and anger at Alec's privileged position as Daywalker has brought the Brethren to the brink of a deadly war that could...

"A powerful blend of love, sacrifice, betrayal, and the supernatural-woven through the dark splendour of Victorian England." -Jessica, ReviewerA Gothic Victorian romance of love, secrets, and the supernatural.Hidden in the shadowed attic of a vast Victorian estate, Emily and her young daughter, Amelia, live...

In Tudor times, the blow of a knife ended Ankerita's unhappy marriage, but condemned her soul to a living death.She has a chance to atone for that guilt, but 500 years slip by before she is able to return. The world she enters contains...

The sleepy village of Castleconner was rocked by the discovery of three charred and mutilated bodies near the badly burnt Manor House. Curiously it was ten years to the day that a monstrous storm and fire destroyed the stables and badly damaged the Manor....

Author: Danika JaydeISBN-10: 1493119699ISBN-13: 9781493119691Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2013Pages: 390Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

In this classic and timeless novel, we encounter a tale of lust, struggle, and violence, in what became the most famous work of Matthew Lewis. In its day, the novel was chastized by critics for its supposed profanity and obscenity, and bought in large...

Ruby and Hadria are sisters who live in Southport, a small fishing village in Tasmania. Ruby, is naïve and gentle. Hadria has flashing eyes that dance with witchery. Two young abalone divers, Bran and Drew, are in love with Hadria and she enjoys playing...

While collaborating on a fashion show, Samantha Hammond, a forty-something old Display Manager draws the attention of the mysterious clothing designer, Valerie Ross. Samantha's journey of self-discovery takes her from the security of her hometown Lexington, Ohio, to the shores of a secluded paradise,...

It has only been one year since twenty-year-old Rein Pierson boarded a ship to America in an effort to escape her fearful past. It was there, on that fated ship, that Rein met the mysterious Traith Harker, who would end up as her undoing-and...

Night Breed is the second book of the Immortal Destiny Series. Born the daughter of a witch, Sarah is no stranger to magic. But when she meets an immortal, she quickly discovers that nothing can compare to the magic of being loved by a...

Estrange Achs boring existence's is abruptly interrupted by a strange incomprehensible dream and which awakens an uncontrollable desire, mixed with an intense thirst previously unknown... Prompted by this new sensation, he decided to leave the tranquility of the Amazon rainforest and find Alma, a...

A beautiful young woman, Aphra Devereaux leaves Paris after the death of her father to live in the mansion that was her deceased sister, Lady Freya Fitzroy's home. She finds the once grand Stoneleigh is now gloomy and decaying. Additionally her sister's husband Sir...

A book with German fairy tales & art. Alot of food stuff from ancient times as well as their spiritual purposes. There is a look through the European witch trials and other recorded histories.Author: Deanna StinsonISBN-10: 1387454161ISBN-13: 9781387454167Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2022Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize:...

The shadows were never meant to be noticed. Predators upon the human psyche, waves of a primordial Tide, they've lingered obscure beyond the opaque curtain of perception, specters with unknowable purpose, presences terrible to experience, yet easily dismissible in the light of day. In...

Young Quinn Campbell's greatest worries are pleasing his doting uncle, placating his fussy aunt, and doing his best to keep the quiet, brooding Agatha-a ward to his family and his best friend-happy and safe. But Quinn's active London life is suddenly spun sideways by...

Author: Natalie KikicISBN-10: 0778307190ISBN-13: 9780778307198Publisher: Park RowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2026Pages: 320Format: Hardcover

In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands. Rebecca Ravenshaw,...

Banished beyond the dreaded Witch Knell, Maevyth Bronwick stumbles into a cursed realm--and into an immortal assassin sworn to keep her hidden...or kill her.With her blood tied to a sleeping evil and his to a dark prophecy, their fates are bound by secrets, temptation,...

I don't wish to be synonymous with slaughter.Cyrus Beldon was born to kill vampires. Or so says his indomitable family legacy.For generations, the Beldon hunters have kept the peace between humans and vampires, navigating tense diplomacy with the elite Honorable Families and eliminating threats...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a dark, passionate novel set on the wild Yorkshire moors, where the landscape mirrors the emotional violence at the heart of the story. Framed through layered narration, the novel is chiefly recounted by the outsider Mr. Lockwood and...

Journey back to the Gothic Garden to a quaint 1870s town called Spencerton, VA, a mere train stop, luring visitors to disembark into a world of Victorian tradition. Touring through town, visitors must go by Willoughby Cemetery and glide down its path, passing the...

He's the gorgeous fallen angel best friend you pushed away ten years ago, now back in a second chance at love... I can't believe Grandfather managed to trap Layden in an arranged marriage with me. We were best friends once, but we've barely spoken...

Beth Holyoake, an orphan in whose life so far 'love had no chance', is called home to a house she has not lived in since she was a young child by her dead father's twin brother, Lord Angmering. She has high hopes for this...

He hasn't touched a woman in years. She's about to break every one of his rules.Ada Sterling relies on facts, logic, and coffee. She doesn't have time for curses. When she's hired to catalog the library at Blackwood Hall, she expects dust and boredom....

The DamnedI made a bargain with a daemon when I was a child.For the last twelve years, I never saw any reason to crave my freedom from Kingsley Manor and the dark, lost entities who inhabit the lonely estate. But then he came back...

Catherine believes monsters belong to stories... until she is forced to choose what part of herself survives.As the overlooked daughter of a failing merchant, Catherine has learned the value of coin-and how easily it can be spent. When her family's venture fails, she takes...

A Meal Is a Meal is a gothic collection of food-themed stories that comment on the human condition. In the titular story, a young woman lures and kills a love interest in order to host her cannibalistic family to a meal. In "Potluck Jollof",...

HOUSEMATE WANTED.Must not mind bloodstains or screaming at any hour. Low rent in exchange for full confidence.The last thing Henry Solomon Crow wants is to live with a human. Yes, he's bound by law to keep him in touch with his "humanity", but shouldn't...

Some memories refuse to stay buried.A mask floats on black water.A boy watches from below.And a long-submerged past begins to rise.This is a story about what we hide and what survives us anyway.Blending psychological depth with haunting imagery, this novel explores memory, identity, and...

Elm Street wasn't a place where you wanted to be after dark. The shadows seemed to breathe with malevolent intent, and even the streetlights flickered as if afraid to illuminate what lurked beneath. For Selena, however, these darkened streets were home-and her hunting ground.No...