Fiction - Gothic

Vampires have always lived in Eastern Europe. But with the fall of the Soviet Union, they began to spread across the continent, then the world, turning whole populations into vampires--or human cattle. Having overrun India, the far East, and the great cities of North...

R. Scott Bakkerreturns to The Prince of Nothing universe with The Judging Eye, the first book in the Aspect-Emperor sequel series. "Among the greatest . . . A plot and subplot that is like the climactic movement of a symphony." --Realms of Fantasy Set...

John Ajvide Lindqvist has taken the horror world by storm. His first novel, Let the Right One In, has been made into critically acclaimed films in both Sweden and in the U.S (as Let Me In). His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved...

This unique volume features the most terrifying tale from Alexandre Dumas' The Thousand and One Ghosts and presents the gothic vampire tale as a stand-alone short story that is sure to keep you up at night. The Pale Lady is a gripping vampire tale...

These lost works of Wells, written near his death, deal with the apocalypse and the afterlife.Author: Hg Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin WilsonISBN-10: 0976684314ISBN-13: 9780976684312Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2006Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.08w x 0.22d

Hand's award winning stories begin in the shimmery, dusty corners of upstate New York and move into even stranger settings.Author: Elizabeth HandISBN-10: 1618730304ISBN-13: 9781618730305Publisher: Small Beer PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/13/2012Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dAward: Bram Stoker Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers...

The Lair of the White Worm (1911) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Published only a year before Stoker's death, The Lair of the White Worm helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the...

Billionaire Bad Boys: Rich, Powerful and sexy as hell.Lucas Monroe dropped out of college only to become a multi-billionaire and tech world god. He can have any woman he desires in his bed, but the only woman he's ever wanted is off limits and...

Christopher Merkner is a Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life. In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays a impending confession, fondling the nostrils of...

Ruled by his hunger for erotic encounters, a deeply wounded psychoanalyst seduces both patients and strangers with equal heat. Driven to compartmentalize his life, the doctor attempts to order and contain his lovers as he does his collection of rare netsuke, the precious miniature...

A werewolf anthology that covers new terrain. Its stories span centuries. Its storytellers, from Stephen King to Saki, de Maupassant to Kipling, Seabury Quinn to Ovid, are eclectic. Its premise delves deep into its subject.Author: Charlotte F. OttenISBN-10: 0815607539ISBN-13: 9780815607533Publisher: Syracuse University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

He is Dracula's son. They call him Michael the Bad because the only thing that matches his wicked good looks is his vicious nature. Every creature in the London underground knows better than to cross him, but Angelique Serrano didn't get the memo. Now...

Michael the Bad is more than just a vampire prince. A hell spawn lurks inside him, one that he'd rather keep forever dormant. But the time has come for Michael to face his strongest enemy, and for that he needs to become the beast....

Billionaire Bad Boys: Rich, Powerful and sexy as hell.Derek West rose from poverty to take the tech world by storm. He's sexy, confident and gets any woman he wants. And who he wants is Cassie Storms, the rich girl he's never been good enough...

After vowing never to return, Kara Wade is back in New York City. She's come to claim the body of her twin sister Kelly, and to find out how she died. No secret as to the cause of death--a nearly nude, twelve-story plunge from...

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper tells a timelessly seductive tale of a romance touched by the paranormal and of a woman who opens a door to the unknown and finds a stranger with an irresistible invitation.... With its antebellum setting and gallant...

Author: Karen Marie MoningISBN-10: 0063410567ISBN-13: 9780063410565Publisher: Harper Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2024Pages: 512Format: PaperbackLarge Print

Chaos.Control.In a broken mind, it's all merely an illusion.KaneI'm an interstate trucker who's left hundreds of bodies behind him. She's a woman who's running from her past. When she gets in my truck, she unwittingly becomes my next victim.I test her will to live,...

Malcolm Black spirals into depression after his estranged daughter Layla goes missing. Concurrently, a young woman named Sidonie Duncan wakes up in a Glasgow hospital after a car crash with amnesia. Sidonie recovers and ends up working in an art gallery as well as...

Inspired by the little-known history of Cumberland Island, The Fabled Earthis a sweeping story of family lore and the power of finding your own voice as Southern mythology and personal reckoning collide with a changing world.1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia...

I never thought I'd fall for a murderer.As an old employee at a funeral home, Tegan's life had been full of corpses. When her parents died, she couldn't take being surrounded by death anymore. She had to get away, and to do that, she...

Expressing emotion is prohibited by law in the city state of Vencenza.Beneath its tyrannical shadow, Giorgianna, a deranged former playwright turned political fugitive, flees a brothel to seek justice for the murder of a beloved friend.When the last remnants of her bloodline are reaped...

Eventually the past must give up its dead.When William Garrett's estranged father dies under mysterious circumstances-and makes a heinous accusation against him-Will must journey to a place that has haunted him since childhood, a place he vowed never to return: Ravenswood Hall. But memories...

Thirty years ago, Dalton lit a fire in himself, which resulted in the desolation of his father's church and the demons festering within those walls. Now, a wretched combination of time and religious opportunism has crafted a sinister, new kingdom from the ashes of...

Eleven years ago, Carter "Slash" Hudson was ready to end it all. Lost and shattered, devoid of hope, he was saved at the bell by the frankness of one little Cherub. Back then, he swore he'd always put her first, even if that meant...

"A rock solid follow up to Craving Control and I'm fully invested in this series. Did I say invested? I meant hooked." Goodreads reviewer, SachaBW On her eighteenth birthday, Lilianna Mayberry survived every woman's worst nightmare.Sure, she was left with permanent scars and her...

I've always been obsessed with the notion of family, how a group of people share the same DNA. I longed to find my own group, the ones whose blood sings the same tune as mine. Maybe it's a result of being an orphaned child,...

Enigmatic, cocky, and my new brother-in-law.Alaric Schuyler had cerulean blue eyes and a smile so beautifully devious it could entice the devil to do his bidding.We were neversupposed to happen.One night changed everything, tying him and me together in a sordid twist of fate,...

Sometimes life begins after you die. A least it has for Lily O'Donnell. Lily had always wanted to find a love as beautiful as her parents had, but in her many lives, she has never found it... until now. Reborn to help others, Lily...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new...

Caroline Daniels must marry, and marry well. But in her remote corner of England eligible suitors are few and far between, and none hold a candle to her closest friend, Diana Fitzroy.When Sir Edward Masterson arrives, he seems the answer to Caroline's financial worries,...

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference....

It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference....

Sometimes, you just pick your poison and pray.Bisexual stripper Emmy has lived her whole life in a small Southern town with a few rules: Listen to your mama; don't kiss girls; and stay the hell out of the swamp. Sick of all three, she...

When death cuts Remi's marriage to Edgar Leone short, she is forced to confront his only living son...and their romantic past. Forced to return to Leone Manor after years of exile, Ben quickly lets her know he is uninterested in making amends. Forced to...

One of the most powerful man in the world. He was called Andrei. Cruel, coldblooded, and completely unobtainable. The Devil in a Brioni suit. The mere whisper of his name was like lethal poison that burned through the hearts of millions. Penetrating, and clear...

Zelda Rising tells the story of an empathetic young woman named Crystine who runs afoul of a perverse male stranger as she works to create a cozy refuge for booklovers in a Chicago space she calls Zelda Rising Books, in honor of writer F....

"Slowly, and not without a certain inexplicable feeling of foreboding, I limped up the weed-grown gravel path to the door of Cliff House ..." John Montrolfe, malformed and malevolent, the latest inheritor of the family curse, has come to England to claim his ancestral inheritance....

I'm not a villain. I'm something much, much worse... People have called me many things over the years. Cold. Violent. Monster. Psychopath. Only the last one is incorrect. I'm actually a sociopath. But my lack of feelings never hurt me. In fact, it helped...

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist follows the journey of an orphan boy through the gritty streets of Victorian London. From the workhouse to thecriminal underworld, Oliver encounters hardship, friendship and the quest for identity. A timeless tale of resilience, compassion and the pursuit ofjustice in...

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They're under a curse, and they think she can break it. In...

In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two formerly aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family's long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past dangerous--and deadly--to remember. It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken...

This book is a collection of two gothic novellas by Edward Bulwer Lytton. 'A Strange Story' is a tale of paranormal activity and occult practices, while 'The Haunted and the Haunters' tells the story of a haunted house and its terrifying secrets. The book...

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is a timeless coming-of-age story that has captivated readers for generations. Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Anne Shirley as she navigates life, friendships, and the picturesque landscapes of Prince Edward Island. Engage with Montgomery's delightful...

Romantic suspense with a twist of the supernatural.... New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Colleen Gleason's Contemporary Gothic Romance Series is filled with mystery, suspense, humor, no-nonsense heroines...and very sexy men. "Saucy, sexy, and suspenseful. A must-read " --Liliana Hart on The Shop...

A southern family saga emerges as Nettie begins a quest to discover who she is. Twenty-one year old and Annette Roberta Randall is searching, looking for herself. The perception and sensitivity she relied on to bolster her through an isolated childhood have disappeared and...

From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House--a "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time. **Named a Best Book...

Rome has fallen, and in the empire's wake, Europe is fractured, ruled by barbarian tribes and petty kings.One such kingdom has never had a name. Nestled in a beautiful valley in the Iberian Peninsula, the Unnamed Kingdom is a harsh place. Slaves labour under...

When death cuts Remi's marriage to Edgar Leone short, she is forced to confront his only living son...and their romantic past. Forced to return to Leone Manor after years of exile, Ben quickly lets her know he is uninterested in making amends. Forced to...