Fiction - Gothic

The real story behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected...

It never had life . . . but now it must die . . .As a girl of 18, Mary Shelley's imagination birthed the nameless monster that would make her name famous. But since that night of apocalyptic storms at the Villa Diodati and...

Lodore focuses on the microcosm of the family. The central story follows the fortunes of the wife and daughter of the title character, Lord Lodore, who is killed in a duel, leaving a trail of legal, financial, and familial obstacles for the two "heroines"...

TEMPTING FATE Darius is back. Edinburg thought it had seen the last of this seductive Dragon King, but that was before Darius found something worthwhile. He just can't stay away from the impossibly beautiful Dr. Sophie Martin-even though he knows that a passion this...

This has to be a joke...We almost died escaping from Nightmare Penitentiary, but somehow, we managed to survive and to even get free.And then?Then, we're thrown right back into peril again. And as much as I just want to say screw it and give...

The Mystery of the Sea (1902) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Combining occult elements with historical events involving the Spanish-American War and the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada, The Mystery of the Sea is an informed mystery and political thriller...

Major Elijah Hollister never wanted to be an earl, particularly not when it meant losing his brother. When a bold adventuress shows up at his door seeking a treasure map, Elijah suspects his brother's death may not have been accidental and that the lady...

As Stephen Calvert pursues marriage, he encounters baffling difficulties in courting two different women. Struggling to comprehend his circumstances, and on the brink of desperate action, he realizes that at the root of his misfortune is a mystery to be solved.The eponymous narrator relates...

Uncle Silas (1864) is a novel by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Expanded from an earlier short story, Uncle Silas is considered an important precursor to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and remains the author's most popular novel. It has been adapted several times...

Santiago finally has what he wants. His baby is growing inside me. I've rewritten her destiny, binding her to me for good. Things are changing for us. I see beyond the monster he shows the world. See the scars he hides beneath the ink....

Cami Martin is offered a dream job as a nanny to young Quentin Blanchette. Her employer owns an infamous plantation home called Verity. Verity is famous for the cruelties of its antebellum past and, some say, for the strangeness of its current inhabitants, be...

The Gates of Life (1905), also published as The Man, is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written at the height of his career, The Gates of Life helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of...

A scientist invents a machine that can travel through the fourth dimension - time. What will he find? And what will that tell him about man's inexorable pursuit of knowledge? What he discovers shocks him-and may have lessons for us all. The Invisible Man...

My husband hates me. But he's also the only man who can save me. Taken by a stranger, Santiago is my only hope. Except that I don't know if he's dead or alive. And for as cruel as he can be, the thought he...

A gift from the heart is the best gift of all...When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother--she was raised by one of the worst. Torn between telling...

You will take this bride.To have and to hold from this day forward.Till death do you part.This will be your solemn vow.You have no choice.Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be...

Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition. Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading In this novel, we will follow the story of Gabriel John Utterson, a...

My name is Olivia, and I am an empath. Not only can I see and feel people's emotions, I can use this information to look into their minds and find their deepest darkest secrets. Now they want me to interview someone new, a dangerous...

Some houses hold secrets that are meant to be kept forever...When Eliza Sullivan inherits an estate from a recently deceased aunt, she leaves behind a grievous and guilt-ridden past in New Orleans for rural England and a fresh start. Eliza arrives at her new...

"At the end we are steeped through and through with the genius, the vehemence, the indignation of Charlotte Brontë'"-Virginia Woolf "Given the action of Jane Eyre, which is in every sense dramatic, there is a pull, all the same, between action and consciousness.-Raymond Williams...

Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (1799) is a novel by American author Charles Brockden Brown. Combining the suspenseful style of Gothic fiction with such thematic interests as consciousness, morality, and truth, Brown's novel shows the profound influence of European literature on his...

Reynolds, a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray, was a prolific writer of popular fiction who has been called the most popular writer of his times. Set in Florence in the early 1500s, Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf tells the story of how Fernand Wagner becomes a...

Young, honest Caleb Williams enters the employment of Squire Ferdinando Falkland - a cultured, kindly gentleman who harbours a dreadful secret. When his curiosity uncovers the truth, Caleb finds himself the victim of false accusations, persecution and a corrupt system of justice. His vulnerability...

Heartbreak compelled Calpurnia Cottonwood to throw herself into the Mobile River, but her only friend refused to let her die. After their escape from Seven Sisters, Muncie and Calpurnia flee to Haiti in hopes of finding peace and freedom. However, the journey isn't an...

Author: Sawyer BennettISBN-10: 1078708878ISBN-13: 9781078708876Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2019Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d

Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and...

A one- legged Surfing Knights spills his guts. "Wandering Minstrel, your tall tales are nuts!""Carry they not but a pickle of truth.Your board of pine stories hurt me like this tooth."But all historians add spice and punch.Wandering Minstrel retorts, "You were lunch!"A teller of...

They call me a monster.Murderous and hateful.Beautiful but broken.Nothing can calm the ever raging storm inside of me. As the ruthless leader of the Doubeck family there is a certain standard of brutality, I have to uphold. Then I meet her. Beautiful, innocent, and...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political situations following the 1707 Act of Union, and by his...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this...

Edith Nesbit's natural gift for storytelling has brought her worldwide renown as a classic children's author. But beyond her beloved children's stories lay a darker side to her imagination, revealed here in her chilling tales of the supernatural. Haunted by lifelong phobias which provoked,...

Fans of psychological thrillers and gothic-noir, look no further than Girl on a Swing, by D. B. Wright, an intense and horrifying account of a young girls victimization at the hands of her family. What would you do if you found yourself at the...

Repressed desires, irresistible obsessions, and perception-twisting games.When lady's maid Marian Osley and footman Valentine Hobbs assume their positions at the cliff-top estate of Valor Rise, they already share a history. Raised together as paupers in a London workhouse, they escaped through games of imaginary...

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller"Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic." --EW One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN - Newsweek - Vulture - PopSugar - Parade - BuzzFeed - E!Online - TimeOut - Woman's Day - Goodreads -...

The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-of-the-century tale of innocence corrupted by secrecy, and the grace of second chances. Cathy and her brother, Rob, have forged a passionate refuge against the terror of loneliness and...

Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's...

"Victoria Holt has a wonderful way with suspense, with atmosphere, and with a haunted heroine."--NewsdayWhoever disturbs the sleep of the kings will die . . . For centuries the tombs of the Pharaohs had been haunted with this curse. And when to eminent archaeologists...

"Some towns change with the times while others seem to fall through the cracks, entering an oddly timeless domain. The latter is the case with Strathleven, in which the rituals and darkness of the past seem always to be glimmering just below the surface...

As a bad moon rises, trouble's on the way . . . Everything was all right until that photograph showed up in my mailbox. No, that isn't true. Nothing has been all right since my sister vanished into thin air. The sign outside my...

Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood, Catalyst unearths the trashy truth in his characters' unconventional lives.Author: Clint CatalystISBN-10: 0916397653ISBN-13: 9780916397654Publisher: Manic D PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 160Format:...

Dostoevsky's last and most famous work, The Brothers Karamazov is often considered his greatest novel as well. A tale of human passions, it will leave you changed after the final page.Author: Constance Garnett, Fyodor DostoevskyISBN-10: 1495969053ISBN-13: 9781495969058Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2014Pages: 350Format:...

On September 23, 1909, the Parisian daily newspaper, Le Gaulois, published its first installment of Gaston Leroux's Le Fant me de l'Op ra (The Phantom of the Opera). This type of serialized publication, in France called a "feuilleton," was common from the middle of...

"Herbert West-Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. An unnamed narrator recounts his experiences with Herbert West, a brilliant but narcissistic young man who believes that the dead can be brought back to life and endeavours to prove himself...

Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birthright is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes. Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one...

MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to...

An episodic novel about Charles Strickland by the author of "Of Human Bondage."Author: W. Somerset MaughamISBN-10: 150861962XISBN-13: 9781508619628Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2015Pages: 174Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

One of the first Gothic novels, the Castle of Otranto tells the tale of Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family.Author: Horace WalpoleISBN-10: 1507693737ISBN-13: 9781507693735Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2015Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.27d

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symbol of science gone awry. Shelley's masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books. This, the 1818 edition, published anonymously, contains...

In 1873 San Francisco, Ann Lovell, a young woman desperate to change her future, dares to take on the position of governess to the sons of the mysterious and enigmatic Benedict Trevelyan. She refuses to believe in the dark rumors of a cursed family...

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...