Fiction - Gothic

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.)...

The sins of the past break through to the present in this chilling tale of supernatural suspense. - When Benedict Doyle finds himself the owner of his great-grandfather's North London house, it stirs memories of his time there as a frightened eight-year-old and the...

A house with a sinister past - and a grisly power - When Michael Flint is asked by American friends to look over an old Shropshire house they have unexpectedly inherited, he is reluctant to leave the quiet of his Oxford study. But when...

Don't be afraid, let go... Bereaved and crushed by terrible guilt, discredited psychiatrist James Marshall grapples with the pain and demotion back to his home town on the Cornish coast, seeking solace in the professional wilderness away from a former high-flying career. But when...

It all began with cursed words directed at a painting and ended with a life drowned in darkness and despair. Dorian had no idea that his life would spiral out of control when he agreed to sit for the famous painter, Basil Hallward. But...

Set in southwest England, London and Sussex, the novel tells a story of four women relocating to live in a cottage on the property of a distant relative, where they experience love, romance, and heartbreak. Main characters include the three Dashwood sisters moving with...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a literary sensation in his time, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an instant classic, with the title entering the English language. This Gothic novella, exploring the nature of evil, is a "must read". (Unabridged)Author: Robert Louis StevensonISBN-10: 1781397406ISBN-13:...

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. The dead sleep peacefully--until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count's dying wife begs to be buried near the railway. But...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize - Winner of the 2023 ReLit Award for Fiction - Longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary AwardHomage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval,...

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Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. The story is narrated by a young woman preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later...

Lured by the imposing castle on a cliff, the first mistress of Thornehaven's untimely death marked the beginning of many tragedies that would befall its future inhabitants. Delilah, the second wife of handsome, brooding Jonathan Thorne, watches helplessly as unimaginable twists of fate strike...

This book is also available in large print, extra large print and dyslexia-friendly editions. Gabriel Utterson is intrigued by the sinister figure of Mr Hyde, and the latter's strange relationship with Utterson's good friend, Dr Jekyll. When Mr Hyde beats a Member of Parliament...

Thomas Kemp, the Libertine, turned cruelty, torture and humiliation into works of art. It was said that he had given his soul to something inhuman to be part of artistic immortality. It was said that his very ashes were used to make a set...

Welcome to the Oleander Mansion, where powerful men play out their most secret, sinful fantasies...I'm stuck in a Southern mansion with the extremely wealthy, extremely handsome Montgomery Kingston for three months... It wouldn't be so bad if we weren't caught in a dangerous game...

Alex Katz illustrates Hawthorne's classic gothic tale of Puritan New EnglandWhile enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century...

A boy's mother lies upstairs seriously ill, and in every crash of thunder or hollow chime of the clock he seems to hear a portent of her death.--A scholar of the occult finds his marriage threatened by horrifying and otherworldly noises emanating from the...

A 2020 Nominee of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, John W. Bateman's Who Killed Buster Sparkle? is more than a must-read....it's a must-be in the modern canon of literature.When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Vampires, vaqueros, and star-crossed lovers face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda. As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home...

While listening to an opera in an old theater, Nathaniel, who is blind, walks up onto stage to discover that he is caught between two worlds. When his eyes are open, he senses an abstract and empty space he calls The Screen. When he...

"Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." --New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must...

She's tied up at work...by her boss.The last thing Lochlan wanted in a new assistant was some inexperienced, gorgeous, submissive blonde. However, a promise to a friend ensures that's exactly what he's stuck with.May knows she's out of her league, not only in her...

"...manufactures its own uncanny light by which to read." --Selah Saterstrom, author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab "Strange, moving, extraordinary..." --Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie and Neverhome "...magical and a revelation" --Janice Lee, author of Separation Anxiety and Imagine a Death Acacia, a Book...

"Sarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal." --Maria SempleThe highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland--a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of...

Accompanied here by three other memorable stories of horror, murder and the supernatural, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics...

As the Korean War ends, army nurse Corinne Ford returns stateside to live in the Mississippi town of Conroy with her new fianc , Private First Class Elijah Dunne. She wonders if their love is strong enough to overshadow their differences, but upon her...

'OH MY GOSH... Gripping' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Edge-of-your-seat thriller... Absolutely brilliant' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'WOW... Intense, suspenseful... Heart-breaking' NetGalley review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Because he chose you. Out of thirteen girls. You were the one. The last one.' Lucy Townsend lives a normal life. She has a husband...

Even the most powerful love can't save a condemned soulPain is an abyss.How naive of me to think I'd already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out, there are fathomless levels of pain,...

Gothic, chilling and turbulently demonic. Hell is lost is a passionate tale of obsession and unrequited desires. A poor waitress' peaceful life takes a turbulent turn when on one rainy night on her way back home from work she unknowingly inhales a hypnotizing perfume....

Alana is a young woman, unblessed in physical attributes, making it difficult to find a suitable mate. When her beautiful cousin, Iliamna, comes to live with her family, it sparks within Alana a deep-seated hatred and a burning desire to rid herself of her...

The House of Drought is a haunted house for the climate change era.On the island of Sri Lanka, at a colonial mansion between the forest and the paddy fields, a caretaker arrives with four children in tow after pledging to keep them safe. When...

It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of technological, scientific, and intellectual progress. For John Kemp, a straight-forward, unimaginative London lawyer, life seems reassuringly predictable yet...

The long-forgotten novel that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. The heroine of the story, Gretchen, is a practical-minded German girl, who considers marriage an economic proposition and is determined to marry a man of wealth. When Gretchen's father is seriously injured in an accident, the...

A professor and a graduate student escort a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to find out what's buried there; a man plays an audio tape left by his late father and unearths a family history of monstrous deeds; a student receives...

A family's Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man's effigy of a movie monster becomes instrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember what changed;...