Fiction - Gothic

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...

Lord Graham Spencer needs a wife. But not just any girl will do. She must have the money to save his dilapidated estate and desperate tenants. So when he meets a charming American lady's maid on the beach at Brighton, the last thing he...

The country house has a secret... Washed up by a storm at the gates of the local estate, young Agnes Headey has a first impression of brooding silence and faded elegance. When she learns that Master Netherfield's sister is not dead, as all had...

Clara Reeve was a prominent English writer in the 18th century. Reeve was one of the first writers of Gothic fiction and her book The Old English Baron is considered an early classic of that genre. The plot centers around the adventures of Sir...

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...

This book is also available in large print (font size 16) and extra large print (font size 24). 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...

This book is also available in large print (font size 16) and extra large print (font size 24). 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...

Part historical detail, part fiction, A King's Grave is a sweeping drama of the Gothic nation's struggle against the tyrannical oppression and injustice suffered at the hands of the ruthless, egocentric and self-absorbed Roman Emperor, Honorius. Who personally attempts the complete annihilation of the...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellISBN-10: 1530911877ISBN-13: 9781530911875Publisher: Createspace Independent...

An aged poet becomes separated by a long distance from his beloved and dying wife. They were two people from different lives and backgrounds, yet he worked hard to make a name for himself. After many years of toiling, he is distraught that it...

"The Lair of the White Worm" is a 1911 horror novel by the world-famous Irish horror writer Bram Stoker. The story is based on the legend of the Lambton Worm, a folk tale originating from County Durham in Northeast England. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847...

The Castle of Otranto is 'the original' gothic novel. This story initiatiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Walpole is Thus, by extension, the forerunner to such authors as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe,...

Why was this saga so suppressed?King James himself led forth the questTo capture cannibals in their lair.What happened in the darkness there? Agnes fettered in her cellTells of her savage family hellTo a scribe she spills the BeansHimself a victim of the fiends They...

Teagan's senior year is almost over but with his and Summer's much anticipated freedom comes a new twist of unwanted fate. In the third installment of The Blue Moon Series, Summer's Moon, the soul mates are thrust into the world of Wolf Hunter's, werewolves...

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester,...

It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays...

Charlotte Bront famous masterpiece in an unabridged version with the famous original illustrations by F.H. Townsend. Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity....

Horace Walpole was an 18th century Earl in England who specialized in art history, but he also wrote the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, a short but popular work of its time that all but started the genre.Author: Horace WalpoleISBN-10: 1507600755ISBN-13: 9781507600757Publisher: Createspace...