A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship...
Gothic fiction
- Author:Cooke, C.J.Summary:
- Author:Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
This classic mind-shattering tale, which "ranks high among the horror stories of the English language," plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time). In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic...
- Author:Grace, AdalynSummary:
A girl confronts Death--and her own deathly powers--in this Gothic-infused, romantic young adult fantasy. Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow, orphaned as a baby, has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth...
- Author:Foster, SaraSummary:
When Grace's husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes without a trace.
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling "queen of the American gothics" (TheNew York Times). Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author. When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home...
- Author:Lockyer, BrookeSummary:
A '90s-era Southern Ontario Gothic about holding on to the dead, voiced with plaintive urgency and macabre sensuality. In the small town of Burr, Ontario, thirteen-year-old Jane yearns to reunite with her recently deceased father and...
- Author:Grigorescu, AlexandraSummary:
An eerie and romantic Southern gothic drama. Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a...
- Author:Brandon, JohnSummary:
Teenaged Shelby Register and her offbeat family move to the swampy Citrus County region of Florida, where Shelby is quickly confronted by life's challenges and possibilities.
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark). Finally liberated from her cruel and domineering mother, twenty-...
- Author:Harris, CharlaineSummary:
Wedding fever has come to Bon Temps, Louisiana! Unfortunately, buxom, blonde, beautiful, and telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie is not the bride-to-be, so she takes the opportunity to travel to New Orleans on family business. As heir...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home in this novel from "a master of suspense " (Mary Higgins Clark). An assistant editor at a Manhattan university press,...
- Author:Stoker, DacreSummary:
The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's'and the tale of the enigmatic woman who...
- Author:Stoker, BramSummary:
When Count Dracula departs Transylvania on a Russian ship, crew members begin to mysteriously disappear. After the ship docks, and more people are attacked, rumours of a monster quickly spread. When Abraham Van Helsing is asked to...
- Author:Stoker, BramSummary:
When Count Dracula departs Transylvania on a Russian ship, crew members begin to mysteriously disappear. After the ship docks, and more people are attacked, rumours of a monster quickly spread. When Abraham Van Helsing is asked to...
- Author:Stoker, Bram, Shelley, MarySummary:
Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, Victor feverishly constructs a man out of old body parts and brings him to life. Victor is immediately horrified by his...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A bookseller reunites with her estranged, enigmatic father in Key West in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author. Twenty-five years ago, Long Island bookstore owner Laurel York was abandoned by her father, author...
- Author:Eteraz, AliSummary:
Ranging from the Persian Gulf to the American South, from ancient Greece to pre-Islamic Arabia, Ali Eteraz's stories observe the clash of civilizations through the surrealist's monocle: lovers playing with Koranic numerology; the...
- Author:McCormack, EricSummary:
A masterpiece of the sexual gothic, this is the story of Andrew Halfnight, whose life, part dream, part nightmare, begins with a mother's tragic choice and ends with a lover's embrace. In between he experiences tempests at sea, on land...
- Author:Stoker, BramSummary:
The iconic Gothic horror classics that gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares. Tragic heroines, windswept moors, dark and stormy nights, castle prisons, and forbidden desires realized at the greatest cost-...