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-...
Gothic fiction
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Author:Stoker, BramSummary: - Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
On the California coast, a physical therapist unlocks a young boy's terrible secrets, in this novel from "the Grand Master of her craft" (Barbara Michaels). In search of solitude in the wake of her son's tragic death...
- Author:Shelley, Mary, von Holst, TheodorSummary:
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:Shelley, MarySummary:
A brilliant young doctor discovers the secret of animating life and creates a monster out of dead body parts, without thinking what place such a creature might have in society. Lonely, unloved, utterly miserable, the creature turns on...
- Author:Shelley, Mary WollstonecraftSummary:
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
- Author:Ritter, WilliamSummary:
Sherlockian detective of the supernatural R. F. Jackaby and his intrepid assistant Abigail Rook search for their ghostly landlady Jenny Cavanaugh's murderer and fight their most fearsome foe yet in the highly anticipated third volume of...
- Author:O'Neill, JohnSummary:
John O'Neill's gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters are surprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their...
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What haunts our hearts today may haunt us in the hereafter . . . In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can't see. Trans vampires' lives...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
An American psychologist accepts an invitation to her estranged husband's isolated English estate in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award-winning author. When Eve North returns to Athmore after three years' estrangement...
- Author:Kaplan, JoSummary:
Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as...
- Author:Reid, AvaSummary:
From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and...
- Author:Roux, MadeleineSummary:
Seule et effrayée, elle vient juste de fuir une école avec pension brutale où les châtiments sont la leçon quotidienne. Lorsqu'elle rencontre une vieille femme qui lui offre un emploi de servante dans une maison de...
- Author:Lévesque, GenevièveSummary:
Une jeune femme aveugle reçoit en héritage d’un oncle marin une maison isolée sur la côte en Bretagne. Quittant son confort parisien, elle décide d’aller y vivre seule, mais très tôt elle découvre que la maison est… habitée. Le feu s’...
- Author:Aubry, SuzanneSummary:
Clémence Deschamps, vingt-deux ans, institutrice dans une école de rang, rêve d'échapper à son existence monotone. Un jour, une annonce dans La Presse attire son attention: « Veuf cherche gouvernante pour son fils de onze ans...
- Author:Jiang, AiSummary:
Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian writer and immigrant, Ai Jiang. LINGHUN is set in the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
A reclusive actress is brought back into the spotlight-by murder-in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling and Edgar award-winning author. Leigh Hollins had no choice but to honor her father's dying wish: that she find her estranged...
- Author:St. James, SimoneSummary:
Three years after her husband, Alex, disappears, Jo Manders travels to the family estate. But all is not well at Wych Elm House, and she learns things about the family that Alex never told her. Just as Jo begins to question the husband...
- Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.Summary:
From a New York Times-bestselling author: An island off the Georgia coast holds the memory of a broken heart and the secrets of a woman's past. It's been years since Lacey Ames last saw Hampton Island, where she grew up amid the sandy...
- Author:Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:
When fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten, postwar Barcelona, and reveals a dark secret that lies in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
- Author:Holt, VictoriaSummary:
A young Englishwoman entertains doubts regarding her husband's fidelity when he brings a former sweetheart into their home to act as governess.
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