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Gothic fiction

  • The Clockwork Man
    Author:
    Odle, E.V.
    Summary:

    Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space,...
  • The ebony swan
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    Family secrets are locked away at the intimidating Virginia estate of a prima ballerina in this suspenseful tale from a New York Times-bestselling author. Susan Prentice is a young nurse at a crossroads. She's broken off an...
  • The Fall of the House of Usher
    Author:
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Summary:

    First published in a 1839 edition of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, The Fall of the House of Usher is the story of the declining physical and psychological health of the residents of the House of Usher-and the way in which the house...
  • The ghosts of Ashbury High
    Author:
    Moriarty, Jaclyn
    Summary:

    Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported...
  • The glass flame
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author. Vietnam veteran David Hallam is in Tennessee working as an arson investigator for an...
  • The Hawkline monster : a Gothic western
    Author:
    Brautigan, Richard
    Summary:

    Eastern Oregon, 1902. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into a whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house....
  • The hollow ones
    Author:
    Hogan, Chuck, Toro, Guillermo del
    Summary:

    Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she is forced to turn her gun on her partner, a decorated FBI agent who suddenly turns inexplicably violent. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core,...
  • The house on Biscayne Bay
    Author:
    Cleeton, Chanel
    Summary:

    Named an Anticipated Read of 2024 by Entertainment Weekly and a Best Historical Fiction novel of 2024 by BookBub. As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York...
  • The hush sisters
    Author:
    Collins, Gerard
    Summary:

    Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John's. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they've...
  • The Hush sisters
    Author:
    Collins, Gerard
    Summary:

    Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a peculiar manor in downtown St. John's. With both parents now dead, the siblings must decide what to do with the old house they've...
  • The Italian, or the confessional of the Black penitents : a romance
    Author:
    Radcliffe, Anne
    Summary:

    Set against the backdrop of the Inquisition, this Gothic romance from British novelist Ann Radcliffe is sure to please fans of the genre. Protagonists Vincentio di Vivaldi and Ellena di Rosalba fall in love at first sight and attempt to...
  • The last ham
    Author:
    McConvey, J.R.
    Summary:

    Part dark satire, part surreal Gothic folktale, The Last Ham is a story about populist politics run amok in the age of illusion. Weeks before Easter in the sleepy town of Bedford, a macabre death coincides with the arrival of a stranger...
  • The legend of Sleepy Hollow
    Author:
    Irving, Washington
    Summary:

    Washington Irving weaves a bewitching tale with hints of the gothic to expose a darkness pervading social stratification in 19th-century America. In Irving’s best-known short story, a teacher vying for the hand of a wealthy socialite...
  • The lost orphan
    Author:
    Halls, Stacey
    Summary:

    London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care,...
  • The Masque of the Red Death
    Author:
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Summary:

    First published in a 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, The Masque of the Red Death tells the story of Prince Prospero as he tries to avoid a plague by confining himself and his nobles to a masquerade in an abbey...
  • The monk
    Author:
    Lewis, Matthew Gregory
    Summary:

    Set in the sinister monastery of The Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the...
  • The moonflower
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan in this novel by "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark). When Jerome Talbot's brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him...
  • The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
    Author:
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Summary:

    Presents a story of adventure and discovery on the high seas.
  • The Necrophiliac
    Author:
    Wittkop, Gabrielle, Bapst, Don
    Summary:

    For more than three decades, Lucien — one of the most notorious characters in the history of the novel — has haunted the imaginations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the astounding protagonist of Gabrielle Wittkop’s lyrical...
  • The night wanderer : a native gothic novel
    Author:
    Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Summary:

    Nothing ever happens on the Otter Lake reservation. But when 16-year-old Tiffany discovers her father is renting out her room, she’s deeply upset. Sure, their guest is polite and keeps to himself, but he’s also a little creepy. Little...

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