Gothic

I died, briefly. Then I came back. Now I’m determined to make the most of every minute I have left. Only problem is I’ve been saddled with supervision. Kane Deveraux is handsome, smug, and cold as a tombstone. So why does he make me feel something more powerful than death?

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy—and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. “What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is...

In the dark, spellbinding sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must confront the weight of her actions as she and Ravyn embark on a perilous quest to save the kingdom—perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching. Gripped by a tyrant king...

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury.

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded.

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily "Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit." —New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Riley Sager returns...

A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge....

From New York Times & USA Today best-selling author Rina Kent comes a sizzling dark enemies-to-lovers romance filled with a thrilling chase between a mafia prince and a psychology nerd.

Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher "Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a...

I’m out for revenge. After careful planning, I gave the man who messed with my family a taste of his own medicine. I thought it’d end there. It didn’t....

A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.

Sebastian Weaver is the star quarterback and the college’s heartthrob. Rich. Handsome. Bastard. Everyone’s attention flocked toward him, and all the girls dreamed of being with him. Not me. At least, not until he made a move on me....

The multi million copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller. In Monte Carlo, our unnamed heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned...

An Audiofile Earphones Award Winner, featuring dual narration from Morag Sims and Will Watt Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students...

"Stephanie Racine's talented narration helps create an atmospheric backdrop for this dark mystery."- AudioFile This program is read by longtime narrator Stephanie Racine who has voiced numerous New York Times, U.S. and U.K. bestselling audiobooks. Author Alice Feeney reads the acknowledgments on...

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...

Pain 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, like a winding labyrinth of doors leading to shadowy figures and long-forgotten secrets....

If you can’t beat ’em… burn it all down. The fae royalty think I’m their toy. Their entertainment. But I’m the only thing standing between their glittering world and the darkness waiting to consume mine. To buy us time, Tarian enters me into the court games—a bloodsport for the bored and cruel.

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options....

"Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"—BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy...

Crime journalist Oakley Novak has built her career exposing Boston’s darkest secrets, but she never expected a serial killer to turn the tables and stalk her.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins is back with a thrilling new gothic suspense set in a Gulf Coast beach motel where hurricane season can be murder. This program features multicast narration. "A talented team of narrators immediately pulls listeners into this compelling audiobook...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM...

Nia finds herself entangled in a world of lies and betrayal, where the truth is as elusive as the Dream Stalker himself. Now trapped in a perilous court, she must navigate her own web of deceit while honing her magic. Every ally may be an enemy, and every word could be her last.

Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher "Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a...

South Carolina, 1853. Lillian Carmichael, privileged daughter of a disgraced Charleston family, is due to be hanged for the murder of her sister when fate gives her a second chance at life. After a catatonic episode on the long walk to the gallows, Lillian is declared dead and entombed in the family mausoleum. She awakens days later, buried alive, and flees to the Lowcountry marshes to survive on her wits and reinvent herself. All the while, a series of exsanguination murders holds the terrorized city in thrall.

This yearning, slow-burn gothic fantasy romance follows a young woman haunted by the ghosts of her past and a ruthless merchant known as the Saint of Silence, who promises her greatest desire in return for her darkest secret. . . . Leena didn’t believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw...

A visionary and atmospheric gothic fantasy about necromancy, vengeance, and soul-consuming love, the first in a duology from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth Once there was an island where the dead walked the earth, and seven noble houses ruled by...

A fearless fortune teller in 1920s Paris must use her powers to divine who she can trust when an exiled Romanov princess and her brother come to her seeking answers about a decades-old mystery… Spirited Zina and her secretive grandmother, Baba Valya, own a tearoom on rue Daru in Paris, where...

Six days before Samhain—the night when the veil between worlds is thinnest—Samantha Harker, daughter of Dracula's killer, and Dr. Helena Moriarty, daughter of the famed criminal mastermind, are thrown into their next case: the mysterious disappearance of two Society field agents in Ireland. Only this time, the Royal Society is sending Jakob Van Helsing to keep an eye on them.

My parents made me see a therapist for stalking. They thought Dr. Red Mercer would cure me. They assumed he would teach me restraint, discipline, and distance. What they didn’t count on was the way his gaze lingers too long, like he’s undressing the truth instead of treating it. Or how his voice tightens every time I say exactly what I’m thinking. He says boundaries. I hear an invitation.

Crime journalist Oakley Novak has built her career exposing Boston’s darkest secrets, but she never expected a serial killer to turn the tables and stalk her. Xander Rhodes spent weeks watching her through hidden cameras, captivated by her sharp mind and relentless drive, until she catches him red-handed and, instead of running, challenges him with a glare that could melt steel. Xander’s either found his soulmate or lost his damn mind. Probably both.

Una institutriz llega a una casa aislada en el campo inglés para cuidar de dos niños aparentemente perfectos. La mansión es silenciosa, hermosa… y pronto empieza a revelar algo inquietante. Figuras que observan desde las torres. Rostros que aparecen tras las ventanas. Presencias que nadie más parece ver. Pero la pregunta que recorre cada página es más perturbadora que cualquier aparición: ¿son realmente fantasmas… o el reflejo de una mente que comienza a quebrarse? Publicada en 1898, La otra vuelta de tuerca, de Henry James, es una de las historias de terror psicológico más ...

A thrilling gothic debut The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age. "A truly impeccable novel...

Rachel Bagwell's ghost has found justice. Bishop Biddle is dead. But for Emily Lyles, the night of his death is only the beginning. When the shock fades, she's left with a truth she can't unsee—she was raised in a cult, and its rot runs deeper in her family than she ever imagined.

L'unico romanzo di Emily Brontë — edizione integrale, con una postfazione critica di Henry Bugalho Traduzione di Erato Press sotto la direzione editoriale di Henry Bugalho — filosofo, scrittore e Fellow della Royal Society of Arts. Ora un grande film con Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi, diretto da Emerald Fennell — riscoprite il romanzo che ha ispirato tutto. Sulle brughiere selvagge dello Yorkshire, dove il vento ulula e l'erica si stende fino all'orizzonte, un trovatello di nome Heathcliff viene accolto nella famiglia Earnshaw. Ciò che segue è una delle storie più intense, ...

Every dark romance you have ever read learned something from this book. Published in 1910, The Phantom of the Opera invented an archetype that has never gone away: the brilliant, monstrous man who loves with a violence that destroys everything it touches, including himself. Gaston Leroux was not writing a love story. He was writing about obsession — the kind that builds an underground palace for a woman who does not know you exist, that fills it with music, and that cannot understand why she is afraid. The Phantom — He lives beneath the Paris Opéra, in the darkness below five basements...

CARMILLA La obra que inspiró el vampirismo moderno Antes de Drácula, existió Carmilla. Publicada en 1872 por Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla es una de las obras fundacionales del vampirismo literario y un clásico imprescindible de la novela gótica victoriana. En un castillo aislado de Estiria, la joven Laura lleva una vida tranquila hasta que un misterioso accidente de carruaje deja en su hogar a una enigmática muchacha: Carmilla. Hermosa. Delicada. Extrañamente familiar. Mientras la intimidad entre ambas crece, una enfermedad inexplicable comienza a consumir a Laura. Sueños inquietantes...

Una de las obras más perturbadoras del terror clásico. El relato que anticipó el horror cósmico moderno. En El gran dios Pan, Arthur Machen construye una historia inquietante que explora los límites de la mente humana y la naturaleza oculta de la realidad. Todo comienza con un experimento prohibido: un intento de alterar la percepción para contemplar el mundo tal como realmente es. Pero lo que se revela tras ese velo no pertenece al ámbito de lo humano. Años después, una cadena de sucesos extraños —muertes inexplicables, desapariciones y una presencia tan fascinante como ...

He wins me at a knife throwing contest. Now I’m his forced bride. I’m tied to the wall, used as an unwilling, innocent target for knife throwers. My arm is already bleeding when a much older Bratva guy takes his turn. When he wins, he pays my family money so that he can take me with him and make me his wife. I’ve always had big dreams, the biggest one to break free from my family who exploit me for labor. But now an untamed Bratva player has me tied to him. He’s a monster who carves a knife as slowly as a vulture circling its dying meal. And when he sees me, his protective instincts...

La oscuridad lo cobija. Nadie comprende cómo las autoridades no han sido capaces de atraparlo, pero el rastro de sangre que Jack el Destripador deja tras de sí conduce directamente a las cúpulas más altas de la nobleza. Anabelle no posee valor alguno hasta que logra sobrevivir al Destripador y termina cayendo en manos del conde, un bribón con motivos ocultos para protegerla. Mientras asegura utilizarla para encontrar a quien se esconde tras tan macabros escenarios, el hombre que habita en él empieza a descubrir que hay más nobleza en Anabelle que en toda la alta sociedad. Allí donde...

Un autoritratto sconosciuto di Vincent van Gogh riemerge dopo oltre un secolo. Autenticato. Inquietante. Mai documentato. Quando la collezionista parigina Eleanor Lavoie decide di acquistarlo, non immagina che quell’opera porterà con sé qualcosa di più della semplice genialità dell’artista. Da quel momento, piccoli dettagli iniziano a incrinarsi. Ombre che cambiano forma. Sussurri nella notte. Sogni che sembrano troppo reali per essere solo sogni. Il confine tra arte e realtà si assottiglia. E lo sguardo dipinto sembra seguire ogni movimento. La maledizione Van Gogh è un thriller ...

He locked me in his castle. Then he locked me in his heart. I survived the dungeons. The tribunal. The star-metal chains they wrapped around the man I love while I screamed his name. But Korvyn Vincent—the Raven King, my professor, my bonded—isn't done protecting me. He breaks us free, steals me from the kingdom that wants us dead, and carries me to the Aerie: his ancestral fortress hidden above the clouds. Ancient. Beautiful. Impenetrable. A cage made of silk and shadow. He says it's the only way to keep me safe. That the Council, the Courts, and the woman who calls herself Regent will...

To the rest of the world, he is an ancient nightmare. To me, he is absolute salvation. As a classical cellist, I prefer the isolation of my music to the cruelty of the world. I thought I was alone in the grand, empty theater. I never suspected a lethal, marble-pale vampire lord was watching my every move from the shadows. Severin is a monster of legend. He slaughters any man who dares to look at me, feeding on rival males to fuel his terrifying dominance and spare me from his hunger. When supernatural assassins storm the opera house to claim my life, my terrifying admirer finally steps into...

Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician, secretly creates a potion that allows him to separate his moral self from his darker impulses. When he drinks it, he transforms into Edward Hyde—a cruel, violent figure who embodies Jekyll’s repressed desires. At first, Jekyll believes he can control this split existence, enjoying freedom from guilt while preserving his public reputation. But Hyde grows stronger and more independent, committing shocking crimes, including murder. Soon, Jekyll finds himself transforming into Hyde without taking the potion.

He was a prisoner of time. She was running out of it.Charlotte Pemberton has exactly ninety days to survive Blackwood Manor. Bankrupt, evicted, and exhausted from a lifetime of playing the perfect, agreeable daughter to a hyper-critical family, the decaying Cornish estate is her absolute last refuge.But she isn’t alone.The manor is occupied by an invisible, devastatingly powerful presence that wants her gone. Weaponizing the freezing drafts and shadows of the house, the entity expects her to run. Instead, Charlotte is simply too tired to be haunted. Stripped of her need to perform, she ...

Je ne me souviens pas avoir commis le massacre, mais cela ne les empêche pas de me condamner à la prison à vie. Le Bellweir est un abattoir surnaturel où les monstres sont dépouillés de leur magie et contraints à l'obéissance. J'arrive sans réclamation, sans protection et déjà marqué pour la mort. C'est alors que quatre des détenus les plus dangereux de l'établissement commencent à me surveiller. Un bourreau fae déchu qui entend les morts. Des vampires jumeaux qui règnent sur le commerce du sang. Et un métamorphe dragon qui ne s'accouple pas, mais qui réagit à moi quand ...

Joshua Hull, screenwriter of Glorious, brings an edge of horror film expertise to this story of small-town haunting, trauma, and grief that just won't let go. 8114 roots out the rot of a small town's past and unravels the memories we must face to survive the present.

I mostri legati a me non vogliono la libertà. Vogliono il controllo. Il direttore vuole quello che ero. Il Consiglio mi vuole cancellare. Avrebbero dovuto uccidermi quando ne avevano la possibilità. Perché non sto più cercando di fuggire. Rivendico ciò che è sempre stato mio. Non sono più in trappola. Legato per scelta. E incoronata in catene. Tropi: perché scegliere, paranormal romance, famiglia ritrovata, interessi amorosi cattivi, toccala e muori, antieroi moralmente grigi Trilogia completa!