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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.

In the cities and untamed wilds of Ireland, monsters are rising up against Unionists. Luckily. Sam and Hel aren't English. Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty might have solved the Paris case, but that doesn't mean the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena trusts them. Sam's...

A child's bones, a lost girl, a mind adrift - sometimes what is lost comes back to haunt you...from an award-winning author comes a contemporary gothic tale of guilt, grief and redemption. In the village of Kiln Creek in the Victorian Highlands, a ghost gum falls in a storm. Tangled in its roots...

I own an exclusive BDSM club for Hong Kong’s rich and powerful…And I knew he was trouble the second he walked in. Not just because he was the most handsome man I’d ever seen…But because I could sense a darkness in him. Despite the danger (or maybe because of it), I fell for him…Until I learned the terrible secret he’d kept from me. Now my life is at risk. Everything I’ve built could be destroyed. And worst of all, I’m about to lose him… forever.

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.

'Fans of Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel will love this' LAURA SHEPPERSON 'Unsettling, claustrophobic and compelling' KATE RIORDAN 'Gripping frightening and wholly original' JODIE MATTHEWS 'A chillingly Gothic tale that is exquisitely written' TOBI COVENTRY The thrilling new historical mystery...

A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. “A gothic coastal noir about generational violence and the cyclical nature of predation, The Only One Who...

Rumors and Gossip . . . The lifeblood of London When Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly...

Megan Dunn arrives in Seaside, Oregon a broken woman with a dream: open a B&B like she planned to do with her husband, Cass, whose life was tragically cut short five years ago. But the old Victorian she bought needs extensive renovations and the one man who can help her—Theo Valentine—takes an immediate and intense dislike to her. Left scarred and unable to talk after a terrible accident, the reclusive Theo is a brilliant contractor whose plans to renovate the building Megan bought are eerily similar to her own.

'I genuinely could not put this down' – Stacey Halls, author of Mrs England 'A tour de force of a gothic thriller. I devoured it' – Gillian McAllister, author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time 'Taut, propulsive, beautifully done' – Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of Pandora From Elizabeth Macneal...

لأجيالٍ متعاقبة، كان كل فرد من عائلة فرانكشتاين يجد حبه الحقيقي وتوأم روحه، مما يفتح أمامه أبواب حياة زوجية مليئة بالمغامرات السعيدة. لكن أنجيليكا فرانكشتاين، الذكية، الجميلة (والمريبة بعض الشيء)، قد نفد منها الخُطّاب، وتخشى أن تكون الاستثناء في هذه القاعدة العائلية. وعندما تساعد شقيقها فيكتور في تجربته الثورية لإحياء رجل أعيد تجميع أعضاءه، تدرك أن وجود رجل لطيف يتعافى في غرفة الضيوف قد يكون فرصة ليعرفها بشكل وثيق. ولأول مرة، تنطلق أنجيليكا في مشروع خاص بها تمامًا.

When Clara MacLeod inherits Dour Hill, a crumbling Highland estate, she hopes for a fresh start. But her daughter Maisie is drawn inexorably to a mirror in the hall. One that doesn’t just reflect. It remembers. It watches. Whispers bleed from plaster. Furniture shifts in shadowed corridors. And Maisie insists something is trapped inside the glass. Something bound by ritual, twisted by legacy, desperate to be freed.

When Tegan Penrose climbs over the iron railings of the walled rose garden in the empty ruins of Trevarron House on the wild Cornish coast, she's unexpectedly pulled into 1755... and trapped in a world she doesn't belong to. Mistaken for a lady's maid, she enters a household shadowed by whispers and scandal. Lord William De Vere Trevarron is haunted. His beautiful young wife died under mysterious circumstances four years ago, and society still whispers of murder.

È il 1584 quando, orfana, Emily St. Aubert raggiunge la zia Madame Cheron: un rifugio che presto si rivela prigione. Il matrimonio di lei con il conte Montoni la trascina in un dedalo di torri aguzze, stanze invase dall'ombra e corridoi in cui ogni eco vibra come un presagio. Quando cala la notte, note lontane e sussurri intrappolati nelle mura guidano Emily fino a lettere ingiallite, dietro a tende consumate dal tempo. Il conte Montoni la fissa con gelida determinazione, desideroso di soffocare ogni barlume di speranza.

E. T. A. Hoffmann war ein Meister des Phantastischen – seine Erzählungen sind schaurig-schön, tiefgründig, geheimnisvoll. In ihnen verschmelzen Realität und Wahn, Träume und Abgründe, Musik und Magie zu einem einzigartigen literarischen Kosmos. Diese Sammlung zeigt E. T. A. Hoffmann in seiner ganzen Bandbreite – zwischen Albtraum und Poesie, Wahnsinn und Witz.

Alexéi Konstantínovich Tolstói, primo segundo del famoso León Tolstói y miembro destacado de la aristocracia rusa nos narra uno de los grandes relatos pioneros de vampiros del siglo XIX, recuperando las leyendas populares del folclore eslavo y balcánico para crear historias de vampiros que mezclan elementos románticos con un terror más visceral y ancestral. En La familia del Vurdalak (o wurdulac, vourdalak), Vurdalak hace referencia a una antigua raza de vampiros que regresan de la tumba para atacar a sus propios parientes y alimentarse con la sangre de sus familiares.

Jane Eyre is the story of a young woman who grows up with almost nothing except her own determination, sense of fairness, and desire for dignity. Orphaned as a child and raised in a household where she is unwanted, Jane is sent to a harsh school that teaches her early the realities of struggle, loneliness, and endurance.

Jessamine Glenmyr is on the run. She thought she'd fled far enough, living a life of obscurity in the Borderlands among rogues and outcasts. She was wrong. When her enemy finds her, she flees deeper into dark fae territory, risking death in the frozen woodlands. Lord Redvyr is annoyed when his wolf drags an unconscious and wounded light fae into his hunting camp. Their kind can never be trusted, and yet, as lord of his people, he is compelled to help her. The last thing Redvyr wants is a beautiful and beguiling fae wreaking havoc in his clan.

The perfect life. The perfect home. But at what price? Introspective Ruth Parker is desperate for love and attention. Overlooked as a child by her cold and critical mother, her pain manifests in loneliness and a crippling lack of self-esteem. When glamorous actress 'Aunt' Vanessa, her mother's...

Wilhelm von Tore is dying. As he looks back on his life he reflects on his upbringing in Dresden, his beloved grandmother and his medical career during the second world war. But mostly he remembers his darling Luci, the great love of his life, his dark-haired beauty promised to him in a dream years before they met. Though only together for a few months in her first life, their love is written in the stars. Using scientific research compiled over decades, Wilhelm ensures that, for him and his beloved, death is only the beginning.