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A haunting tale of devotion, secrecy, and forbidden longing unfolds within the shadowed halls of the church. In The Priest and the Acolyte, John Francis Bloxam delivers a deeply atmospheric gothic story exploring faith, emotional conflict, repression, and tragedy. Written with quiet intensity...

In Tonio Kröger erzählt Thomas Mann von einem jungen Schriftsteller zwischen zwei Welten: der bürgerlich-nordischen Herkunft und der leidenschaftlich-künstlerischen Natur. Tonio fühlt sich weder ganz dem Leben noch ganz der Kunst zugehörig und bleibt ein Suchender. Seine Reise wird zu einer leisen, melancholischen Selbstbefragung über Identität, Einsamkeit und die Sehnsucht nach Zugehörigkeit.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Imp of the Perverse” is a dark psychological tale exploring self-destruction, guilt, obsession, and the strange human urge to act against one’s own best interests. Blending gothic horror with philosophical reflection, Poe examines the terrifying power of impulse as...

A simple wager. A deserted house. And something waiting in the dark. In The Middle Toe of the Right Foot, Ambrose Bierce delivers a masterclass in psychological horror—where tension builds not through spectacle, but through what cannot quite be seen… or explained. When a man accepts a...

You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister, Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.

He’s in her head. And he’s not leaving. Grace Harper spends her days finding dream homes for strangers—but her office is a nightmare she can’t escape. Bullied by younger colleagues and on a final warning from her boss, she hates her work but desperately needs to keep earning so she can...

“Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. This is the book everyone will be talking about.” — Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of...

"Smart, thoughtful, and sensual." —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists A gothic-tinged fever dream that reimagines the young American in France, Salomé follows an adrift journalist who accepts an alluring stranger’s invitation to stay at her home in a small...

Set in an alternate reality where pregnancy endows women with exceptional powers, one new mother uncovers terrifying truths about herself and life in this philosophical and propulsive tale of a woman and mother in crisis. In a world where drastic measures have averted the global environmental...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Sexy, messy, funny and raw." —The New York Times #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything — and isn't sure she wants it back, narrated by Rebecca Lowman. Everybody...

Days of Feasting and Rejoicing is a haunting literary crime novel by award-winning author David Bergen When her friend Christine drowns under suspicious circumstances, Esther Maile—who has always longed to be someone else—slips almost effortlessly into Christine’s life. With a new name...

Inspired by journalists Christiane Amanpour and Sylvia Poggioli, Midnight, at the War is a novel about a reporter chasing the biggest story of her career as she contends with a tense newsroom, a dangerous global conflict, and all the problems she’s running away from at home, by the acclaimed...

সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায় এর অনান্য ছদ্মনামের মধ্যে একটি - নীললোহিত। নীললোহিত সমগ্রের চারটি ভাগে , উনি লিখেছেন জীবনের...

It is 1951. The close-knit community of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, does not welcome those who are different. Jacob Hampton's wealthy parents disinherited him when he married Naomi, an uneducated hotel maid from out of town. They had bigger plans for him. Now Jacob has been called up to fight in Korea, leaving a pregnant Naomi behind. The only person he can entrust to take care of her is his lifelong friend, Blackburn Gant. Blackburn, who tends the local cemetery alone, is an outsider too, his appearance irrevocably altered by childhood disease.

Written in the winter of 1849, The Scarlet Letter unfolds the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman branded as an adulteress in the harsh Puritan world of seventeenth-century New England. As Hester calls on her inner strength to transcend her shame, the scarlet letter ceases to be a stigma and...

Mike Reed, Assistenzprofessor an einer Universität im Mittleren Westen, lernt auf einer Party eine beschwipste Schönheit kennen: eine rothaarige Kunststudentin in einem blauen Samtkleid. Doch er nimmt sie kaum wahr, denn noch immer ist er gefangen im Tunnel seiner Trauer. Vier Jahre zuvor hat er bei einem tragischen Verkehrsunfall Frau und Tochter verloren. Einige Zeit später kreuzt die geheimnisvolle Rothaarige erneut seinen Weg – als Nackttänzerin, Performancekünstlerin und Sängerin einer Sekte.

'This book has bestseller written all over it. I had to remind myself to breathe' NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ––––––––––––––––––––––– There's no smoke without fire… As someone who has suffered abuse at the hands of men, Maddie protects women...

From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a hair-raising locked-room thriller about a group of old university friends with a killer in their midst. Old friends, new secrets, one deadly reunion. Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party...

Doro hatte gehofft, mit Matthes' Hilfe endlich Licht in die Dunkelheit ihrer Familiengeschichte zu bringen. Doch dann ist er plötzlich von Helgoland verschwunden, ohne eine Nachricht zu hinterlassen. Und das, obwohl sich die beiden auch persönlich nahe gekommen waren.

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...