Contemporary Gothic

Bad men make excellent fertilizer ... The cult Korean psychological horror tale of revenge, reinvention, and what it takes to grow back. Perfect nutrients for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER In the heart of a quiet town, a young woman tends to her plant shop, but...

In this short, sharp, Southern Gothic horror novel, home takes on a whole new meaning. From Micaiah Johnson, the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Space Between Worlds. At the end of the Civil War, a daughter of the Confederacy made what she thought was an innocent wish: to build a...

‘Unsettling… Had me hooked, suspicious and creeped out’ Reader review ★★★★★ 'A spooky, ghostly read…very twisty!' Reader review ★★★★★ The past won’t stay buried… Devastated by news of a tragic accident on the haunting coast of Anglesey, Elin returns home: to the...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Anne Rice, this sensuously written spellbinding classic remains 'the most successful vampire story since Bram Stoker's Dracula' (The Times) In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire...

"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over...

"Fascinating." ―Mariana Enriquez "Buoyant, boisterous and often brutal." ―The Observer "Teeming with life, humanity and hope."―Irish Times THE INDEPENDENT'S BOOK OF THE MONTH THREE SISTERS. A CARETAKER, A TRAVELLER, AND A BRIDE. Mutiara and Maya's lives are irrevocably altered when their...

"A dark dream of a book.” —Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Red Queen series and the Realm Breaker trilogy “A riveting, magical read that is impossible to put down.” —Rebecca Ross, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Divine Rivals Set in a world of...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the land of Lapvona, the lord of the land Villiam is cheating the local villagers of their food, their water, their livelihoods. Grotesque and ridiculous, he marries the pregnant and tongueless ex-nun Agata, whom he believes will make him God, and his son will be...

A haunting winter novel with obsession at its heart and folklore around its edges. 'Surreal, sharp and deeply moving' Julia Armfield, author of Our Wives Under The Sea 'Will crawl beneath your skin and make you shiver' Genevieve Jagger, author of Fragile Animals Vivienne arrives at a boarding...

THE SLASHER OF SUMMER '26. A LOVE LETTER TO ALL HORROR MOVIE FANS, SLASHER SUMMER IS THE PERFECT SUMMERWEEN READ . . . . Perfect for fans of the Scream franchise, Friday the 13th and Halloween. FROM SCREEN TO SCREAM When Patrick invites his old high school friends to stay at the remote Portnoy...

Being an immortal rogue enforcer is never easy. But when human bones are found buried in a residential garden—and they happen to be discovered by your life mate—things get even more complicated in this latest installment of New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’s wickedly alluring...

Brought to you by Penguin BOOK TWO OF THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY Enter the world of Gormenghast...the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the...

Brought to you by Penguin. New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. When an altercation with the police leads to Pepper being mistakenly admitted to a mental institution in Queens, NYC, he doesn’t expect to stay there long. It will be a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art. There she is drawn into a...

Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels A lay...

So what if he's a bit older and usually regards a human female as dinner, not a dinner date? Yes, Roman Draganesti is a vampire, but a vampire who lost one of his fangs sinking his teeth into something he shouldn't have. Now he has one night to find a dentist before his natural healing abilities...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor, read by Andrew Scott and Asa Butterfield. None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the gothic horror phenomenon that is sweeping across Europe, with over 2 million copies sold As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront...

Brought to you by Penguin. *THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their...

They say after betrayal comes ruin. They weren't wrong. Ancient secrets emerge from the university's foundations. The artefact we fought over is merely a key to something darker, older, and more powerful. Our enemies circle, thinking us weak in our division. They've underestimated what I'm...