Gothic
Dark corridors and haunted mansions set the stage for tales of psychological torment, forbidden desires, and supernatural terror in Victorian-era Britain and beyond. Brooding antiheroes, cursed artifacts, and family secrets intertwine with themes of morality, science, and social decay in these atmospheric works that birthed horror literature as we know it.
Gothic Book Summaries
Big Swiss
A transcriptionist falls for a client's voice, meets her at the dog park, and gives a fake name.
Queer
Lgbt
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Lesbian
Big Swiss
A transcriptionist falls for a client's voice, meets her at the dog park, and gives a fake name.
Queer
Lgbt
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Lesbian
The Underneath
A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Animals
Magical Realism
Fairy Tales
The Underneath
A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.
Fantasy
Middle Grade
Animals
Magical Realism
Fairy Tales
Things We Lost in the Fire
Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.
Horror
Short Stories
Gothic
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
Things We Lost in the Fire
Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.
Horror
Short Stories
Gothic
Literary Fiction
Contemporary
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Victorian
Short Stories
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Victorian
Short Stories
The Austere Academy
Three orphans at a grim school find their nemesis disguised as a coach, running them ragged.
Children
Middle Grade
Young Adult
Mystery
Adventure
The Austere Academy
Three orphans at a grim school find their nemesis disguised as a coach, running them ragged.
Children
Middle Grade
Young Adult
Mystery
Adventure
The Bone Houses
When the dead rise, a gravedigger and a mapmaker journey into cursed mountains to break a spell.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Horror
Dark Fantasy
Zombies
The Bone Houses
When the dead rise, a gravedigger and a mapmaker journey into cursed mountains to break a spell.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Horror
Dark Fantasy
Zombies
The Black Phone
Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.
Horror
Short Stories
Paranormal
Ghosts
Supernatural
The Black Phone
Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.
Horror
Short Stories
Paranormal
Ghosts
Supernatural
Clockwork Prince
Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Paranormal
Historical Fiction
Clockwork Prince
Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Paranormal
Historical Fiction
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.
Classics
Short Stories
Horror
Feminism
Gothic
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.
Classics
Short Stories
Horror
Feminism
Gothic
The Cursed
A witch resurrected by the devil wakes as his prisoner, his obsession, and his fatal weakness.
Fantasy
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Witches
The Cursed
A witch resurrected by the devil wakes as his prisoner, his obsession, and his fatal weakness.
Fantasy
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Witches
Una marea oscura y letal
Two rival scholars hunt the source of magic, trapped together on an expedition with a murderer.
Fantasy
Romance
Lesbian
Queer
Gothic
Una marea oscura y letal
Two rival scholars hunt the source of magic, trapped together on an expedition with a murderer.
Fantasy
Romance
Lesbian
Queer
Gothic
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Siblings separated by WWI find a fiddler whose hotel offers shelter at the cost of memory.
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Magical Realism
Paranormal
Historical
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Siblings separated by WWI find a fiddler whose hotel offers shelter at the cost of memory.
Historical Fiction
Fantasy
Magical Realism
Paranormal
Historical
Mrs. March
Told she inspired her husband's cruel new character, a Manhattan wife sinks into paranoid dread.
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Horror
Gothic
Suspense
Mrs. March
Told she inspired her husband's cruel new character, a Manhattan wife sinks into paranoid dread.
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Horror
Gothic
Suspense
The Ersatz Elevator
Their new penthouse runs on trends; their nemesis runs an auction to sell their kidnapped friends.
Children's
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Mystery
Gothic
The Ersatz Elevator
Their new penthouse runs on trends; their nemesis runs an auction to sell their kidnapped friends.
Children's
Middle Grade
Fantasy
Mystery
Gothic
A History of Wild Places
A psychic tracker follows a vanished author into a forest commune, and then he disappears too.
Mystery
Thriller
Fantasy
Horror
Magical Realism
A History of Wild Places
A psychic tracker follows a vanished author into a forest commune, and then he disappears too.
Mystery
Thriller
Fantasy
Horror
Magical Realism
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge hates Christmas and hoards his money. Three spirits visit to show him what he's lost.
Classics
Christmas
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Literature
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge hates Christmas and hoards his money. Three spirits visit to show him what he's lost.
Classics
Christmas
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Literature
Our Share of Night
A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.
Horror
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Gothic
Literary Fiction
Our Share of Night
A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.
Horror
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Gothic
Literary Fiction
The Writing Retreat
An exclusive writing retreat in a remote mansion becomes a paranoid, drug-fueled fight for survival.
Thriller
Horror
Suspense
Gothic
Contemporary
The Writing Retreat
An exclusive writing retreat in a remote mansion becomes a paranoid, drug-fueled fight for survival.
Thriller
Horror
Suspense
Gothic
Contemporary
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Visions of death send Gemma to finishing school, where a hidden diary reveals a magical realm.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Paranormal
Historical
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Visions of death send Gemma to finishing school, where a hidden diary reveals a magical realm.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Paranormal
Historical
The Infernal Devices
An American girl in Victorian London is kidnapped and forced to shapeshift to rescue her brother.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Steampunk
Paranormal
The Infernal Devices
An American girl in Victorian London is kidnapped and forced to shapeshift to rescue her brother.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Steampunk
Paranormal
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
A lost Surrealist painting surfaces in Dubai. The unveiling ends in murder. The canvas knows why.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Historical
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
A lost Surrealist painting surfaces in Dubai. The unveiling ends in murder. The canvas knows why.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Literary Fiction
Historical
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
The accident killed her friends and spared her. Now Mara Dyer's worst thoughts are becoming reality.
Young Adult
Fantasy
Paranormal
Romance
Mystery
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
The accident killed her friends and spared her. Now Mara Dyer's worst thoughts are becoming reality.
Young Adult
Fantasy
Paranormal
Romance
Mystery
Night of Masks and Knives
A memory thief enters a deadly masquerade, and the masked crime lord is the love she lost.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Fae
Magic
Night of Masks and Knives
A memory thief enters a deadly masquerade, and the masked crime lord is the love she lost.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Fae
Magic
Blackmailing Belle
She weds a cursed shifter to free her father. His pack needs what she cannot fake.
Fantasy
Romance
Retellings
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Blackmailing Belle
She weds a cursed shifter to free her father. His pack needs what she cannot fake.
Fantasy
Romance
Retellings
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
The Complete Stories and Poems
Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.
Classics
Horror
Poetry
Short Stories
Gothic
The Complete Stories and Poems
Every tale and poem: madness, murder, mourning, and the birth of modern detective fiction.
Classics
Horror
Poetry
Short Stories
Gothic
We Are All the Same in the Dark
A trucker finds a mute, one-eyed girl, reigniting a Texas town's hunt for his vanished sister.
Mystery
Thriller
Suspense
Literary Fiction
Crime
We Are All the Same in the Dark
A trucker finds a mute, one-eyed girl, reigniting a Texas town's hunt for his vanished sister.
Mystery
Thriller
Suspense
Literary Fiction
Crime
Murder at Holly House
A hapless detective banished to a snowbound village unearths a chimney corpse and a coup.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Crime
Christmas
Murder at Holly House
A hapless detective banished to a snowbound village unearths a chimney corpse and a coup.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Crime
Christmas
Shadowland
Two schoolboys learn real magic at a remote estate, unaware the final trick requires their lives.
Horror
Fantasy
Dark Fantasy
Gothic
Supernatural
Shadowland
Two schoolboys learn real magic at a remote estate, unaware the final trick requires their lives.
Horror
Fantasy
Dark Fantasy
Gothic
Supernatural
Immortality
A Regency surgeon discovers a circle of immortals whose eternal life comes with a hidden cost.
Romance
Fantasy
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Gothic
Immortality
A Regency surgeon discovers a circle of immortals whose eternal life comes with a hidden cost.
Romance
Fantasy
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Gothic
Frankenstien (4)
A scientist creates life and recoils. His creature, abandoned and enraged, demands a reckoning.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Science Fiction
Literature
Frankenstien (4)
A scientist creates life and recoils. His creature, abandoned and enraged, demands a reckoning.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Science Fiction
Literature
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
A Southern book club knows their new neighbor is a vampire. Their husbands know they're hysterical.
Horror
Vampires
Paranormal
Thriller
Fantasy
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
A Southern book club knows their new neighbor is a vampire. Their husbands know they're hysterical.
Horror
Vampires
Paranormal
Thriller
Fantasy
Nightweaver
Bound to the Nightweaver who captured her, a pirate must decide which monster to truly fear.
Fantasy
Romance
Young Adult
Fantasy Romance
Pirates
Nightweaver
Bound to the Nightweaver who captured her, a pirate must decide which monster to truly fear.
Fantasy
Romance
Young Adult
Fantasy Romance
Pirates
The Return of the Native
Restless on the heath, she weds a man from Paris, never knowing he means to stay.
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Victorian
British
The Return of the Native
Restless on the heath, she weds a man from Paris, never knowing he means to stay.
Classics
Literature
19th Century
Victorian
British
Death's Obsession
Death should have taken her in the crash. Instead he fell in love with her.
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Dark Fantasy
Dark
Death's Obsession
Death should have taken her in the crash. Instead he fell in love with her.
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy Romance
Dark Fantasy
Dark
