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
A Land So Wide
To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.
Fantasy
Horror
Gothic
Historical Fiction
Adult
A Land So Wide
To rescue her sacrificed love, a mapmaker must become the monster her settlement fears most.
Fantasy
Horror
Gothic
Historical Fiction
Adult
La hija de la noche
Her cellar holds a vampire. Her blood is his leash. The village wants them dead.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Vampires
Paranormal Romance
Romance
La hija de la noche
Her cellar holds a vampire. Her blood is his leash. The village wants them dead.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Vampires
Paranormal Romance
Romance
A Dark and Secret Magic
A hedge witch shelters the rival who betrayed her as a death god's pact comes due.
Fantasy
Romance
Witches
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
A Dark and Secret Magic
A hedge witch shelters the rival who betrayed her as a death god's pact comes due.
Fantasy
Romance
Witches
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
Portrait of a Shadow
Mae's sister vanished. The only clue: a white painting whose peeling corner hides something hungry.
Horror
Young Adult
Paranormal
Mystery
Gothic
Portrait of a Shadow
Mae's sister vanished. The only clue: a white painting whose peeling corner hides something hungry.
Horror
Young Adult
Paranormal
Mystery
Gothic
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Short Stories
Poetry
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Madness, doomed beauty, and the birth of the detective: a journey into American Gothic.
Classics
Horror
Gothic
Short Stories
Poetry
The Turnglass
A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Gothic
Suspense
The Turnglass
A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Thriller
Gothic
Suspense
The Darkness Within Us
After killing her husband for his fortune, a young widow faces an heir with demon blood.
Fantasy
Romance
Young Adult
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
The Darkness Within Us
After killing her husband for his fortune, a young widow faces an heir with demon blood.
Fantasy
Romance
Young Adult
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
How to Survive a Horror Story
A deadly will traps writers in a hungry manor: confess your sins or become its next meal.
Horror
Thriller
Mystery
Paranormal
Suspense
How to Survive a Horror Story
A deadly will traps writers in a hungry manor: confess your sins or become its next meal.
Horror
Thriller
Mystery
Paranormal
Suspense
Lovely Wicked Things
A criminologist falls for a chaos magician who erased her memory of their shared kill.
Romance
Dark
Erotic Romance
Contemporary Romance
Suspense
Lovely Wicked Things
A criminologist falls for a chaos magician who erased her memory of their shared kill.
Romance
Dark
Erotic Romance
Contemporary Romance
Suspense
The Sword of the Lictor
A torturer flees his mountain city into a dying world, carrying a relic that resurrects the dead.
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
Speculative Fiction
The Sword of the Lictor
A torturer flees his mountain city into a dying world, carrying a relic that resurrects the dead.
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Classics
Literature
Speculative Fiction
The Wolf and the Woodsman
A magicless woman betrayed by her village allies with the scarred prince sent to capture her.
Fantasy
Romance
Adult
Fantasy Romance
Mythology
The Wolf and the Woodsman
A magicless woman betrayed by her village allies with the scarred prince sent to capture her.
Fantasy
Romance
Adult
Fantasy Romance
Mythology
The Queen's Bargain
A warlord prince's dark power turns against him, threatening his marriage and his realm.
Fantasy
Romance
Dark Fantasy
Magic
Paranormal Romance
The Queen's Bargain
A warlord prince's dark power turns against him, threatening his marriage and his realm.
Fantasy
Romance
Dark Fantasy
Magic
Paranormal Romance
An Academy for Liars
A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.
Fantasy
Horror
Gothic
Academia
Adult
An Academy for Liars
A broken woman follows a mysterious call into a hidden college where altering reality costs blood.
Fantasy
Horror
Gothic
Academia
Adult
Losing Neverland
Peter Pan returns as dark Captain Hook, dragging grown Wendy to a Neverland ruled by obsession.
Fantasy
Romance
Dark
Retellings
Fantasy Romance
Losing Neverland
Peter Pan returns as dark Captain Hook, dragging grown Wendy to a Neverland ruled by obsession.
Fantasy
Romance
Dark
Retellings
Fantasy Romance
Beautiful Chaos
A Southern boy's girlfriend broke the rules of magic. Now he must pay the price.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Paranormal
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Beautiful Chaos
A Southern boy's girlfriend broke the rules of magic. Now he must pay the price.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Paranormal
Romance
Paranormal Romance
Powers of Darkness
A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.
Horror
Vampires
Gothic
Classics
Paranormal
Powers of Darkness
A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.
Horror
Vampires
Gothic
Classics
Paranormal
The Second Death of Locke
The hidden heir of a sunken magical isle must trade her mage's freedom to restore it.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Gothic
Magic
The Second Death of Locke
The hidden heir of a sunken magical isle must trade her mage's freedom to restore it.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Gothic
Magic
Sorcery of Thorns
Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Magic
Sorcery of Thorns
Framed for murder, a library apprentice must trust a sorcerer and the demon who raised him.
Fantasy
Young Adult
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Magic
The Broken Girls
A skeleton in a boarding school well sends a journalist back to her sister's unsolved death.
Mystery
Thriller
Horror
Historical Fiction
Gothic
The Broken Girls
A skeleton in a boarding school well sends a journalist back to her sister's unsolved death.
Mystery
Thriller
Horror
Historical Fiction
Gothic
Born in Blood
A Victorian rake turned vampire awakens an immortal hunger that binds him to his ancient sire.
Romance
Vampires
Dark
Paranormal Romance
Gay Romance
Born in Blood
A Victorian rake turned vampire awakens an immortal hunger that binds him to his ancient sire.
Romance
Vampires
Dark
Paranormal Romance
Gay Romance
The Dead House
One body, two souls. When her sister vanishes, Kaitlyn is left alone with a whispering voice.
Horror
Young Adult
Paranormal
Thriller
Mystery
The Dead House
One body, two souls. When her sister vanishes, Kaitlyn is left alone with a whispering voice.
Horror
Young Adult
Paranormal
Thriller
Mystery
Spells for Forgetting
After fourteen years, August Salt returns to the island where a girl's drowning whispers his name.
Fantasy
Mystery
Romance
Magical Realism
Adult
Spells for Forgetting
After fourteen years, August Salt returns to the island where a girl's drowning whispers his name.
Fantasy
Mystery
Romance
Magical Realism
Adult
The Cruel Dark
An amnesiac arrives at a crumbling manor where the professor's dead wife refuses to stay buried.
Gothic
Romance
Historical Romance
Suspense
Mystery
The Cruel Dark
An amnesiac arrives at a crumbling manor where the professor's dead wife refuses to stay buried.
Gothic
Romance
Historical Romance
Suspense
Mystery
One for Sorrow
After their school is accused of murder, a new student and her reluctant roommate hunt a killer.
Young Adult
Mystery
Thriller
Contemporary
Suspense
One for Sorrow
After their school is accused of murder, a new student and her reluctant roommate hunt a killer.
Young Adult
Mystery
Thriller
Contemporary
Suspense
The Damsel and the Daggerman
To expose a traveling carnival, a journalist takes a knife thrower's dare and becomes his undoing.
Romance
Steampunk
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy
Paranormal
The Damsel and the Daggerman
To expose a traveling carnival, a journalist takes a knife thrower's dare and becomes his undoing.
Romance
Steampunk
Paranormal Romance
Fantasy
Paranormal
House of Bane and Blood
One stolen night of freedom ties an heiress to the stranger who crashes her wedding.
Fantasy Romance
Romance
Fantasy
New Adult
Magic
House of Bane and Blood
One stolen night of freedom ties an heiress to the stranger who crashes her wedding.
Fantasy Romance
Romance
Fantasy
New Adult
Magic
Beautiful Redemption
Dead and separated from Lena, Ethan must navigate the afterlife to destroy his own death page.
Young Adult
Fantasy
Romance
Paranormal
Paranormal Romance
Beautiful Redemption
Dead and separated from Lena, Ethan must navigate the afterlife to destroy his own death page.
Young Adult
Fantasy
Romance
Paranormal
Paranormal Romance
As I Lay Dying
A poor Southern family journeys to bury their matriarch, contending with flood, fire, and madness.
Classics
Literature
American
Southern
Gothic
As I Lay Dying
A poor Southern family journeys to bury their matriarch, contending with flood, fire, and madness.
Classics
Literature
American
Southern
Gothic
I Am Legend
The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.
Horror
Science Fiction
Vampires
Post Apocalyptic
Classics
I Am Legend
The last man alive barricades his home nightly against the neighbors who want his blood.
Horror
Science Fiction
Vampires
Post Apocalyptic
Classics
Devour the Dark
Devoured by the witch he swallowed, a man's only hope is two lovers hunting a mythic cure.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
Dark
Devour the Dark
Devoured by the witch he swallowed, a man's only hope is two lovers hunting a mythic cure.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Paranormal Romance
Dark
Dark & Darker Still
She hears the dead and is bound to two monster brothers. A political marriage spells catastrophe.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Dark
Adult
Dark & Darker Still
She hears the dead and is bound to two monster brothers. A political marriage spells catastrophe.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Dark
Adult
