Gothic Horror Mysteries

The grieving widower. The motherless daughters. A beautiful house in the woods. Deep in a remote Norwegian forest, Lexi has found a new home with architect Tom and his two young daughters. With snow underfoot and the sound of the nearby fjord in her ears, it’s as if Lexi has stepped into a fairy tale. But this family has a history – and this place has a past. Something was destroyed to build their beautiful new house. And those ancient, whispering woods have a long memory. Lexi begins to hear things, see things that don’t make sense.

As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable, but their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is breath-taking, but it has a dark past: in 1974 it was rented by a notorious rockstar, who was joined by up-and-coming musician Pierce Sheldon and his girlfriend, Mari. By the end of the holiday Pierce is dead, and Mari goes on to write one of the greatest horror novels of all time.

Louisiana, año 1830. Harriet, esclava de la plantación Beaumont de Saint Francisville, acude a Marie Laveau, la Reina del Vudú de Nueva Orleans, para vengarse de su amo, hombre tiránico y cruel atormentado por la muerte de su esposa. En una casa maldita de la Louisiana del Viejo Sur Harriet vivirá una historia de venganza, magia y libertad. ¿Qué secretos esconde la mansión Beaumont? ¿Qué hay bajo las oscuras aguas del bayou? Viaja a la Nueva Orleans del siglo XIX, a las plantaciones de algodón y el vudú.

Abandoned at a boarding school on a wild and remote island, Faye Fitzgerald discovers that she and the other pupils have been sent there for doing something wicked. But what is it that Faye has done? She might be bold enough to tackle the sinister mysteries of the island, but has she the courage to face the secrets deep within herself?

In the dim light of Ravenwood Manor, Eleanor encounters Lord Nathaniel Ravenscroft—the last descendant of the cursed lineage. Haunted by the sins of his ancestors, Lord Nathaniel has dedicated his life to unearthing the truth behind the malevolent entity and the family's dark legacy. Together, they form an unlikely alliance, bound by their shared heritage and their quest for redemption. As they delve deeper into the shadows that have plagued the Ravenscroft family, Eleanor and Lord Nathaniel confront malevolent entities and unearth long-buried family secrets.

One day in Lagos, young dancer Ikemefuna is put on a plane to Houston to meet her new husband, Nna. Promises are made to her – about her education, about the man she will marry, about her freedom. None of them are kept. A few months later, self-professed feminist Nna finds a beautiful woman cooking in his parents’ kitchen. They tell him Ikemefuna is his wife, there to give them the grandson they’ve been waiting for. She appears obedient, malleable. But she is no ordinary wife.

Those in line to the Malenfer estate are succumbing to terrible ends - is a supernatural legacy at work, or something entirely more human? Young Irish mercenary Dermot Ward retreats to Paris at the close of World War I where he drinks to forget his experiences, especially the death of his comrade, Arthur Malenfer. But Arthur has not forgotten Dermot.

Due to an unfortunate series of events, a teenage girl named Carmilla is left in the care of a wealthy widower and his daughter, Laura. Laura, upon meeting the poor girl, comes to realize that she knows her face. Years prior when she was but a child, Laura was haunted by a presence in her room with the likeness of the young girl. Convinced it was just a nightmare, Laura and Carmilla become fast friends. But as Carmilla's stay continues, strange things begin to happen to the townspeople nearby.

From the author of Rabbit King and Pain Diary comes the third electrifying installment of the Deb Dawson series Deb Dawson and Madeline Hall return in Keith McCabe’s spellbinding supernatural thriller. Powerful witches and nefarious devil worshipers wage war in the heart of the New Jersey Pine Barrens in an ultimate battle of good versus evil. As the lines blur between reality and the paranormal, Deb Dawson and her allies must confront their darkest fears and face their devils head on… Eleanor Vaughn is a renowned paranormal researcher with more than two dozen bestselling books ...

The Postmaster looked over my shoulder. As I turned to look I saw a flicker of movement from across the street. I felt unseen eyes peer at me. He walked away without another word. I watched as he climbed onto his bicycle and sped away down the street. I turned back and looked over my shoulder. Someone had been watching us.

Dorian Gray è un ragazzo bello, virtuoso e amabile come nessun altro giovane. Il pittore Basil Hallward, che nutre verso Dorian forti sentimenti, sta dipingendo con maestria il ritratto del giovane. Nello studio dell’artista si trova anche Lord Henry Wotton, sofisticato e cinico. Il nobile persuade a poco a poco Dorian dell’importanza della bellezza, un valore prezioso e assoluto che il tempo corrompe. Un’insana ossessione si impadronisce del ragazzo, che vorrebbe restare per sempre bello come nel ritratto.

Edición sin música. El misterio de Marie Roget. Está basado en el asesinato real de Mary Cecilia Rogers, un crimen que paralizó a Nueva York debido a la violencia inusitada que el asesino volcó sobre la joven. Mary Cecilia Rogers nació en Connecticut en 1820, desapareció el 4 de octubre de 1838 en circunstancias poco claras.

The Ghost of Sarey Jane is a 20th century Romeo and Juliet tale with a touch of Macbeth and To Kill a Mockingbird. The time is 1916. Sarey Jane Munroe, an emotionally and physically abused girl, lives on a farm in Appalachia. Her only escape is her friendship with Billy Puckett.

Dorian Gray, giovane e bellissimo dandy della società londinese del diciannovesimo secolo, plagiato e iniziato dall'amico esteta Lord Henry, esprime, contemplando un proprio ritratto, il desiderio di poter rimanere sempre giovane e bello. Per un terribile sortilegio è il dipinto a portare i segni dell'età che avanza e della decadenza umana e morale ...

After she died that time, she was frozen, waiting for the answer to crash in on her... Lilli Ashler was an actor of limited ability who found fame in a play called A Lunatic’s Laugh. Her mediocre talent led gossips to say she must have sold her soul for success. Then she disappeared from public view. When Lilli dies, her granddaughter, Dominique, inherits her Gothic Irish mansion. Opposite the mansion stands a notorious asylum where the writer of A Lunatic’s Laugh spent time as an inmate before he dashed his head against the wall, his blood and brains seeping into the stone. The ...

A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. As the new boy learns to survive on the edges of this impolite society, he starts to unravel a mystery at the school's dark heart. And that's when the corpses start turning up.

Ruby Ashby adores her parents’ house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau—friends of her parents, and their daughters—and they are keen to enjoy the hot extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential. Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices. But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families.

Vermont 1950. Idlewild Hall ist ein Ort für Mädchen, die keinen anderen Platz in der Gesellschaft haben. Abends erzählen sich die Schülerinnen Schauergeschichten von der "schwarzen Mary". Doch als eines Nachts eine von ihnen unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, wird der Schrecken real. 2014 ist das Internat eine Ruine, aber die Journalistin Fiona Sheridan kann nicht von Idlewild Hall lassen: Hier wurde vor 20 Jahren ihre Schwester ermordet.

El narrador intenta convencernos de su salud mental, diciéndonos que lo único que le pasa es que es un poco nervioso porque todos sus sentidos están extremadamente sensibilizados. El anciano con el que vive tiene un ojo azul que está velado, al que nuestro narrador describe como un ojo de buitre. El anciano realmente le cae bien pero odia el ojo de buitre....Hasta tal punto llega a odiar ese ojo que se convierte en una obsesión enfermiza, que le hace imposible no pensar en otra cosa que no sea planificar el asesinato del anciano.

Das Booktok-Phänomen zum Hören – düster, atmosphärisch und spannend! Mit einem Abschluss in Kunstgeschichte und voller Ambitionen kommt die junge Ann nach New York, um dort bei The Cloisters, einer Außenstelle des ehrwürdigen Metropolitan Museum of Arts für Mittelalter- und Renaissancekunst, ein Praktikum zu absolvieren. Das einem gotischen Kloster nachempfundene Museum mit steinernen Kreuzgängen und einem üppigen botanischen Garten zieht sie sofort in seinen Bann.