Gothic Supernatural

Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily ever after—and in exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past. But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple is forced to return to her childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom soon finds himself unable to resist.

Something dark lurks in the swamp behind Emily’s new home. When twelve-year-old Emily moves into her late grandfather’s house in Whispering Pines, she expects the usual new-kid struggles. Instead, she finds herself caught in a decades-old mystery surrounding her grandmother’s disappearance. Her mother’s desperate warnings to stay away from the swamp only fuel Emily’s curiosity about what really happened all those years ago. But as strange events begin to unfold, Emily discovers an ancient presence watching from the shadows—one that has been patiently waiting for her family’s ...

Isabella Lawrence is a photographer in modern day London. Her specialty is photographing old buildings prior to their restoration. One night she goes on a shoot in a derelict theatre. As she takes her shots in the auditorium, she suddenly realises someone else, someone unknown, is in the building with her. Panicking, she runs out onto the stage--and the rotted boards crumble beneath her feet, hurling her down, down, down... into the past into the body of of a jobbing Victorian actress called Arabella Lorne. Arabella is asked to marry the mysterious brooding landowner, Sir Augustus Stannion-...

The charm of spending the Christmas holidays in South Wales, with its crumbling castles and ancient myths, seems the perfect distraction from the nightmares that have plagued literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw since the loss of her baby five years ago. Instead she meets an emotionally fragile young widow who's convinced that Lyn's recurring dreams have drawn her to Castle Farm for an important purpose - and she's running out of time.

Young Cathy Barlow and her brothers lost their parents many years before. The Barlow family lives on a sprawling country estate known simply as Barlow. There are two historic Victorian homes on the Barlow property, the Big House and the Small House. The oldest Barlow brother rents the Small House to a famous writer and his socialite sister. The famous writer seems interested in Cathy. He says he’s moved to Barlow to take care of his recently widowed sister. The writer and his sister grow closer to the Barlows, too close. Why have they come to this small Southern town, so far away from the...

Lila Grace Carter talks to dead people. Admittedly, that's not out of the ordinary in Lockhart, South Carolina. In her words, "I'm Southern. We all talk to dead people down here. As a matter of fact, I don't believe I can truly trust anybody that doesn't speak to at least two or three dead relations on a daily basis. The difference is, they talk back to me." Now there's a murderer on the loose in Lockhart, and Lila Grace is the only one who knows a crime was committed. Can she convince the sexy sheriff that Jenny Miller didn't fall down the steps on her own? Will she catch the killer?

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.

Book One of Keith McCabe’s electrifying supernatural thriller series embarks on a harrowing journey of life and death and everything that walks in between. The graves of dead witches are being vandalized, pillaged by unknown hands. New Jersey psychic Deb Dawson can communicate with the dead, and she embarks on a quest for answers, leading her to the site of a ritualistic murder. Deb and her partner, Madeline Hall, a flourishing witch, follow a trail of spectral whispers and ominous warnings leading them toward ancient forces that has lain dormant for centuries. Terrifying entities emerge ...

Ran McGhie's world has been turned upside down. A young, lonely and frustrated writer, and suffering from mental health problems, he discovers that his long-dead mother was related to one of Glasgow's oldest merchant families. Not only that, but Ran has inherited Newton Hall, a vast mansion that belonged to his great-uncle, who appears to have been watching from afar as his estranged great-nephew has grown up.

It's Christmas time and Sam finds herself reflecting on some of the adventures she’s had over the recent years. Some are uplifting and remind her there is an abundance of goodness still left in the world, while others are sad memories of the horrors she’s been witness to. Still, she remains grateful for the outcomes of all these things and most of all for how they have shaped her life and the lives of those around her. As she revels in her memories, an unexpected visitor turns out to be Moon Investigations’ newest client. Sam accepts it, thinking she may be dealing with an everyday, ...

When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she travels to Southwell to find out how her sister ended up at such a place. Haunted by her sister's ghost, Hester sets out to uncover the truth, when the official story reported by the workhouse master proves to be untrue. Mercy was pregnant—both she and the baby are said to be dead of cholera, but the workhouse hasn't had an outbreak for years. Hester discovers a strange trend in the workhouse of children going missing.

In the shadowed halls of Armcox Estate, secrets whisper, desires ignite, and danger lurks in every forbidden page. When Rebecca Wheat arrives at the enigmatic Armcox Estate, she seeks refuge from her shattered past. But within its shadowed halls, she finds more than she bargained for—a seductive world of forbidden knowledge, dangerous desires, and ancient powers that blur the lines between pleasure and peril. As Rebecca delves deeper into the estate’s mysteries, she must confront the tantalizing pull of Lord Buchanan, the bitter jealousy of Maria, and the secrets bound in a cursed book ...

Can two vampires on the run stop the apocalypse? Ruegger and Danielle are the Marshals, two vampires notorious throughout the supernatural community for only feeding on bad guys -- including other immortals. If a monster or other supernatural being steps out of line and preys on undeserving humans, Ruegger and Danielle will (if they can) take them down. When a powerful figure in the supernatural community is killed, Ruegger and Danielle are forced to go on the run in order to find out who ordered the murder and why. It has something to do with the mysterious supernatural war that’s ...

Cherished by a Father, coveted by a king, loved by an almost-priest; tormented by demons, tortured by a madman, hunted by a cult, hounded by her father. Mouse has survived it all. Despite Mouse's power, her father always wanted a son - and now, at long last, he has him. And Mouse has a brother, someone else in the world just like her. Hiding among a tribe of the Martu in the isolation of the Australian outback near the edges of Lake Disappointment, Mouse and Angelo have seemingly evaded at least one of the predators hunting them.

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.

John Grissom's enhanced vampiric hearing leads him to investigate the oldest and most powerful order of vampires in England. His investigation takes him from London to Brighton and back again, from a vampire proof dungeon to a glittering masked assembly.

On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions...a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family - a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'... With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson.

We almost died escaping from Nightmare Penitentiary, but somehow, we managed to survive and to even get free. And then? Then, we’re thrown right back into peril again. And as much as I just want to say screw it and give up, I have to pull my “big girl panties” on and keep going. Because the alternative is a very grisly death.

Ophelia Hammett inherits her father’s historic home. She’s engaged to the love of her life, an aspiring writer. She has a fine old home and financial security. She wants to make new memories in her father’s house, to replace the ones from her childhood, the ones she can’t quite remember. There’s something about the house. Disturbing images (memories?) come to her unbidden. She can’t stop them. Something happened at Hammett House years before, something that could threaten Ophelia’s attempts at happiness, maybe even her life.

“A fast-paced, complex tale of good and evil featuring a protagonist who has morally unconventional motivations….An ambitious and moody supernatural thriller.” – Kirkus Reviews An orphaned witch. A high school clique. An ancient spell linked to the Devil. Travis believes he is superior to other witches in the coven because his magic doesn’t kill. To replenish depleted power, he feeds on human fear alone. The horrors he conjures are wiped from victims’ memories, so what’s the harm? A trio of teens leaving for college finds itself under attack as Travis comes to discover the ...