Gothic English Mystery

‘Count to ten, now go and hide. You’re not safe, your daddy lied.’ Valerie and Robert Archer leave their comfortable farmhouse for a fresh start after an affair threatens to tear them apart. Valerie has reservations about the burnt-out house but must do what’s best for her daughter. They begin a daunting renovation project that allows them to knock down walls and rebuild their lives. As the smoke damage from the old house is repaired, Robert is plunged into the clutches of madness. Valerie struggles to hold the family together, but there’s more to battle than a controlling husband...

Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced–and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of violence and destruction. At the same time, Sarah is swept up in a highly charged relationship with a work colleague that portends a danger of its own. As she moves through her privileged life in New York, Sarah comes to learn how her past—her haunted history—is intertwined with America’s.

There’s something in the lake at Wren Hall. At least, that’s what the locals say. Not that Meg cares much about the rumors. When she’s asked to spend Halloween weekend at the Ireland retreat of the wealthy Wren twins, she recognizes the invitation for exactly what it is: her last, and only, chance to save her spot at Greyscott’s, the exclusive British art school she attended on scholarship until last summer. Clever, beautiful, and talented, the twins are the pride of Greyscott’s, and kindhearted Lottie Wren was once Meg’s closest friend. But not anymore.

Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, the small town they all fled after high-school graduation. Each of them is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter: You promised. It has been fifteen years since that life-changing summer, and they're anxious to find out why Brandi called them back, especially when they vowed never to return. But Brandi is missing. She'd been acting erratically for months, in and out of rehab, railing at whoever might listen about magic all around them. About a power they can't see. And strange houses that appear only when you need them . . .

Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace—an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin’s mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family’s coastal Maine estate. Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice’s peculiar girls.

Bram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city. Stoker, a successful theater manager but frustrated writer, is drawn into a deadly web spun by the wealthy founders of a mission house for the poor. Far from a safe haven, the mission harbors a dark and terrifying secret.

The Ripper Lives: Into the Black (4/10) A hidden truth. A dangerous conspiracy. A detective who refuses to surrender to the dark. The hunt for Jack the Ripper is far from over. As London reels from fear and suspicion, Inspector Frederick Abberline uncovers a chilling lead—a witness long thought lost to madness. His testimony threatens to unravel everything, exposing secrets that powerful men will kill to keep buried. From the gaslit corridors of wealth to the shadowed alleys of Whitechapel, Abberline follows a deadly trail of deception. But the deeper he goes, the more the darkness ...

All Things Seen and Unseen follows Alex Nguyen, an isolated, chronically ill university student in her early 20s. After a suicide attempt and subsequent lengthy hospitalization, she finds herself without a job, kicked out of campus housing, unable to afford school, and still struggling in the aftermath of a relationship’s dissolution. Hope comes in the form of a rich high school friend who offers Alex a job housesitting at her family’s empty summer mansion on a gulf island.

Rose is caught in the middle of a love triangle between two impulsive beasts. When the situation becomes dire, she must choose one or escape, leaving behind everything she has ever known. Rose doesn’t have time for love. As a new lawyer at the biggest law firm in Riverton, Wyoming, she is used to working long days and even longer nights. When she’s assigned to a gruesome murder case, she gets entangled in a mysterious world that she has always tried to avoid. Amongst all the turmoil in her life, she unintentionally becomes the love interest of two different men. The love triangle ...

Lord Blackwell revealed his darkest secret to Amelia Darlington, but still, she loved him. It seems that was not enough. Amelia has been left alone. Again. London 1860 Learning that Lord Blackwell was a vampire didn’t dampen Amelia’s feelings and, when he took her to bed, she didn’t hesitate. Now she has woken to find her world turned upsides down. A note makes her question everything she knows of Dimitri, leaving her feeling used and alone. What could be the reason behind his cruel betrayal? Trying to put him from her mind, she throws herself back into society’s whirlwind, ...

Pru Dunning has everything she ever wanted: a successful boyfriend, a thriving nursing career, and a truly comfortable life. But then the strange voicemails start. Scarletta, the woman calls herself. She seems to know Pru, although Pru certainly doesn't know that name, nor does she recognize the glamorous voice leaving her poisonous messages. Pru begins to carefully investigate. But when she suddenly becomes a person of interest in a murder case, it feels like Scarletta’s toxic voice, lashing out from the shadows, will silence all beauty in Pru’s perfect life, once and for all.

The Locksby Harper Stanwick, Sr. is a mystery and psychological fiction set in the declining river town of Hatch during the late 19th century. The Locks unfolds in the shadowy and forlorn town of Hatch, a place where darkness pervades both the streets and the lives of its weary inhabitants. When the enigmatic Alvin Stark arrives and takes residence in the eerie mansion known as The Locks, he brings with him an air of mystery that stirs the stagnant waters of Hatch. Set against the backdrop of Hatch's economic decline and overshadowed by the thriving Ben's City downstream Stark's arrival ...

A dark, brooding mansion. A mysterious disappearance and death. Two men vying for the affections of the heroine—or are they? A troubled child in possible danger... Lyssie Daniels wanted to write a gothic novel—not become part of one. An American Gothic is a contemporary romantic suspense with an extra surprise—paragraphs of the gothic novel the lead character is writing begins each chapter, giving you a “story within a story.”

Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.

Some houses wait. This one watches. When crime writer Margot Weaver inherits her family’s abandoned home in Willow’s End, Iowa, she expects dust, drafts, maybe a few bad memories—not the strange, silent mirror lurking in the parlor. Something’s wrong with it. Margot sees things. A face not her own. Eyes that move. Smiles that don’t belong. Then she finds the journal. A century earlier, Clara Emerson vanished from the same house after a brutal family murder. Her last days—written in fragments—hint at a darkness tied to the mirror. One that’s never left. Now, Margot is ...

One secret can bury an entire family forever... Desmond is a man ill equipped for today's world. He is reclusive and unsocial, traits exacerbated by his domineering mother. As a result, Desmond is at his happiest when he's absolutely alone. During a birdwatching outing along the Devon coast, Desmond wanders into a cave. Inside, he finds something that appalls and terrifies him: a skeleton dressed in a nun's wimple.

Kraken is enjoying life as a family man, content to spend his days with Alba and their young daughter, Deba. But there's no rest for the weary, especially when you're the most famous investigator in Vitoria. Kraken and Esti are charged with investigating the mysterious disappearance of two sisters and finding it hard to make any headway when a wealthy businessman's murder appears to shine a light on the case. The man was poisoned with a medieval aphrodisiac - a crime that has eerie similarities to one detailed in the novel everyone in Vitoria is buzzing about.

Beyond the Veil: Three Dark Tales of Life, Death, and the Unseen Step into a world where the line between life and death blurs, and the shadows whisper of things unseen... Cappuccino Heaven: Journey into the afterlife with Elizabeth Walker, who discovers that Heaven isn't quite what she imagined. Amidst familiar faces and endless cappuccinos, a darker realm looms, pulling her toward secrets that could unravel everything she once believed. Dead Dreams: For Adam and Summer, living on society's fringe seemed like the perfect escape—until they realize not everyone can see them. Plagued by ...

He’s her boss…and she’s a human. Love comes with a price, but is Oryn willing to sacrifice everything? As the oldest of the four Dragon Princes, Oryn Veskovic had gotten used to being alone. He has his multi-billion-dollar company to keep him busy, and lives in a luxurious house on the water in Auckland. Despite the tales he was told as a young boy, he had given up searching for his True Mate, and he was happy on his own, or so he thought. When Adley Murdoch comes into his life like a hurricane, Oryn quickly discovers how much of an impact a fragile human can have on his life. However...

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her "charge", John Cosway, a 39-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family.