Gothic Supernatural

Private investigator Samantha Moon is working undercover for the Fullerton Police Department’s new top-secret Vampire Crimes Special Unit (VCSU). Children are disappearing right where they stand. When four local kids vanish into thin air, Sam suspects a registered sex offender of heinous crimes. But the deeper that Sam and her partner, Brent Cole, investigate, the more perplexing the mystery becomes. And when children begin disappearing internationally—and with the same modus operandi—Sam knows that a powerful paranormal enemy is behind the disappearances. In order to prevent more ...

Bestselling author Jason Hutchinson is at it again! Ian is in a rut. His wife left him, his writer's block is epic... ...but his new goth neighbor is about to shake things up. Being a work-at-home author in the suburbs of Rochester can be exceedingly boring. From eight in the morning until six at night, his little neighborhood of twenty or so houses is basically a ghost town. A ghost town dominated by the three-story Victorian perched on the hill. Little does he expect that when he decides to pay the new owner a visit he'll run up against his beautiful ex-wife and her teasing seductress of ...

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.

On the family homestead where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in the flyers seeking information about a young woman who has disappeared - until one Indian summer afternoon when the missing woman appears beneath Martha’s apartment window, wearing a winter coat, her hair coated with ice.

There is much that heavily pregnant Grace still doesn't know about her new husband King's background. So, when word comes that King's father is dying, Grace is eager to accompany him to his childhood home, Blackwater, located in a remote part of Tasmania. Things go badly from the start. The house is in terrible repair, King's dying father yells at Grace to leave and King's twin sister, Ruth, seems disturbed by Grace's presence. After his father's death, King convinces Grace they must stay and help Ruth settle the estate, but as time stretches on he grows strange and distant.

She’s a survivor being stalked by a crazed serial killer. He’s a reclusive billionaire with a tragic family secret. Ivy Anderson is tested to the limits of her training during an art conservation that is anything but typical. Assigned to work for reclusive businessman, Drake Colton, she finds his isolated gothic mansion full of priceless art both inspiring and terrifying. Twelve years ago, her innocence was shattered when she was abducted, raped and tortured. But Ivy’s a survivor: she’s spent years training her mind and her body to be a fighter. And she refuses to let the ghostly ...

Something smells like death. And this house was never meant to be a home. My husband just built us a beautiful new house. I should be the happiest woman alive. But from the moment I step inside, something feels off. Like someone’s watching me. Like something’s watching me. As the crew drains the swamp and disturbs the old cemetery, the house seems to… shift. Breathe. And my husband? He’s not the man I married. Not anymore. When I start turning to one of the workers—Zeke, the kindest man I’ve ever known—I know I’m crossing a line. But the real danger isn’t love. It’s the ...

A ruthless nobleman plots to trap the woman of his wanton desires... His ingenious scheme is foolproof, fiendish in its execution... But there's more to this victim than he could ever have imagined No female dares spurn the lecherous advances of Sir Henry Cruttendon, 17th Century England’s most reviled aristocrat. To do so risks a retribution that would terrify the Devil himself. But Elizabeth Fiennes is no ordinary woman, blessed with stunning beauty, intelligence and guile. Coming from an influential family, she believes she is safe. What she doesn’t understand is that the Earl is ...

It is 1889 and The Scottish Play is coming home. But before the darling couple of London theatre, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, take their acclaimed Macbeth to the Edinburgh stage terror treads the boards. A grisly message found smeared across the cobbles in blood, foretelling someone's demise. As the bloody prophecies continue to appear Edinburgh's own beloved pair - Detective 'Nine-Nails' McGray and Inspector Ian Frey - enter the scene.

He saves her, but can she save him? This is no fairy tale... Amidst the rugged beauty of the Scottish Highlands, mysteries of the past converge with the present, weaving a tale of lost love, haunting legacies, and redemption. Jack Mathers is drawn into a suspenseful journey, seeking answers about his mother's death and his father's bizarre behaviour. As ancient folklore involving enigmatic Highlanders, sinister wolves, and ethereal cranes resurfaces, the Mathers family is plunged deeper into a supernatural enigma. "The Crane Wife" by Max China is a heart-wrenching exploration of love, ...

Charles Hayden has been fascinated by a strange Victorian fairy tale, In the Night Wood, since he was a child. When his wife, Erin - a descendant of the author - inherits her ancestor’s house, the couple decide to make it their home. Still mourning the recent death of their daughter, they leave America behind, seeking a new beginning in the English countryside. But Hollow House, filled with secrets and surrounded by an ancient oak forest, is a place where the past seems very much alive....

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 ...

Only love can set you free In Victorian England, Emily and her daughter Amelia are prisoners in the attic of Emily's wealthy sister, struggling for survival. Amelia, a girl who has never felt the sun on her skin, possesses a remarkable gift—she can separate from her body and soar through the skies. As Emily reflects on her youthful dreams and the passionate affair she had with the brilliant black playwright Josiah Equiano, she grapples with the painful realities of family honour, racial hatred, and treachery. When forced towards an unwanted marriage and facing her sister's deadly ...

Imagine believing you are a vampire, and not just because of some whimsical fantasy. No, imagine you were born with two unusually long incisors, and you crave blood...human blood. But unlike some pasty cold immortal bearing these same characteristics, the warm plasma that gives life to all humankind, pumps furiously through your own veins, too. Welcome to the world of Aaron Parker, affectionately known to friends as "Fang." Some might envy such a unique affliction from afar. But the craving for the blood of others comes with a prohibitive price… A young man whose life has spun out of ...

In her aunt’s dusty Victorian mansion, Robin Wurmwood discovers an heirloom with an appetite—a dollhouse that doesn’t just collect dust but souls. When architectural scholar Robin inherits the pink monstrosity on Elm Street, the exquisite dollhouse inside seems like a quaint curiosity—until its porcelain occupants start rearranging themselves to mimic her every move. At night, childish voices whisper from empty rooms: “Play with us, Robin,” and “Won’t you join us for storytime?” These tiny terrors have already claimed two sets of sisters in this house, always leaving one ...

The Curse of Clyffe House is the fourth in the Mister Jones Mysteries collection It was supposed to be a holiday, time away whilst his friend and neighbour wrote a book about their last adventure. But as soon as Mister Jones arrives at the holiday cottage things start to go wrong, and waking up to find a skeleton in his bed is only the start. Terror stalks this cottage and before long Mister Jones discovers an ancient Evil is plotting to wreak devastation across the land; and it will start with his death. Poison, fear and a horrific Shadow from long ago stand between their survival: can ...

She lures them with desire, binds them with passion, and haunts them for eternity. In the crumbling ruins of an ancient abbey, Helena Costen, the spectral bride, weaves an intoxicating web of passion and peril. Trapped between life and death, Helena enchants those who dare to step into her shadow, offering a taste of forbidden ecstasy—but at a price. When a young historian uncovers the truth behind Helena's deadly allure, she is drawn into a chilling dance of seduction, obsession, and the eternal bonds of desire. As moonlight reveals long-buried secrets, Helena’s tragic curse tightens ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autumn, 1898. A blizzard batters the town of Hope, and a wizened stranger driving a coal-black caravan appears in the swirl of snowflakes. The sign on the caravan reads The Brothers Zorkin, puppeteers from Archangel, Russia. Bedlam engulfs the town as the storm intensifies. Promises from the stranger bewitch the townsfolk, offering gifts only a God can bestow. Spellbound, they agree to do his bidding, no matter the heinous nature of his commands. Madness burrows deep into the fabric of Hope, and Birdie Caldwell must rally herself to defeat a dangerous foe.