Victorian Gothic

The Poet, The Guardian, and The Ghost In The Poet, The Guardian, and The Ghost, journey to Richmond, Virginia, in 1849, where Edgar Allan Poe stands at the brink of triumph and collapse. At the height of his poetic powers, Poe is haunted by lost love and a looming future. Under Richmond's moonlit cemetery, reality blurs with the supernatural, and Poe’s fate becomes intertwined with beings who refuse to let him succumb to despair. A peculiar leprechaun stands vigil over Poe, an exiled creature driven by curiosity. Neither entirely benevolent nor wholly sinister, he is bound to Poe, ...

Sharptooth runs through the forest under the light of the moon and spends each day hiding from the sun in the burnt ruins of her family home. One night she braves the cobblestone streets of the nearby town and stumbles upon a silver-haired girl in a walled garden. Lyssa’s parents couldn’t stand to see her wither away, so they have left her with only a maid for company. She thinks her unusual new friend is just the thing to distract her in her final days…but Sharptooth has other plans. When Lyssa’s parents return with a dangerous stranger, the girls will risk everything to seize ...

Thornfield Hall, 1821. Alice Fairfax takes up her role as housekeeper of the estate. But when Mr. Rochester presents her with a woman who is to be hidden on the third floor, she finds herself responsible for much more than the house. This is the story Jane Eyre never knew--a narrative played out on the third floor and beneath the stairs, as the servants kept their master's secret safe and sound.

Adult little girl Francesca finds herself as the ward of a very strict paternal guardian who, unfortunately for her, is getting on in years. Feeling a tremendous sense of duty to her, Sir Bertrand sets about finding a man to take over for him, which he knows is a very tall order. From a field of several candidates, he eventually chooses one particular fellow who seems to share his somewhat unorthodox view of females and how they should be treated by their more rational counterparts. Sir Anthony Bennington has known Sir Bertrand for some time, but he barely knows that Francesca exists until ...