Gothic

From the author of Nocticadia comes a spellbinding gothic dark fantasy about a shunned woman who is forced beyond the mortal realm's forbidden boundary into a terrifying world of cursed souls and grotesque creatures.

According to the FBI, I was considered a serial murderer after three kills. What do they call me after fifty-two? They call me the Silencer.

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom. But the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking....

I’m trapped by the devil. What started as an innocent mistake turned into actual hell. In my defense, I didn’t mean to get involved with a mafia prince. But he barged through my defenses anyway. He stalked me from the shadows and stole me from the life I know....

I’m out for revenge. After careful planning, I gave the man who messed with my family a taste of his own medicine. I thought it’d end there. It didn’t....

Secrets come to light and dangerous betrayals emerge in this gothic suspense set at a beautiful Italian villa with a dark history.

A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "haunting and thrilling" (John Green) epic of literary horror from the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower....

She answered the emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash....

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born....

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage....

From the acclaimed author of Mrs. March comes the riveting tale of a bloodthirsty governess who learns the true meaning of vengeance.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when arriving in Salem. Forced to marry a man I’ve never met, attend a private university I’d never heard of, and the whispers of a rumored secret society filling the halls.

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.

An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe....

I am the servant of a merciless God. I am the daughter of Its preacher. All my life, my power has been controlled by others. They raised me to be meek and stifled my magic. No more....

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico.

I'm from a place where you eat or get eaten. Two gangs are at war, and I'm hungry for survival. Growing up in a broken town doesn't make you a good man. In fact, the North Shore of the Falls has made me merciless.

Once upon a time there lived three men bonded by darkness and pain. Each fighting a past that wants to drown them. All of them damaged and broken. None of them complete. Until her.

Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother....

Die Manipulatorin. Ich kann die Emotionen von jedem manipulieren, der es zulässt. Ich werde dich verletzen, dich weinen lassen, dich zum Lachen und ...

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins returns with a twisted new gothic suspense about an infamous heiress and the complicated inheritance she left behind....

Opal is a lot of things—orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier—but above all, she's a determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things....

My husband. My tormentor. The most notorious man in the city offers me a job. Act as his dead wife. Adrian Volkov isn’t the type of person who takes no for an answer. He commands with an iron fist and all his orders are met. When he approaches me with the offer, I have two options....

No good ever comes from a red-head in a stolen dress with her worldly possessions at her feet. I should have known she was trouble when smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game....

While their son trembles on the edge of madness, Chris and Cathy await the climax to a horror that flowered in an attic long ago, a horror whose thorns are still wet with blood...

On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Some say a nun drowned him, others say he ran away. Or maybe he never existed. Fifty years later, his disappearance is still unsolved. Struggling true crime writer Alex Kelley needs a fresh start. When she’s asked to ghostwrite a book about the orphanage—and the abuses that occurred there—she packs up her belongings and moves to wintry Burlington, Vermont.

At the heart of Dark Romanticism is its brooding, pessimistic tone, its emphasis on the supernatural and the sins of humanity, and its use of iconic symbols and horrifying imagery. The classic Dark Romantic authors (Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville) are represented in the stories and poems in this volume, as well as some authors who are not commonly included in this genre.

Welcome to the Exiled Sector, home to the most lethal Alphas on the planet. These beings don't play nice with others. They've been banished. And a plane full of Omegas just crashed-landed on their isles.

Edira Brillwyn is a threadmender. She holds a rare, lifesaving power that can cure disease and heal injuries in the blink of an eye. But magic always comes with a cost, and saving anyone sacrifices a sliver of her own life. She’s always kept her abilities hidden…until the powerful Fernglove family discovers her secret. The Ferngloves are charming and beautiful, possess powerful magic, and don’t take no for an answer—especially Orin, the head of these ruling elites. When Edira’s brothers unexpectedly contract blight, Orin offers to help.

A battered woman awakens atop a forgotten gravesite by Lake Superior's southern shore. Identified only by the locket around her neck inscribed with the name Rebecca, she seeks refuge with an elderly lighthouse keeper. But as Rebecca struggles to remember who she is, she finds herself haunted by the lingering memories of Annabel, a mysterious woman who perished in the lake's unforgiving waves years earlier. With the spirit of Annabel seemingly reawakened, and an unknown adversary on the hunt to silence Rebecca once and for all, more is at stake than reclaiming her own memories.

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband home to Buffalo, where he grew up. Dr. Edward Wilk is wasting away from an aggressive and debilitating malady. But it's becoming clearer that his condition isn't exactly a disease but a phase of existence that seeks to transform and ultimately possess him.

After two years of hiding, I'm finally free, and all I want is some peace and maybe a little garden to tend. The adorable cabin in the forest is just what I'm looking for, private and secluded. Other than the long-dead inhabitants of the old graveyard nearby, I only have one neighbor. Arlow Shaw is antisocial if not outright reclusive, quiet, and guarded when it comes to discussing himself. A nature lover, he spends most of his time in the forest or tending to his bee hives. His calming effect on me is perplexing but exactly what I need.

He locks me in his house, forces me to marry him, and impregnates me. I don’t need him to save me, but he says it’s for my own good. I’m his hostage, trapped in the confines of his house. I’m his forced bride, my belly growing with his baby. I’m not a docile damsel. I’m strong and independent. But he makes me a pawn in his Bratva games. He makes me a caged animal in his mind control scheme. I’m nothing but a prisoner, a Bratva bride without power. But the worst of it all is that my body is betraying me. It wants to be powerless, so that he can control it. It wants to be toyed ...

A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo’s apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died, and Riccardo has inherited her villa in Milan along with her famed butterfly collection. The struggling writer is out of options. He’s hoping the change of scenery in Milan will inspire him, and maybe there will be some money to keep him afloat. But Perihan’s house isn’t as opulent as he remembers. The butterflies pinned in their glass cases seem more ominous than artful. Perihan’s group of mysterious old friends is constantly lurking. And there’s something wrong in the greenhouse.

🥀 Bloody Knuckles (Enemies to Lovers Forced Proximity Dark Hero Revenge Romance Forbidden Romance Protective Alpha) She was my enemy’s daughter. Now she’s mine to break—or protect. Cormac Donovan: ruthless heir, lethal fighter, and Dublin’s most feared man. My loyalty belongs to blood and violence—until Aoife Gallagher is delivered to my doorstep. Fiery, defiant, and impossibly tempting, she’s collateral in a deadly war. We’re enemies forced under one roof, trapped in a dangerous game neither can afford to lose. Every heated glance, every stolen touch pushes us closer to ...

Nací en un mundo de sangre y poder, un simple peón en un juego manejado por hombres despiadados. Pero nada podría haberme preparado para Stepan Belov. Él es el arma más letal de la Bratva; un fantasma en la oscuridad, un hombre sin pasado, sin debilidad. Inflexible. Indestructible. Un depredador que protege lo suyo con precisión mortal. Y ahora, yo le pertenezco. Tras un intento de asesinato, Stepan es asignado como mi guardaespaldas. Mi escudo. Mi sombra. Mi tormento. Frío. Implacable. Completamente intocable. Hasta la noche en que logro vislumbrar las grietas en su armadura. Las ...

A los diecinueve, el miedo no me era ajeno. Pero nada pudo prepararme para Ivan Romanov. Es el diablo envuelto en poder, el Pakhan de la Bratva Romanov—un hombre que podría destruirme con una sola mirada. Arrancada de mi mundo y arrojada al suyo, me convertí en su peón, su moneda de cambio en una guerra que mi hermano provocó. Ivan es despiadado, un hombre tallado en sombras y sangre, pero la tensión ardiente entre nosotros es imposible de ignorar. Me dice que soy su prisionera, que no significo nada… pero la forma en que me mira, la manera en que su toque se queda más de lo ...

In a city ruled by ancient vampire clans, Luca Vale is human — a professional vampire hunter from a secret order sworn to keep the balance. But when a brutal new vampire faction rises, slaughtering both humans and vampires alike, Luca is forced into an impossible alliance… with Adrien, a centuries-old vampire prince who should be his sworn enemy. Their deal is simple: work together to take down the real threat. The problem? They can't stand each other. The bigger problem? They can’t seem to stay away from each other.

I fell in love with the one woman who only exists in my dreams. I took a bullet in a warehouse ambush where I should’ve died. Instead, I woke up in a mansion. Too vivid to be a dream. Too haunting to be real. That's where I met Nichole. Staring like she’d been waiting her whole life for me to find her. Every night I return, she’s there. I can’t stop touching her. Wanting her. And when I wake up, I need her more. She doesn’t belong in my world, but she becomes my obsession. But everything’s falling apart in reality. There’s a traitor within the ranks tearing my empire apart. ...

In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural South Carolina, an alligator named Dragon becomes a beloved pet for a precocious, tough-talking twelve-year-old. During a long, muggy July, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film The Exorcist. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills.

❖ I was never supposed to be his. Now, I wear his ring… and his name. ❖ Marcus Drake is a monster. A king forged in blood and ruthlessness, ruling over Port Hollow’s underworld with an iron fist. He doesn’t believe in love. He doesn’t believe in mercy. And he sure as hell doesn’t believe in saving people. But when the cartel marks me for death, Marcus doesn’t just save me—he claims me. A forced marriage. A deal inked in blood. A vow I never agreed to. Now, I’m trapped in his gilded cage, suffocated by his control, tormented by the way his touch sets my body on fire. He ...

I found out the woman of my dreams is the daughter of my enemy… Now she’s pregnant with my child. I went searching for the woman of my dreams. Then I found out she’s a Beretti, a bloodline I swore to wipe out. I should’ve walked away the second I saw her. But the moment our eyes met, I knew I couldn’t breathe without making her mine. I caress her mind until I’m the only one in her thoughts. I touch her as if I’ve known her body my whole life. And I take her up against the wall like I’d done it a hundred times. Because I have. In every dream. And as I blew her back out, she ...

Yo era la posesión más preciada de mi padre, protegida y obediente. Pero cuando me prometió a Viktor Sokolov—un hombre quince años mayor que yo, tan temido como respetado—mi vida se convirtió en una apuesta oscura. Viktor era despiadado, un ejecutor frío con una historia empapada de sangre y traición. Sus ojos ardían con un tormento no dicho, y su toque era tanto una promesa de dolor como de placer. Me vi lanzada a un matrimonio que me ató no solo a un hombre, sino a un mundo donde la confianza era escasa y la supervivencia exigía seguir reglas brutales. Dijo que yo era suya, ...

Four werewolves work as architects in the city that never sleeps. They use their supernatural powers to fight evil whenever they find it. The wolf needs to roam. Nathaniel follows a woman home to make sure she's safe. She isn't. Now what's a wolf supposed to do when the sh*t hits the fan? Book 1 of 4 - Nathaniel - Werewolves of New York. Read on your phone with the free Kindle App in Kindle Unlimited!

❖ I was never supposed to belong to a man like him. Now, I have no choice. ❖ I’ve spent my life in a cage without knowing it—protected, sheltered, blind to the monsters lurking in the dark. Then one night, everything shatters. Now, I’m a pawn in a war I don’t understand, trapped under the watch of a man who doesn’t know the meaning of mercy. Nico Antolleni. He is cold, cruel, and carved from violence. He calls it protection, but I know the truth—he doesn’t keep things safe. He keeps them caged. I should be terrified of him. I should hate him. But the longer I stand in his ...

Rimasta orfana, Opal ha lasciato la scuola e ora lavora come commessa part time, sperando di guadagnare abbastanza per garantire al fratello Jasper una vita migliore. Una vita lontano da Eden, nel Kentucky, un luogo celebre solo per due cose: la sua sfortuna e la scrittrice E. Starling, autrice del romanzo Il Sottomondo, misteriosamente scomparsa cent'anni prima lasciando dietro di sé solo chiacchiere e un'antica dimora nascosta tra gli alberi. Tutti concordano su un fatto: meglio ignorare quella casa e il suo bizzarro, misantropo proprietario, Arthur Starling. Quasi tutti, a dire il vero.

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kathe Koja comes a fiercely poetic homage to Emily Brontë’s supernatural masterpiece Wuthering Heights, where love is relentless and the dead are never gone.

🔥 Hidden Desires: A Dark Syndicate Love Story 🔥 They tried to kill me to erase my name. A car crash—violent, deliberate—stole everything I knew. Now, only fragments remain. Blood. Secrets. A legacy of death buried beneath Palermo’s shadows. I awoke in Damiano Vesperi’s ruthless grip. A mafia don with cold eyes and even colder intentions. He claims he's protecting me from men more dangerous than himself. But behind his iron control lie hidden desires—dark cravings he barely suppresses. My returning memories whisper the truth: Damiano took everything from me once before. Yet ...

La historia sigue al narrador, quien, invitado por su amigo de la infancia, Roderick Usher, llega a la ancestral mansión familiar, solo para encontrarse con que la casa y sus habitantes están marcados por una misteriosa enfermedad. Entre las paredes de este sombrío hogar, se despliegan secretos oscuros y una conexión sobrenatural entre la familia y la propia mansión, conduciendo a un clímax escalofriante que ilustra la ineludible caída de los Usher.

𝐈 was born to be a pawn in my father’s game. But he never expected the devil to claim me instead. They dressed me in silk and called it luxury. But gilded cages are still cages— and I was handed over like property… sold to a man who doesn't buy anything. He takes. Lorcan Vesper is everything I was raised to fear— ruthless, calculating, merciless. He says I belong to him now. That my father's debt has a price. And I’m it. He doesn't hurt me. Not in the way I expect. He invades my mind instead—studies my every move, controls without chains, commands without touching. And ...