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. Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods... There are whispers about...

An eldritch magic has awakened, turning the mortal world darker. Colder. Famished. With flesh-eating monsters and a sinister curse spreading like a plague, the last glimmer of humanity in Foxglove Parish has long since faded.

I died, briefly. Then I came back. Now I’m determined to make the most of every minute I have left. Only problem is I’ve been saddled with supervision. Kane Deveraux is handsome, smug, and cold as a tombstone. So why does he make me feel something more powerful than death?

A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge....

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere. Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining...

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. This life would be near unbearable with my insufferable fiancé if it wasn’t for his...

Two women, two cursed contracts, and a romance that could burn down heaven and hell.

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today best-selling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the emperor's haunted space station. She answered the emperor's call. She arrived with her arts...

Grant Stockton is the devil incarnate. The cowboy turned casino-owning crime boss has been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember.

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic. At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond...

My husband. My villain. We started with death and blood. We started with games and carnal pleasure. Adrian and I shouldn’t have been together. He’s wrong. I’m wrong. What we have is the epitome of disaster. Yet, it’s impossible to stop....

He is everything she's been warned against. She is everything he hates. 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. I survive...

Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier....

It all started with a favor. Now he is calling, and he's calling to collect. When two worlds collide, two families combine under one roof and there is no telling what is in store. One thing is for certain, when the Graves family meets the Gallows Hill crew, it's about to be a Very Bloody Christmas.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Barnes, star of the film adaptation of Dorian Gray, also known for his roles in Westworld and The Chronicles of Narnia. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Robert Mighall. Enthralled by his own exquisite...

Nia finds herself entangled in a world of lies and betrayal, where the truth is as elusive as the Dream Stalker himself. Now trapped in a perilous court, she must navigate her own web of deceit while honing her magic. Every ally may be an enemy, and every word could be her last.

No one tells you what to do when the boy who shattered your heart comes back to steal it....

I sent a psychopath to prison. Now, he's out and back for revenge. They call me Kayla "The Ruthless" King. The Queen of the North Shore and leader of the Kings' Crew. Because of the sacrifices I've made and the merciless way I run my crew, the North Shore belongs to me. In our town, you can only...

I was not without sin. I carried my name for a reason. Screwing things up was just part of who I was. Sometimes people got hurt because of me. Sometimes they died. After being exiled from the world I’d created with my best friends, I was left to punish myself for my sins against the girl they loved.

Forced into an institution after experiencing unsettling visions, a young woman meets a mafia hitman whose dark obsession with her threatens both their hearts—and their lives—in this sizzling forbidden romance from the author of Unholy Vows. Don't miss the final installment in the Original...

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal "Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night...

A love as wild as the ocean can never be tamed. A desire that burns like fire can never be extinguished. A broken boy who becomes a monster can never be outrun. I’ve loved Kat Shaw since I was nine years old. Loving her was dangerous. Loving her was wrong. Loving her was all I ever had. And...

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....

A runaway countess finds love when she least expects it . . . but she can't hide from her past forever. Elizabeth, Lady Beauchamp, fears for her life. When she discovers her dissolute and long-estranged husband has syphilis—and he wants to beget an heir no matter the cost—she flees to a...

Im Krieg ist alles erlaubt. Jonathan King macht seinem Nachnamen alle Ehre. Mächtig. Unantastbar. Korrupt. Als ich ihn als ahnungsloses Kind zum ersten Mal traf, hielt ich ihn für einen Gott. Jetzt muss ich mich diesem Gott stellen, um meine Firma aus seinen skrupellosen Fingern zu befreien.

A love as wild as the ocean can never be tamed. A desire that burns like fire can never be extinguished. A broken boy who becomes a monster can never be outrun. I’ve loved Kat Shaw since I was nine years old. Loving her was dangerous. Loving her was wrong. Loving her was all I ever had. And...

Doze anos atrás, Maven Blackthorn fugiu de sua pequena cidade natal, após a morte suspeita de sua mãe. Agora, de volta para um funeral, ela se vê mergulhada em uma nova trama macabra: o corpo de sua avó desapareceu. Os Blackthorns imediatamente suspeitam dos Crofts, os implacáveis donos de uma empresa farmacêutica, com quem têm uma rivalidade que já se estende por gerações. Mas então Maven se depara com Ronan Croft, filho do único homem que ela já amou, e descobre que a paixão proibida que compartilharam está tão viva–e perigosa–como sempre.

What if the most scandalous romance ever told was rewritten as a dark, gothic romantasy? Sir Clifford Chatterley turned me into a vampire to prove a theory—that feral creatures like me could be domesticated, civilized, and made acceptable for his aristocratic world. He keeps me chained and...

Nach NOCTICADIA das nächste Gothic-Dark-Fantasy-Highlight von Keri Lake Maevyth Bronwick weiß, dass der Wald neben ihrem Dorf verflucht ist. Niemand, der die Eating Woods betritt, kehrt jemals zurück. Doch ein tragischer Schicksalsschlag treibt sie dazu, sich in das düstere Labyrinth zu wagen. Dort trifft sie auf Zevander Rydainn, den tödlichsten Assassinen des gesamten Kontinents Aethyria. Seine Beute kennt ihn nur als The Scorpion, denn Zevander tötet ohne jede Gnade. Er würde Maeve lieber den Monstern des Waldes überlassen, als sie zu beschützen – doch er braucht sie.

A noblewoman with hidden magic. An exiled prince with dark secrets. Only together can they escape their magical prison and save their realm, in this romantic fantasy novel from Jamie Thomas. Asperfell, legendary prison of mages, is home to violent criminals and demented spirits. No one has ever...

A mage and a lost prince journey together in this magical and romantic sequel to Asperfell. Finally free of the prison Asperfell, Briony and Prince Elyan venture northward in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen. What they discover...

In his world, control is power—and I won’t be controlled. I hate Benjamin Baranov. He stole everything from me—my dream internship, my friends, my future. And now, thanks to his father’s ruthless decree, I’m trapped… married to my enemy. He’s cold. Calculating. Consuming. A master manipulator who moves through the world like he owns it—and now, he thinks he owns me. He watches my every move. Twists my thoughts. Controls the very air I breathe. He’s not just playing a game. He’s writing the rules, stacking the deck, and locking the door behind me.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A museum curator with a keen eye for prints acquires a dull and overpriced mezzotint - an unremarkable engraving of a country manor by moonlight, scarcely worth the dealer's asking price. Yet each time he sets it aside and looks again, the picture has...

Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they're ghosting her . . . With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she's been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey's Hooky Spooky Convention, she...

Seamus Murphy is everything I was raised to destroy. Irish. Brutal. Unshakable. He killed my cousin. Stole my future. And now? He's the man I'm being forced to marry. It started with a heist. One second I was stealing back my family's crest—the next, I was face-first in the dirt, pinned beneath a man who should've put a bullet in my skull. But Seamus didn't kill me. He watched. He followed. He touched. Now I'm his wife in name only—a pawn in a twisted truce I never agreed to. He wants answers.

Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson is a dark psychological tale of guilt, identity, and self-destruction. Following a man haunted by a mysterious double who mirrors his every move, this classic story explores conscience, obsession, and the terrifying conflict between the self and the shadow...

Avec la collection Douceur & Crépitements, je vous propose des moments de lecture reposants et réconfortants en nous replongeant dans nos classiques d'automne préférés, dans une ambiance douce au coin du feu pour passer de bonnes nuits ! Alors installez-vous bien confortablement, peut être blotti sous votre plaid, une boisson chaude en main et laissez-vous emporter par notre histoire du jour ! Ce soir, je vous propose de nous plonger dans le roman Le château des Carpathes de Jules Verne publié en 1892.

“Landor’s Cottage” by Edgar Allan Poe is a richly descriptive literary sketch blending pastoral beauty, Gothic atmosphere, and Poe’s signature fascination with idealized landscapes. This elegant short work invites readers into a secluded cottage setting filled with mystery, imagination...

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and a work of horror fiction. It was first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, and is set very loosely during the Peninsular War between Spain and Napoleonic France (1808–1814), although it invokes the feared Inquisition of earlier centuries. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured.

"Ligeia" is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story follows an unnamed narrator and his wife Ligeia, a beautiful and intelligent raven-haired woman. She falls ill, composes "The Conqueror Worm", and quotes lines attributed to Joseph Glanvill shortly before dying. After her death, the narrator marries the Lady Rowena. Rowena becomes ill, and she dies as well. The distraught narrator stays with her body overnight and watches as Rowena slowly comes back from the dead – though she has transformed into Ligeia.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La historia transcurre en la sombría mansión de los Ockram, una antigua familia irlandesa marcada por una herencia de odio, culpa y secretos inconfesables. Cuando el anciano Hugh Ockram agoniza, su rostro queda fijado en una sonrisa monstruosa y perturbadora...

Ich habe die Aufmerksamkeit eines Monsters geweckt. Dabei wollte ich nur den Job als private Flugbegleiterin antreten und die Welt bereisen. Jetzt ist es zu spät. Ich bin im Netz meines Chefs gefangen, der sein wahres Gesicht hinter einer glänzenden Maske verbirgt. Doch vielleicht ist genau das meine einzige Chance. Denn nur ein Monster kann ein anderes Monster besiegen. Eines davon verfolgt mich schon seit Jahren. Ich bin das Beast von New York. Sie ist mein Licht in der Dunkelheit.

The Domain of Arnheim by Edgar Allan Poe is a richly imaginative tale of beauty, wealth, art, and the human desire to create perfection. Blending philosophical reflection with dreamlike landscape description, Poe explores the vision of a man who uses immense fortune to design an earthly paradise...

Cinco anos após sobreviver ao Degolador de Grimvel, Cassie Kane retorna à sua cidade natal. Mas sua chegada reacende um ciclo de terror: o assassino volta à matança e, desta vez, parece ter o objetivo crucial de provocá-la. Deixando recados em cadáveres, presentes misteriosos à sua porta e uma trilha de sangue em seu caminho.

Penniless, shunned, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, to secure the one thing she can't live without Marriage. When a masked stranger sends her heart racing, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin and a forced marriage neither can escape. When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her.

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, propone la construcción de un dique que impida una nueva catástrofe. Sin embargo, con las obras comenzarán las corrientes impredecibles y las desapariciones. Mientras tanto, en el clan Caskey, la matriarca Mary-Love ve cómo sus intereses chocan con los de Elinor, su misteriosa nuera. Las tensiones entre ambas amenazan con destruir el pueblo entero. En Perdido se avecinan grandes cambios, y las consecuencias serán devastadoras. Descubre el segundo volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal.

Mentre Perdido es recupera de la inundació, s'inicia la construcció d'un dic que impedeixi una nova catàstrofe. Però amb les obres començaran les correntades sobtades i les desaparicions. Mentrestant, al clan Caskey, la matriarca Mary-Love veu com els seus interessos xoquen amb els de l'Elinor, la seva misteriosa NORA. Les tensions entre totes dues amenacen de destruir el poble sencer. Es preparen grans canvis a Perdido, i les conseqüències seran devastadores. Descobreix el segon volum de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Dones poderoses que lluiten pel poder durant generacions.

Sie wollten sie brechen. Doch sie hat gelernt, aus ihren Narben eine Krone zu schmieden. Aura hatte nie geplant, Gefühle zu entwickeln. Weder für Vito, dem berechnenden Erben der Nacht, der sie zur Königin formen will. Noch für Vain, den Rebell, der lieber alles zerstört, als sie zu verlieren. Während das Königreich in den Abgrund stürzt und einem nie dagewesenen Krieg ins Auge sieht, muss sie erkennen: Manchmal ist das Herz die gefährlichste Waffe.

church organ plays. A shadow watches. Escape becomes impossible. In In the Court of the Dragon, Robert W. Chambers delivers one of the most haunting and psychologically unsettling stories from his legendary collection The King in Yellow. Set in Paris and steeped in dreamlike terror, the tale...