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Vampire turned Runner, John Grissom, is a founding member of Bow Street's new clandestine investigative division, Odd Crimes. He finds himself witnessing an assassination attempt on the Foreign Secretary. He then discovers London's most notorious purveyor of stolen goods at the bottom of it.

Portia Hastings has spent her life rescuing her younger sister from one scrape or another. But this time, she has to step through time to do it, following Miranda from the 19th century to the 18th. Almost immediately, Portia is beset by highwaymen, which might be the most exciting thing to happen to her in a long time, even if she’d never admit it.

Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, putrefaction, decomposition, and skeletonization. Listeners are summoned to walk the Gothic ruins of monsters, where death and decay lie sleeping.

Widower Kane Black is still ruinously married to his late wife, Lily. Grief has hollowed him… until he sees a woman with his wife’s inimitable beauty on the streets of Manhattan. He whisks her up to his towering penthouse, protectively under guard, nestling her in dark opulence where Lily’s memory is a possessive beguiling force.

Dorian has it all: good-looks, money, and a prominent social status. But when he agrees to sit for a portrait, he is introduced to a man who unwittingly plants a dangerous idea inside Dorian’s head. As Dorian becomes more and more obsessed with the painting, he seeks out supernatural means of retaining his youth and beauty.

As a lowly cousin and the only female offspring in the Torrio mafia family, Luciana is just the bargaining chip her uncle needs to make an alliance with the Bilotti family. Luciana is terrified of essentially being sold off to a mafia boss, especially one as cruel as Romero, but there’s no saying no in her world.

The Gingerbread Men mixes Shining-esque mystery with dark fairy tales, serving up a perfect Highland hotel horror. Joanna Corrance’s nightmarish novel explores the quiet corridors of desire that pull us, and the places occupied by men and women in the tales we’re all familiar with.

Als er zu seinem Freund gerufen wird, bemerkt der Erzähler, dass das alte Haus der Usher von einer rätselhaften Aura umgeben ist, die den Hausherrn in den Wahnsinn treibt. Als Ushers Schwester stirbt, scheint er völlig den Verstand zu verlieren - bis eines Nachts merkwürdige, schauerliche Geräusche aus ihrer Gruft zu ihnen heraufdringen... Edgar Allan Poes Gruselklassiker gehört zu den berühmtesten Werken des Autoren.

Witty, mysterious, haunting, and addictive, Between Shadow and Flame is a gruesomely cozy cinematic masterpiece perfect for LGBT+ listeners and allies looking to lose themselves in gothic suspense, angsty drama, and royal intrigue.

In this award-winning American gothic novel, two estranged friends, Percy and Johnny, reunite at the haunting estate of Rhinebeck, where Johnny’s aunt Alice died while reading an Egyptian book of the dead.

While the dust settles, a quiet horror unfolds. Abbreviated lives consumed by fire remain. A terrific tale of heartbreak, betrayal, love, violence, and those imprisoned by circumstance and time. A tragedy told in reverse.

Delve into the enigmatic and thought-provoking world of "Eureka: A Prose Poem" by Edgar Allan Poe. This unique work combines elements of philosophy, science, and poetic prose to explore the mysteries of the universe and the nature of existence. Poe takes readers on a captivating journey through cosmic theories and metaphysical ponderings, presenting his own ideas about the origins of the universe and the interconnectedness of all things.

In a Europe devastated by four years of conflict, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford’s arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It’s up to Lily to change its course.

"Das ovale Porträt" (engl.: "The Oval Portrait") ist eine 1842 erstmals unter dem Titel "Der Tod im Leben" ("Life in Death") veröffentlichte Kurzgeschichte von Edgar Allan Poe, die das Verhältnis von Kunst und Leben thematisiert. Sie ist einer seiner kürzesten Prosatexte. Der Ich-Erzähler hat sich, nachdem er aus Gründen, die ungeklärt bleiben, verwundet wurde, mit seinem Diener in eine verlassene Burg im Apennin geflüchtet, die nicht nur komplett, sondern prachtvoll eingerichtet ist.

Everyone gets their heart broken at least once. Whether you're a mercenary in 17th-century Hungary or a transplant to Missouri in 2019, we've all been there. But in some universes, love's aftermath is a tad more gruesome. From crunching bones on midnight asphalt to burning flesh in an ashen snowfall, everyone has to learn some way. There are horrors worse than a broken heart...right?

Schon bald nach seiner Ankunft im Schloss des Grafen Dracula fallen dem jungen Anwalt Jonathan Harker merkwürdige Dinge auf. Groß ist sein Entsetzen, als sich der Graf als Vampir entpuppt. Die hypnotische Gewalt, die der Vampir über Frauen ausübt, die heimliche Leidenschaft für eine abweichende, nicht ausschließlich auf den Zweck der Fortpflanzung beschränkte Sexualität, der Vampirbiss in den Hals des weiblichen Opfers.

Schon bald nach seiner Ankunft im Schloss des Grafen Dracula fallen dem jungen Anwalt Jonathan Harker merkwürdige Dinge auf. Groß ist sein Entsetzen, als sich der Graf als Vampir entpuppt. Die hypnotische Gewalt, die der Vampir über Frauen ausübt, die heimliche Leidenschaft für eine abweichende, nicht ausschließlich auf den Zweck der Fortpflanzung beschränkte Sexualität, der Vampirbiss in den Hals des weiblichen Opfers.

Named an Anticipated Read of 2024 by Entertainment Weekly and a Best Historical Fiction novel of 2024 by BookBub. As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric new...

Viktor Frankenstein ist von der Idee besessen, das Elixier des Lebens zu finden. In einer düsteren Novembernacht gelingt ihm das Unfassbare: Aus Leichenteilen, die er aus Friedhöfen zusammengetragen hat, formt er einen menschenähnlichen Körper, ein überdimensionales, hässliches Monstrum und haucht ihm Leben ein. Das Monster lernt schnell und versucht vergeblich die Zuneigung anderer Menschen zu erlangen. In seiner Isolation verflucht es seinen Schöpfer.

Cazlandt, the first of the archmages, seeks atonement. He travels to the corrupted realm of Urbus to discover a spell capable of reaching beyond the final curtain to undo his murder of a friend seven centuries ago. Guided by a swordsman with his own haunted past and a talking, flying cat, Cazlandt travels across a realm of wraiths and shadow. Battling fragments of banished dark gods, daemons from the space between worlds, and the poisonous energy seeping into his mortal shell, he forges toward the world tree for a single, selfless act.

“Vampires are making a comeback, and Yuszczuk is spearheading their revival with this bloody novel.” —The New York Times Book Review It is the nineteenth century, the twilight of Europe’s bloody bacchanals, and a vampire must escape. She arrives to the coast of Buenos Aires and, for...

1968, Sicily. Just months after an earthquake has destroyed the mountain town of Gibellina, Enzo and his wife Irene Borgata are making their way back to the family home, Villa Alba. When their car breaks down, Enzo leaves his young wife to go and get help, but when he returns there is no trace of Irene. 2003. TV showman and true crime aficionado Milo Conti is Italy’s darling, uncovering and solving historic crimes. When he turns his attention to the story of the missing Irene Borgata, accusing her husband of her murder, Enzo’s daughter asks her friend for help to prove her father’s innocence.

Debilitated by scoliosis as a child, Marissa Bonaventure seems the unlikeliest woman in the world to carry a rare, powerful gene. But it is exactly for her unique genetics that she’s snatched from her bed one dark night, a coveted prize in a battle between demons. Her world rapidly unravels in unspeakable terror, until a shadowed, black-haired stranger rescues her.

I've spent my life under the control of one man, the leader of Serendee. What I eat. How I dress. When I sleep. I thought he knew best, that only he could lead me to Enlightenment. But after I learn about the truth of Serendee, what lies beneath the perfect surface, I see him for who he really is—a monster.

Mariem e Raul sono i protagonisti di questa favola gotica, un intenso gioco tra il noir e l’erotico, tra l’amore e la morte, in una originale eco della tradizione letteraria andalusa. Mariem è un’adolescente e vive a Malaga, Raúl ha qualche anno più di lei. Ad accomunarli c'è il rapporto morboso che entrambi intrattengono con la morte.

Embark on a captivating journey to "The House of the Seven Gables" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. This Gothic novel transports listeners to a haunting world of family secrets, ancestral curses, and the enduring power of redemption. As the story unfolds within the walls of the enigmatic Pyncheon mansion, Hawthorne's masterful storytelling paints a vivid picture of the human condition, exploring themes of guilt, fate, and the interplay between past and present. Delve into this timeless tale of mystery and discover the allure of Hawthorne's richly woven narrative.

Iluka has been the only home that eighteen-year-old Ana has ever known. The beautiful wild pine plantation overlooking the Pacific Ocean where her grandfather builds furniture, her aunt runs an artists’ retreat, and her uncle tends the land, is paradise, a private idyll safe from the outside world. But the place holds a violent secret and when a stranger arrives, Ana will need to make a choice: to protect everything—and everyone—she holds dear or tell the truth and destroy it all.

Winner of the 2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel Finalist for the 2025 Shirley Jackson Award From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an “emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story” (CrimeReads) about three childhood friends who...

On the first morning of her new job at Heartfield House, a care home for the elderly, Annie Jackson wakens from a terrifying dream. And when she arrives at the home, she knows that the first old man she meets is going to die. How she knows this is a terrifying mystery, but it is the start of horrifying premonitions...a rekindling of the curse that has trickled through generations of women in her family - a wicked gift known only as 'the murmurs'... With its reappearance comes an old, forgotten fear that is about to grip Annie Jackson.

Роман Дафны Дюморье (1907–1989) "Моя кузина Рейчел", по мнению многих критиков, не уступает прославленной "Ребекке", а в чем-то и превосходит ее. Это прекрасный образец развития традиции "готического" и "сенсационного" романа, основоположником которого считается Уилки Коллинз: детективная интрига сочетается с необычной любовной драмой, разворачивающаяся на фоне лирических пейзажей Корнуолла и живописных картин Италии в сороковые годы XIX века.