A guide to Gothic Fiction | What it is & what to read

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  • Immortal Bones (Detective Saussure Mysteries Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0058FM0SM

    DEATH IS NOT ALWAYS THE ENDIt's the '50s and Richard Saussure could have sworn he'd heard it all between his career as a police officer and his current PI business... Then a man walks in saying he is 213 years old. Lord Hurlingthon wants to die, but he cannot no matter what he tries. The worst part, he doesn’t understand why. As a last effort, he... [Read More]

  • Craven Manor

    • ASIN: B0787KW4KY
    • Manufacturer: Black Owl Books

    Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper’s position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true.Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion’s front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It’s clear no one has lived there in a l... [Read More]

  • The Silent Companions: A Novel

    • ASIN: 014313163X
    • ISBN: 014313163X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    “[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” —Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling authorLaura Purcell's latest novel, The Poison Thread, is now out from Penguin!Some doors are locked for a reason.                   When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for ... [Read More]

  • Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

    • ASIN: 1598530720
    • ISBN: 1598530720
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny... [Read More]

  • The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1984822136
    • ISBN: 1984822136
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Rhett & Link's Book of Mythicality and creators of Good Mythical Morning, a thrilling and darkly funny novel about two best friends fighting the sinister forces at the heart of their Southern townIt’s 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina—a sleepy little place with all the trappings of a... [Read More]

  • House of Leaves

    • ASIN: 0375703764
    • ISBN: 0375703764
    • Brand: Pantheon Books
    • Manufacturer: Pantheon

  • The Beauty of Horror 1: A GOREgeous Coloring Book

    • ASIN: 1631407287
    • ISBN: 1631407287
    • Brand: IDW Publishing
    • Manufacturer: IDW Publishing

    Get that red crayon ready! With this coloring book for adults channeling The Walking Dead meets The Secret Garden, comics creator/rock star Alan Robert (Crawl to Me, Killogy, Wire Hangers) invites fans of horror to discover their inner-colorist. Through intricate pen and ink illustrations to complete, color, and embellish, readers will meet an onsl... [Read More]

  • The Weight of Lies: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01M04OQWE
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    In this gripping, atmospheric family drama, a young woman investigates the forty­-year­-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling novel, and uncovers devastating truths—and dangerous lies.Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the ... [Read More]

  • The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143039989
    • ISBN: 0143039989
    • Brand: Shirley Jackson
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive a... [Read More]

  • Burying the Honeysuckle Girls

    • ASIN: B017LGAKEG
    • Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

    Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her.Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in ... [Read More]

  • The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Classics)

    • ASIN: 0785834206
    • ISBN: 0785834206
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

    The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's... [Read More]

  • Black Hotel: A Supernatural Thriller

    • ASIN: B07JBLGMBF

    Welcome to Black Hotel. A haunted hotel... with no ghostsWhen overweight dreamer Jack stumbles on work at Black Hotel, he believes he has found the perfect job. With no guests, the hotel pays him to sit about all night and do nothing. He doesn't even mind when he discovers the hotel is haunted. But why won't anyone believe him?Black Hotel has a sec... [Read More]

  • Blood Gifts (A Final Formula Story)

    • ASIN: B01E09AMI6

    Seventeen-year-old Ian is used to pressure. Born into a necromancer family, he and his twin brother Lex exhibited uncommon magical potential at an early age that led their father to expect great things—from them both. That is until Lex’s blood gift fails to manifest.Or so everyone believes.For the past five years, Ian has been keeping a secret.... [Read More]

  • 'Salem's Lot

    • ASIN: 0307743675
    • ISBN: 0307743675
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work a... [Read More]

  • Heaven (Casteel Book 1)

    • ASIN: B004CLYL44
    • Manufacturer: Pocket Books

  • Asylum 3-Book Box Set: Asylum, Sanctum, Catacomb

    • ASIN: 0062574337
    • ISBN: 0062574337
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Sometimes the past is better off buried…Enter the twisted world of Madeleine Roux’s New York Times bestselling Asylum series with this bone-chilling box set containing the first three novels. In Asylum, sixteen-year-old Dan discovers that his summer-program dorm used to be a psychiatric hospital—and that it's filled with secrets linking Dan a... [Read More]

  • Watcher (The Shining Ones Book 1)

    • ASIN: B0076D0ZAY
    • Manufacturer: The Small Book Press

    . . . A stranger walks into a bar sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for Poesy Wharton, it’s no joke at all.For Poesy, a twenty-something waitress who’s living paycheck to paycheck, life on Tybee Island is predictably normal until a mysterious stranger named Adam Walker drifts into Paddy’s Bar and Grill, the small town dive where sh... [Read More]

  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    • ASIN: 0143039970
    • ISBN: 9780143039976
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. ... [Read More]

  • Touched: The Complete Series

    • ASIN: B07467854W
    • Manufacturer: Elisa S. Amore

    This box set includes all four books in the #1 best-selling series TOUCHED and is over 2000 pages of romance, fantasy, mythology, and adventure. Over 200,000 copies sold. 60 MILLION pages read. 2000+ five-star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.Only true love can survive a journey through Heaven and Hell.My name is Evan and I’m a Soldier of Death. F... [Read More]

  • The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy)

    • ASIN: 0735220743
    • ISBN: 0735220743
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Viking

    A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy—"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People).  Look for the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches” airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. A Discovery of Witches introduced D... [Read More]

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