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A good pick for readers who like historical ghost stories, remote Scottish settings, and gothic atmosphere.
Saltwater
Horror · Gothic Horror · Supernatural Horror
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In 1896, Tom Torrance travels to Scotland’s Isle of Stroma to oversee the completion of a lighthouse, where construction troubles have fueled rumors of hauntings. Skeptical of superstition, he soon confronts isolation, endless summer nights, and threats that science cannot explain. A good pick for readers who like historical ghost stories, remote Scottish settings, and gothic atmosphere.
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For fans of Michelle Paver and Sarah Waters, the second in a quartet of exquisitely haunting ghost stories set in the wilds of Scotland.
The Isle of Stroma, 1896. Tom Torrance has been sent to oversee the completion of a new lighthouse, which will guide ships through one of the most dangerous stretches of water in the United Kingdom. The construction so far has been plagued by difficulties, giving rise to superstitious whisperings amongst the men, but Tom is a man of sense and science. He will not be cowed by stories of hauntings and bad omens.
Yet Tom is unprepared for the conditions on the island: the isolation and delirium of the endless summer nights. He soon learns that the real dangers on the island have nothing to do with the wild waves. There are some problems that science cannot answer, and some threats so ancient and strange, that nothing can keep them at bay.
PRAISE FOR ELAINE THOMSON
'I was so impressed by Hawthorn' MICHELLE PAVER, author of Dark Matter
'Delightfully brooding and gloriously gothic' CJ COOKE, author of The Book of Witching
'A hugely entertaining and evocative treat' BRIDGET COLLINS, author of The Binding
'A new classic' SARA SHERIDAN, author of The Fair Botanists
'The best Scottish ghost story of the 21st Century so far' HERALD
'A wonderfully atmospheric ghost story' 5* NETGALLEY REVIEW
'A truly haunting tale, beautifully written' 5* NETGALLEY REVIEW
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This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
Fitcher’s Bird
Horror · Gothic Horror · Occult Horror
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Three sisters survived the fire that destroyed their childhood home, but years later Chloe and Zoe disappear, leaving Dido to revisit their shared past and discover whether something else survived the blaze. It has a 4.2-star average from more than 50 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want compact gothic horror built around sisters, childhood trauma, disappearances, and an old mystery resurfacing.
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Once upon a time, three young sisters survived a catastrophic house fire… Years later, one of them disappears and then another and it is left to the eldest sister to find out whether something else survived… A dark, twisty, page-turning modern gothic horror from the multi award-winning author of The Cold House.
When sisters Chloe, Zoe and Dido were children, their father died and their mother could no longer care for them, so they were sent to live with the local doctor’s family: mother, father and three sons. Soon after, however, Ashwood Farm burned to the ground, and only the three young girls survived.
Years later, the sisters live very separate lives, each dealing with their painful past in different ways. But when first Chloe, and then Zoe disappears, it’s left to Dido to rake through their history and find out if her sisters are still in the world or paying the price for what happened that long ago summer night.
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The Lamb turns maternal devotion into something feral and terrifying, wrapping hunger, desire, and control into a gothic coming-of-age nightmare.
The Lamb
Horror · Gothic Horror
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The Lamb turns maternal devotion into something feral and terrifying, wrapping hunger, desire, and control into a gothic coming-of-age nightmare. In a cottage where Margot and her mother lure strangers from the woods, survival blurs with longing when a girl named Eden unsettles the balance between them. This is literary horror at its most intimate, body-conscious, and unsettling.
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DAKOTA JOHNSON TEATIME BOOK CLUB PICK · INSTANT #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
"A dark, gorgeous concoction.”—New York Times
“Beautiful, terrifying . . . . Destined to become a classic."—Washington Post
From an incendiary new talent, a contemporary queer folktale of literary horror about a mother and daughter living in the woods, for fans of Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield.
Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember.
When Margot is not at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. People who have strayed too far from the road. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them wine, keeps them warm. Then she satisfies her burning appetite by picking apart their bodies.
But Mama’s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her bid for freedom.
With this haunting gothic coming-of-age tale, debut novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts—and wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.
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In Prague, a translator dismisses legends of a ghost that follows the morally lost, until a friend disappears and centuries of testimony begin to surface.
Melmoth
Horror · Gothic Horror · Paranormal Romance
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In Prague, a translator dismisses legends of a ghost that follows the morally lost, until a friend disappears and centuries of testimony begin to surface. As guilt and compassion collide, Melmoth draws near. Sarah Perry’s Melmoth is a gothic literary horror praised by critics, earning 4 stars on Amazon and multiple starred reviews for its atmosphere and depth.
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In a "Gothic stunner" a ghost roams through history in "a scary novel that chills to the bone even as it points the way to a warmer, more humane, place" (New York Times Book Review).
From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent, now an Apple TV+ Series starring Claire Danes
It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a sanctuary. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, who hunts her prey through the ages, dooming those she captures to timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But then Karel disappears . . .
Spanning continents and centuries, Sarah Perry's breathtaking novel is a masterpiece of suspense as well as a profound investigation of the eternal nature of love and compassion.
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Madeline Usher wakes buried alive, entombed by her own twin brother.
The Fall
Horror · Teen + Young Adult · Gothic Horror
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Madeline Usher wakes buried alive, entombed by her own twin brother. As memories fracture and the house tightens its grip, she fights madness, legacy, and a living home that refuses to let her go. The Fall is a gothic reimagining of Poe’s classic, earning a starred Kirkus review and 4.0 stars on Amazon for its haunting atmosphere and psychological tension.
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Madeline Usher has been buried alive. The doomed heroine comes to the fore in this eerie reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." Gothic, moody, and suspenseful from beginning to end, The Fall is literary horror for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Asylum.
Madeline awakes in a coffin. And she was put there by her own twin brother. But how did it come to this? In short, non-chronological chapters, Bethany Griffin masterfully spins a haunting and powerful tale of this tragic heroine and the curse on the Usher family. The house itself is alive, and it will never let Madeline escape, driving her to madness just as it has all of her ancestors. But she won't let it have her brother, Roderick. She'll do everything in her power to save him—and try to save herself—even if it means bringing the house down around them.
With a sinister, gothic atmosphere and relentless tension to rival Poe himself, Bethany Griffin creates a house of horrors and introduces a whole new point of view on a timeless classic. Kirkus Reviews praised it in a starred review as "A standout take on the classic haunted-house tale replete with surprises around every shadowy corner."
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Juniper & Thorn follows Marlinchen, a young witch trapped under her abusive wizard father as her city shifts from magic to industry.
Juniper & Thorn
Horror · Gothic Horror
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Juniper & Thorn follows Marlinchen, a young witch trapped under her abusive wizard father as her city shifts from magic to industry. Drawn to forbidden freedom and first love, she uncovers a monstrous force born of resentment and old power. As danger grows, Marlinchen must claim her own magic to survive, protect her sisters, and decide who she will become.
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From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the domination of her abusive wizard father, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson and Catherynne M. Valente.
A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites.
Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya’s last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside world. But at night, Marlinchen and her sisters sneak out to enjoy the city’s amenities and revel in its thrills, particularly the recently established ballet theater, where Marlinchen meets a dancer who quickly captures her heart.
As Marlinchen’s late-night trysts grow more fervent and frequent, so does the threat of her father’s rage and magic. And while Oblya flourishes with culture and bustles with enterprise, a monster lurks in its midst, borne of intolerance and resentment and suffused with old-world power. Caught between history and progress and blood and desire, Marlinchen must draw upon her own magic to keep her city safe and find her place within it.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer gothic horror, sinister estates, botanical secrets, and slow-building mystery.
Her Wicked Roots
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Gothic Horror
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Cordelia Beecher is searching for her missing brother Edward when her search leads her to botanist Lady Evangeline’s Edenfield estate, where she grows close to Briar and begins to suspect the estate holds answers about Edward’s disappearance, with a 4.1-star rating from 28 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to queer gothic horror, sinister estates, botanical secrets, and slow-building mystery.
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Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel
In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets.
Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow but everyone there claims to have never heard of Edward—not even the man he was supposedly working for as an apprentice.
With nowhere to go, Cordi turns to Lady Evangeline, a local botanist who owns the magnificent Edenfield estate. The benevolent lady of the manor has made it her mission to take young, often traumatized, women into her employ and protect them from man’s world of wicked desires and deceits. Hired as a maid and companion to her enigmatic daughters, Prim and Briar, Cordi quickly settles into Edenfield. Even as her relationship with Briar blossoms, Cordi can’t help but suspect that there are secrets in the estate…and when she stumbles across evidence that Edward was once there, she’s determined to find answers.
Atmospheric, eerie, and thoroughly original, Her Wicked Roots will establish Tanya Pell as a “wickedly creepy” (Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll) and vital voice in horror.
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T. Kingfisher’s A House With Good Bones was named a Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023.
A House With Good Bones
Horror · Gothic Horror
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T. Kingfisher’s A House With Good Bones was named a Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023. In this chilling Southern Gothic, Sam Montgomery returns to her mother’s home only to uncover vultures, jars of teeth, and a past too dark to stay buried. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, it’s both unsettling and unforgettable.
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Sam Montgomery expects comfort when she visits her mother’s North Carolina home: cozy nights with wine, TV mysteries, and easy laughter. Instead, she finds sterile white walls where warmth once thrived, a mother who startles at shadows, and vultures circling above the garden roses.
The house feels wrong, stripped of its soul. Then Sam discovers jars of teeth buried in the yard, and her mother’s fear suddenly makes sense. Something dark has taken root beneath the foundations, twisting through their family’s past and pushing into the present.
From award-winning author T. Kingfisher, A House With Good Bones is a Southern Gothic that peels back the wallpaper of domestic bliss to reveal rot, secrets, and horrors that prove some homes are built to bury more than memories.
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Best for readers who like Gothic supernatural suspense with haunted houses, historical atmosphere, forbidden attraction, and witchcraft.
The Hacienda
Gothic Horror · Horror · Occult Horror
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The Hacienda follows Beatriz, a woman who marries for safety after losing her father and home, only to find herself trapped in a remote estate haunted by visions, secrets, and a malevolent presence, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,200 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like Gothic supernatural suspense with haunted houses, historical atmosphere, forbidden attraction, and witchcraft.
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Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...
During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost.
But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined.
When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears—but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark the doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano?
Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will save her.
Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness.
Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom.
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Atmospheric and chilling, it’s perfect for fans of ghost stories with romance and intrigue woven through.
The Fate of Mercy Alban
Horror · Gothic Horror
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Goodreads Choice nominee The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb has 4.5 out of 5 stars and over 10,000 Goodreads ratings. A Gothic mystery set in a haunted lakeside mansion, it blends dark family secrets, hidden passageways, and possible curses. Atmospheric and chilling, it’s perfect for fans of ghost stories with romance and intrigue woven through.
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Grace Alban swore she would never return to Alban House. The mansion on Lake Superior held too many memories, too many secrets. But her mother’s sudden death drags her and her daughter back into its haunted halls.
The house whispers with more than grief. Hidden passageways, long-lost letters, and a missing manuscript point to a decades-old mystery. Years ago, a famous author died during a scandalous party, and Grace’s aunt vanished that same night. The truth has been buried by the Alban family ever since.
Now Grace must untangle a web of lies, curses, and whispered threats. With the help of Reverend Matthew Parker, she searches for answers. But the mansion’s secrets are not finished claiming lives, and Grace may be next.
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A haunted house.
The Keeper of the Key
Gothic Horror
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A haunted house. A terrifying secret. In The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson, sixteen-year-old Rachel faces an evil lurking beneath Morgan House. With 4.2 stars on Amazon, this gothic horror delivers bone-chilling suspense. Can Rachel escape the house’s grip, or will she become part of its dark legacy? Grab your copy now!
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There are a thousand things sixteen-year-old Rachel would rather do than move into the crumbling Morgan House. Forced to relocate with her mother’s overbearing boyfriend, Geoff, she’s trapped in a remote town with eerie secrets. Geoff has one strange rule—stay out of the basement. But something in the house has other plans. Night after night, Rachel is pulled into terrifying visions of a man lurking in the shadows, warnings whispered from the dead. When tragedy strikes, those visions become violent, threatening to consume her. Can Rachel unravel the deadly history of Morgan House before it claims her forever? The Keeper of the Key is a chilling gothic horror that will keep you turning pages deep into the night.
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By day, Damali Richards is a rising spoken word artist; by night, she hunts vampires.
Minion
Gothic Horror · Urban Fantasy
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By day, Damali Richards is a rising spoken word artist; by night, she hunts vampires. But when rogue vampires begin targeting her label's artists, Damali faces a bloodthirsty enemy unlike any she’s seen. Now, with dark forces closing in, she must confront the ultimate evil — or become its next victim.
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By day, Damali Richards is a spoken word artist, bringing music and power to the people. By night, she’s a fierce vampire huntress, standing between humanity and darkness.
With her Guardian team, Damali protects her city from supernatural threats, keeping people safe from creatures they believe are myths. But when rogue vampires begin slaughtering artists from her record label, Warriors of Light, and rival label Blood Music, it’s clear something far darker is at play.
These gruesome murders defy the usual vampire patterns, leaving behind only mutilation and horror. Damali soon learns that a powerful vampire lord is orchestrating the chaos — and he has his sights set on her.
As dark forces close in, will Damali survive the seductive power of her greatest enemy yet?
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