An ancient curse. An abandoned abbey. The power of a kiss! Fleeing angry villagers, a young gypsy woman seeks refuge in an empty manor house. When the owner returns Zara is both frightened and fascinated by the handsome man. A bold kiss unleashes a frightening transformation in St. John. If Zara is to survive, she must escape, quickly. Tortured by blackouts mirroring reports of brutal murders in London, Stephan St. John returns to his country manor...

It is England in the close of 1848, and the citizens of Victorian York are under a terrible, unforgiving siege: a bitter, crushing winter of near-biblical proportions. One that causes mayhem and misery, to a struggling populace, at war with itself. Through these trials, a secret social elite quietly ruin an old family-firm. Capus Munion is the hard-working clerk; that does his best for the remaining family, whilst nobody knows his very dark secret....An...

In "The Report of Mr. Charles Aalmers," Matthew Pungitore crafts a spine-chilling story about a surreal chain of maddening events surrounding a historian and his beloved friend. Encounter a lurid report written in a disturbing manuscript found in a Gothic crypt guarded by strange rumors and an indescribable being. Additionally, this anthology includes many more thrilling yarns most grotesque, most sublime, wonderfully Gothic, charmingly dreamy, and...

Harry Cauley's third novel, Millersburg (Bridie and Finn and The Botticelli Angel preceding), might well be described as "New Jersey Gothic." It's set in 1939 in a small town in Northern New Jersey, narrated by Ben, a 17-year-old boy. He's part of a family ruled by Mamu, his tyrannical grandmother, and starts with a grisly double murder that eventually involves his family and changes the family dynamics forever as long-kept secrets begin to unravel....

A young journalist eagerly heads out on a voyage to see his old friend-an ardent chemist with a top-secret discovery to disclose-but soon finds out it may be better for everyone if he had remained in the dark."...Her story-telling capacity is engaging and sure, and, while her voice is clearly her own, fans of Gothic fiction will detect murmuring echoes of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe." --Karl Yambert

Seized by a dark genius, Miles O'Keefe has shut himself away in his ancestral mansion for more than decade. Driven by an unquiet spirit called The Thornleigh Bride, he sculpts masterpiece after masterpiece-and edges ever closer to madness. His decadent prison is finally breached by Samantha Knox-a woman who has been to the brink of hell and back. She wants-needs-Miles to sculpt her scarred yet strong and beautiful body, to prove she has survived....

The night of the full moon...Still grieving the recent death of her parents, Elinore Reed is called to live with family she's never met at Ravenwood. A carriage accident leaves her alone, in the forest, on the night of the full moon, where something lurks in the trees. A bite that will not heal...After being bitten in the woods, Elinore fears for her sanity. The bite is turning black. She hears things she should not be able to and feels emotions...

Within the secluded shelter of evergreens and cliffside that surrounds Bellingham Washington is South Hill, the city's prominent old money neighborhood; filled with gracious Victorians and manor homes, over looking the fishing port of Fairhaven and the dark waters of Bellingham Bay. 17 year-old Trevor Blackmoore has lived here his entire life, shunned and feared, along with the rest of his clan by the snobbish and superstitious families that surround...

"You will be mine, little darling: for death is my life." When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria. As their relationship continues to develop further, they remain oblivious to the growing horror which surrounds them, as throughout the province other young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile,...

The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written during a period of increased interest in Egyptology across Europe, The Jewel of Seven Stars helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early twentieth-century. In the middle of the night, a young lawyer is roused from sleep by Margaret Trelawny. At her urgent request, he accompanies her to the house of her father, Abel...