Laura Purcell

When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury.

"[An] uncanny Gothic mystery... Satisfying."—New York Times Book Review "A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave From the author of The Silent Companions, a thrilling Victorian gothic horror story about a young...

Inspired by the work of Shirley Jackson and Susan Hill and set in a crumbling country mansion, The Silent Companions is an unsettling Victorian gothic ghost story....

Edgar Award Finalist A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from the queen of Gothic fiction, Laura Purcell As the age of the photograph dawns in...

Eight best-selling authors. A dazzling new collection of original haunted tales. This is your indispensable companion to the long, dark nights this October.....

At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse....

Lange, kalte Winternächte: Zeit, um den Kamin zu entzünden, Zeit für Geistergeschichten. Ob in den wilden Mooren von Yorkshire, auf dem verschneiten Gelände eines Spukhauses oder auf dem belebten Londoner Weihnachtsmarkt – diese Geschichten jagen den Lesenden die köstlichsten Schauer über den Rücken.

Belinda Bainbridge has spent her life in the shadow of her anxious mother, so when her father-in-law dies at The Bridge, his remote ancestral seat, she is secretly thrilled. His death means she, her husband Wilfred and their children can relocate and finally begin to create their own happy home.

Die Tradition, zur kalten Jahreszeit Spukgeschichten zu lesen, hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bewährt. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als es sich an langen, dunklen Winterabenden bei Kerzenlicht mit Geistergeschichten gemütlich zu machen?

Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness....

Dorothea and Ruth. Ruth and Dorothea. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder....

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft’s family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken....

Quelque chose punit les habitants de la petite colonie de Roanoke... Prenez garde pauvre pécheurs. 1587, Caroline du Nord, Agnès a quitté l'Angleterre à contre...

Camille wird zu ihrer Patentante und deren Tochter Lucy geschickt, die in einem kleinen Haus im Wald wohnen. Weit weg vom Komfort der Stadt muss sie sich nun den strengen Regeln ihrer Tante fügen.

Einige Türen sind aus einem bestimmten Grund verschlossen... England, 1866: Als Elsie den reichen Erben Rupert Bainbridge heiratet, glaubt...

Following a scandal at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent to the woods to live with her reclusive godmother and her strange daughter, Lucy. Cast out from polite society, she must learn to live by her godmother’s strict rules.