British Gothic

The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

The multi million copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller. In Monte Carlo, our unnamed heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned...

NEW AND IMPROVED SECOND EDITION - 2025 Initially published by Peter Owen Publishers, 2013 When nine-year-old Henry III ascended to the throne of a kingdom on the verge of collapse, none could have predicted his fifty-six-year reign would become the longest in medieval England. The first child king to inherit the English throne since the Norman Conquest, his reign (1216–72) transformed the kingdom politically and culturally during one of the most turbulent periods in its history. Though often overshadowed by his father, King John, and his son, Edward I, Henry III was one of England’s ...

WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post) “[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in...

"Stephanie Racine's talented narration helps create an atmospheric backdrop for this dark mystery."- AudioFile This program is read by longtime narrator Stephanie Racine who has voiced numerous New York Times, U.S. and U.K. bestselling audiobooks. Author Alice Feeney reads the acknowledgments on...

To a clinical psychologist, there are no ghosts. Only guilt. Stephen Atherton lives by a strict rule: every human trauma can be diagnosed, categorized, and controlled. As a clinical psychologist specializing in prolonged grief, he knows that the human mind is a closed, predictable system. When his dog, Gyp, begins hesitating at the gates of Kelbrook Cemetery during their nightly walk, Stephen rationalizes the behavior as a simple reaction to localized scent gradients. Then, she appears. Every evening at exactly 5:15 PM, a young woman in a vintage wool coat joins Stephen on the wet gravel ...

“Told in alternating perspectives divided into 'Me,' 'You,' 'Us,' and 'Them' sections, the narrations by Baxendale and Glover perfectly match the slow build of the story. Both capture the determination, guilt, and duplicity of the characters as the plot twists.” —AudioFile Award-winning...

An Earphones Award Winner! Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogenarian—hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world, in this locked-room mystery by #1 New York Times...

"Oppressively dark and deliciously Gothic" - The BiblioSanctum Alex Pheby's Mordew launches an astonishingly inventive epic fantasy trilogy. God is dead, his corpse hidden in the catacombs beneath Mordew. In the slums of the sea-battered city, a young boy called Nathan Treeves lives with his...

A lush, atmospheric Regency Gothic romance with heart-pounding danger, forbidden desire, and a heroine who refuses to be anyone’s victim. In 1813, Porphyria Thaxton is a dispossessed young woman of nineteen, stripped of her inheritance and forced into drudgery at the crumbling estate of her cruel relatives. When a vampire begins to prey on those closest to her, she must unravel the dark secrets of her new neighbors at Lichmere Abbey—secrets that draw her into a dangerous dance with the enigmatic Nicholas Crosswood. But Nicholas is not the only man who watches her. There is the steady, ...

From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!​ When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she...

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when...

Full of creeping dread and suffocating unease, Dark Is When the Devil Comes is an atmospheric and chilling novel from Something in the Walls author Daisy Pearce. The woods are known as the place to avoid. What goes in, doesn’t come out. Hazel has been gone from her small hometown of Idless in...

🔎 A Grand Estate. A Sinister Society. A Deadly Secret. When the tranquil English village of Wethersby is shaken by the mysterious death of Sir Reginald Farnsworth, whispers of scandal and intrigue begin to stir. The reclusive aristocrat had long been a member of the Violet Cross Society, a clandestine group known for its influence and secrecy. But when amateur sleuth Miss Arabella Grey receives an ominous letter warning her to beware the 10th hour at Thornwood Manor, she finds herself entangled in a case far more sinister than she could have imagined. 💜 A Grandfather Clock That Holds ...

A Ghostly Excursion into the Victorian Gothic. A Tale of Obsession, Terror, and Vengeance. Welcome to Wiltshire in the autumn of 1843. Monsieur Benoit Lavarnier, toast of the Parisian art world and a man of cultured accomplishments, finds himself commissioned to paint a portrait of renowned beauty, Lady Helena Brocklington. He arrives at Shrimmingwood Hall not only with the accoutrements of his trade, but also, so it would seem, something sinister lurking in his train. Also available in the Kindle collection A Ghost Story Omnibus: Collected Ghost Stories 2016-2018, and in the Amazon ...

A classic work of historical fiction from the author of Rebecca and The Birds. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless — and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As the English Civil war...

**A priceless medieval manuscript. A phantom poisoner. A lethal secret waiting five centuries to be unveiled.** When the Reverend Tobias Winter arrives at 221B Baker Street on an autumn evening in 1894, he brings no crude tale of common violence, but a mystery of exquisite subtlety: a fourteenth-century illuminated leaf from a sacred chantry psalter whose painted monarch is slowly, inexplicably fading. While the holy text and gold leaf remain pristine, the royal mantle of King David—once a brilliant ultramarine lapis lazuli—is turning a sickly slate grey. More alarming still, the vellum...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE "An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny and weird and surfeited with the...

Some doors are better left closed . . . Darkly profound and utterly chilling, Apartment 16 is a work of compulsive psychological horror from the award-winning author of The Ritual, Adam Nevill. ‘Fast becoming Britain's answer to Stephen King’ – The Guardian In Barrington House, an upmarket...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anna Popplewell, best known for her leading role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Stevie Davies. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt...