Gothic Cozy

The hidden compartment in Violet Pennington's bookshop has already given up one secret. She didn't expect it to have kept another. A note, dated 1840, written in a precise copperplate hand. A witness who could not be silenced and could not be heard. A man drowned in a millpond, and a verdict returned by the inquest was wrong. In Brambleford, the past has a habit of staying put. The Larch family still runs the mill. The solicitor firm that handled their affairs still handles them. And someone has just been killed to ensure that what Carmel Valliard wrote down one October morning nearly two ...

When Ruth Townsend discovers Tessa Martin’s body in an abandoned factory, sprawled across a Ouija board, she does the responsible thing and calls 911. But by the time Sheriff Blevins arrives, the girl’s body has vanished. Blevins is convinced that Tessa is playing an elaborate hoax. But Ruth and her daughter, Cassie, know better. They both saw the body.

Arias and Apparitions Retired opera diva Melody Vance thought her greatest challenge would be swapping the spotlights of Covent Garden for the leaky pipes of Vance Manor. Inheriting her late Aunt Agatha’s crumbling Victorian B&B in the heart of the Cotswolds was supposed to be a quiet encore. But when a guest screams about a spectral figure pointing toward a floorboard and turns up dead the next morning; without a mark on him the village of Upper Skimmington starts whispering about the "Vance Curse." Armed with her aunt’s hidden journals and a family legacy of ghost-hunting she’s long...

Welcome to Madison, Georgia, where the magnolias bloom, the tea is sweet, and the monsters are real. In this cozy horror anthology, the charming town of Madison hides secrets in its flowerbeds and shadows in its attics. Behind every wrought-iron fence and sun-warmed porch lies something unexpected: a banshee who quilts in the carriage house, a wight who prefers crossword puzzles to haunting, a wendigo who wears sweaters by the fire, and cryptids who just want someone to talk to. But don’t be fooled by the cobblestone streets and Southern charm. The ghouls here are real and love has a ...

She owed him seven figures. He collected in blood, time, and surrender. Odette Valéry has stolen from billionaires, fleeced private collectors, and slipped security systems in four languages. She does not make mistakes. Until she does. Until a laundered chip at the wrong casino lands her in the private office of Dorian Ashworth—a man whose cologne smells like smoke and whose eyes don't blink often enough to be human. He doesn't kill her. He makes her an offer. Work off the debt. Live in his penthouse. Wear what he chooses. Go where he permits. And under no circumstances try to run, ...

Mystery, mortality, and a dash of the macabre… London, 1882: A Christmas draped in shadows, a city gripped by fear, and a mystery that defies the laws of life and death… When Professor Gilbert Fitzroy unveils a revolutionary theory that mocks the inevitability of decay and whispers to eternal life, the Royal Society is left reeling. Clearly, this does not apply to him, for a few hours later he is found dead in his rooms. Lady Agatha, a young woman high in intellect, low in patience, with the help of her husband Eustace 'Useless' and their Lothario basset, Talleyrand, investigate. As the...

Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher "Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal wonderfully conveys the wryly funny prose and the creeping horror of the story. Giving each character a...

IT'S HERE! SPELLBOUND BOOK THREE Some inheritances come with a key. Eliza Lakeland's came with a war. The Council is done watching. The protections her grandmother spent forty years laying over Ciderbrooke are failing one by one, and the power waking under Eliza's skin is older — and hungrier — than anything a small Vermont town was built to hold. She has the thread that ties her to Simon Sterling. She has Ginny at her back and a grimoire she's only beginning to understand. What she doesn't have is time. Because the woman who walked back through her door, nearly two decades later, is ...

A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return. All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh...

Welcome to Whimsy Hollow—where a hidden family register whispers murder. When Nora Vale inherits her grandmother’s rare-book shop, she expects dust, old paper, and too many memories. Instead, she finds a missing register page, a forged family line, and a ghostly warning that someone has been rewriting the town’s bloodlines for years. With Ink, her sharp-eyed black cat, and the steady but suspicious Elias Thorn, Nora follows a trail of altered records, hidden nursery entries, burned scraps, and private corrections buried deep inside Whimsy Hollow’s oldest families. Someone changed ...

I married a monster for convenience. I never expected him to claim me. I am a practical woman. Facing a life of impoverished spinsterhood, I accepted a marriage of convenience to Hugh, the notoriously reclusive Earl of Crampton. I expected a drafty Yorkshire castle, terrible weather, and a brooding husband who kept his distance. I certainly didn't expect to find a massive, terrifying wolf locked in my cellar during the full moon. Nor did I expect to realize the beast was my husband. At first, managing his "condition" was simply a matter of replacing torn linen shirts and ignoring the muddy ...

A Renaissance fair in rural Louisiana is not the kind of place you'd expect to encounter any real danger. All the dragons, jousting, sword fighting, and public executions are only make believe, right? Our favorite lettering artist, Mila Breaux, is not so sure about that. When she receives a mysterious note summoning her to hand letter the signage for the local Ren fair, some of the Dark Age performances seem to be way more realistic than she bargained for.

Mara wakes a heartless gargoyle. If she can’t stop the relic thief, Ashborne falls—and Gareth may become its weapon. Mara Bell is excellent in a crisis. Missing linen? Fixed. Reopening disasters? Handled. Ancient enchanted doors hidden inside Ashborne Library? That one is going to require a bigger clipboard. After the supernatural events at Ashborne Library, Mara is determined to help Clara keep the newly reopened building from becoming a magical disaster zone. Then she finds a west tower that should not exist, reads an inscription she absolutely should not have read aloud, and awakens ...

“Every Manor Keeps Its Secrets—Some Too Perilous to Remain Silent, and One Woman’s Courage Stands Against a Century of Deceit.” It was on an autumn afternoon, golden yet heavy with the foreboding hush of evening, that Rosalind Harrington stepped from her carriage and crossed the threshold of Montrose Manor, a place she had once called home. She has been summoned home to fulfill the dying requests of Lady Beatrice Montrose. In the serene yet shadowed corridors of Montrose Manor, an estate of grand but fading splendor, widowed Rosalind Harrington, a woman of wit and quiet strength, ...

Bubble, bubble, toil, and murder... When a woman is found dead near her village in Norfolk, the verdict is suicide. Not everyone agrees. Detective James Simpson is ordered to investigate and he brings Agatha Aston, a young woman high of intellect and low in patience, Betty Stevens and a lovelorn hound called Talleyrand, with him. They stumble across a tale of murder that stretches back two centuries. Part occult story, part murder mystery - this creepy tale is steeped in witchcraft and strange rural festivals where everything is not as it seems. The second Agatha Aston murder mystery is ...

In the hush of the Louisiana bayou, something is waiting to be found. Deep in the wetlands, where the air hums with insects and the water keeps its secrets, Marie Dubois lives alone in her small cabin on the edge of town. They call her a witch. She does not argue. Her days are quiet, shaped by river water, garden herbs, and the soft, steady rhythm of a life lived apart. Until the night the storm rolls in and leaves something behind. A baby. Alone in the wreckage of a broken airboat. Marie takes him in without question. Raises him with careful hands and a guarded heart. But in a town that ...

What if Heathcliff's brooding wasn't heartbreak — it was a twenty-year argument about whether a blackberry tart needs elderflower liqueur? It is 1801. Disgraced London food critic Mr. Lockwood retreats to the Yorkshire moors, hoping to escape the catastrophic fallout of the Great Soufflé Scandal. What he finds at Wuthering Heights is his brooding, cardigan-wearing landlord Heathcliff — and the ghost of Heathcliff's wife Catherine, who did not let death stop her from having the last word. Catherine has been haunting the Heights for twenty years. Not out of grief. Out of culinary ...

Every bargain has a trap with good manners. By day, Darcy Leclair trades in oddities and honest prices in the heart of New Orleans. By night, the supernatural community stops pretending and starts paying in secrets, ash, and debts that refuse to stay buried. Darcy doesn't do melodrama—she does inventory, carefully managing cursed objects with warnings she pretends she can't read. But her carefully ordered world shatters when a prominent vampire client turns to a pile of ash just hours after purchasing an antique silver mirror. Suddenly, the Night Council arrives at her door with a ...

When autumn drapes itself over Madison, Georgia, the days shorten, the nights deepen, and something restless stirs beneath the magnolias. In this Southern town, history lingers in the bricks of old houses and whispers ride the wind through quiet streets. Some say it is only memory. Others know better. Spirits have a way of keeping company in Madison, whether you invite them or not. Haunting Season in Madison gathers nine cozy horror tales where the monstrous and the human meet in ways that will tug at your heart and raise gooseflesh on your arms. Some stories bring laughter, with goblins ...

The Clockmaker's Silence In the quiet harbour town of Blackwater-on-Wye, antique dealer Tom Armitage has spent years hiding two things: his grief after losing his wife, and his unsettling ability to see ghosts. Most spirits drift through his life like reflections in old glass, restless but harmless. Until the grandfather clock arrives. Tall, black-oak, and cold to the touch, the clock begins whispering a single name every midnight: “Eleanor.” Local historian Nathan Vale insists the clock once belonged to the Ashcombe estate, where a maid disappeared without explanation in 1923. Before ...