Gothic Cozy

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Clara Wren came to Rosewharf to run a quiet apothecary by the sea. Instead, she inherited a village full of secrets — and a lighthouse that should not exist. High on the headland, the Lantern still burns. The villagers whisper that it remembers names, marks tallies in the fog, and demands silence from those sworn to tend it. Jonas Marlowe knows the truth. Scarred, solitary, and bound by generations of duty, he has kept the Lantern lit for years — at a cost no one else is willing to pay. He tells Clara there are only two rules: When the Lantern saves, you keep it burning. When it claims ...

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.

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 ghost story with a true crime twist. Based on the largest, unsolved art heist in history, GHOST AT THE GARDNER is a gripping, paranormal suspense mystery with a bit of added romance. Supernatural occurrences unfold as an old museum ghost and a young art intern team up to solve an investigation that has remained an FBI cold case for over 20 years. Readers won’t be able to put down this fast-paced novel full of ghostly spirits, mystical séances and first kisses in a spooky graveyard.

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 ...

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...

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 #1 New York Times bestseller! Doll Bones meets Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in this spooky, middle grade novel about a boy who doesn’t believe in magic discovering a supernatural world full of danger. It began with a crack in the wall. Eleven-year-old Benjamiah Creek believes in science...

The trials of Gabriel Ward continue in A Case of Life and Limb, available now. Bloomsbury presents A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith, read by Matthew Lloyd Davies. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal...

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 ...

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, ...

Eleanor Finch is worried about the records. Fifteen years after the dead rose, Archive House has become one of the last safe places left in England: a fortified Victorian manor where survivors grow food, mend books, ration fuel, gossip over tea, and keep watch from the walls. Eleanor is the settlement archivist, not a detective. Her job is to preserve the record: harvests, patrols, births, deaths, repairs, council decisions, and the fragile history of a community that has survived the end of the world. But when perimeter guard Thomas Calder fails to return from watch during a storm, ...

Welcome back to Whimsy Hollow, where haunted ledgers whisper, black cats uncover clues, and ghosts refuse to rest. When Nora Vale follows a cursed clue to Hollow Point Lighthouse, she expects secrets—not murder. But after a séance ends with a famous ghost hunter dead. Nora, Ink, and Elias Thorn must untangle poisoned tonic, missing keys, fake spirits, and one very real ghost. Jonah Reed isn’t haunting the lighthouse for revenge. He’s pointing to a killer. And Nora may be the next voice lost to the tide.

One Dark Lord. One Holy Baker. And a sourdough starter with a serious attitude problem. Malakor the "Lord of Despair" is finally finding his rhythm. The Grave-to-Table Bistro is a local hit, his skeletal staff is (mostly) staying in one piece, and the local Paladin is more interested in grilled cheese than exorcisms. But the peace of the cemetery is about to be shattered. The Annual Oakhaven Culinary Festival is around the corner, and the village’s favorite golden boy, Brother Benedict Yeast, has a bone to pick with the Necro-Chef. Yeast believes that bread should be blessed, not brewed ...