Gothic Monsters

The time is 1902. The setting, eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a 15-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men. She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii. Their violent past doesn't concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house, and one she says has killed before. But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels.

The moment I saw your bruised, battered face, I knew a soul-deep hunger to know you, to love you, to possess your heart... I never expected to meet you in a psychiatric ward of all places. I watch you from afar, memorizing your every movement and gesture. My heart burns with jealousy and rage when Rex, a technician with a childhood linked to yours, watches you with the same intensity, hoping for your forgiveness. You're as alone in this world as I am. My brokenness is drawn to yours. It all started with a song, a look, a conversation. In music therapy, our souls entwine as my voice, deep ...

In a world of shadows, love defies every curse. In Victorian London, a dark, forbidden love unfolds in this spellbinding gothic romance retelling of Beauty and the Beast. When the enigmatic Lord Ravenwood—cursed, tormented, and haunted by betrayal—encounters the spirited Lavinia Ashcroft, their fates become irrevocably entwined. Bound by secrets and driven by a relentless desire to defy an enchanted curse, their union becomes a battleground between the man and the beast within him. As Ravenwood’s monstrous past threatens to consume him, Lavinia’s mystical gift reveals hidden truths ...

She ran from the man who ruined her. Now he’s burning the world to bring her back. Vera Calloway disappeared without a trace. No body. No goodbye. Just silence and shadows where she used to be. The world thinks she’s dead. Lucian Dane knows better. He feels it in the way the city holds its breath. He sees it in the cracks she left behind—too careful, too deliberate. She didn’t vanish. She vanished from him. And that was her first mistake. Because Lucian doesn’t lose. Not control. Not power. And never the woman he’s already claimed. Now Protocol Seven is active— a scorched-...

Bound by magic. Driven by desire. Defying an ancient order. Facing ruin from her father’s crushing debts, Geneva Baltimore accepts a mysterious marriage proposal from Valentine Powers, a wealthy stranger with dark secrets. Valentine is a powerful demon, and Geneva’s own hidden supernatural bloodline awakens under his touch. Bound by a mystical mark, their forced marriage ignites into a fierce passion—one that threatens the ancient Conclave, a ruthless council ruling the supernatural world. Together, Geneva and Valentine form an alliance of witches, werewolves, vampires, and outcasts ...

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to...

The third book in the scorchingly hot mafia romance Queens and Monsters series by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger, where John Wick meets Romeo and Juliet. This program features multicast narration.

In the dark, spellbinding sequel to One Dark Window, Elspeth must confront the weight of her actions as she and Ravyn embark on a perilous quest to save the kingdom—perfect for readers of Hannah Whitten's For the Wolf and Alexis Henderson's The Year of the Witching. Gripped by a tyrant...

The carnival arrived at dusk, bleeding rust and promising escape. For Lily, it was a one-way ticket out of her dead-end town. But when the moon rises, the main attraction is unleashed. The Carnival Nocturne is a predator, and its charismatic owner holds a monstrous secret. When a local boy vanishes and the first body is found mutilated near the Ferris wheel, Lily realizes the truth: the cheap tricks and rigged games are a cover for something ancient and hungry. A violent storm cuts them off from the world. The power dies. The screams begin. Trapped on the carnival grounds with a handful of ...

When beauty is monstrous, taming her will awaken a beast of his own... When Dr. Marcus Reed inherits his grandfather's remote estate, rumors of a haunted conservatory pique his scientific curiosity. But nothing prepares Marcus for the impossible truth hidden behind its glass—a secret that will upend his beliefs about the natural world and his own analytical heart. Flora Laurent, once a brilliant botanist, now exists as a human-plant hybrid after a catastrophic experiment. Dependent on the conservatory to survive and without her mentor's protection, she faces a terrifying future as rival ...

A remote Alpine monastery. A freakish, unnatural storm. A blasphemous ambition. When Professor Finch uses forbidden science to reanimate a creature of stitched-together flesh, he unleashes more than just a tormented soul upon the world. The creature's agonizing birth in the heart of the tempest awakens an older, darker power. High in the unforgiving peaks, a primordial evil stirs. Krampus, the ancient punisher of the wicked, descends for his annual hunt. But this year, he senses a new, profound blasphemy—an abomination of dead flesh and stolen lightning that defies the natural law. The ...

She wanted to go viral investigating a cold case. She wasn’t planning to become one. 🩸📸 Vivian joined Monster Dating Agency for two reasons: to break the Hana Ortiz disappearance on livestream, and turn LA’s biggest monster mystery into her follower-count payday. On her ABSOLUTELY NOT list? Silent types. Brooding recluses. Monsters who hate sunbathing. So obviously, she matched with Sebastian Voss. 📖🦇 He owns Midnight Volumes, a teleporting bookshop that never stays in one city and never lets a guest leave until the story is over. Old money, cold hands, fangs, and eyes that ...

From the author of Here Lurk Monsters and Sorcerie, a small town horror gem in the be careful what you wish for milieu about a despondent teenage girl who stumbles upon a bewitched treehouse deep in the woods at the edge of her town. I would ask of you a favor, the voice said to her. . . I would ask of you a favor in return for a wish, it said. . . In the cold autumn of her high school senior year, Mia and her mother, Christine, move into the house of Christine's new boyfriend at the edge of town. Feeling adrift, unwanted, and lonely, Mia takes a long dreary walk in the cold only to hear a ...

She took the job to save her family. Now she has to survive the night. Leah, a desperate registered nurse on the verge of losing her family home, accepts a high-paying, last-minute assignment that seems too good to be true. The job: provide round-the-clock care for a reclusive, elderly man in a decaying Gothic mansion miles from civilization. The rules are simple. Stay inside after dusk. Never unlock the cellar. And never, ever miss a dose of the patient’s "medication." But as the full moon approaches, Leah realizes her patient isn't just sick. His affliction is older, darker, and more ...

Why choose? A witch ends up with three monsters instead of one. A cruise for supernaturals sounds great, right? But the cruise isn’t the vacation I expected. Everyone finds a hookup except me, and thanks to my out of control magic, it's not safe for me to even try. All alone, I'm desperate to escape. I dive into the ocean, and a hot male rescues me from the churning water. But Javier isn’t just any male – he’s a Grim Reaper. Not only does he take souls to the afterlife, but he’s a personal guard for the Seraphim Angels, who've been tasked with guarding our ship. I’ve never ...

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it.” —Stephen King Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates. His practical mother has...

They call me mad, but I don’t see anything wrong with using science to create the perfect monster girl. They call me insane, but I just want to live my life with a harem of beautiful cat-girls, bear-girls, fox-girls, snake-girls, and...well, pretty much any type of monster girl. They call me a megalomaniac, but why wouldn’t any red blooded man want to make cute babies with all these beautiful monster girls? They call me evil, but they just don’t realize that I’d destroy anyone who tries to harm my monster girls.

He carved stories into stone. The stone reached back. Folklorist Jude Rowan descends into an Appalachian cavern to escape grief and gather fragments of myth. But the altar he uncovers is more than relic and ruin—it is a Veiled Place, where silence hums with memory and every tremor carries his name. Kael, the obsidian golem bound beneath the mountain, has endured centuries of stillness—aching for touch, for devotion, for release. His strength is carved into the earth itself, his hands the only ones strong enough to hold a heart that refuses to heal. Jude should turn back. Instead, he ...

A powerful Siren must face the monster threatening her home, even if it means risking everything—including the king she’s grown to love—in this dark and romantic follow-up to In the Veins of the Drowning. The realm has a new queen… and a new monster. Imogen can no longer hide. She has...

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