Gothic Monsters

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 ...

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-...

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 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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the book that changed the world. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a movie starring Elle Fanning as Mary Shelley, Monster is a brilliant fictionalized biography akin to The Other Boleyn Girl. Two centuries ago this year, the young woman who invented science fiction was only 20 when she wrote the book that became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley said, “People ask how I, then a young girl, could think of, and dilate upon, so hideous subject?”

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 ...

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 ...

He rang the bell for absolution. The frost answered instead. Graduate student Elias Greer came to a ruined mountain monastery for solitude, research, and escape from his past. But Saint Agatha’s is more than ivy and stone. It is a Veiled Place—where echoes speak truths not yet confessed, and the cold itself listens. Veyr, the frost wight of the belfry, has lingered for a century—starved for warmth, aching for devotion. His presence moves through the air like breath, his touch lingering in the frost that coils across mirrors and skin. Elias should resist. Instead, he kneels in ...

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 ...

Between the blood of gods and monsters, I am both killer and healer. The Darkhavens were once my obstacle. Now, they may be the only safe haven I have left. The Gods are lying to us all. They are not Gods at all, but creatures that came from another world to rule over ours.

Okay, so you HAVE to read this book. Picture this: girl wakes up with black and white striped hair and stitches everywhere, right? Turns out she's literally Frankenstein's bride—like, assembled from spare parts specifically to marry this mad scientist guy named Victor. But here's the thing that made me absolutely cackle: she takes one look at him and goes "Yeah, no thanks." Victor is SO convinced she'll be grateful for existing that he's already planned their wedding, commissioned her a dress, and enrolled them both in couples therapy. WITHOUT ASKING HER. I'm talking mechanical orchestras...

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 ...

I was completely sick of the dating scene. The beach and the ocean was the only place where I could find solace. Until a strange man walked out of the ocean and pulled me into it and under him. The tentacles were an extra surprise! Erotic Monster short featuring all of the tentacles that your heart desires and your body can handle.

🍎 He went apple-picking. He came back marked by the horned god. Theo Chambers thought a fall retreat in upstate New York would heal his burnout and boost his feed. What he found in the orchard was more than aesthetic fog and blood-red apples—it was a Veiled Place, where desire itself takes root. Ashwyn, the horned guardian of the grove, has waited centuries for a human willing to surrender. His touch is ritual, his kiss is prophecy, and his hunger is worship. Theo should run. Instead, he follows the music. As Samhain night descends, the orchard awakens—and Theo must decide if he’ll...

Cal Whitaker is going nowhere. A college dropout working a dead-end courier job, his life is a lonely cycle of late-night drives on the back roads of rural Ohio. That is, until he sees something impossible in his headlights—a slick, leathery creature with bulging black eyes that scrambles into the darkness. His chilling encounter is dismissed by the local sheriff as a drunken mistake, leaving Cal isolated and questioning his own sanity. But when he finds claw marks on his car and a foul, swamp-like odor starts to linger around his home, he knows the thing from the river is real. And it ...