Gothic Monsters

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 ...

A nameless grave. A silver rose. A ghost-knight who asks a widow for the one thing she swore she would never give again. Perfect for readers who love gothic monster romance, protective ghost heroes, haunted cemeteries, forced proximity, marriage bargain romance, and mature heroines learning to want again. Cemetery historian Margot Wren trusts records more than people. Records can be restored. Records can be corrected. Records do not ask for more than she is willing to give. After ten years of being a widow, Margot has rebuilt herself into something careful, competent, and untouchable. Her ...

After the Civil War, frontier doctor Killian Obadiah Davis rides west seeking peace, but finds a nightmare waiting in the settlement of Redemption. Families vanish without struggle. Bodies are found drained of blood. And the creatures responsible move with impossible speed through the darkness. Answering a call for help from an old comrade, Doc joins forces with sharpshooter Jed Raines, the deadly Irish gunfighter Declan Caine, U.S. Marshal Sylvanus Forrester, and steadfast saloonkeeper Patrick Godwin. Together, they stand, first in Redemption and finally, in Springfield, against a rising ...

"Previously published as The Stone Guardian of Ashborne Library: A Gothic Paranormal Monster Romance by Coleman, Winona (AUTHOR)." She found the last forgotten guardian in a clocktower no map remembered—and the darkness beneath Ashborne noticed her before he could warn her. first. A forgotten monster. A bookish historian. A gothic city erasing them both. The Last Guardian of Ashborne is a gothic paranormal monster romance for readers who crave protective cursed heroes, brave human heroines, ancient magic, slow-burn tension, and Beauty and the Beast vibes. Reclusive city historian Nora ...

Black feminist intersectional horror at its rawest . . . At its core, the horror genre is an effective vehicle for exploring human behavior. From within its terrifying boundaries, and lack thereof, we can examine monstrosity. We can determine how monsters are labeled, analyze the actions of...

A convicted killer. Four monsters who claim her. One prison no one leaves alive. Senna Varro is serving life for the Thornwick Massacre - forty-seven dead by her magic. Collared, suppressed, and locked inside the Bellweir, a supernatural prison carved into its own pocket dimension, she has one goal: survive long enough to figure out what actually happened that night. Because she doesn't remember killing anyone. Four dangerous inmates have other plans. Ciran, a vampire carrying two thousand stolen souls. Lorcan and Laurent, twin vampire enforcers who control the prison's black market. Dracen...

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...

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 ...

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 king...

Clara wakes a cursed gargoyle. If she can’t break his midnight curse, the archive falls—and loving him may mean losing him forever. She came to the roof to save old books from a leak. She woke the gargoyle instead. Now he has one hour after midnight, four hundred years of rage, and Clara Vale’s wrist in his claws. Rare-books librarian Clara Vale prefers fragile manuscripts, quiet archives, and problems that can be solved with gloves, cataloguing notes, and enough coffee. Danger is not her area of expertise. Neither are curses, blood magic, or enormous winged monsters who accuse her ...

I was never supposed to matter. Just another null-blood foster kid waiting to disappear. Then the Ashworth Academy came for me. Dragged through a portal and locked inside a school that trains monsters, I’m told I’m not powerless, I’m necessary. Four dangerously unstable students need an anchor. A stabilizer. Someone to bind them before they lose control. Caine is a vampire who feeds on fear. Ronan hides his cruelty behind charm. Dagon is fire barely contained in human skin. Bastian wields shadows and secrets. They don’t want me. They don’t trust me. But the bond doesn’t care ...

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 ...

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-...

When livestock begins disappearing from Bellweather Farm, young farmhand Alton doesn't expect to find a towering minotaur hidden beyond the pasture. Though the creature is wanted for its destructive feeding, Alton finds in the beast a sensitive soul, in equal parts intelligent and sensual. In the shadows of the forest, Alton is drawn into a dangerous secret affair he must keep hidden from the farm. But as Bellweather and the other farmers close in with rifles and traps, what began as a desperate bargain becomes an escape from the brutal world Alton has always known. Together, the two flee ...

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.

A cursed window. A touch-starved guardian. If Amalie proves Lucien innocent, she could free him—or lose the man inside the monster forever. A shadow-winged monster has been trapped in stained glass for five hundred years. Every record in Ashborne calls him a traitor. The woman restoring his prison is about to find out what happens when the monster touches back. Stained-glass restorer Amalie Cross is used to broken things: cracked medieval panes, damaged church records, sacred art repaired by people who cared more about appearances than truth. When she is called to the condemned cathedral ...

Nicky just wants to save her brother. She showed up with an envelope full of cash and a smart mouth and found herself in a den of monsters. I wish I could say I was the best of them, I wish I could protect her - but I’m far from perfect.

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...

I was raised for one purpose: to kill the four vampire lords who murdered my father. Twenty years of training. One hidden blade. A plan that ends with them dead and me free. Then they bought me. Sold at a blood auction in Sablecross, a city buried so deep the sun is a myth, I'm now property split four ways between the most dangerous men in the underworld. Vin rules with a whisper and a ledger. One taste of my blood, and he knows I'm not what I claim. Nero hasn't felt anything in decades, and he resents me for making him start. Mikhail is violence wrapped in loyalty, gentle only with the ...

A psychologically twisted story of the escape of a lifelong prisoner.