Gothic Victorian Mystery

Best Books of 2021 · NPR ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021 From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence. "Narrator Mandy Weston's...

The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

Three novellas to expand and enrich the world of Victorian Gothic: A Spurned Woman follows a reclusive old woman, tired of life. When she is surprised by a young mother, begging help for her stricken child, the old woman reluctantly agrees to return to the village which once wanted to burn her for witchcraft. Bedlam is set between Victorian Gothic Volumes 2 and 3.

When intelligent but destitute Clara Davenport accepts a position as governess at the imposing Blackmoor Estate, she expects to find little more than stern duties and quiet solitude. Instead, she is drawn to the estate’s brooding master, the enigmatic Earl of Blackmoor, whose dark eyes and guarded heart intrigue her as much as they unsettle her. But whispers of tragedy haunt the grand halls—and Clara is warned never to set foot in the forbidden west wing. Unable to quell her curiosity, she finds herself tangled in the mystery of the Earl’s vanished wife and the secrets he keeps locked...

Do you like your Sherlock Holmes stories with a hint of the preternatural, the seemingly inexplicable, the Gothic? Selecting six of the darkest and most suspenseful cases from author Compton Thorne’s The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes, and assembling them together for the first time in one cover, here we find mysteries set amid shadowy forests, inside manor houses with long histories of hauntings, and out on deserted, moonlit moors. This collection also includes a return to the infamous Baskerville Hall scene of Sherlock Holmes’ most celebrated investigation. This unique ...

Jenny Raine, the bookish 19-year-old widow of Sir Richard Raine, is shattered to learn that a distant cousin, Jackson Zephyr, has inherited Cliff House. Zephyr is a career thief who has his eye on one prize: stolen gold from a long-ago heist that was hidden on the property. When his predecessor’s beautiful, strange widow thwarts his plans, Jackson applies pressure to break Jenny’s will and she is forced to reveal a shameful secret. The knowledge gives him power over the young woman until a sinister threat pushes them into a passionate alliance.

The Gallagher family has called Deeprath Castle home for 700 years. Nestled in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the estate is now slated to become a public trust, and book lover and scholar Carragh Ryan is hired to take inventory of its historic library. But after meeting Aidan, the current Viscount Gallagher, and his enigmatic family, Carragh knows that her task will be more challenging than she'd thought.

Discover a haunting Victorian Gothic tale where family secrets, supernatural terror, and the unbreakable bond between sisters collide in the wild moors of Northumberland... When desperate poverty forces Eliza Harrow to accept a mysterious inheritance from her estranged uncle, she believes her prayers have been answered. Withering House—a remote Gothic manor in the windswept Northumberland countryside—promises refuge from her precarious existence in Victorian London. But the house harbors secrets that stretch back three centuries. Local villagers speak in whispers of lights in empty ...

A gothic mystery set in Victorian London during the late 19th century. Submerge yourself in the chillingly atmospheric streets of fog-shrouded Victorian London, where *Ghosts of River Hall* weaves a captivating tale of intrigue, love, and spectral whispers. This suspense-laden narrative follows the Craven & Son law firm, gripped by the haunting mystery of "The Cursed House," a property overshadowed by unsettling events and spectral presences. Embrace the relentless tension of a house torn between worlds—a beloved residence and an ominous ghost dwelling by the River Thames. The tale ...

Shy, stammering Clara Hamilton is shocked when her father announces her betrothal to a cousin she barely knows. Her uncle’s stepson, Branson Hamilton is handsome, avaricious and rumoured to be unstable. Nineteen-year-old Clara, anxious for her father’s approval, agrees to the union unaware of what is at stake. A sinister family secret surfaces and Clara soon discovers that the master of Windemere Hall has a dark revenge in store when she enters into his power.

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Nineteen-year-old Laura Mayhew is the only witness to a sex scandal at Windsor Castle and is committed to Gateshead Insane Asylum to discredit her story. Tanner Caine is a cold, solitary and emotionally damaged ex-naval officer tasked with silencing the girl permanently. Gifted with second sight, Laura has been expecting an assassin for months and sets in motion a bold plan that places the soldier in her power--and she in his.

Four victims. One locked room. No way in. No way out. When Mr Gregory Winter agrees to spend a single night in a supposedly haunted shed for a hundred guineas, he’s desperate, in debt, and convinced it’s just a story. By morning, he’s dead—his throat slit, the door locked from the inside. Inspector Featherby is no stranger to murder. But this? This is something else. With each body found in the same chair, in the same impossible conditions, the case becomes a chilling puzzle with no solution. The only link between the victims: a gentleman named Noah Spencer—and a shed with a taste...

When nightmares become real, one girl must face the truth she's been hiding—even from herself. Lily Thornfield arrives at The Liminal Academy claiming she has no supernatural abilities. She just needs a safe boarding school, far from London and the strange occurrences that have plagued her life. But the moment she settles into the East Wing dormitory, terrifying phenomena begin. Cold spots that freeze the air. Whispered voices in the darkness. Shadows that move on their own. And most disturbing of all—shared nightmares of a young girl crying for help, dreams that grip every student in ...

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, Betty Simpson and Talleyrand the hound, 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 full of laughs, twists and things that go bump in the night. Golden ...

There are dark mysteries in Victorian London. Many events do not reach the papers or are misreported, as they appear too strange to be taken seriously. The murky threats are largely ignored. Sherlock Holmes is just beginning his career as a consulting detective, but he puts no stock in the supernatural and attributes everything to natural causes that may be discovered through intellect and an examination of the facts. Addy Spencer used to be of the same mind. At least, until she came to work for Mordecai Black, a private investigator with a self-proclaimed title of “Werewolf for Hire.” ...

A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice. A Victorian gothic romance for all time. In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise. Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic.

"Beware of the diamonds." Tamaris Craig cannot forget the strange fortune from the gypsy woman, but then there have been many mysteries in Tamaris's life beginning with her mother's obsession with Penhallow Castle. After her mother's death, Tamaris has an opportunity to visit the castle that dominated her childhood, but the mysteries only deepen at the brooding Penhallow Castle, When Tamaris meets the brash, mocking Gawain Trevain, she's in danger of losing more than just her heart. And diamonds are the least of her worries.

Not all ghosts linger in graveyards. Some wait in chairs, behind doors… listening. London, 1862. Desperate for work, Nicholas Bale takes a position reading aloud to an elderly recluse in a shadowy house on Greystone Lane. The task is simple: two hours a day, six days a week. The pay is generous. The employer, Mr Humphry Jones, is frail but polite. But something is wrong. The books are not ordinary volumes—they are ancient, filled with occult rites and forgotten names. The house hums with silence too deep for comfort. And as the days pass, Nicholas begins to question the nature of his ...

A Ghostly Excursion into the Victorian Gothic. A Tale of Obsession, Terror, and Vengeance. Welcome to Wiltshire in the autumn of 1843. Monsieur Benoit Lavarnier, toast of the Parisian art world and a man of cultured accomplishments, finds himself commissioned to paint a portrait of renowned beauty, Lady Helena Brocklington. He arrives at Shrimmingwood Hall not only with the accoutrements of his trade, but also, so it would seem, something sinister lurking in his train. Also available in the Kindle collection A Ghost Story Omnibus: Collected Ghost Stories 2016-2018, and in the Amazon ...