Victorian Supernatural

Alexia Maccon, the Lady Woolsey, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears; leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep...

This program features an author's note read by Nora Roberts, sharing her inspiration for The Lost Bride Trilogy and the incredible personal history behind these stories. Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—a tale of tragedies...

What is TIME? What is REALITY? In King’s Gambit, Charles Sinclair ponders these questions and more as he slowly finds his way through the inner clockwork of an ancient Time Maze. It’s a perilous journey, planned by the Fallen Realm, but allowed by God Almighty to prepare the duke for his ultimate future. God’s ways are not our ways. He takes all our choices, all our mistakes, then weaves in the dark plots of fallen angels, demons, and devils, and he works all of it together for good, according to HIS plans and purposes. Because God is omniscient, seeing the end from the beginning, ...

A werewolf detective. An immortal curse. A race against time through the dark heart of Victorian Europe. Adelaide "Addy" Spencer thought she was applying for a respectable position as a stenographer. Instead, she found herself working for Mordecai Black—London’s most unusual investigator. His sign reads: Mordecai Black, Werewolf for Hire. And in a city teeming with secrets, that’s exactly the sort of expertise some clients desperately need. When a routine investigation at the British National Museum turns deadly, Addy is swept into a world of supernatural danger. Alongside Mordecai, ...

Beneath the empire’s polished rails, something ancient stirs—and it’s hungry for more than steam. Disgraced inspector Alaric Voss thought exile had ended his days chasing ghosts. But when a train vanishes without a trace on the Trans-Etherian Line, he’s summoned to the frontier town of Ketter’s Gate. There, he finds a town gripped by fear, an engineer with fire in her veins, and whispers of a conspiracy buried deep in the steel bones of the empire. Riona Flint, brilliant and wary, is searching for her missing father—the chief architect of the railway—and the secrets he left ...

Ever wonder why the Victorians were so obsessed with talking to the dead? It is strange to imagine an age of railways, telegraphs, photography, science, and public lectures also gathering in darkened parlors to listen for knocks from the spirit world. But the Victorian era was full of loss, ritual, curiosity, invention, and unanswered questions about what might survive beyond death. If you are fascinated by séances, mediums, ghost stories, spirit photography, mourning customs, and the search for supernatural proof, this book takes you inside one of history’s most atmospheric paranormal ...

A century-old house. A locked room. A growing hunger. And a couple who never should have moved in. Emma and Daniel Price want a fresh start - an escape from tragedy, guilt, and the life unraveling behind them. Instead, they find Wicker’s End, a towering Victorian ruin that has driven out every owner for over a hundred years. The locals avoid it. The previous families never stayed long. And one room on the second floor was sealed from the outside - bolted, painted over, forgotten. Until now. When the Prices open it, the house begins to wake. Shifting rooms. Historical scenes that replay ...

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 ...

Thirteen classic stories of horror and the supernatural by some of the greatest writers in the genre. This compilation includes a mix of well-known classics by authors such as Edith Nesbit, J. Sheridan Le Fanu and M. R. James, alongside several tales by less familiar names who were hugely popular and prolific in their day.

As Charles and Beth plan their wedding, the newly titled detective must unravel the clues to a riddle that hints at his past, and he is forced to reveal a dark secret to his beloved duchess. But worst of all, wolves that walk like men have been seen at St. Katherine’s Docks and Victoria Park. Is all of this connected to a cedar crate shipped to England in 1870? Might an ancient stone marker be the source of the evil now stalking women in London? Redwing’s members have redoubled their efforts, but a schism has arisen within their ranks, and two powerful spiritual entities begin a battle ...

Having suffered a nearly fatal head wound, Charles Sinclair has awoken in a nightmarish landscape of living stones and sentient trees, where demonic ravens watch his every move, ready for an easy meal. His only hope of escape is to traverse a treacherous maze of seven concentric rings, each with seven possible entries. His guide through this underworld labyrinth is a nameless birdman, who informs the desperate marquess that a refuge lies at the centre of the maze-if he can only reach it. Following her escape from the fire, Elizabeth Sinclair has been taken to Anatole's castle on the western...

• Modern-reader adaptation with clearer, smoother language • Keeps Holmes, Watson, the mystery, and the Dartmoor atmosphere • Clean chapter navigation for school or independent reading A cursed family, a lonely heir, a fog-bound moor, and a terrifying hound: this Adapted for Modern Readers edition makes the famous Sherlock Holmes case easier to follow while preserving the plot, characters, suspense, and investigative voice that make the story so gripping. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies under mysterious circumstances, Dr. Mortimer brings Holmes and Watson an old legend: a monstrous ...

THE AFFAIR OF THE WHISPERING MACHINE A Sherlock Holmes Mystery — by Mark Collins Amazon Product Description London, 1886. A grieving widow sits in a darkened drawing-room in Clerkenwell and hears, quite unmistakably, her dead husband's voice. It speaks from a machine of brass and mahogany that he built with his own hands — an instrument he called the Whispering Machine, designed to recover the voices of the dead from the very air they once disturbed. And what it says is this: I did not fall. Sherlock Holmes has never believed in ghosts. But he has never yet encountered a mystery quite ...

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club foil a plot to unseat the Queen and race to save one of their own in this electrifying conclusion to the Locus Award winning trilogy that began with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter. Life’s always an adventure for the Athena Club...especially when...

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.

Journey into the eerie origins of gothic horror and global folklore to discover why restless spirits haunt our world. Perfect for a dark, suspenseful late-night commute, this atmospheric deep-dive explores how memory, grief, and treacherous landscapes birth our most chilling supernatural legends...

MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, CrimeReads, BookBub and more! "Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to...

After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a master wizard and a curious pocket watch that doesn’t seem to tell time. To retrieve his lost memories, Ian demands answers from Edwina and Mary Blackwood, sister witches with a murky past. But as their secret is slowly unveiled, a dangerous mystery emerges on the darkened streets of London.

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. "Gripping, bloody, and haunting." —Kirkus Reviews South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of...

A Victorian historical mystery with paranormal intrigue, featuring London's most tenacious private detective, a missing heiress, a ransom note signed by the legendary Spring-Heeled Jack, and a secret courtship that refuses to stay out of the investigation. Private detective Matilda Wren's latest...