Victorian Supernatural

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.

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 ...

A woman wearing a black veil convenes a seance. A magician puts a volunteer into a trance. A fortune-teller leans over a crystal ball. Everyone knows what Victorian mysticism looks like because our modern imagery, language, and practice of magic borrows heavily from the Victorians. But we have little understanding of its spiritual, cultural, and historical foundations.

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 ...

During an unseasonably warm September, an army captain known to Watson from his own service in Afghanistan, comes to Baker Street telling of being stalked by an assassin from the bizarre cult of “the Demon of the Mountain,” a member of a tribe of utter primitives who held this officer captive through two years of war, inflicting onto him both torments and puzzlingly extravagant honours, until the day this man was able to carry out his improbable escape, and make his way back down the unholy mountain, and return to his comrades in arms. Now back in England after so long a time away, this...

The Darkness of Rashid by Steven Detmers is a paranormal and supernatural mystery novel set in Victorian London during the late 19th century. This gripping tale weaves a web of intrigue, exploring the enigmatic life of Rashid-Zahirah and his uncanny abilities to manipulate and predict the future. In the heart of London's bustling theater district, a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet draws an elite crowd, but it is the mysterious Rashid-Zahirah who steals the spotlight. With his striking appearance and unsettling aura, Rashid captivates the audience and commands the attention of ...

Book Three in the Paranormal Erotica Series. The bumps in the night at Black Heart Manor aren’t footsteps—they’re hips slamming, moans echoing, and spectral climaxes. Black Heart Manor had always been a destination spot for paranormal investigators and thrill seekers, searching for an encounter with the supernatural. Tales of ghostly hauntings by the former owners, Harcourt and Elsa Van Der Meer, have surrounded the Victorian home for decades, but when information came to light that the home had been designed by a famed Swedish gothic revival designer, author and researcher, Peter ...

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...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

London, 1873. When young painter Nathaniel Harrow is invited into the glittering artistic circle of the Pre-Raphaelites, he thinks it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But his new patroness, the enigmatic Lady Aurelia, commissions him to paint her ward, Seraphine — a beauty whose eyes seem alive and whose presence in the canvas grows disturbingly real. Soon, Nathaniel’s dreams lead him into a shadowed corridor behind the portrait, where a pale, mask-faced figure waits. Other artists have vanished before him, leaving behind portraits that whisper from gilded frames in Aurelia’s ...

For Lord Everett Stanley, escaping his fate seemed impossible. As the second son, he’s destined for ordination and the life of a Reverend, but he’s hiding a dangerous secret. The laws punishing homosexuality by hanging may have been repealed but he and others of his kind are far from safe. Given no other choice, they take solace in the underground molly houses of London. Now that fragile world is threatened when the East End is rocked by a series of gruesome murders.

A Victorian Christmas ghost story by David Ralph Williams To Arabella, Star Lake Hall was a cold name for a house and it conjured up images of cool dark waters sprinkled with the reflections of ancient suns. The old rambling country house was filled by memories of the past that had become locked away inside as though frozen in time. Newly married and now living at Star Lake Hall she soon becomes fascinated by old stories involving the disappearance of her husband’s late uncle Laurence. Warned to let old ghosts rest she nevertheless continues in her quest to find answers and by doing so it...

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 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.

The flat-cart rattled and bumped along the dirt road, the donkey moving at a sedate walk, in as little hurry as myself, apparently, to come to Innismore. I sat huddled on the boards, hands clasped and eyes roving the marshlands and bogs on either side of me, wondering what had possessed me to leave Dublin and come west into Connemara, this wild and rocky country that seemed as inhospitable as an Englishman’s musket. Seamus McCarty, he of the black scowl and the curious gray eyes, who drove the flat-cart and glanced at me from time to time with a quirking of his bushy eyebrows, was almost ...

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...

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.