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Kylie Lee Baker returns with another addictive, gory, horror PHENOMENON 'A blood-soaked, masterful blend of horror and mystery' GUARDIAN 'Blood-slicked, unsettling and immersive' DAILY MAIL 'A lush, unnerving ghost story' NEW YORK TIMES 'Brilliantly inventive. A must read - I couldn't turn the...

A chilling collection of classic gothic horror and ghost stories adapted or written by women In this breathtaking collection of gothic horror and eerie tales, draw the curtains and pull the blankets close for two classic Victorian horror tales in new adaptations, Dracula starring Nicky Henson...

Brought to you by Penguin. Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken. Edward's sister, Iris, still lives in the...

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a collection of three gothic novellas – Broken Voices, The Leper House and The Scratch – perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. Three dark tales to read by the fireside in the cold winter...

Four full-cast dramatisations of classic Gothic novels, plus documentaries exploring the genre’s rise and enduring appeal Dark deeds, dastardly villains, innocent victims and supernatural happenings – these are the terrifying tropes that make up Gothic fiction, a genre that has captured our...

Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske – a queer Gothic fairy tale novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher. ‘A spellbinding haunting’ – Lex Croucher, author of Trouble You think you know...

Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman is drawn into a dangerous game after being invited to the mazelike home of her childhood friend, a rumoured witch, in this gothic horror set in 1986 Philippines. Carigara, 1986. Josephine del Rosario is the town pariah, left destitute after her parents...

1835, Abbeywood Hall, Lancashire Clara Hartley has been used to a life of privilege, growing up on her family estate in Lancashire, she has been protected from responsibility and hardship. But gilded cages are cages nonetheless and when Clara falls in love with the wrong man, her fate is sealed...

'Deliciously chilly' Guardian 'Humming with suppressed hysteria and madness' The Times 'Wonderfully evocative' Heat Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable . . . In the first brisk days...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a bitter winter night in the Sierra Nevada, in a lonely cabin above a played-out mining camp, Hiram Beeson sits before his fire and does not sleep. He has not slept properly in years. Beneath the floorboards lies a Chinese labourer he buried himself...

For generations, the townsfolk have whispered about the Ashcroft estate — a place where shadows move on their own, where a young girl vanished without a trace, and where the past refuses to stay buried. Most stay far away. Except Henry. Driven by a dare and a longing he cannot explain, thirteen-year-old Henry steps through the gate one fateful Halloween night. What begins as a test of courage becomes a journey through the echoes of another life — a life where he once loved, lost, and promised to return.

Brought to you by Penguin. Some houses keep their secrets. This one keeps its dead. The dark, atmospheric Southern gothic ghost story longlisted for Goodreads’ Horror Book of the Year 2024 Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon estate looms over New Orleans, a crumbling relic of Southern charm. Its walls...

The Postmaster looked over my shoulder. As I turned to look I saw a flicker of movement from across the street. I felt unseen eyes peer at me. He walked away without another word. I watched as he climbed onto his bicycle and sped away down the street. I turned back and looked over my shoulder...

SMALL ANGELS updates the classic ghost story for the 21st century: a wedding in a Suffolk village sees the woods begin to stir with an unsettling magic, and forces a troubled family's secrets out into the open. When Chloe turns the key to Small Angels, the church nestled at the edge of...

Brought to you by Penguin. Over a hundred years ago, the citizens of F- did something rather bad. And local school teacher Catherine Evans has made writing the definitive account of what happened when Ilsbeth Clark drowned in the well her life's work. The town's people may not want their past...

Every heart holds a secret... But some secrets are better left buried. When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Porcelain Moon comes a haunting Gothic novel set in 1911 China. Two young women living in a crumbling, once-grand Shanghai mansion face danger as secrets of their pasts come to light, even as the mansion’s own secret threatens the present...

'A gothic tale with a powerful sense of place and an eerie atmosphere' The Sunday Times, Best New Historical Fiction Picks 'A heady, entertaining brew...asks questions about guilt, superstition, desire, power, and historical inheritance' Scotland on Sunday It is 1962, and Marta Khoury, a...

'A cerebral twist on the haunted house novel' LEIGH RADFORD 'A fantastic debut' C.J. COOKE The most genuinely haunting book you'll read this year' MEGAN BONTRAGER 'The perfect book to take to a faraway location and read as the sun goes down' KATE VAN DER BORGH Liv doesn't believe in ghosts...

"I can assure you, it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me." With a loaded revolver and the cold arrogance of youth, a skeptic locks himself inside the infamous Red Room of Lorraine Castle. He scoffs at the warnings of the three withered, grotesque caretakers who watch him depart with...