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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. 'They will forget that we are flesh-and-blood women who have lived, and who now die, at the mercy of those who judge us.' Discover the dark and gothic historical novel inspired by the true story of Giulia Tofana, the first documented female serial killer in history...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable' The Economist 'A cleverly constructed rural Gothic fable . . . Elmet is a marvellous achievement' TLS 'Pastoral idyll, political exposé, cosy family saga and horror tale, it reads like a...

Brought to you by Penguin. It's 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, is offered a position as governess at Hartwood Hall. She quickly accepts, hoping this isolated country house will allow her to leave her past behind. Cut off from the village, Margaret soon starts to feel there's something...

Brought to you by Penguin. The lives of three women weave together across four centuries in the dazzling new book from Evie Wyld, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish...

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 lyrical and richly meditative novel with gothic undertones about a young woman searching for meaning in a sleepy seaside town, from the Giller-nominated author of Frying Plantain. Twenty-four-year-old Simone longs to fall in love with the kind of man she’s only ever read about and travel the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. This iconic psychological horror and feminist classic, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is narrated through the intimate, unraveling diary of a young woman struggling with postpartum mental distress. Prescribed a strict “rest cure”...

Ten of Mary Shelley’s best short stories that push the boundaries of Gothic literature Mary Shelley is most known for Frankenstein, but in the years following the release of her magnum opus, which were beset by the loss of several children and her husband, she produced novels, poems, short...

For fans of Susan Meissner, Kristin Hannah, and Sarah Sundin. What if you were a blind woman hired to teach a young girl who is being pursued by a predator, the very predator who has connections with your own past? What if you were attracted to the brooding master of the house? How would you save those you had grown to love? What if Jane Eyre were blind and lived in the rural South during the Great Depression, World War II and the 1950's? This inverted story, inspired by a beloved classic, explores these questions and many more.

In this haunting collection of three interconnected novellas, Tracks Beneath the Clay unearths the forgotten voices and brutal legacies of a Southern family bound by land, silence, and blood. Set across generations on the cursed grounds of Peachtree, Georgia, these prequels reveal the unspoken history behind the Cheney estate and the women who dared to defy it