Showing results for "The Tree" in Gothic

1647: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood...unwise though that may seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by moonlight. Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense. Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear at will...and of something else. 

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A prosperous, hard-headed fruit-merchant comes to call on the half-brother he has always despised – a ruined dreamer living in squalor at the world's edge. But in the wild, neglected garden stands something no ledger can ever account for: a vast and...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller, read by Rachel Bavidge. From the attic of a dilapidated English country house, she sees them - Cara first: dark and beautiful, clinging to a marble fountain of Cupid, and Peter, an Apollo. It is 1969 and they are spending...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Something has waited in that tree for two hundred years. When Sir Richard Fell inherits Castringham Hall, he gives little thought to the old ash tree growing just outside his bedroom window — or to the local legend of a witch hanged generations ago...

When her husband, Ben, takes on his first parish in the rural community of Hope-Upon-Barrow, Kate Greenwood feels like it could be a fresh start for the family. But from the moment they arrive, something just feels . . . off. It could be the locals, with their strange rituals and rites. Or it could be the yew tree, which stands in a graveyard bordering their garden, whose presence brings headaches, visions, and disturbing, unfamiliar memories that do not belong to Kate.

When aging artist David Bittacy develops an increasingly intimate bond with the forest surrounding his home, his devotion to the trees becomes something deeper—mystical, unsettling, and profoundly transformative. His wife Sophia, rooted in conventional faith and fearful of the wild unknown, watches with growing dread as the woods seem to claim her husband in ways she cannot understand.

The summer of 1956, a brood of cicadas descends upon Providence, Georgia, a natural event with supernatural repercussions, unhinging the life of Analeise Newell, an eleven-year-old piano prodigy. Amidst this emergence, dark obsessions are stirred, uncanny gifts provoked, and secrets unearthed. During a visit to Mistletoe, a plantation owned by the wealthy Mayfield family, Analeise encounters Cordelia Mayfield and her daughter Marlissa, both of whom possess an otherworldly beauty, a lineal trait regarded as that Mayfield Shine.

The veil between the Earth and all else is particularly thin tonight, and Gabriella is sneaking through the ancient corridors beneath the university. She and her companions are searching for an ancient tome bound in sickly yellow leather that will let them conjure magic more powerful than she has ever called upon before. Such books are known to be protected by horrific curses, and what’s more, the spell must be cast in the deathly chamber of the Yellow King, where evil is known to dwell.