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Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he's ever known. Darkness abounds, punctuated by odd bumps in the night, strange creatures on the moor, and a sinister silver mist that never seems to dissipate. And at the center of it all, John's new employer - a widow as alluring as she is mysterious.

A pioneering work of gothic horror, The Vampyre introduced the elegant, aristocratic vampire to English literature and forever changed the course of the genre. The story follows the young Aubrey as he falls under the spell of the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, whose charm conceals a sinister secret. As their paths cross across Europe, Aubrey uncovers a terrifying truth that tests his courage and threatens those he loves.

John William Polidori was an English physician and an associate of Byron and Shelley. On a tour with the two poets and Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Polidori participated in a competition to write a short ghost story. Polidori's contribution was The Vampyre, which is considered to be the first modern work of vampire fiction. The central figures in the plot are the mysterious and sinister Lord Ruthven, and a naïve and wealthy young man named Aubrey. Polidori's tale proved very influential.

I left my abusive crime boss husband expecting to start over from nothing. After all, the prenup I signed when I married him is ironclad. But when Tony uses a loophole in the law to go after my ancestral family home—the one I'm currently living in and my grandmother is dying in—I'm desperate to stop him. My witch best friend Maeve offers a solution. She lends me a family spell to call a supernatural advocate to deal with Tony. After all, it takes a monster to stop a monster.

In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery - or will they bring about his untimely death, as they seem to foretell?

Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor Maynard Straker tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: "Your patient must be an imposter." Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary....

"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...

"Meticulously realized and yet brazenly fresh, Acid Green Velvet is a marvel of character and situation. Krilanovich writes unlike any other writer."—Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reach Trilogy The breathtaking and consequential first novel in nearly two decades from the...

Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood. This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, served as the great inspiration for Bram Stoker to create Dracula.

Experience the chilling tale that birthed the modern vampire genre! The Vampyre by John Polidori is a haunting gothic audiobook that follows the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, a mysterious nobleman with a dark secret. Written in 1819, this eerie classic inspired generations of vampire stories, including Dracula. Perfect for fans of gothic horror and supernatural suspense, this immersive audiobook brings Polidori’s sinister tale to life. Listen now and step into a world of aristocratic terror, cursed love, and undead intrigue!

A dark collection of tales from the American South full of twists and turns that you will never see coming. Did you ever have your name on the board for misbehaving in class? If you only got in trouble with the teacher, you should count yourself lucky. Ever find something old in the water? Was it an old box? Did it divide your whole town in ways you couldn’t imagine? What is beauty, and how do you stay forever young? The answer might not be what you want, especially if Joe passes by your house. Where does art come from? An old man’s backyard? Who’s to say?

Ligeia is a haunting story told by a husband about his deceased wife. She was beautiful but, also very strange in many ways. After her untimely death,he marries again but strange things start to happen as he becomes disenchanted with his newwife and begins thinking more and more about his first wife, Ligeia. Poe's descriptive powers are at his best here in setting the mood for this incredible story.

In June of 1816, while on a journey with Lord Byron (for whom he was serving as personal physician), John William Polidori found himself in Lake Geneva in the company of a teenage Mary Wollstonecraft, her future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. On a dark and stormy night, Byron suggested they each sit down and attempt to write an original ghost story.

When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost with partial amnesia, questions of past, present, and future surface. Buster attempts to reckon with who he was and is in the presence of Peaches, whose gender-fluid identity perplexes him. Although he doesn't want to associate with Peaches, Buster realizes that he must push aside his biases to avoid eternal loneliness. Who Killed Buster Sparkle? threads together dialogue on race, gender, orientation, and economics, showing oppression exists in many forms.

Mandy Holloway never expected to return to her crumbling childhood home on Stillwater Lane, a place haunted by painful memories of neglect, betrayal, and long-buried secrets. But with her family on the brink of financial collapse, she finds herself with no other options. Now, back in the decaying house she once swore to leave behind, Amanda confronts the specters of her past, and something far darker that lurks within the shadows.

In this story, John Buchan explores Africa together with his friend Lawson. During their expedition, they find an astonishing place and they decide to settle there. But after a while John decides to leave Africa, while Lawson decides to stay. When Buchan returns, after some years, he finds Lawson in terrible condition and not willing to tell him why. However, Lawson’s warden, Mr. Jobson, believes that the problem comes from the grove of trees in their property.

"Beyond the mountains and the sun, lived a hermit, ancient one." Sal knows that when dealing with predators, it’s best to stay still. After agreeing to haul a trailer of scales and bone across state lines, he tells himself he’s providing a final mercy for the displaced. He’s joined by a mute hunter who treats his rifle like a prayer, and a young runaway whose eyes hold a familiar, tragic spark. But as they move north, the rules of the road begin to bleed into the rules of the wild. The police call it trafficking. The world calls Sal a killer.

In 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley visited Lord Byron in Switzerland. After reading an anthology of German ghost stories, Byron challenged the Shelleys and his personal physician, John Polidori, to write horror stories of their own. Polidori was the only one to complete a story, and a good one, at that. Mary did come up with an idea though, and it became was the germ of Frankenstein.

Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for fans of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins.

A haunting tale of devotion, secrecy, and forbidden longing unfolds within the shadowed halls of the church. In The Priest and the Acolyte, John Francis Bloxam delivers a deeply atmospheric gothic story exploring faith, emotional conflict, repression, and tragedy. Written with quiet intensity...