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Off the southern tip of the Beara Peninsula lies Beanna Dubh, an island of savage beauty, its jagged cliffs lashed by Atlantic winds and infested by thousands of crows. Untouched by twenty-first-century advances, the islanders live under the strict rule of the church, while clinging to old...

ALL EVIL HAS A BEGINNING... THIS IS HOW SMYTHE BECAME SMYTHE... Many years before the horrific events at Styre House, a young girl named Lydia Smith discovers a mysterious set of books filled with dark powers. As she begins to learn the secrets of these books, however, she inadvertently...

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...

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...

Rachel Savernake investigates bizarre crimes and a baffling locked-room puzzle in this Gothic mystery from the winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger. Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again. Autumn 1930. Journalist Nell Fagan...

A dysfunctional British nuclear family seeks a new life away from the big city in the sleepy Somerset countryside. At first their new home, The Hollow, seems to embrace them, creating a rare peace and harmony within the family. But when the house turns on them, it seems to know just how to hurt them the most threatening to destroy them from the inside out.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Anna Popplewell, best known for her leading role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia films. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Stevie Davies. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt...

Bloomsbury presents The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews, read by Olivia Vinall. 'Arresting... [a] tale of madness, murder, disputed inheritances and hints of the supernatural' Sunday Times 'Delicious ... dark ... sinister' Susan Stokes-Chapman, author of number one bestseller, Pandora 'Thrilling'...

'Stunning . . . Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia for Faeries meets Jane Eyre' MEGAN SCOTT 'A sensual, gothic feast, full of forbidden romance and wild magic' SARAH HAWLEY 'A fearsome and haunting tale of love, loss, and magic' ESMIE JIKIEMI-PEARSON 'A darkly seductive masterclass in fantastical...

""A feminist gothic that evokes Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House."" -- New York Times Book Review Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives...

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. 

Emily Bronte’s world is one of dark romance and suspense, but it also has an underlying tone that can be found in her work about nature. Wuthering Heights is the famous, all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love story between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this...

"[An] uncanny Gothic mystery... Satisfying."—New York Times Book Review "A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave From the author of The Silent Companions, a thrilling Victorian gothic horror story about a young...

“A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests Elegant, sinister...

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man...

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...