Knihy so štítkom gothic

A House with Good Bones
T. Kingfisher A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto th viac

A Study in Drowning
Ava Reid Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her viac

A Theory of Dreaming
Ava Reid Return to the immersive, lush, and dreamlike world of the instantly bestselling dark academia fantasy A Study in Drowning as the aftermath of their first discovery pulls Effy and Preston on a final adventure and brings their haunting love story to its end in this stunning sequel viac

All the Dead Lie Down
Kyrie McCauley The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we’ll cross for love. The Sleeping House was very much awake . . . Days after a viac

Anathema
Keri Lake Only the banished know what lies beyond the woods ... There are whispers about what lurks in Witch Knell-the forest where sinners go to die. The villagers call it The Eating Woods because what's taken is never given back. Only those who've lost their senses would dare to go ne viac

Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. When the two of them have a chance encounter outside the Edinburgh Anatomist viac

Belladonna
Adalyn Grace Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate viac

Bitterthorn
Kat Dunn Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more... Mina, dau viac

Blackthorn
J. T. Geissinger From the diabolical mind of New York Times bestselling author J.T. Geissinger comes a scorching new enemies-to-lovers romance filled with explosive secrets, nail-biting, gothic suspense, and the dangerous lure of dark magic. You never forget your first love. Especially when he viac

Bride of a Stranger
Jennifer Blake Claire is too innocent to suspect that her marriage is a cruel farce, believing instead that the dangerous accidents that keep appearing in her path are just that?accidents. She wedded Justin Leroux suddenly and silently. He was the tall dark stranger of her girlhood dre viac

Craven Manor
Darcy Coates Daniel is desperate for a job. When someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper’s position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion’s front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwe viac

Crimson Peak
Nancy Holder When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. F viac

Dark Masquerade
Jennifer Blake For the sake of her infant nephew, Elizabeth has assumed the identity of her dead sister, Ellen Marie. She arrives at the grand Louisiana plantation of Ellen Marie's late husband, wearing traditional black widow's weeds and carrying the baby -- determined that the boy will reach viac

Devil at the Gates
Lauren Smith One dark night, she meets her fate in the arms of shadowy duke… Fleeing a cruel stepfather, Harriet Russell escapes into a stormy night, relying only on the mercy of servants to help her. Her coach overturns, leaving her and her driver injured. Seeking help from whoever lives viac

Dracul
J. D. Barker   Dacre Stoker It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will viac

Dracula Daily
Bram Stoker   Matt Kirkland The wildly popular email newsletter that has been described as an "internet sensation" ( The New York Times ) and "the coolest book club on the internet" ( Fast Company ) is breathing new life into Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Now, the internet phenomenon can be experie viac

Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley   Bram Stoker Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome—with an introduction by Stephen King. A diabolical, bloodthirsty Count draws an unsuspecting young man into a world of terrors. A scientist oversteps the bounds of conscience and brings to life a tortured creation. A m viac

Gallows Hill
Darcy Coates The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives: until Hug viac

God of Ruin
Rina Kent I’m out for revenge. After careful planning, I gave the man who messed with my family a taste of his own medicine. I thought it’d end there. It didn’t. Landon King is a genius artist, a posh rich boy, and my worst nightmare. He’s decided that I’m the new addition to his ches viac

Gothic 1200-1500
Uta Hasekamp Painting from 1200 to 1500 is a mirror of its time, marked by deep religiousness as well as progressive tendencies, by economic prosperity as well as devastating wars and epidemics. A religious perspective is joined by secular themes and efforts to achieve a realistic way of repr viac

Gothic Incest
Jenny DiPlacidi Gothic incest provides the first book-length study of incest in the genre. It challenges dominant critical accounts about gender and sexuality in Gothic literature of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period by revealing the complexities of the pervasive, yet largely neglec viac

Heathens
Alta Hensley She invited in the darkness, so she had no one else to blame...when I came for her. It was a sinister game of submission. The Hunt. She'd run. I'd chase. And when I caught her... Primal. Untamed. Merciless. I've been watching her. Stalking her. I will become the beast fro viac

Heroes and Villains
Angela Carter After the apocalypse the world is neatly divided. Rational civilization rests with the Professors in their steel and concrete villages; marauding tribes of Barbarians roam the surrounding jungles; mutilated Out People inhabit the burnt scars of cities. But Marianne, a Profe viac

Honeysuckle
Bar Fridman-Tell The Bear and the Nightingale meets Weyward in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent. Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left viac

Horseman
Christina Henry Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben Van Brunt's grandfather, Brom Bones, who was there when it was said the Horseman chased the upstart Crane out of town. Brom says that's just legend, the village gossips talking. viac

House of Secrets
Darcy Coates Sophie and Joseph's escape from Northwood is short-lived. The beast survived, and attached itself to Joseph's young cousin, Elise. Garrett writes to beg for their help. Joseph and Sophie travel to meet him at Kensington, a long-abandoned mansion that overlooks a dead town. The viac

House of Shadows
Darcy Coates Sophie's world is shattered when disaster bankrupts her family. She's still reeling from the news when she's offered an unexpected solution: Mr Argenton, a wealthy stranger, asks for her hand in marriage. Marrying Mr Argenton will restore her family's fortunes and save them fr viac

Hungerstone
Kat Dunn Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to the Peak District, to the remote, imposing Nethershaw estate, w viac

Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier When her mother dies, Mary Yellan makes the grim journey across bleak Cornish moorland to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience and her husband, Joss Merlyn. On arriving at the gloomy, threatening inn, with the coachman's warning echoing in her mind, she finds her aunt a cow viac

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë Orphaned into cold charity at the hands of her rich cousins and later, at Lowood School, Jane escapes to take up a position as governess to the young ward of Mr Rochester. Their love affair, Jane's discovery of Rochester's secret - hideously concealed in the attic of Thornfield H viac

Lady Venom Takes a Mistress
Kat Blackthorne To be bid on was to be bought as a wife. To the winning bidder his prize, a maid, a servant, a child-bearer. That would be Poesy Laroche’s life, she realized, as she walked down the aisle to her future husband. He’d promised to break her into submission, and she knew his words we viac

Master of Salt & Bones
Keri Lake When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time. How the fairy tale twisted into so viac

My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in Philip as his heir, a man who will love his grand home as much as he does himself. But the cosy world the two construct is shattered when Ambrose sets viac

My Darling Dreadful Thing
Johanna van Veen In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the only good thing in Roos’ life, which is filled with sordid backroom séances organized by her viac

Night of the Candles
Patricia Maxwell In the heart of Louisiana Amanda Trent has arrived at her cousin-splantation to find Amelia-s death looming over the war torn grounds. Thereis a dark secret in the shadows around every corner and in the heart ofAmelia-s widower, Jason Monteigne. Amanda only wants to leave the hau viac

Night of the Phantom
Anne Stuart Megan Carey was ready to embark on a trip to Europe, finally taking time to do something purely for herself, but when she finds her father on the brink of suicide, her plans go out the window. Her father is being blackmailed by a reclusive genius who’s demanded TK Carey show up t viac

Nocticadia
Keri Lake A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city w viac

One Dark Window
Rachel Gillig Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magi viac

Opium and Absinthe
Lydia Kang New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can viac

Sounds Familiar or The Beast of Artek
Zinovy Zinik Gothic Novel by Zinovy Zinik. Limited edition on fine Munken paper with 11 full page illustrations and cover painting by Lukáš Malina, renowned Czech artist and member of Weird Scene circle. Sim Golos, a Russian expat in London and amateur sound engineer, is obsessed with recordi viac

Starling House
Alix E. Harrow Nobody in the town of Eden, Kentucky is old enough to remember the building of Starling House, but the stories have been passed down through the generations like good china. The hairdresser says it was the beginning of Eden’s bad luck – the river water they can’t drink, the coal viac

Stranger at Plantation Inn
Jennifer Blake Lillian Newton isn't the only stranger at Plantation Inn. The heavy rains that had flooded the river and forced her to seek refuge at the old stage-stop had driven others to the sanctuary as well. At first, Lillian pays scant attention to the rest of the group. Soon, however, viac

Summer Sons
Lee Mandelo Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leave viac

The Bad Ones
Melissa Albert Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town. Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappeara viac

The Beholders
Hester Musson June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph Gethin. Four months earlier. Harriet is a young maid newly employed at Finton Hall. Fleeing the drudgery of an unwanted e viac

The Bewitching Grace
Jennifer Blake Anne Tarrington, an up-and-coming journalist, is drawn into a world of danger and voodoo magic when she investigates the murder of a young girl. Hot on the trail of the killer, she follows a path of Voodoo mysticism and witchery to a mysterious Louisiana plantation where someone viac

The Blood we Crave
Monty Jay My secrets are infested with infatuation. His cravings are dripping in blood. Is it love? Or is it something much darker… An obsession. Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul. No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of viac

The Bone Diver
Angie Spoto A gothic tale of family, the legend of the selkies - shapeshifting mythological creatures - and a young woman who is offered an impossible choice. The only daughter in a family of Scottish seal-hunters, Kier Sealgair is becoming a burden. She cannot kill, and the family are faci viac

The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the moder viac

The Corset
Laura Purcell Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visitor and prisoner. Powerful and powerless. Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitabl viac