Gothic

Mercedes Midnight should be dead. Her year is up, her debt is owed, yet here she stands—alive, cursed, and crackling with demon magic she has no idea how to wield. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s broken daughter, clawed her way out of a contract that was never supposed to break. Now she’s something the underworld doesn’t have a name for. Something her father will tear the realm apart to find. When two angels crash into Ora City, the rules change overnight. One wants to watch the realms burn. One wants to save them. No one is safe.

Im Krieg ist alles erlaubt. Jonathan King macht seinem Nachnamen alle Ehre. Mächtig. Unantastbar. Korrupt. Als ich ihn als ahnungsloses Kind zum ersten Mal traf, hielt ich ihn für einen Gott. Jetzt muss ich mich diesem Gott stellen, um meine Firma aus seinen skrupellosen Fingern zu befreien.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A museum curator with a keen eye for prints acquires a dull and overpriced mezzotint - an unremarkable engraving of a country manor by moonlight, scarcely worth the dealer's asking price. Yet each time he sets it aside and looks again, the picture has...

A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Natalia Fuentes has been hearing rumors about the beautiful Violeta Miramontes. The young heiress to...

A love as wild as the ocean can never be tamed. A desire that burns like fire can never be extinguished. A broken boy who becomes a monster can never be outrun. I’ve loved Kat Shaw since I was nine years old. Loving her was dangerous. Loving her was wrong. Loving her was all I ever had. And...

Doze anos atrás, Maven Blackthorn fugiu de sua pequena cidade natal, após a morte suspeita de sua mãe. Agora, de volta para um funeral, ela se vê mergulhada em uma nova trama macabra: o corpo de sua avó desapareceu. Os Blackthorns imediatamente suspeitam dos Crofts, os implacáveis donos de uma empresa farmacêutica, com quem têm uma rivalidade que já se estende por gerações. Mas então Maven se depara com Ronan Croft, filho do único homem que ela já amou, e descobre que a paixão proibida que compartilharam está tão viva–e perigosa–como sempre.

You'd do the same thing. If your father was drowning in your hospital debt, you'd find yourself standing naked before three powerful men you hate. With a proposition and one hundred thousand dollars. My pride disappeared when I saw the foreclosure notice on my front door. My morals disintegrated...

Through time, space, and the transcendence of maternal love, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is reimagined in the parallel lives of one soul searching for meaning, connection, and a place to belong.

Bloomsbury presents Flora by Gail Godwin, read by Tara Ward From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, "a luminously written, heartbreaking book" (John Irving). Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while...

In G. G. Silverman's debut fairytale-horror collection, The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor's murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife. Silverman's...

Weyward meets Atonement in a shimmering debut novel of first love, betrayal, and revenge set on a crumbling British estate. Suffolk, 1937. As the English countryside swelters in a historic heat wave, preparations for a party at Snare House are in full swing. The Winthers’ only daughter, Joanie...

A mage and a lost prince journey together in this magical and romantic sequel to Asperfell. Finally free of the prison Asperfell, Briony and Prince Elyan venture northward in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen. What they discover...

From award-winning author Bea Northwick comes a haunting tale of fractured magic, monstrous love, and family legacies steeped in blood. Home is where the curses are. In the coastal town of Nightglass, Blackwicket House looms on the cliffs, far from the charming streets bustling with wealthy...

What if the most scandalous romance ever told was rewritten as a dark, gothic romantasy? Sir Clifford Chatterley turned me into a vampire to prove a theory—that feral creatures like me could be domesticated, civilized, and made acceptable for his aristocratic world. He keeps me chained and...

Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson is a dark psychological tale of guilt, identity, and self-destruction. Following a man haunted by a mysterious double who mirrors his every move, this classic story explores conscience, obsession, and the terrifying conflict between the self and the shadow...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. La historia transcurre en la sombría mansión de los Ockram, una antigua familia irlandesa marcada por una herencia de odio, culpa y secretos inconfesables. Cuando el anciano Hugh Ockram agoniza, su rostro queda fijado en una sonrisa monstruosa y perturbadora...

Ich habe die Aufmerksamkeit eines Monsters geweckt. Dabei wollte ich nur den Job als private Flugbegleiterin antreten und die Welt bereisen. Jetzt ist es zu spät. Ich bin im Netz meines Chefs gefangen, der sein wahres Gesicht hinter einer glänzenden Maske verbirgt. Doch vielleicht ist genau das meine einzige Chance. Denn nur ein Monster kann ein anderes Monster besiegen. Eines davon verfolgt mich schon seit Jahren. Ich bin das Beast von New York. Sie ist mein Licht in der Dunkelheit.

Ellen Marx used to talk to the dead. Now they're ghosting her . . . With her psychic gifts on the fritz, she's been demoted to hawking discount crystals at third-rate paranormal conventions. But when she inadvertently solves a supernatural challenge at New Jersey's Hooky Spooky Convention, she...

Cinco anos após sobreviver ao Degolador de Grimvel, Cassie Kane retorna à sua cidade natal. Mas sua chegada reacende um ciclo de terror: o assassino volta à matança e, desta vez, parece ter o objetivo crucial de provocá-la. Deixando recados em cadáveres, presentes misteriosos à sua porta e uma trilha de sangue em seu caminho.

Penniless, shunned, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, to secure the one thing she can't live without Marriage. When a masked stranger sends her heart racing, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin and a forced marriage neither can escape. When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her.

They never stopped. The echoes, the longings, the nightmares and confusions of egos clustered in one body, each haunting an organ or a limb, a patch of skin, or a fragment of bone. He was all of them. He was none of them. He was... like every single part of him... Better off. Dead. Born in a...

The house already knows what you want. Kate Ellison's life fits in the backseat of a Honda Civic. Dead-end job, beige apartment, a string of men who looked at her body and never once asked what she was reading. When a letter from a law firm she's never heard of offers her a year in a sprawling New England estate — no rent, no obligations, no explanation — she signs the contract and drives north.

Marrow’s Point has a house everyone avoids and one ambitious investor is determined to monetize it anyway. When restoration consultant Evelyn Hart steps onto the fog-choked property, the mansion seems to notice her. Doors lock themselves. Sound dies in the halls. Blood does not spill, it sinks into marble and wood like the building is thirsty. This is Gothic Horror with teeth: a living Victorian mansion that behaves like an organism, studying people, learning what they fear, and deciding what they’re worth.

She was marked for vengeance. He intended to make her his bride. When an Englishwoman inherits the consequences of her father's actions in colonial West Africa, she becomes the target of an ancient blood feud that refuses to die. Far beyond the safety of England's drawing rooms, powerful forces...

Avec la collection Douceur & Crépitements, je vous propose des moments de lecture reposants et réconfortants en nous replongeant dans nos classiques d'automne préférés, dans une ambiance douce au coin du feu pour passer de bonnes nuits ! Alors installez-vous bien confortablement, peut être blotti sous votre plaid, une boisson chaude en main et laissez-vous emporter par notre histoire du jour ! Ce soir, je vous propose de nous plonger dans le roman Le château des Carpathes de Jules Verne publié en 1892.