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| Abigale Hall by Lauren A. ForryIn postwar Britain, orphans Eliza and Rebecca are sent to a remote, rundown Welsh manor to work as servants. There, the housekeeper keeps them under her thumb in order to prevent them from learning the house's evil secrets. But 17-year-old Eliza finds disturbing evidence of old crimes and must act quickly to protect herself and her 12-year-old sister.
Escalating tension and a dramatic climax make this gothic debut a true page-turner. For fans of The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco. |
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| The White Road by Sarah LotzSoon after Simon Newman, the co-creator of a website that features creepy videos, has a nearly fatal experience spelunking in Wales, he embarks on another quest: to film dead bodies on Mt. Everest. But Simon finds that Mt. Everest's danger doesn't just come from the natural forces of cold, altitude, and risky climbs -- there's a malevolent entity up there. Or is his head injury from the Welsh disaster causing hallucinations?
Fans of Dan Simmons' The Abominable will be enthralled. |
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| Black Mad Wheel by Josh MalermanIn this second novel by Josh Malerman, author of the highly acclaimed Bird Box, the U.S. government recruits a Detroit rock band in 1957 to search for the origin of a strange and destructive sound in the Namib Desert.
After the trip to Africa, band leader and pianist Philip Tonka emerges from a coma in an Iowa clinic, and he struggles to recall what happened in the desert. This one will be great for fans of Necrophenia by Robert Rankin. |
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| The Only Child by Andrew PyperCan a nameless man accused of a heinous crime in modern New York really be two centuries old and the model for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and Frankenstein? Psychiatrist Lily Dominick is driven to investigate this claim...especially because the monstrous man also says he's her father.
"Gothic fans, rejoice!" says Toronto's Globe and Mail about Canadian author Andrew Pyper's expert homage to 19th-century literature. If you enjoyed The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. |
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| The Loney by Andrew Michael HurleyWhen the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred forty years earlier when he visited the place as a boy.
This leisurely paced, lyrical, and haunting tale won the 2015 Costa Book Award for First Novel. For fans of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. |
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| We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Throughout, Jackson portrays the Blackwood house as one of the story's characters, intensifying the brooding quality of this intricate gothic novel. For fans of Angelica by Arthur Phillips. |
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| The Quick by Lauren Owen1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace.
If you enjoyed Bram Stoker's original Dracula or Charles Palliser's Rustication, you won't want to miss this. |
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| Fiercombe Manor by Kate RiordanIn this haunting and richly imagined dual-narrative tale that echoes the eerie mystery of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, two women of very different eras are united by the secrets hidden within the walls of an English manor house. |
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