When orphaned Claire's fiance dies of a strange neurological disease, she thinks the happiness and belonging in she finally had in her life is over forever, but then Elias wealthy family invites her for three days to Harrow Point, their private island, for his funeral. Hoping to find the family she so desperately craves, Claire …
This book of short stories, titled Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series. It features 12 stories of doomed or dark romances from some best loved authors, from Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins to Angela Carter and Nalo Hopkinson. A nice snap shot of this …
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In 1965, in the Scottish Borderlands, Pearl finds herself pregnant and unmarried, so her parents send her to Lichen Hall, a strange, crumbling mansion on the edge of a wood in the middle of nowhere. She is one of a string of mothers who have been sent there to give birth in secret and have …
Ann hopes to start over after the death of her father, and heads to New York to work as a Curatorial Associate after graduating. When she arrives, there is no longer a place for her at the Met, but she's offered a coveted place at the Cloisters, a mysterious Gothic building with beautiful gardens. Soon, …
Catherine is a successful London barrister who has recently lost an important case, when she starts to see a face that she recognizes from her distant past and her house is broken into. It's time to face the secret of her past that twines her family with that of the family at the country estate, …
A homeless teenage girl in London tricks her way into the home of a wealthy man, in order to get inside the place where her partner was last seen. A gothic fiction, set inside a crumbling mansion full of books and papers owned by a dark and moody man, this book is quite a page …
Benbrae, the dark family estate she left behind, calls Megan home after 5 years away when her sister lays dying. Her return brings secrets to the surface, but Megan has mental health issues and is also deaf, so she's not sure that she can trust her own thoughts and memories and hearing. Why did her …
Romilly grows up with her father, an artist, in a ramshackle house surrounded by a wild garden. She vaguely remembers a life before, when she was 4 and they lived in London with her mother, and also a different time when they lived an itinerant life. But her father won't answer questions about where her …
The Blackwell family have always lived in their beautiful home, a little apart and a little better than those around them. But since a family tragedy 6 years earlier, Merricat, her sister Constance and their aged and fragile Uncle Julian live there alone, avoiding contact with the hostile village around them. They live by a …
Continue reading We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson
Elsie is sent away from London to avoid gossip and scandal when her wealthy husband dies just months after their marriage. Grieving and pregnant, she goes to her husbands crumbling family estate, the place where he mysteriously died, and where she must live with only the few servants and his dull cousin for company. But …
