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A Taste for Monsters

Matthew J. Kirby · 343 pages

In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.

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The Silence of Ghosts

Jonathan Aycliffe · 202 pages

"Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family estat

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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace · 400 pages

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

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Hide Me Among the Graves

Tim Powers

Winter, 1862. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel. But Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. He is dete

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The Shadow and the Rose

Amanda DeWees · 274 pages

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Here I Stay

Barbara Michaels · 326 pages

Andrea Torgesen is certain that hard work is exactly what her younger brother Jim needs to help him recover from the trauma of a serious car accident—and turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn seems to be the perfect project. But unearthly voices and eerie visions haunt Jim from almost the first instant he sets foot in the dreary old house. And his strange obsession with a lon

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Victor Hugo · 443 pages

In fifteenth-century Paris, a disfigured man named Quasimodo, who was abandoned as an infant in the cathedral of Notre-Dame and now lives in its bell tower, must come to the aid of a beautiful gypsy girl named Esmeralda after she repels the advances of the cruel archdeacon Don Claude Frollo.

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House of Furies

Madeleine Roux · 416 pages

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The Poisoned House

Michael Ford

Abigail is a maidservant in Greave Hall, an elegant London household governed by the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs Cotton. Whilst the widowed master slips slowly into madness, Mrs Cotton gradually usurps the position of gentlewoman of the house. She wears his dead wife's jewellery and clothes, entertains guests as though the house is her own and reserves her most despotic treatment for Abi. In the d

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The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

Leanna Renee Hieber · 324 pages

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The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 299 pages

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Foxglove

Adalyn Grace · 465 pages

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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice · 1,002 pages

The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher. Lasher gives the witches gi

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The House of Dead Maids

Clare B. Dunkle · 176 pages

Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.

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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

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The Dark Between

Sonia Gensler · 348 pages

Three teenagers in Victorian era Cambridge spend the summer at a local college and soon discover that their hosts, the Metaphysical Society, may be conducting sinister experiments in an attempt to communicate with the dead.

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Rawblood

Catriona Ward

She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young. Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Their disease confines them to a lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love. And only then do they understand the t

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Ghost Stories

Henry James · 448 pages

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The Greatcoat

Helen Dunmore · 288 pages

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Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker

Syrie James · 562 pages

"Bestselling author Syrie James has crafted her most powerful tale yet in this amazingly written retelling of Dracula from Mina Harker's perspective. Perfect for anyone who loves vampires--and there are millions of readers out there who do--this novel deftly unveils Mina's story, a woman falling into into a forbidden, dangerous love and whose powerful emotions are subdued by the restrictions of he

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Frost Hollow Hall

Emma Carroll · 368 pages

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The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish

Paula Brackston · 356 pages

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Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Cherie Priest · 238 pages

A tale of supernatural horror mixed with Southern Gothic, 'Four and Twenty Blackbirds' centres on Eden Moore, an orphan who is never alone. Who are the three dead women watching her from the shadows? Who is the assassin in the woods? What is the truth about her beloved aunt and the curse that threatens her life?

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