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Amy Carol Reeves
“I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . .” It’s 1888, and after her mother’s sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there. But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at t
Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco · 352 pages
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd · 376 pages
When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenst
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.
This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel · 298 pages
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
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
The Sweet Far Thing
Libba Bray · 633 pages
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHANGE since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma
A Murderous Relation
Deanna Raybourn · 320 pages
The Waterworks
E.L. Doctorow · 264 pages
New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson · 303 pages
Dr. Jekyll invented a drug that would change him into the ominous Mr. Hyde. His evil nature, however, became the stronger part of him and to his horror, he no longer needed the formula to transform his appearance.
The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
Cassandra Clare · 222 pages
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
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
Loren D. Estleman · 238 pages
Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectable London doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew — the blackest mystery of his career! Although R
The Twin's Daughter
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.
The Lodger
Marie Belloc Lowndes, Elyssa Warkentin · 224 pages
The Lodger is the first known novelization of the Jack the Ripper story. It follows the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, a maid and butler. An eccentric lodger, Mr. Sleuth, arrives at their lodging-house just as a wave of horrific murders begins to sweep London. The Buntings become engrossed in the newspaper sensationalism as well the detailed accounts of their young friend, a Scotland Yard detectiv
Mary Reilly
Valerie Martin · 240 pages
This retelling of the enigmatic Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde tale deserves praise for suspense, character creation, and historical verisimilitude. Mary Reilly, a loyal, trusted servant in the household of Dr. Jekyll records in her diary the mysterious circumstances which lead to her Master's tragic fate. The hierarchy of social classes, relationships among servants and domestics, and details of language an
Mark of Distinction
Jessica Dotta · 437 pages
London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself--but to Julia Elliston it is a city of shadows. Her life is swiftly dissolving into scandal. And in Victorian society, even a whisper of scandal--substantiated or not--can be the death of a young woman's reputation. Now under the watchful eye of Lord Roy Pierson, one of the most influential men in England, Julia begrudgingly
The Pleasures of Men
Kate Williams · 401 pages
Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination.
Drood
Dan Simmons · 963 pages
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the wor
The Case of the Left-Handed Lady
Nancy Springer · 245 pages
Enola's name backwards spells "alone," and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective -- her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness? When she discovers a hidden cache of brilliant charcoal drawings, she feels as if she's a soul mate to th
Hyde
Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson · 416 pages
The Torn Wing
Kiki Hamilton · 317 pages
"London 1872. A bloody escape, a deadly threat, a shocking revelation. As the orphan who stole the Queen's ring - only to find the ring was a reservoir that held a truce between the world of Faerie and the British Court - Tiki's greatest fear suddenly becomes all too real: the fey have returned to London seeking revenge. As war escalates in the Otherworld, Queen Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leo
The Glass of Time
Michael Cox · 586 pages
Taking a job as a Victorian lady's maid in the household of baroness Tansor, nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst hides the truth about her mission to uncover her mistress's secrets about a past injustice that has affected Esperanza's own life. By the author of The Meaning of Night.