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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

PossessionNew York CityParanormalAtmospheric
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The Dark Unwinding

Sharon Cameron

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericYoung Adult
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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.

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Wisteria

Adalyn Grace · 419 pages

Gothic FictionAtmosphericVictorian EraYoung Adult
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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.

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericParanormal
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Affinity

Sarah Waters · 368 pages

A spellbinding ghost story, a complex and intriguing historical mystery, and a poignant romance with an enexpected twist.An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself in

Gothic FictionEpistolary FormatVictorian EraAtmospheric
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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.

Victorian EraGothic FictionAtmosphericParanormal
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Ammie, Come Home

Barbara Michaels · 270 pages

PossessionGothic FictionAtmosphericParanormal
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

Chris Wooding · 292 pages

As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.

PossessionGothic FictionVictorian EraAtmospheric
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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M.J. Rose · 439 pages

Paris, 1894. Sandrine Salome flees New York and her treacherous husband to find shelter in Paris with her grandmother, but as she settles in and pursues new passions, it's unclear whether she or an infamous ancestral witch is driving the changes. "Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic nove

PossessionGothic FictionAtmosphericHistorical Fiction
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Bloodline

Kate Cary

Gothic FictionEpistolary FormatAtmosphericYoung Adult
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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

Gothic FictionPossessionParanormalAtmospheric
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Prophecy of the Sisters

Michelle Zink · 343 pages

An ancient prophecy divides two sisters-One good...One evil...Who will prevail?Twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe have just become orphans. They have also become enemies. As they discover their roles in a prophecy that has turned generations of sisters against each other, the girls find themselves entangled in a mystery that involves a tattoo-like mark, their parents' deaths, a boy, a book, and

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericYoung Adult
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The Asylum

John Harwood · 269 pages

After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.

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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

Victorian EraGothic FictionAtmosphericParanormal
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An Inconvenient Wife

Megan Chance · 418 pages

AN INCONVENIENT WIFE is a rich blend of suspense, social history (America in the 1880s), and passion. Chance delivers a powerfully written page-turner about a woman's struggle to escape the confines of her time, class, and gender. Literary historical fiction is an extremely popular genre, as demonstrated by such bestsellers as Matthew Pearl's "The Dante Club (Random House, 2/03) and Michael Fabe

Victorian EraNew York CityGothic FictionAtmospheric
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House of Furies

Madeleine Roux · 416 pages

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Dark Desires

Eve Silver · 332 pages

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericHistorical Fiction
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Mist of Midnight

Sandra Byrd · 418 pages

Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her-- less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed Rebecca's name, home and incomes-- and died within months of her

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericHistorical Fiction
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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

Gothic FictionVictorian EraAtmosphericYoung Adult
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Possession

C.J. Archer

PossessionVictorian EraParanormalHistorical Fiction
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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 320 pages

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Tabo

PossessionGothic FictionParanormalAtmospheric
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Dracula

Bram Stoker · 356 pages

Na história, um casal e seus amigos são atormentados por Conde Drácula, uma entidade sobrenatural e hematófoga que, presa em uma maldição contagiosa, pretende se mudar de seu recluso castelo na Transilvânia para a efervescente Londres do século XIX. Com a ajuda do professor Van Helsing, o grupo de amigos pretende enfrentar o morto-vivo, mesmo com todos os perigos que a ofensiva trará.

Victorian EraGothic FictionEpistolary FormatAtmospheric

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