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تُشكّل الممرات المظلمة والقصور المسكونة خلفيةً لحكايات العذاب النفسي والرغبات المحرّمة والرعب الخارق في بريطانيا العصر الفيكتوري وما وراءها. تتشابك شخصيات الأبطال المضادين الكئيبين والقطع الأثرية الملعونة والأسرار العائلية مع موضوعات الأخلاق والعلم والانحلال الاجتماعي في هذه الأعمال الغنية بالأجواء التي أسّست أدب الرعب كما نعرفه اليوم.

قوطي ملخصات الكتب

This Cursed House

بقلم Del Sandeen • 2024

1962: A Black woman finds family, ghosts, and a deadly curse in a crumbling New Orleans mansion.

3.60

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔗 Generational Curse 👁️ Seeing Ghosts 🎭 Colorism And Passing 🌳 Hidden Family Lineage

This Cursed House

1962: A Black woman finds family, ghosts, and a deadly curse in a crumbling New Orleans mansion.

بقلم Del Sandeen 2024 384 صفحة

3.60

٥٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔗 Generational Curse 👁️ Seeing Ghosts 🎭 Colorism And Passing 🌳 Hidden Family Lineage

The Revelator

بقلم Daryl Gregory • 2021

A moonshiner's return home becomes a battle to rescue her cousin from the family's subterranean god.

3.95

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⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🩸 Family Curse ⛪ Religious Horror 🕳️ Cave Entity 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Revelator

A moonshiner's return home becomes a battle to rescue her cousin from the family's subterranean god.

بقلم Daryl Gregory 2021 294 صفحة

3.95

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⛰️ Appalachian Gothic 🩸 Family Curse ⛪ Religious Horror 🕳️ Cave Entity 🔗 Generational Trauma

Juniper & Thorn

بقلم Ava Reid • 2022

A young witch, captive to her father's hunger, risks it all for a wounded ballet dancer.

3.62

٢٩٬٠٠٠+

🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisters 🩸 Body Horror 🔒 Captive Protagonist 🐺 Monstrous Transformation

Juniper & Thorn

A young witch, captive to her father's hunger, risks it all for a wounded ballet dancer.

بقلم Ava Reid 2022 368 صفحة

3.62

٢٩٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🌲 Dark Fairy Tale 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisters 🩸 Body Horror 🔒 Captive Protagonist 🐺 Monstrous Transformation

Eat the Ones You Love

بقلم Sarah Maria Griffin • 2025

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

3.46

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🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

Eat the Ones You Love

Broke and heartbroken, Shell takes a florist job in a dying mall where something sentient hungers.

بقلم Sarah Maria Griffin 2025 288 صفحة

3.46

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🪴 Botanical Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🖤 Queer Horror 🌿 Sentient Plant 💔 Toxic Sapphic Love

All of Us Murderers

بقلم K.J. Charles • 2025

Trapped in a Dartmoor mansion: his ex-lover, a bride contest, and no way out.

3.70

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🏚️ Country House Murder 💔 Second Chance Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical 🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔪 Servant Revenge

All of Us Murderers

Trapped in a Dartmoor mansion: his ex-lover, a bride contest, and no way out.

بقلم K.J. Charles 2025 343 صفحة

3.70

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🏚️ Country House Murder 💔 Second Chance Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical 🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔪 Servant Revenge

The Last Valentine

بقلم Felix Alexander • 2017

A bloodstained letter draws two friends into a secret labyrinth of love, murder, and family curses.

4.08

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🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Forbidden Romance ✉️ Love Letters 🌀 Magical Labyrinth 🥀 Gothic Romance

The Last Valentine

A bloodstained letter draws two friends into a secret labyrinth of love, murder, and family curses.

بقلم Felix Alexander 2017 241 صفحة

4.08

٤٠٨ تقييم

🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Forbidden Romance ✉️ Love Letters 🌀 Magical Labyrinth 🥀 Gothic Romance

Kill Creatures

بقلم Rory Power • 2025

When three friends vanish, only Nan knows why. Then one returns alive, remembering nothing.

3.49

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Kill Creatures

When three friends vanish, only Nan knows why. Then one returns alive, remembering nothing.

بقلم Rory Power 2025 281 صفحة

3.49

٥٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Toxic Friendship 🏚️ Small Town Secrets 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Ruby Tears

بقلم Pepper Winters • 2024

He buys a woman to infiltrate a trafficking ring, becoming her nightmare to save her.

4.08

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🖤 Dark Captive Romance ⛓️ Human Trafficking 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚔️ Morally Grey Hero 💔 Trauma Bonding

Ruby Tears

He buys a woman to infiltrate a trafficking ring, becoming her nightmare to save her.

بقلم Pepper Winters 2024 450 صفحة

4.08

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🖤 Dark Captive Romance ⛓️ Human Trafficking 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚔️ Morally Grey Hero 💔 Trauma Bonding

Bound to Fall

بقلم A.K. Caggiano • 2023

She wields the shadows he was sworn to destroy, and now he is her captive.

4.04

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🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 🌑 Shadow Magic 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 💔 Trauma Healing

Bound to Fall

She wields the shadows he was sworn to destroy, and now he is her captive.

بقلم A.K. Caggiano 2023 397 صفحة

4.04

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🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 🔒 Forced Proximity 🌑 Shadow Magic 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 💔 Trauma Healing

The Clown

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley • 2020

A living circus steals Cora's pain. The puppeteer who rules it wants her soul.

4.24

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🎪 Hungry Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest ❤️‍🔥 Obsessive Love 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🎭 Found Family

The Clown

A living circus steals Cora's pain. The puppeteer who rules it wants her soul.

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley 2020 363 صفحة

4.24

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🎪 Hungry Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest ❤️‍🔥 Obsessive Love 🩹 Trauma Recovery 🎭 Found Family

Requiem & Reverie

بقلم Keri Lake • 2019

A widow's dark tenant awakens her desire as a serial killer closes in on her son.

4.01

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🖤 Serial Killer Romance 🩸 Dark Antihero 🔗 Trauma Bonding 👁️ Serial Killer Pov 🌙 Gothic Atmosphere

Requiem & Reverie

A widow's dark tenant awakens her desire as a serial killer closes in on her son.

بقلم Keri Lake 2019

4.01

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🖤 Serial Killer Romance 🩸 Dark Antihero 🔗 Trauma Bonding 👁️ Serial Killer Pov 🌙 Gothic Atmosphere

La catedral

بقلم César Mallorquí • 2000

A young mason wins a contest to carve the altar. The cathedral was built for summoning the devil.

3.33

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🏰 Gothic Cathedral 📜 Historical Horror 😈 Satanic Cult 🗿 Apprentice's Journey ⚔️ Templar Secrets

La catedral

A young mason wins a contest to carve the altar. The cathedral was built for summoning the devil.

بقلم César Mallorquí 2000 203 صفحة

3.33

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🏰 Gothic Cathedral 📜 Historical Horror 😈 Satanic Cult 🗿 Apprentice's Journey ⚔️ Templar Secrets

Reign of Night

بقلم Sara C. Roethle • 2022

Bound to an ancient vampire, a hunter must choose: avenge her uncle, or betray her master.

4.02

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🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🗡️ Sentient Weapon 💀 Vengeance Quest 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Blood Bond

Reign of Night

Bound to an ancient vampire, a hunter must choose: avenge her uncle, or betray her master.

بقلم Sara C. Roethle 2022 381 صفحة

4.02

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🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 🗡️ Sentient Weapon 💀 Vengeance Quest 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Blood Bond

The House of Last Resort

بقلم Christopher Golden • 2024

A couple's bargain Sicilian home comes with a chapel where the Vatican buried its failed exorcisms.

3.16

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✝️ Religious Horror 👹 Demonic Possession 🔗 Generational Curse ⚰️ Ancient Buried Evil 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

The House of Last Resort

A couple's bargain Sicilian home comes with a chapel where the Vatican buried its failed exorcisms.

بقلم Christopher Golden 2024 292 صفحة

3.16

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✝️ Religious Horror 👹 Demonic Possession 🔗 Generational Curse ⚰️ Ancient Buried Evil 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

A Cosmology of Monsters

بقلم Shaun Hamill • 2019

The monster at his window becomes his friend, his love, and the family's undoing.

3.73

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🌌 Cosmic Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🖤 Monster As Lover 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Haunted Family Legacy

A Cosmology of Monsters

The monster at his window becomes his friend, his love, and the family's undoing.

بقلم Shaun Hamill 2019 336 صفحة

3.73

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🌌 Cosmic Horror 📖 Literary Horror 🖤 Monster As Lover 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🏚️ Haunted Family Legacy

Murder by the Book

بقلم Amie Schaumberg • 2025

A professor deciphers a killer's staged literary deaths before she becomes his final masterpiece.

3.41

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🖤 Dark Academia 🔍 Academic Mystery 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Staged Crime Scenes 📖 Literary References

Murder by the Book

A professor deciphers a killer's staged literary deaths before she becomes his final masterpiece.

بقلم Amie Schaumberg 2025 352 صفحة

3.41

٥٠٠+ تقييم

🖤 Dark Academia 🔍 Academic Mystery 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth 🎭 Staged Crime Scenes 📖 Literary References

Hunted Beast

بقلم K. Loraine • 2024

Four cursed men will destroy each other for the banshee trapped with them in a monster asylum.

4.29

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👥 Why Choose 💫 Fated Mates 🖤 Morally Grey Hero 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🐺 Monster Love Interest

Hunted Beast

Four cursed men will destroy each other for the banshee trapped with them in a monster asylum.

بقلم K. Loraine 2024 361 صفحة

4.29

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👥 Why Choose 💫 Fated Mates 🖤 Morally Grey Hero 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🐺 Monster Love Interest

The Haunting of Room 904

بقلم Erika T. Wurth • 2025

A clairvoyant investigator links a dybbuk box to the hotel curse that took her sister's life.

3.07

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👻 Paranormal Investigation 🪶 Indigenous Horror 🩸 Ancestral Curse 🏨 Haunted Hotel 🕯️ Cult Conspiracy

The Haunting of Room 904

A clairvoyant investigator links a dybbuk box to the hotel curse that took her sister's life.

بقلم Erika T. Wurth 2025 306 صفحة

3.07

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

👻 Paranormal Investigation 🪶 Indigenous Horror 🩸 Ancestral Curse 🏨 Haunted Hotel 🕯️ Cult Conspiracy

When Stars Come Out

بقلم Scarlett St. Clair • 2018

She can trap souls in coins. The raven shifters policing her boarding school want her silenced.

3.86

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🏫 Paranormal Boarding School 💫 Fated Mates ✨ Hidden Powers 👑 Reluctant Chosen One 🗝️ Secret Society

When Stars Come Out

She can trap souls in coins. The raven shifters policing her boarding school want her silenced.

بقلم Scarlett St. Clair 2018 389 صفحة

3.86

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏫 Paranormal Boarding School 💫 Fated Mates ✨ Hidden Powers 👑 Reluctant Chosen One 🗝️ Secret Society

The Arcane Taste of the Witchwood Boys

بقلم C.M. Stunich • 2025

A cursed forest binds a painter to three broken men; survival costs blood and love.

4.27

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🖤 Why Choose Romance 🫂 Found Family 🩸 Blood Magic 🌲 Gothic Atmosphere 🦇 Monstrous Heroine

The Arcane Taste of the Witchwood Boys

A cursed forest binds a painter to three broken men; survival costs blood and love.

بقلم C.M. Stunich 2025 556 صفحة

4.27

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🖤 Why Choose Romance 🫂 Found Family 🩸 Blood Magic 🌲 Gothic Atmosphere 🦇 Monstrous Heroine

Small Favors

بقلم Erin A. Craig • 2021

In a frontier town bound by rigid rules, the monsters in the woods start granting wishes.

4.00

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✨ Rumpelstiltskin Retelling 😈 Deal With The Devil 🐺 Monster Boyfriend 👀 Small Town Paranoia 👯 Twin Bond

Small Favors

In a frontier town bound by rigid rules, the monsters in the woods start granting wishes.

بقلم Erin A. Craig 2021 466 صفحة

4.00

٢٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

✨ Rumpelstiltskin Retelling 😈 Deal With The Devil 🐺 Monster Boyfriend 👀 Small Town Paranoia 👯 Twin Bond

Claiming Pretty

بقلم Sienna Blake • 2025

An orphan enters a gothic manor and is torn between twin brothers guarding a violent past.

4.15

١٬٠٠٠+

🕯️ Secret Society 💔 Love Triangle 🖤 Obsessive Hero ⛓️ Trauma Bonding 🔪 Touch Her And Die

Claiming Pretty

An orphan enters a gothic manor and is torn between twin brothers guarding a violent past.

بقلم Sienna Blake 2025

4.15

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🕯️ Secret Society 💔 Love Triangle 🖤 Obsessive Hero ⛓️ Trauma Bonding 🔪 Touch Her And Die

The House of the Seven Gables

بقلم Nathaniel Hawthorne • 1851

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

3.45

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🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England 🔗 Wrongful Imprisonment 🏡 Found Family

The House of the Seven Gables

A spinster shields her freed brother from a scheming cousin inside their cursed New England mansion.

بقلم Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 225 صفحة

3.45

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🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🩸 Ancestral Curse ⛪ Puritan New England 🔗 Wrongful Imprisonment 🏡 Found Family

The Devil Crept In

بقلم Ania Ahlborn • 2017

His cousin vanishes in the woods; the boy who returns is not the one who left.

3.65

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🏚️ Small-Town Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 👹 Monstrous Child 🩸 Maternal Horror

The Devil Crept In

His cousin vanishes in the woods; the boy who returns is not the one who left.

بقلم Ania Ahlborn 2017 374 صفحة

3.65

١٢٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏚️ Small-Town Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤥 Unreliable Narrator 👹 Monstrous Child 🩸 Maternal Horror

Darkly

بقلم Marisha Pessl • 2024

Seven teens on a dead game designer's island: find the missing boy, survive the game.

3.66

٧٬٠٠٠+

🎲 Deadly Game 🏝️ Gothic Island 🫂 Found Family 💕 Rivals To Lovers 😱 Creeping Dread

Darkly

Seven teens on a dead game designer's island: find the missing boy, survive the game.

بقلم Marisha Pessl 2024 399 صفحة

3.66

٧٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🎲 Deadly Game 🏝️ Gothic Island 🫂 Found Family 💕 Rivals To Lovers 😱 Creeping Dread

The Devil's Vengeance

بقلم Bella J. • 2021

A mafia wife, taken by her brother-in-law, endures; her husband will raze his world to save her.

3.94

١٬٠٠٠+

😈 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Dark Captive Romance 💍 Forced Marriage 👯‍♀️ Sister Protection 🔪 Vengeance

The Devil's Vengeance

A mafia wife, taken by her brother-in-law, endures; her husband will raze his world to save her.

بقلم Bella J. 2021 262 صفحة

3.94

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

😈 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Dark Captive Romance 💍 Forced Marriage 👯‍♀️ Sister Protection 🔪 Vengeance

The Sentinel

بقلم Jeffrey Konvitz • 1974

A model's brownstone has dead tenants and a blind priest waiting for her to replace him.

3.83

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✝️ Catholic Horror 🏚️ Cursed Apartment 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 😈 Demonic Neighbors 🕯️ Church Conspiracy

The Sentinel

A model's brownstone has dead tenants and a blind priest waiting for her to replace him.

بقلم Jeffrey Konvitz 1974 278 صفحة

3.83

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✝️ Catholic Horror 🏚️ Cursed Apartment 🌀 Psychological Unraveling 😈 Demonic Neighbors 🕯️ Church Conspiracy

Haunting the Hunter

بقلم Hanna Harp • 2025

A witch summons a demon to shield her brother, but the possessive creature wants only her.

3.39

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🖤 Demon Love Interest 😈 Possessive Demon 👥 Sibling Protection ⚔️ Touch Her And Die 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

Haunting the Hunter

A witch summons a demon to shield her brother, but the possessive creature wants only her.

بقلم Hanna Harp 2025 272 صفحة

3.39

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🖤 Demon Love Interest 😈 Possessive Demon 👥 Sibling Protection ⚔️ Touch Her And Die 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

Riot Rules

بقلم Callie Hart • 2020

New identity. One rule: no attachments. Then Wolf Hall's cruelest king decides she belongs to him.

4.02

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🎓 Boarding School Romance 💔 Bully Romance 🖤 Trauma Bonding 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🎭 Hidden Identity

Riot Rules

New identity. One rule: no attachments. Then Wolf Hall's cruelest king decides she belongs to him.

بقلم Callie Hart 2020

4.02

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🎓 Boarding School Romance 💔 Bully Romance 🖤 Trauma Bonding 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🎭 Hidden Identity

The Girls Before

بقلم Kate Alice Marshall • 2026

A search expert chasing a missing girl uncovers a hidden bunker and a family's buried crimes.

3.65

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🖤 Modern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🗣️ Dual Narrative 🤫 Family Cover-Up 🔍 Female Investigator

The Girls Before

A search expert chasing a missing girl uncovers a hidden bunker and a family's buried crimes.

بقلم Kate Alice Marshall 2026 309 صفحة

3.65

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🖤 Modern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🗣️ Dual Narrative 🤫 Family Cover-Up 🔍 Female Investigator

Don't Look Now and Other Stories

بقلم Daphne du Maurier • 1971

A Venetian blind psychic warns a grieving couple of danger; a red-coated child then haunts them.

3.82

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🏛️ Gothic Venice 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 👥 DoppelgäNger 🖤 Grieving Parents

Don't Look Now and Other Stories

A Venetian blind psychic warns a grieving couple of danger; a red-coated child then haunts them.

بقلم Daphne du Maurier 1971 214 صفحة

3.82

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🧠 Psychological Horror 🏛️ Gothic Venice 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 👥 DoppelgäNger 🖤 Grieving Parents

Withered Hill

بقلم David Barnett • 2024

A London woman wakes trapped in a village of masks, old rites, and no way back.

4.04

٤٬٠٠٠+

🐗 Folk Horror 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌿 Nature's Revenge 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😰 Slow Dread

Withered Hill

A London woman wakes trapped in a village of masks, old rites, and no way back.

بقلم David Barnett 2024 337 صفحة

4.04

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🐗 Folk Horror 🪞 DoppelgäNger 🌿 Nature's Revenge 🖤 Sapphic Horror 😰 Slow Dread

Grave Flowers

بقلم Autumn Krause • 2025

Her twin murdered, a gentle princess must become her sister to marry and kill a prince.

3.86

١٬٠٠٠+

🕯️ Gothic Court Intrigue 🪞 Twin Doppelgangers 🗡️ Assassin Bride ⚔️ Sisterly Rivalry 👻 Haunted By Ghosts

Grave Flowers

Her twin murdered, a gentle princess must become her sister to marry and kill a prince.

بقلم Autumn Krause 2025 400 صفحة

3.86

١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🕯️ Gothic Court Intrigue 🪞 Twin Doppelgangers 🗡️ Assassin Bride ⚔️ Sisterly Rivalry 👻 Haunted By Ghosts

A Cruel Thirst

بقلم Angela Montoya • 2024

A vampire hunter agrees to a fake engagement with the one monster she's sworn to destroy.

3.78

٤٬٠٠٠+

🧛 Vampire Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💍 Fake Engagement ⛓️ Cursed Bloodline 🌎 Latinx Fantasy

A Cruel Thirst

A vampire hunter agrees to a fake engagement with the one monster she's sworn to destroy.

بقلم Angela Montoya 2024 432 صفحة

3.78

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🧛 Vampire Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💍 Fake Engagement ⛓️ Cursed Bloodline 🌎 Latinx Fantasy

The Art of Deception

بقلم Nora Roberts • 2017

A painter hunting a stolen Rembrandt in a gothic castle falls for the forger's daughter.

3.85

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🎨 Art World Romance 🔍 Undercover Romance 🎭 Found Family 🏰 Gothic Castle 🖼️ Art Forgery

The Art of Deception

A painter hunting a stolen Rembrandt in a gothic castle falls for the forger's daughter.

بقلم Nora Roberts 2017 384 صفحة

3.85

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🎨 Art World Romance 🔍 Undercover Romance 🎭 Found Family 🏰 Gothic Castle 🖼️ Art Forgery

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

بقلم H.G. Parry • 2024

A magical university hides a forbidden faerie door; a scholarship student is about to open it.

4.10

٦٬٠٠٠+

🖤 Dark Academia Fantasy 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💫 Found Family 🔮 Forbidden Magic 🏛️ Magical University

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

A magical university hides a forbidden faerie door; a scholarship student is about to open it.

بقلم H.G. Parry 2024 437 صفحة

4.10

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🖤 Dark Academia Fantasy 🧚 Faerie Bargains 💫 Found Family 🔮 Forbidden Magic 🏛️ Magical University

The Case Against Satan

بقلم Ray Russell • 1962

A young priest's doubt meets a girl who shuns the church and a father who whispers possession.

3.68

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👹 Demonic Possession 🏚️ Gothic Horror 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

The Case Against Satan

A young priest's doubt meets a girl who shuns the church and a father who whispers possession.

بقلم Ray Russell 1962 140 صفحة

3.68

٢٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

👹 Demonic Possession 🏚️ Gothic Horror 🙏 Crisis Of Faith 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔥 Slow Burn Horror

The Tale of the Vampire Bride

بقلم Rhiannon Frater • 2009

Dracula invites a family to his castle; he has chosen the daughter to become his vampire bride.

4.09

١٬٠٠٠+

🧛 Vampire Gothic 🗡️ Feminist Vampire 💔 Forced Transformation 🩸 Vampire Brides 🕯️ Gothic Seduction

The Tale of the Vampire Bride

Dracula invites a family to his castle; he has chosen the daughter to become his vampire bride.

بقلم Rhiannon Frater 2009 334 صفحة

4.09

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🧛 Vampire Gothic 🗡️ Feminist Vampire 💔 Forced Transformation 🩸 Vampire Brides 🕯️ Gothic Seduction

The Faire

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley • 2020

Bound to a hungry circus, she loves its beautiful monster. The ringmaster wants them dead.

4.34

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🎪 Dark Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 👑 Morally Grey Heroine

The Faire

Bound to a hungry circus, she loves its beautiful monster. The ringmaster wants them dead.

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley 2020 269 صفحة

4.34

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🎪 Dark Carnival 🖤 Villain Love Interest 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 👑 Morally Grey Heroine

The Devils and The Duchess

بقلم Marissa Farrar • 2024

A fugitive student hides in a mafia university ruled by three devils who share everything.

3.98

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🏛️ Mafia Academy 💔 Bully Romance ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⛓️ Trauma Bonding 🏰 Gothic Campus

The Devils and The Duchess

A fugitive student hides in a mafia university ruled by three devils who share everything.

بقلم Marissa Farrar 2024 295 صفحة

3.98

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🏛️ Mafia Academy 💔 Bully Romance ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⛓️ Trauma Bonding 🏰 Gothic Campus

Where I End

بقلم Sophie White • 2022

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

3.83

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🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror 🖤 Toxic Motherhood 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Where I End

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

بقلم Sophie White 2022 241 صفحة

3.83

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🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror 🖤 Toxic Motherhood 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Sinning Like Hell

بقلم Trilina Pucci • 2021

Her family locked her in a psychiatric ward to forget the mafia heir who survived their bullet.

4.44

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👑 Mafia Boss Hero 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🔄 Second Chance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🩹 Trauma And Healing

Sinning Like Hell

Her family locked her in a psychiatric ward to forget the mafia heir who survived their bullet.

بقلم Trilina Pucci 2021 305 صفحة

4.44

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👑 Mafia Boss Hero 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🔄 Second Chance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🩹 Trauma And Healing

Mudbound

بقلم Hillary Jordan • 2008

A white farm wife and a black war hero cross the Delta's line; the mud swallows secrets and bodies.

4.06

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛓️ Jim Crow South 🌾 Sharecropper Life 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Affair

Mudbound

A white farm wife and a black war hero cross the Delta's line; the mud swallows secrets and bodies.

بقلم Hillary Jordan 2008 328 صفحة

4.06

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🏚️ Southern Gothic ⛓️ Jim Crow South 🌾 Sharecropper Life 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Affair

Vespertine

بقلم Margaret Rogerson • 2021

A scarred novice binds herself to an ancient spirit to save her convent from the dead.

4.09

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🕯️ Gothic Convent Fantasy 👻 Spirit Possession 😈 Sassy Monster Companion 💛 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Vespertine

A scarred novice binds herself to an ancient spirit to save her convent from the dead.

بقلم Margaret Rogerson 2021 400 صفحة

4.09

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🕯️ Gothic Convent Fantasy 👻 Spirit Possession 😈 Sassy Monster Companion 💛 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Cruel Beauty

بقلم Rosamund Hodge • 2014

She marries a demon lord to kill him, but his shifting house steals her hatred first.

3.64

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🥀 Beauty And The Beast 📖 Fairy Tale Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 👰 Sacrificial Bride

Cruel Beauty

She marries a demon lord to kill him, but his shifting house steals her hatred first.

بقلم Rosamund Hodge 2014 346 صفحة

3.64

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🥀 Beauty And The Beast 📖 Fairy Tale Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 👰 Sacrificial Bride

Cackle

بقلم Rachel Harrison • 2021

Her boyfriend left. The small town is lonely. Then the town witch decides she's worth protecting.

3.71

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🏘️ Small Town Witchcraft 🦇 Gothic Witch Fiction 🖤 Dark Female Friendship 🧙‍♀️ Witch Mentor ✨ Magical Awakening

Cackle

Her boyfriend left. The small town is lonely. Then the town witch decides she's worth protecting.

بقلم Rachel Harrison 2021 319 صفحة

3.71

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🏘️ Small Town Witchcraft 🦇 Gothic Witch Fiction 🖤 Dark Female Friendship 🧙‍♀️ Witch Mentor ✨ Magical Awakening

Black Flame

بقلم Gretchen Felker-Martin • 2025

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

3.54

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🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

Black Flame

Restoring a cursed Nazi film, a queer archivist discovers the footage wants to inhabit her.

بقلم Gretchen Felker-Martin 2025 196 صفحة

3.54

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🎞️ Cursed Film Horror 🩸 Queer Body Horror 📼 Archival Horror 💀 Nazi Occult 📖 Literary Horror

The House of Quiet

بقلم Kiersten White • 2025

To save her sister, a maid infiltrates a gothic house that harvests psychic children.

3.56

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🕯️ Gothic Horror 🔮 Psychic Abilities 🫂 Found Family 🏚️ Corrupt Institution 👯 Sisterly Bond

The House of Quiet

To save her sister, a maid infiltrates a gothic house that harvests psychic children.

بقلم Kiersten White 2025 304 صفحة

3.56

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🕯️ Gothic Horror 🔮 Psychic Abilities 🫂 Found Family 🏚️ Corrupt Institution 👯 Sisterly Bond

Something I Keep Upstairs

بقلم J.D. Barker • 2025

Inheriting a haunted island, seven friends discover its ancient hunger claims anyone under sixteen.

3.85

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🏚️ Sentient House 🌴 Haunted Island 💀 Generational Curse 🕯️ Occult Rituals 🤝 Teen Death Pact

Something I Keep Upstairs

Inheriting a haunted island, seven friends discover its ancient hunger claims anyone under sixteen.

بقلم J.D. Barker 2025 530 صفحة

3.85

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🏚️ Sentient House 🌴 Haunted Island 💀 Generational Curse 🕯️ Occult Rituals 🤝 Teen Death Pact

Dream by the Shadows

بقلم Logan Karlie • 2023

A village where dreams kill. A monster blamed for her sister's death. He alone understands hers.

3.46

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🌙 Dream World Fantasy 😈 Misunderstood Villain 🏰 Gothic Atmosphere 🔮 Cursed Love Interest

Dream by the Shadows

A village where dreams kill. A monster blamed for her sister's death. He alone understands hers.

بقلم Logan Karlie 2023 352 صفحة

3.46

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🖤 Enemies To Lovers 🌙 Dream World Fantasy 😈 Misunderstood Villain 🏰 Gothic Atmosphere 🔮 Cursed Love Interest

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