قوطي

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

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 Vanishing Bookstore

بقلم Helen Phifer • 2026

Before thirty-five, the witch hunter always kills her. Dora has one lifetime to end the curse.

3.88

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🖤 Generational Witch Curse ⏳ Dual Timeline Witches 💫 Reincarnated Lovers 🌿 Herbal Healing Magic ✨ Sisterhood Magic

The Vanishing Bookstore

Before thirty-five, the witch hunter always kills her. Dora has one lifetime to end the curse.

بقلم Helen Phifer 2026 314 صفحة

3.88

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🖤 Generational Witch Curse ⏳ Dual Timeline Witches 💫 Reincarnated Lovers 🌿 Herbal Healing Magic ✨ Sisterhood Magic

Hearthstone Cottage

بقلم Frazer Lee • 2019

A witch's altar waits beneath a Highland cottage's hearth, and four graduates just arrived.

3.63

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🌾 Folk Horror 🏰 Scottish Gothic 🏠 Sentient House 🩸 Ancestral Curse 🧙 Witch's Curse

Hearthstone Cottage

A witch's altar waits beneath a Highland cottage's hearth, and four graduates just arrived.

بقلم Frazer Lee 2019 240 صفحة

3.63

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🌾 Folk Horror 🏰 Scottish Gothic 🏠 Sentient House 🩸 Ancestral Curse 🧙 Witch's Curse

Lovely Violent Things

بقلم Trisha Wolfe • 2023

A profiler investigating ritual murders cannot resist the dark professor who is her prime suspect.

4.02

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🎓 Dark Academia 🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🖤 Obsessive Love 🔍 Loving The Suspect 💔 Trauma Bonded

Lovely Violent Things

A profiler investigating ritual murders cannot resist the dark professor who is her prime suspect.

بقلم Trisha Wolfe 2023 332 صفحة

4.02

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🎓 Dark Academia 🧠 Philosophical Thriller 🖤 Obsessive Love 🔍 Loving The Suspect 💔 Trauma Bonded

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

بقلم Kiersten White • 2018

Raised to be Victor Frankenstein's companion, Elizabeth discovers she was his experiment all along.

3.89

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🖤 Feminist Retelling 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Femme Rage 💔 Survivor Guilt

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Raised to be Victor Frankenstein's companion, Elizabeth discovers she was his experiment all along.

بقلم Kiersten White 2018 304 صفحة

3.89

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🖤 Feminist Retelling 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🫂 Found Family 🔥 Femme Rage 💔 Survivor Guilt

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

بقلم Cat Winters • 2013

During the 1918 flu, a girl's photograph captures her dead soldier's ghost begging for the truth.

3.85

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🖤 Gothic Historical 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 📷 Spirit Photography 💔 Childhood Love Lost 👻 Grief And Haunting

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

During the 1918 flu, a girl's photograph captures her dead soldier's ghost begging for the truth.

بقلم Cat Winters 2013 387 صفحة

3.85

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🖤 Gothic Historical 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 📷 Spirit Photography 💔 Childhood Love Lost 👻 Grief And Haunting

طقوس الدفن

بقلم هانا كينت • 2013

Rural Iceland, 1829: a condemned woman's account of love and murder shakes a young priest's faith.

4.04

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🏔️ 19th Century Iceland 🔍 True Crime Fiction ⏳ Looming Execution ⛪ Priest And Prisoner 👩‍⚖️ Woman As Scapegoat

طقوس الدفن

Rural Iceland, 1829: a condemned woman's account of love and murder shakes a young priest's faith.

بقلم هانا كينت 2013 336 صفحة

4.04

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🏔️ 19th Century Iceland 🔍 True Crime Fiction ⏳ Looming Execution ⛪ Priest And Prisoner 👩‍⚖️ Woman As Scapegoat

Misrule

بقلم Heather Walter • 2022

She took a kingdom for love. Now she rules monsters, and her princess sleeps on.

3.72

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🖤 Villain Redemption Arc 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 💔 Sapphic Dark Romance 😴 Cursed Princess 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale

Misrule

She took a kingdom for love. Now she rules monsters, and her princess sleeps on.

بقلم Heather Walter 2022 454 صفحة

3.72

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🖤 Villain Redemption Arc 🌹 Sleeping Beauty Retelling 💔 Sapphic Dark Romance 😴 Cursed Princess 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale

A Vow of Shadow and Blood

بقلم Charlene Antrobus • 2025

A human whose blood kills vampires is mated to the crown prince, waking the demon within.

4.21

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🖤 Dark Romantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 🏰 Vampire Court 🩸 Blood Magic

A Vow of Shadow and Blood

A human whose blood kills vampires is mated to the crown prince, waking the demon within.

بقلم Charlene Antrobus 2025 512 صفحة

4.21

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🖤 Dark Romantasy 💔 Enemies To Lovers 💫 Fated Mates 🏰 Vampire Court 🩸 Blood Magic

Beneath the Stairs

بقلم Jennifer Fawcett • 2022

She returns to a haunted house after a friend's suicide attempt to face the basement they buried.

3.55

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma 😰 Creeping Dread ⏳ Dual Timeline

Beneath the Stairs

She returns to a haunted house after a friend's suicide attempt to face the basement they buried.

بقلم Jennifer Fawcett 2022 352 صفحة

3.55

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma 😰 Creeping Dread ⏳ Dual Timeline

Last to Leave the Room

بقلم Caitlin Starling • 2023

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

3.52

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🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

Last to Leave the Room

A physicist under a sinking city discovers an impossible door in her basement. It opens.

بقلم Caitlin Starling 2023 312 صفحة

3.52

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🖤 Psychological Horror 🚪 Doppelganger Horror 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 💀 Identity Dissolution 🏚️ Claustrophobic Dread

The Book Eaters

بقلم Sunyi Dean • 2022

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

3.61

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🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

The Book Eaters

A book eater's son hungers for minds. She feeds him strangers while their family's knights close in.

بقلم Sunyi Dean 2022 298 صفحة

3.61

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🩸 Vampire Reimagining 🖤 Found Family 🐺 Protective Mother 🕯️ Gothic Dread 🦷 Body Horror

Longshadow

بقلم Olivia Atwater • 2021

A magician's daughter and a laundress who sees ghosts hunt a faerie killing London's young women.

3.85

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🏰 Regency Faerie Tale 💀 Death And The Maiden 👻 Ghost Companion 💕 Faerie Human Romance 🫂 Found Family

Longshadow

A magician's daughter and a laundress who sees ghosts hunt a faerie killing London's young women.

بقلم Olivia Atwater 2021 263 صفحة

3.85

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🏰 Regency Faerie Tale 💀 Death And The Maiden 👻 Ghost Companion 💕 Faerie Human Romance 🫂 Found Family

Resurrection

بقلم Nick Roberts • 2025

The evil a mother escaped was never truly banished: it was born inside her daughter.

4.38

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⛪ Religious Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 👧 Possessed Child 🔮 Family Curse 🖤 Bleak Horror

Resurrection

The evil a mother escaped was never truly banished: it was born inside her daughter.

بقلم Nick Roberts 2025 344 صفحة

4.38

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⛪ Religious Horror 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 👧 Possessed Child 🔮 Family Curse 🖤 Bleak Horror

The Pentagram Child, Part 2

بقلم Stephanie Hudson • 2015

A mortal seer and her king must sacrifice everything when ancient Titans breach their prison.

4.54

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🖤 Fated Mates 🔮 Seer Visions 🎭 Hidden Betrayal ⚡ Mythological Fantasy 🔥 Descent Into Hell

The Pentagram Child, Part 2

A mortal seer and her king must sacrifice everything when ancient Titans breach their prison.

بقلم Stephanie Hudson 2015 406 صفحة

4.54

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🖤 Fated Mates 🔮 Seer Visions 🎭 Hidden Betrayal ⚡ Mythological Fantasy 🔥 Descent Into Hell

House of Roots and Ruin

بقلم Erin A. Craig • 2023

A ghost-seeing painter falls for an heir in a manor of drugged candles and buried secrets.

4.11

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🏚️ Gothic Manor 🌿 Botanical Horror 👻 Ghost-Seeing Heroine 😰 Creeping Dread 🤯 Madness And Manipulation

House of Roots and Ruin

A ghost-seeing painter falls for an heir in a manor of drugged candles and buried secrets.

بقلم Erin A. Craig 2023 544 صفحة

4.11

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🏚️ Gothic Manor 🌿 Botanical Horror 👻 Ghost-Seeing Heroine 😰 Creeping Dread 🤯 Madness And Manipulation

Sweet Heart

بقلم Peter James • 1991

A London wife's new home in Sussex remembers her from a past life. And her murder.

3.72

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🌀 Past Life Regression 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 👻 Vengeful Spirit 💔 Marital Infidelity 🌫️ Slow Burn Dread

Sweet Heart

A London wife's new home in Sussex remembers her from a past life. And her murder.

بقلم Peter James 1991 335 صفحة

3.72

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🌀 Past Life Regression 🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 👻 Vengeful Spirit 💔 Marital Infidelity 🌫️ Slow Burn Dread

Horrid

بقلم Katrina Leno • 2020

A girl moves into the family's crumbling manor, where a dead sister watches from the mirrors.

3.54

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 👻 Secret Sister 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread

Horrid

A girl moves into the family's crumbling manor, where a dead sister watches from the mirrors.

بقلم Katrina Leno 2020 327 صفحة

3.54

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 👻 Secret Sister 💔 Mother-Daughter Conflict 🕯️ Slow-Burn Dread

Hollow

بقلم Karina Halle • 2023

A witch must reclaim her stolen memories to save her first love from a headless horseman.

3.79

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🖤 Gothic Retelling 📖 Dark Academia 🎃 Sleepy Hollow 🧙 Witch Protagonist 🍎 Teacher Student

Hollow

A witch must reclaim her stolen memories to save her first love from a headless horseman.

بقلم Karina Halle 2023 362 صفحة

3.79

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🖤 Gothic Retelling 📖 Dark Academia 🎃 Sleepy Hollow 🧙 Witch Protagonist 🍎 Teacher Student

Gang of Ghouls

بقلم Eva Chase • 2023

Her imaginary friends are real, dead, and now wearing the skin of her worst enemies.

3.87

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👻 Ghost Protectors 💀 Body Sharing 🧠 Memory Magic 🏠 Found Family 💢 Bullies To Lovers

Gang of Ghouls

Her imaginary friends are real, dead, and now wearing the skin of her worst enemies.

بقلم Eva Chase 2023 1004 صفحة

3.87

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👻 Ghost Protectors 💀 Body Sharing 🧠 Memory Magic 🏠 Found Family 💢 Bullies To Lovers

Deliverance

بقلم Katelyn Taylor • 2025

Two hostile stepsisters ignite a forbidden affair within Salem's oldest secret society.

4.09

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Secret Society 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Dark Academia 🌫️ Salem Gothic

Deliverance

Two hostile stepsisters ignite a forbidden affair within Salem's oldest secret society.

بقلم Katelyn Taylor 2025 506 صفحة

4.09

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🕯️ Secret Society 💔 Forbidden Love 📚 Dark Academia 🌫️ Salem Gothic

Draven's Afterlife

بقلم Stephanie Hudson • 2019

His two-thousand-year vigil ends when his fated soulmate walks into his nightclub.

4.60

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🖤 Fated Mates 💀 Obsessive Hero 💔 Damaged Heroine 🔥 Possessive Alpha 🌙 Shared Dreams

Draven's Afterlife

His two-thousand-year vigil ends when his fated soulmate walks into his nightclub.

بقلم Stephanie Hudson 2019 388 صفحة

4.60

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🖤 Fated Mates 💀 Obsessive Hero 💔 Damaged Heroine 🔥 Possessive Alpha 🌙 Shared Dreams

The Puppeteer

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley • 2020

Bound to the puppeteer who remade her, she is trapped in his dark circus by his obsession.

4.16

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🎪 Dark Circus Romance 🪢 Captor-Captive Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Damaged Hero 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Puppeteer

Bound to the puppeteer who remade her, she is trapped in his dark circus by his obsession.

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley 2020 363 صفحة

4.16

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🎪 Dark Circus Romance 🪢 Captor-Captive Romance 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Damaged Hero 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

A Dark Forgetting

بقلم Kristen Ciccarelli • 2022

A singer whose voice wakes wild magic enters fae woods to bargain for her stolen grandfather.

3.73

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🖤 Dark Fae Court 🎵 Song Magic 💔 Forgotten Love 👪 Family Curse 🌲 Cursed Forest

A Dark Forgetting

A singer whose voice wakes wild magic enters fae woods to bargain for her stolen grandfather.

بقلم Kristen Ciccarelli 2022 432 صفحة

3.73

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🖤 Dark Fae Court 🎵 Song Magic 💔 Forgotten Love 👪 Family Curse 🌲 Cursed Forest

Thirteen Storeys

بقلم Jonathan Sims • 2020

A dead billionaire's tower haunts its residents. Then he invites them to dinner.

3.79

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🏢 Haunted Building 🖤 Modern Gothic ⚖️ Social Horror 🏗️ Gentrification Horror 👻 Trapped Spirits

Thirteen Storeys

A dead billionaire's tower haunts its residents. Then he invites them to dinner.

بقلم Jonathan Sims 2020 390 صفحة

3.79

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🏢 Haunted Building 🖤 Modern Gothic ⚖️ Social Horror 🏗️ Gentrification Horror 👻 Trapped Spirits

The Red House

بقلم Roz Watkins • 2023

A survivor returns to the murder house to face the comatose brother she condemned.

4.03

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Suspense 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📁 Cold Case 🔑 Family Secrets

The Red House

A survivor returns to the murder house to face the comatose brother she condemned.

بقلم Roz Watkins 2023

4.03

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🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Suspense 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 📁 Cold Case 🔑 Family Secrets

Happy Ever Afterlife, Part 2

بقلم Stephanie Hudson • 2018

When a demon king's dark side emerges, his wife follows him into Hell to save him.

4.58

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🖤 Demon Hero 💫 Fated Mates 🖤 Possessive Hero 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

Happy Ever Afterlife, Part 2

When a demon king's dark side emerges, his wife follows him into Hell to save him.

بقلم Stephanie Hudson 2018 332 صفحة

4.58

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🖤 Demon Hero 💫 Fated Mates 🖤 Possessive Hero 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Bone Witch

بقلم Rin Chupeco • 2017

Raising her brother from the dead exiles a girl into a glittering sisterhood of dark magic.

3.68

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🦴 Necromantic Magic 🏫 Magical Academy ⚠️ Corrupted Magic System 🏯 Asian Fantasy World 🌑 Gothic Atmosphere

The Bone Witch

Raising her brother from the dead exiles a girl into a glittering sisterhood of dark magic.

بقلم Rin Chupeco 2017 411 صفحة

3.68

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🦴 Necromantic Magic 🏫 Magical Academy ⚠️ Corrupted Magic System 🏯 Asian Fantasy World 🌑 Gothic Atmosphere

Damnation

بقلم Katelyn Taylor • 2025

A Salem landowner's forbidden affair with a beggar healer is swallowed whole by the witch trials.

3.88

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🧹 Salem Witch Trials 💔 Forbidden Love 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🥀 Tragic Romance 🏘️ Colonial New England

Damnation

A Salem landowner's forbidden affair with a beggar healer is swallowed whole by the witch trials.

بقلم Katelyn Taylor 2025 132 صفحة

3.88

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🧹 Salem Witch Trials 💔 Forbidden Love 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🥀 Tragic Romance 🏘️ Colonial New England

Bellevue

بقلم Robin Cook • 2024

Bellevue's ghosts kill a young surgeon's patients, demanding he answer for his ancestors' crimes.

3.36

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🏥 Medical Horror 👻 Haunted Hospital 🔗 Ancestral Guilt 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Bellevue

Bellevue's ghosts kill a young surgeon's patients, demanding he answer for his ancestors' crimes.

بقلم Robin Cook 2024 341 صفحة

3.36

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🏥 Medical Horror 👻 Haunted Hospital 🔗 Ancestral Guilt 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

What Remains of Teague House

بقلم Stacy Johns • 2025

Returning home for their mother's funeral, three siblings find human bones in the pet cemetery.

3.42

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🏚️ Gothic Family Saga 🔪 Small Town Murder 💔 Generational Trauma 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🕯️ Cult Manipulation

What Remains of Teague House

Returning home for their mother's funeral, three siblings find human bones in the pet cemetery.

بقلم Stacy Johns 2025 432 صفحة

3.42

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🏚️ Gothic Family Saga 🔪 Small Town Murder 💔 Generational Trauma 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🕯️ Cult Manipulation

The Quarter Moon

بقلم Stephanie Hudson • 2013

Her lover died. The Oracle's riddles promise answers, but the path leads straight through Hell.

4.49

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🔗 Fated Mates 🔥 Descent Into Hell 🖤 Dark Paranormal Romance 🥀 Tortured Hero 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

The Quarter Moon

Her lover died. The Oracle's riddles promise answers, but the path leads straight through Hell.

بقلم Stephanie Hudson 2013 682 صفحة

4.49

٥٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🔗 Fated Mates 🔥 Descent Into Hell 🖤 Dark Paranormal Romance 🥀 Tortured Hero 🌅 Bittersweet Ending

Hieroglyphics

بقلم Jill McCorkle • 2020

An old man’s visits to his childhood home unravel a single mother’s fragile new life.

3.31

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 👪 Intergenerational Saga 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Childhood Home 🍂 Elegiac Tone

Hieroglyphics

An old man’s visits to his childhood home unravel a single mother’s fragile new life.

بقلم Jill McCorkle 2020 312 صفحة

3.31

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 👪 Intergenerational Saga 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Childhood Home 🍂 Elegiac Tone

Fiend

بقلم Alma Katsu • 2025

A demon guards their empire. Three siblings fight for control. The demon is choosing the winner.

3.38

٢٬٠٠٠+

🩸 Generational Curse 👑 Dysfunctional Dynasty ⚔️ Sibling Power Struggle 🏙️ Modern Gothic 📖 Literary Horror

Fiend

A demon guards their empire. Three siblings fight for control. The demon is choosing the winner.

بقلم Alma Katsu 2025 243 صفحة

3.38

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🩸 Generational Curse 👑 Dysfunctional Dynasty ⚔️ Sibling Power Struggle 🏙️ Modern Gothic 📖 Literary Horror

Avidian

بقلم Ashley R. O'Donovan • 2025

A ghost-speaking captive is ordered to solve a murder. Her captor's son has other plans.

3.88

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🌹 Gothic Romantasy 👻 Speaks To Ghosts ⚔️ Rebel Underground 💔 Dangerous Attraction 🌑 Dark Atmospheric

Avidian

A ghost-speaking captive is ordered to solve a murder. Her captor's son has other plans.

بقلم Ashley R. O'Donovan 2025 364 صفحة

3.88

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🌹 Gothic Romantasy 👻 Speaks To Ghosts ⚔️ Rebel Underground 💔 Dangerous Attraction 🌑 Dark Atmospheric

Ordinary Monsters

بقلم J.M. Miro • 2022

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

3.77

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🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

Ordinary Monsters

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

بقلم J.M. Miro 2022 672 صفحة

3.77

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🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

A Box Full of Darkness

بقلم Simone St. James • 2026

Twenty years after her brother vanished, a reluctant medium is summoned home by his ghost.

3.74

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 👻 Medium Protagonist 👥 Siblings Reuniting 💔 Generational Trauma

A Box Full of Darkness

Twenty years after her brother vanished, a reluctant medium is summoned home by his ghost.

بقلم Simone St. James 2026 337 صفحة

3.74

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🔍 Paranormal Mystery 👻 Medium Protagonist 👥 Siblings Reuniting 💔 Generational Trauma

Nona the Ninth

بقلم Tamsyn Muir • 2022

An amnesiac child with a borrowed body has six months before the apocalypse inside her wakes.

4.33

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🚀 Science Fantasy 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 👥 Body Sharing 🥀 Tender Horror

Nona the Ninth

An amnesiac child with a borrowed body has six months before the apocalypse inside her wakes.

بقلم Tamsyn Muir 2022 480 صفحة

4.33

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🚀 Science Fantasy 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 🖤 Found Family 👥 Body Sharing 🥀 Tender Horror

All the Wind in the World

بقلم Samantha Mabry • 2017

Lovers hiding as cousins work a dying desert ranch where a prophet's visions ignite mass hysteria.

3.34

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🌍 Climate Fiction 🎭 Hidden Identity 🐝 Mass Hysteria 🤝 Found Family 💔 Lost Sister Grief

All the Wind in the World

Lovers hiding as cousins work a dying desert ranch where a prophet's visions ignite mass hysteria.

بقلم Samantha Mabry 2017 288 صفحة

3.34

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🌍 Climate Fiction 🎭 Hidden Identity 🐝 Mass Hysteria 🤝 Found Family 💔 Lost Sister Grief

A Botanical Daughter

بقلم Noah Medlock • 2024

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

3.58

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🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

A Botanical Daughter

Two Victorian recluses build a daughter from a stolen corpse and sentient fungus; she wants out.

بقلم Noah Medlock 2024 384 صفحة

3.58

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🖤 Queer Gothic 🌿 Botanical Horror 🏠 Found Family 💕 Sapphic Romance 🧪 Mad Scientist

The Beast You Are

بقلم Paul Tremblay • 2023

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

3.33

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🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Beast You Are

An animal village sacrifices a child each generation. Two survivors plot to stop the beast.

بقلم Paul Tremblay 2023 352 صفحة

3.33

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🖋️ Literary Horror 🌾 Folk Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread 🐾 Dark Fable 🗡️ Ritual Sacrifice

The Graceview Patient

بقلم Caitlin Starling • 2025

A desperate patient enters an experimental hospital where the building hungers.

3.45

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🏥 Hospital Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🩺 Medical Gaslighting 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧪 Medical Experimentation

The Graceview Patient

A desperate patient enters an experimental hospital where the building hungers.

بقلم Caitlin Starling 2025 295 صفحة

3.45

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🏥 Hospital Horror 🫀 Body Horror 🩺 Medical Gaslighting 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🧪 Medical Experimentation

The Unseelie Throne

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley • 2021

A dark fae prince hunted her. Now he offers a bargain: her hand or his head.

3.97

٨٬٠٠٠+

🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🌑 Dark Fae Romance 😈 Villain Love Interest 🏃 Predator Prey 🔒 Forced Proximity

The Unseelie Throne

A dark fae prince hunted her. Now he offers a bargain: her hand or his head.

بقلم Kathryn Ann Kingsley 2021 296 صفحة

3.97

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🌑 Dark Fae Romance 😈 Villain Love Interest 🏃 Predator Prey 🔒 Forced Proximity

House of Marionne

بقلم J. Elle • 2023

Hiding outlawed magic in a deadly academy, she’s paired with an assassin who hunts her kind.

3.63

٨٬٠٠٠+

🖤 Dark Academia 🏰 Magical Boarding School 🔥 Forbidden Magic 💗 Slow Burn Romance 🌒 Gothic Atmosphere

House of Marionne

Hiding outlawed magic in a deadly academy, she’s paired with an assassin who hunts her kind.

بقلم J. Elle 2023 400 صفحة

3.63

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🖤 Dark Academia 🏰 Magical Boarding School 🔥 Forbidden Magic 💗 Slow Burn Romance 🌒 Gothic Atmosphere

Absalom, Absalom!

بقلم William Faulkner • 1936

A Mississippi planter's empire rests on a secret: a mixed-race son whose return burns everything.

3.99

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🖤 Southern Gothic 🏛️ Doomed Dynasty 🕵️ Hidden Parentage 🎭 Racial Passing 💔 Incest And Taboo

Absalom, Absalom!

A Mississippi planter's empire rests on a secret: a mixed-race son whose return burns everything.

بقلم William Faulkner 1936 316 صفحة

3.99

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🖤 Southern Gothic 🏛️ Doomed Dynasty 🕵️ Hidden Parentage 🎭 Racial Passing 💔 Incest And Taboo

Nowhere Burning

بقلم Catriona Ward • 2026

Fleeing abuse, a girl and her brother reach a mountain sanctuary where safety costs blood.

3.64

٤٬٠٠٠+

🕍 Gothic Horror 👻 Haunted House 🕯️ Cult Dynamics 🏕️ Survival Horror 👥 Found Family

Nowhere Burning

Fleeing abuse, a girl and her brother reach a mountain sanctuary where safety costs blood.

بقلم Catriona Ward 2026 297 صفحة

3.64

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🕍 Gothic Horror 👻 Haunted House 🕯️ Cult Dynamics 🏕️ Survival Horror 👥 Found Family

Near the Bone

بقلم Christina Henry • 2021

An isolated wife endures her husband's cruelty, but something worse is watching from the trees.

3.69

٢١٬٠٠٠+

🩸 Survival Horror 👹 Creature Feature ⛓️ Abusive Marriage 🔒 Captivity Narrative 🔓 Reclaimed Identity

Near the Bone

An isolated wife endures her husband's cruelty, but something worse is watching from the trees.

بقلم Christina Henry 2021 321 صفحة

3.69

٢١٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🩸 Survival Horror 👹 Creature Feature ⛓️ Abusive Marriage 🔒 Captivity Narrative 🔓 Reclaimed Identity

House of Hunger

بقلم Alexis Henderson • 2022

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

3.63

٢٤٬٠٠٠+

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Sensual Horror

House of Hunger

Marion sells her blood to a northern countess, but the gothic estate hungers for far more.

بقلم Alexis Henderson 2022 304 صفحة

3.63

٢٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🩸 Sapphic Gothic Horror 🌑 Dark Fairy Tale 💔 Dark Sapphic Romance 🦴 Body Horror 🖤 Sensual Horror

The Hong Kong Widow

بقلم Kristen Loesch • 2025

Six mediums gather at a 1953 Hong Kong mansion where the dead refuse to stay buried.

3.75

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 📜 Historical Horror 🔮 Mediums And Seances 👻 Vengeful Ghost 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Hong Kong Widow

Six mediums gather at a 1953 Hong Kong mansion where the dead refuse to stay buried.

بقلم Kristen Loesch 2025 368 صفحة

3.75

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🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 📜 Historical Horror 🔮 Mediums And Seances 👻 Vengeful Ghost 🔗 Generational Trauma

Princes of Legacy

بقلم Angel Lawson • 2024

Three princes. One pregnant queen. A dead king whose secrets are still buried in the dungeon.

4.35

٦٬٠٠٠+

🖤 Dark Royal Romance 👥 Why Choose Romance 👶 Pregnancy Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

Princes of Legacy

Three princes. One pregnant queen. A dead king whose secrets are still buried in the dungeon.

بقلم Angel Lawson 2024 496 صفحة

4.35

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🖤 Dark Royal Romance 👥 Why Choose Romance 👶 Pregnancy Romance 🩹 Trauma Healing 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere

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