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

Imaginary Friend

بقلم Stephen Chbosky • 2019

Lost in the woods six days, a boy returns with a voice only he can hear.

3.55

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✝️ Religious Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Horror 💕 Mother-Son Bond 🐍 Misunderstood Monster 👦 Child In Peril

Imaginary Friend

Lost in the woods six days, a boy returns with a voice only he can hear.

بقلم Stephen Chbosky 2019 705 صفحة

3.55

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✝️ Religious Horror 🏘️ Small-Town Horror 💕 Mother-Son Bond 🐍 Misunderstood Monster 👦 Child In Peril

The Murder House

بقلم James Patterson • 2015

A detective returns to a cursed mansion crime scene; the house remembers the childhood she buried.

4.06

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🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Generational Curse 🧠 Repressed Memories ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

The Murder House

A detective returns to a cursed mansion crime scene; the house remembers the childhood she buried.

بقلم James Patterson 2015 451 صفحة

4.06

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🔪 Serial Killer Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🩸 Generational Curse 🧠 Repressed Memories ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

ساعة السحر

بقلم آن رايس • 1990

A surgeon is the last witch her family's dark spirit needs to be reborn.

4.10

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🧹 Generational Witches 📜 Secret Society 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👹 Demonic Rebirth 🏚️ Haunted Mansion

ساعة السحر

A surgeon is the last witch her family's dark spirit needs to be reborn.

بقلم آن رايس 1990 1216 صفحة

4.10

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🧹 Generational Witches 📜 Secret Society 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👹 Demonic Rebirth 🏚️ Haunted Mansion

Hell House

بقلم Richard Matheson • 1971

A physicist, a medium, and a psychic enter Hell House. The house knows their fears.

3.69

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👻 Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror ⚛️ Science Vs Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 😈 Possession

Hell House

A physicist, a medium, and a psychic enter Hell House. The house knows their fears.

بقلم Richard Matheson 1971 301 صفحة

3.69

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👻 Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror ⚛️ Science Vs Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mansion 😈 Possession

مكتبة الأرواح

بقلم رانسوم ريغز • 2015

A monster-taming boy enters a Victorian slum to save his friends from a man hunting souls.

4.14

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🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden Magical World 🎪 Dark Whimsy 🏚️ Victorian London 🆘 Rescue Mission

مكتبة الأرواح

A monster-taming boy enters a Victorian slum to save his friends from a man hunting souls.

بقلم رانسوم ريغز 2015 465 صفحة

4.14

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🫂 Found Family 🚪 Hidden Magical World 🎪 Dark Whimsy 🏚️ Victorian London 🆘 Rescue Mission

Remember Me

بقلم Christopher Pike • 2010

After a fatal fall, a teenage ghost knows she was murdered. Her killer is a friend.

4.14

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🕵️ Teen Ghost Detective 👶 Switched At Birth 🕊️ Forgiveness After Death 🖤 Gothic Mystery 💕 Ghostly Love Story

Remember Me

After a fatal fall, a teenage ghost knows she was murdered. Her killer is a friend.

بقلم Christopher Pike 2010 789 صفحة

4.14

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🕵️ Teen Ghost Detective 👶 Switched At Birth 🕊️ Forgiveness After Death 🖤 Gothic Mystery 💕 Ghostly Love Story

الرجل الخفي

بقلم هـ. ج. ويلز • 1897

Mad and invisible, a scientist terrorizes a village that must hunt what it cannot see.

3.63

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🧪 Mad Scientist 👻 Gothic Dread 👁️ Unseen Predator 🔮 Invisibility ⚗️ Experiment Gone Wrong

الرجل الخفي

Mad and invisible, a scientist terrorizes a village that must hunt what it cannot see.

بقلم هـ. ج. ويلز 1897 192 صفحة

3.63

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🧪 Mad Scientist 👻 Gothic Dread 👁️ Unseen Predator 🔮 Invisibility ⚗️ Experiment Gone Wrong

The New Couple in 5B

بقلم Lisa Unger • 2024

Inheriting a haunted apartment traps a writer between a death and a husband she can't trust.

3.61

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🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Apartment ✍️ True-Crime Writer Mc 🏚️ Toxic Inheritance 👥 Neighbors With Secrets

The New Couple in 5B

Inheriting a haunted apartment traps a writer between a death and a husband she can't trust.

بقلم Lisa Unger 2024 382 صفحة

3.61

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🕯️ Gothic Suspense 👻 Haunted Apartment ✍️ True-Crime Writer Mc 🏚️ Toxic Inheritance 👥 Neighbors With Secrets

We Live Here Now

بقلم Sarah Pinborough • 2025

A couple escapes to a remote gothic house to fix their marriage. The house prefers it broken.

3.71

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🌫️ Gothic Dread 🏚️ Sentient House 🪞 Fractured Identity 💀 Dark Resurrection 🌾 Isolated Moor House

We Live Here Now

A couple escapes to a remote gothic house to fix their marriage. The house prefers it broken.

بقلم Sarah Pinborough 2025 291 صفحة

3.71

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🌫️ Gothic Dread 🏚️ Sentient House 🪞 Fractured Identity 💀 Dark Resurrection 🌾 Isolated Moor House

Mother Knows Best

بقلم Serena Valentino • 2018

To claim her necromancer mother's magic, a young witch sacrifices her sisters and her humanity.

3.97

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🦹 Villain Origin Story 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisterhood 🥀 Gothic Fairy Tale 💀 Necromancy 🩸 Generational Curse

Mother Knows Best

To claim her necromancer mother's magic, a young witch sacrifices her sisters and her humanity.

بقلم Serena Valentino 2018 400 صفحة

3.97

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🦹 Villain Origin Story 🧙‍♀️ Witch Sisterhood 🥀 Gothic Fairy Tale 💀 Necromancy 🩸 Generational Curse

المطحنة البائسة

بقلم ليموني سنيكت • 2000

Their new guardian pays in coupons and the optometrist has hypnotized Klaus. The saw is running.

3.86

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👥 Orphan Protagonists 🤝 Sibling Teamwork 🌀 Mind Control 🎭 Disguised Villain 🚫 Ineffectual Guardians

المطحنة البائسة

Their new guardian pays in coupons and the optometrist has hypnotized Klaus. The saw is running.

بقلم ليموني سنيكت 2000 194 صفحة

3.86

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👥 Orphan Protagonists 🤝 Sibling Teamwork 🌀 Mind Control 🎭 Disguised Villain 🚫 Ineffectual Guardians

Blood Orange

بقلم Karina Halle • 2022

Sent to kill the vampire who inspired Dracula, a witch discovers their love is centuries old.

3.78

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💫 Reincarnated Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Vampire Romance 🧙 Witch And Vampire 🎭 Hidden Identity

Blood Orange

Sent to kill the vampire who inspired Dracula, a witch discovers their love is centuries old.

بقلم Karina Halle 2022 332 صفحة

3.78

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💫 Reincarnated Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🩸 Vampire Romance 🧙 Witch And Vampire 🎭 Hidden Identity

Lucy Undying

بقلم Kiersten White • 2024

A vampire who survived Dracula and a trapped heiress connect through a century-old journal.

3.69

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🧛 Vampire Retelling 🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🖤 Gothic Romance ⏳ Dual Timelines 🏙️ Victorian London

Lucy Undying

A vampire who survived Dracula and a trapped heiress connect through a century-old journal.

بقلم Kiersten White 2024 464 صفحة

3.69

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🧛 Vampire Retelling 🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🖤 Gothic Romance ⏳ Dual Timelines 🏙️ Victorian London

A Theory of Dreaming

بقلم Ava Reid • 2025

A college's first woman proves its national epic was ghostwritten. The backlash is merciless.

3.53

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🕯️ Dark Academia 🏰 Gothic Fantasy 📜 Literary Mystery ✍️ Hidden Authorship 🖤 Gothic Romance

A Theory of Dreaming

A college's first woman proves its national epic was ghostwritten. The backlash is merciless.

بقلم Ava Reid 2025 416 صفحة

3.53

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🕯️ Dark Academia 🏰 Gothic Fantasy 📜 Literary Mystery ✍️ Hidden Authorship 🖤 Gothic Romance

A Lesson in Vengeance

بقلم Victoria Lee • 2021

At Dalloway, a grieving Felicity is pulled into a charismatic new student's occult reenactments.

3.51

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🖤 Dark Academia 🏫 Boarding School 💕 Sapphic Relationship ☠️ Toxic Relationship 🎭 Female Manipulator

A Lesson in Vengeance

At Dalloway, a grieving Felicity is pulled into a charismatic new student's occult reenactments.

بقلم Victoria Lee 2021 369 صفحة

3.51

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🖤 Dark Academia 🏫 Boarding School 💕 Sapphic Relationship ☠️ Toxic Relationship 🎭 Female Manipulator

Mercure

بقلم Amélie Nothomb • 1998

On a mirrorless island, a nurse questions why her patient has never seen her own face.

3.70

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🖤 Gothic Suspense 🔍 Gaslighting Control 🔒 Psychological Captivity 🏝️ Isolated Island 😰 Claustrophobic

Mercure

On a mirrorless island, a nurse questions why her patient has never seen her own face.

بقلم Amélie Nothomb 1998 188 صفحة

3.70

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🖤 Gothic Suspense 🔍 Gaslighting Control 🔒 Psychological Captivity 🏝️ Isolated Island 😰 Claustrophobic

سحر الدم

بقلم تيسا غراتون • 2011

Her dead father's spell book teaches Silla to cast with blood. An immortal witch hunts her.

3.65

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🩸 Sacrificial Magic 👻 Body Possession 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🪦 Graveyard Magic 📜 Inherited Magic

سحر الدم

Her dead father's spell book teaches Silla to cast with blood. An immortal witch hunts her.

بقلم تيسا غراتون 2011 405 صفحة

3.65

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🩸 Sacrificial Magic 👻 Body Possession 🏚️ Gothic Atmosphere 🪦 Graveyard Magic 📜 Inherited Magic

جوناثان سترينج والسيد نوريل

بقلم سوزانا كلارك • 2006

Two rival magicians revive English magic while a fae lord's bargain entraps those they love.

3.88

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🎩 Magical Regency ⚔️ Rival Magicians 🧚 Faerie Bargain 🚫 Forbidden Magic 🌫️ Atmospheric And Eerie

جوناثان سترينج والسيد نوريل

Two rival magicians revive English magic while a fae lord's bargain entraps those they love.

بقلم سوزانا كلارك 2006 1006 صفحة

3.88

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🎩 Magical Regency ⚔️ Rival Magicians 🧚 Faerie Bargain 🚫 Forbidden Magic 🌫️ Atmospheric And Eerie

The Hollow

بقلم Jessica Verday • 2009

After her best friend drowns in Sleepy Hollow, her only comfort is a ghost who cannot love.

3.74

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👻 Ghost Boyfriend 🌫️ Small Town Gothic 🖤 Grieving A Friend 📖 Best Friend's Secret 🍂 Autumnal Atmosphere

The Hollow

After her best friend drowns in Sleepy Hollow, her only comfort is a ghost who cannot love.

بقلم Jessica Verday 2009 544 صفحة

3.74

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👻 Ghost Boyfriend 🌫️ Small Town Gothic 🖤 Grieving A Friend 📖 Best Friend's Secret 🍂 Autumnal Atmosphere

Benito Cereno

بقلم Herman Melville • 2006

An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.

3.53

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🛳️ Maritime Gothic ⛓️ Slave Revolt 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Captor Captive Bond 🌫️ Creeping Dread

Benito Cereno

An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.

بقلم Herman Melville 2006 160 صفحة

3.53

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🛳️ Maritime Gothic ⛓️ Slave Revolt 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Captor Captive Bond 🌫️ Creeping Dread

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

بقلم Nghi Vo • 2020

A servant kept an empress's secrets for decades. A traveling cleric finally gets her to speak.

3.90

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🏯 Quiet Fantasy 📖 Story Within A Story 🏮 Asian-Inspired Fantasy 📜 Hidden Histories 👑 Behind The Throne

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

A servant kept an empress's secrets for decades. A traveling cleric finally gets her to speak.

بقلم Nghi Vo 2020 119 صفحة

3.90

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🏯 Quiet Fantasy 📖 Story Within A Story 🏮 Asian-Inspired Fantasy 📜 Hidden Histories 👑 Behind The Throne

Relic

بقلم Douglas Preston • 1995

Beneath a New York museum, a creature surgically removes brains. The gala opens tonight.

4.05

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🦎 Creature Feature 🧬 Science Horror 📋 Institutional Cover-Up 🌿 Lost Expedition 🏛️ Museum Labyrinth

Relic

Beneath a New York museum, a creature surgically removes brains. The gala opens tonight.

بقلم Douglas Preston 1995 480 صفحة

4.05

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🦎 Creature Feature 🧬 Science Horror 📋 Institutional Cover-Up 🌿 Lost Expedition 🏛️ Museum Labyrinth

Mirror Girls

بقلم Kelly McWilliams • 2022

Biracial twins raised apart reunite in Georgia to break a curse that stole one sister's reflection.

3.95

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌾 Jim Crow South 👯 Separated Twins 🎭 Passing As White 👻 Ancestral Ghosts

Mirror Girls

Biracial twins raised apart reunite in Georgia to break a curse that stole one sister's reflection.

بقلم Kelly McWilliams 2022 320 صفحة

3.95

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌾 Jim Crow South 👯 Separated Twins 🎭 Passing As White 👻 Ancestral Ghosts

مطاردة جاك السفاح

بقلم كيري مانيسكالكو • 2016

In Victorian London, a forensic student hunts the Ripper, and the evidence points to her family.

3.92

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🔎 Forensic Investigation 🕰️ Victorian Gothic Mystery 🤝 Unlikely Duo 🔐 Family Secrets 🧪 Macabre Experiments

مطاردة جاك السفاح

In Victorian London, a forensic student hunts the Ripper, and the evidence points to her family.

بقلم كيري مانيسكالكو 2016 337 صفحة

3.92

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🔎 Forensic Investigation 🕰️ Victorian Gothic Mystery 🤝 Unlikely Duo 🔐 Family Secrets 🧪 Macabre Experiments

Villette

بقلم Charlotte Brontë • 1853

A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.

3.78

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🖤 Psychological Gothic 🏫 Boarding School Setting 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 😶 Repressed Protagonist 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Villette

A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.

بقلم Charlotte Brontë 1853 573 صفحة

3.78

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🖤 Psychological Gothic 🏫 Boarding School Setting 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 😶 Repressed Protagonist 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

لطالما عشنا في القلعة

بقلم شيرلي جاكسون • 1962

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

3.91

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🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 👭 Devoted Sisters 🏠 Isolated Mansion

لطالما عشنا في القلعة

After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.

بقلم شيرلي جاكسون 1962 152 صفحة

3.91

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🏚️ American Gothic 🧠 Psychological Horror 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 👭 Devoted Sisters 🏠 Isolated Mansion

The Dead Husband Cookbook

بقلم Danielle Valentine • 2025

A disgraced editor at a remote farmhouse uncovers the dark recipe behind a famous widow's memoir.

3.82

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🍖 Culinary Horror 🏚️ Modern Gothic 📖 Unreliable Memoirist 🏡 Rural Isolation 🕸️ Family Conspiracy

The Dead Husband Cookbook

A disgraced editor at a remote farmhouse uncovers the dark recipe behind a famous widow's memoir.

بقلم Danielle Valentine 2025 352 صفحة

3.82

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🍖 Culinary Horror 🏚️ Modern Gothic 📖 Unreliable Memoirist 🏡 Rural Isolation 🕸️ Family Conspiracy

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

بقلم Holly Black • 2013

One girl alive, her ex infected, a vampire chained. Only one road: the quarantined vampire city.

3.83

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🧛 Vampire Quarantine 🖤 Reluctant Monster Ally 💀 Immortal Love Interest 🩸 De-Glamorized Vampires 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

One girl alive, her ex infected, a vampire chained. Only one road: the quarantined vampire city.

بقلم Holly Black 2013 419 صفحة

3.83

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🧛 Vampire Quarantine 🖤 Reluctant Monster Ally 💀 Immortal Love Interest 🩸 De-Glamorized Vampires 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Vathek

بقلم William Beckford • 1786

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

3.23

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🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

Vathek

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

بقلم William Beckford 1786 180 صفحة

3.23

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🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

بقلم Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé • 2024

Her first night at a gothic boarding school, her roommate vanishes. A secret society knows why.

3.96

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🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🕯️ Secret Society 💕 Sapphic Undertones 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

Her first night at a gothic boarding school, her roommate vanishes. A secret society knows why.

بقلم Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 2024 416 صفحة

3.96

٢٣٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🕯️ Secret Society 💕 Sapphic Undertones 🖤 Toxic Friendship 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

The Exorcism of Faeries

بقلم J.L. Vampa • 2025

A mortician discovers a flower in a corpse and joins masked anatomists fighting a faerie plague.

3.94

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🕯️ Dark Academia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Gothic Romance 🧚‍♀️ Faerie Mythology 🗝️ Secret Societies

The Exorcism of Faeries

A mortician discovers a flower in a corpse and joins masked anatomists fighting a faerie plague.

بقلم J.L. Vampa 2025 418 صفحة

3.94

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🕯️ Dark Academia 💘 Enemies To Lovers 🖤 Gothic Romance 🧚‍♀️ Faerie Mythology 🗝️ Secret Societies

Nevernight

بقلم Jay Kristoff • 2016

A shadow-wielding girl enters an assassin school to kill the men who executed her father.

4.22

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🗡️ Assassin Academy 🩸 Revenge Quest 🌑 Shadow Magic ⚔️ Morally Gray Heroine 🎭 Sardonic Narrator

Nevernight

A shadow-wielding girl enters an assassin school to kill the men who executed her father.

بقلم Jay Kristoff 2016 427 صفحة

4.22

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🗡️ Assassin Academy 🩸 Revenge Quest 🌑 Shadow Magic ⚔️ Morally Gray Heroine 🎭 Sardonic Narrator

بيغ سويس

بقلم جين بيغين • 2023

A transcriptionist falls for a client's voice, meets her at the dog park, and gives a fake name.

3.68

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🛋️ Therapy Fiction 🤫 Secret Queer Affair 🎭 Identity Concealment 🤪 Unhinged Narrator 🏚️ Modern Gothic

بيغ سويس

A transcriptionist falls for a client's voice, meets her at the dog park, and gives a fake name.

بقلم جين بيغين 2023 336 صفحة

3.68

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🛋️ Therapy Fiction 🤫 Secret Queer Affair 🎭 Identity Concealment 🤪 Unhinged Narrator 🏚️ Modern Gothic

كتاب القضايا الباردة

بقلم سيمون سانت جيمس • 2022

A true crime blogger interviews an heiress acquitted of murder. Her mansion has never been empty.

3.78

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🎙️ True Crime Blogger 🏚️ Haunted Mansion ❄️ Cold Case Mystery 😶 Ambiguous Guilt 🗝️ Deadly Family Secrets

كتاب القضايا الباردة

A true crime blogger interviews an heiress acquitted of murder. Her mansion has never been empty.

بقلم سيمون سانت جيمس 2022 344 صفحة

3.78

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🎙️ True Crime Blogger 🏚️ Haunted Mansion ❄️ Cold Case Mystery 😶 Ambiguous Guilt 🗝️ Deadly Family Secrets

Bone Island

بقلم Nicole Fiorina • 2023

Pledged to another, a seamstress falls for the outcast whose face kills, waking deadly shadows.

4.28

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🖤 Gothic Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔮 Fated Mates 🩸 Cursed Hero 💍 Arranged Marriage

Bone Island

Pledged to another, a seamstress falls for the outcast whose face kills, waking deadly shadows.

بقلم Nicole Fiorina 2023 680 صفحة

4.28

٤٬٠٠٠+ تقييم

🖤 Gothic Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🔮 Fated Mates 🩸 Cursed Hero 💍 Arranged Marriage

The Underneath

بقلم Kathi Appelt • 2008

A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.

3.99

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🐾 Animal Point Of View 🌿 Southern Gothic 🐕 Animal Found Family 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 🐊 Ancient Curse

The Underneath

A calico cat, a chained hound, and their hidden kittens, as an ancient snake spirit stirs.

بقلم Kathi Appelt 2008 313 صفحة

3.99

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🐾 Animal Point Of View 🌿 Southern Gothic 🐕 Animal Found Family 💔 Maternal Sacrifice 🐊 Ancient Curse

Vampire Kisses

بقلم Ellen Schreiber • 2003

A goth outsider and a vampire-rumored boy find dark love in a small town.

3.75

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🧛 Vampire Romance 🏘️ Gothic Small Town 🎒 High School Outcast 🏚️ Mansion Mystery 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Vampire Kisses

A goth outsider and a vampire-rumored boy find dark love in a small town.

بقلم Ellen Schreiber 2003 253 صفحة

3.75

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🧛 Vampire Romance 🏘️ Gothic Small Town 🎒 High School Outcast 🏚️ Mansion Mystery 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

الأكاديمية الصارمة

بقلم ليموني سنيكت • 2000

Three orphans at a grim school find their nemesis disguised as a coach, running them ragged.

4.01

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🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🎭 Villain In Disguise 👥 Orphan Protagonists 🧑‍🦯 Incompetent Adults 🖤 Darkly Comic

الأكاديمية الصارمة

Three orphans at a grim school find their nemesis disguised as a coach, running them ragged.

بقلم ليموني سنيكت 2000 221 صفحة

4.01

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🏫 Boarding School Mystery 🎭 Villain In Disguise 👥 Orphan Protagonists 🧑‍🦯 Incompetent Adults 🖤 Darkly Comic

Things We Lost in the Fire

بقلم Mariana Enriquez • 2016

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

4.03

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📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 🔥 Women's Rage 👧 Girlhood And Danger

Things We Lost in the Fire

Argentine gothic tales: women set themselves ablaze, children vanish, and the dead surface.

بقلم Mariana Enriquez 2016 192 صفحة

4.03

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📖 Literary Horror 🏚️ Latin American Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 🔥 Women's Rage 👧 Girlhood And Danger

قضية الدكتور جيكل والسيد هايد الغريبة وقصص رعب أخرى

بقلم روبرت لويس ستيفنسون • 1886

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

3.91

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🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

قضية الدكتور جيكل والسيد هايد الغريبة وقصص رعب أخرى

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

بقلم روبرت لويس ستيفنسون 1886 224 صفحة

3.91

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🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

Faust, First Part

بقلم Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

3.83

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📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

Faust, First Part

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

بقلم Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808 327 صفحة

3.83

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📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

The Bone Houses

بقلم Emily Lloyd-Jones • 2019

When the dead rise, a gravedigger and a mapmaker journey into cursed mountains to break a spell.

3.99

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Folklore Fantasy ⚰️ Gravedigger Heroine 💀 Curse Of Resurrection 🌫️ Atmospheric Folk Horror 🕊️ Letting Go Of The Dead

The Bone Houses

When the dead rise, a gravedigger and a mapmaker journey into cursed mountains to break a spell.

بقلم Emily Lloyd-Jones 2019 335 صفحة

3.99

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Folklore Fantasy ⚰️ Gravedigger Heroine 💀 Curse Of Resurrection 🌫️ Atmospheric Folk Horror 🕊️ Letting Go Of The Dead

The Sun Down Motel

بقلم Simone St. James • 2020

A haunted motel swallowed her aunt. She takes the night shift, and the ghosts know why.

3.99

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🕯️ Supernatural Mystery 🚺 Feminist Horror 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 📋 Unsolved Disappearance

The Sun Down Motel

A haunted motel swallowed her aunt. She takes the night shift, and the ghosts know why.

بقلم Simone St. James 2020 327 صفحة

3.99

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🕯️ Supernatural Mystery 🚺 Feminist Horror 🕰️ Dual Timeline 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 📋 Unsolved Disappearance

شبح الأوبرا

بقلم غاستون لورو • 1910

At the Paris Opera, a phantom’s love turns deadly when his protégée falls for a vicomte.

3.96

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🖤 Gothic Romance 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 💘 Obsessive Love 🎵 Secret Mentor 🗼 Belle éPoque Paris

شبح الأوبرا

At the Paris Opera, a phantom’s love turns deadly when his protégée falls for a vicomte.

بقلم غاستون لورو 1910 360 صفحة

3.96

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🖤 Gothic Romance 🌹 Beauty And The Beast 💘 Obsessive Love 🎵 Secret Mentor 🗼 Belle éPoque Paris

Burn Down, Rise Up

بقلم Vincent Tirado • 2022

Mother in a coma, friend missing: a Bronx teen enters a subway game where history kills.

3.72

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👻 Deadly Urban Legend 🚇 Supernatural Subway 🖤 Creeping Dread 💕 Friends To Lovers 📜 Historical Trauma

Burn Down, Rise Up

Mother in a coma, friend missing: a Bronx teen enters a subway game where history kills.

بقلم Vincent Tirado 2022 352 صفحة

3.72

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👻 Deadly Urban Legend 🚇 Supernatural Subway 🖤 Creeping Dread 💕 Friends To Lovers 📜 Historical Trauma

The Black Phone

بقلم Joe Hill • 2005

Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.

3.89

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🖤 Literary Horror 📚 Short Story Collection 👻 Haunted By The Past 🌧️ Melancholy Horror 🧸 Childhood Innocence Lost

The Black Phone

Ghosts, killers, and an inflatable boy: fifteen literary horror stories about what will not let go.

بقلم Joe Hill 2005 316 صفحة

3.89

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🖤 Literary Horror 📚 Short Story Collection 👻 Haunted By The Past 🌧️ Melancholy Horror 🧸 Childhood Innocence Lost

ورق الجدران الأصفر وقصص أخرى

بقلم شارلوت بيركنز غيلمان • 1892

A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.

4.07

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🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Domestic Gothic 🖤 Psychological Horror 🔒 Forced Isolation 🕯️ Gaslighting

ورق الجدران الأصفر وقصص أخرى

A husband orders rest. The nursery's yellow wallpaper hides a crawling woman.

بقلم شارلوت بيركنز غيلمان 1892 129 صفحة

4.07

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🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Domestic Gothic 🖤 Psychological Horror 🔒 Forced Isolation 🕯️ Gaslighting

أمير الآلة

بقلم كاساندرا كلير • 2011

Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.

4.42

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🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle 🖤 Cursed Hero ⚔️ Bonded Warriors

أمير الآلة

Between a cursed Shadowhunter and a dying one, a Victorian shape-shifter's heart has no safe harbor.

بقلم كاساندرا كلير 2011 498 صفحة

4.42

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🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 🏙️ Victorian London 💔 Love Triangle 🖤 Cursed Hero ⚔️ Bonded Warriors

Our Share of Night

بقلم Mariana Enriquez • 2019

A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.

4.25

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🕯️ Occult Secret Society 🕸️ Gothic Family Curse 👻 Mediums And Spirits 🇦🇷 Argentine Dictatorship 🩸 Generational Trauma

Our Share of Night

A death cult pursues a father and his psychic son across Argentina for the boy's body.

بقلم Mariana Enriquez 2019 588 صفحة

4.25

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🕯️ Occult Secret Society 🕸️ Gothic Family Curse 👻 Mediums And Spirits 🇦🇷 Argentine Dictatorship 🩸 Generational Trauma

Mrs. March

بقلم Virginia Feito • 2021

Told she inspired her husband's cruel new character, a Manhattan wife sinks into paranoid dread.

3.25

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🏠 Domestic Noir 🧠 Psychological Suspense 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💊 Woman On The Edge 💔 Deteriorating Marriage

Mrs. March

Told she inspired her husband's cruel new character, a Manhattan wife sinks into paranoid dread.

بقلم Virginia Feito 2021 304 صفحة

3.25

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🏠 Domestic Noir 🧠 Psychological Suspense 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💊 Woman On The Edge 💔 Deteriorating Marriage

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