Modern Gothic Reads for Adults

Updated February 13, 2024
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The au pair
Rous, Emma
Paper Book
***COSMOPOLITAN 'BOOKS OF 2019 TO BRING TO YOUR BOOKCLUB'*** ***NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** 'Entrancing, compelling, atmospheric, reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier. A beautiful read...
Black Rabbit Hall
Chase, Eve
Paper Book
A secret history. A long-ago summer. A house with an untold story . . . THE SPELLBINDING MYSTERY FROM THE WINTER 2020 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING RICHARD & JUDY PICK, THE GLASS HOUSE 'Completely swept me away. Glorious, beautifully...
Catherine House a novel
Thomas, Elisabeth (Novelist)
Paper Book
'A delicious, diverse, genre-bending gothic, as smart as it is spooky' Chloe Benjamin During your three years at Catherine House you will have no contact with those in the outside world. Each of our students has been selected...
The death of Jane Lawrence
Starling, Caitlin
Paper Book
From the Bram Stoker-nominated author, Ninth House meets Mexican Gothic in this a gothic fantasy horror. Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the...
The death of Mrs. Westaway
Ware, Ruth
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' AJ FINN, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW 'If you're an...
The hollow ones
Toro, Guillermo del
Paper Book
Like a Jack Reacher crime thriller... with a Van Helsing-style demon hunter - The Guardian From the Oscar-winning director of Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, and Hellboy, and the authors of The Strain comes a new paranormal...
House of Hunger
Henderson, Alexis
Paper Book
NOMINATED FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL in the GOODREADS READERS CHOICE AWARDS... 'A lurid, luscious debauch of a book.' Guardian 'An unforgettable feast of decadence and depravity, House of Hunger cements Henderson's place as one of the great gothic writers...
The little stranger
Waters, Sarah
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . . . gripping, confident, unnerving and...
The lost ones
Frank, Anita
Paper Book
Some houses are NEVER at peace... SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN 'A gothic gem of intrigue and atmosphere' HWA Debut Crown Judges ...
Melmoth : a novel
Perry, Sarah
Paper Book
Mexican gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
'You don't read this book so much as surrender to it. A dark and heady swoon' - Guardian He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin...
Mrs. England
Halls, Stacey
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls' most compelling and ambitious novel to date.
Our Wives under the Sea: A Novel
Armfield, Julia
Paper Book
'Part bruisingly tender love story, part nerve-clanging submarine thriller . . . heart-slicing, cinematic.' - The Times Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back...
The secret of Crickley Hall
Herbert, James
Paper Book
The Secret of Crickley Hall is James Herbert's number one bestseller. It explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation - one that...
The seven deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Turton, Stuart.
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG NOVEL AWARD 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018A brilliantly original high concept murder mystery from a fantastic new talent: Gosford Park...
Sisters
Johnson, Daisy
Paper Book
'Daisy Johnson is the demon offspring of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King' OBSERVER 'Exhilarating ... Masterful' EVENING STANDARD 'A book less likely to chew you up than screw you up' THE TIMES 'A tour-de-force' GUARDIAN 'A...
Things in jars
Kidd, Jess
Paper Book
The gripping new novel, set in crime-fuelled Victorian London, from Costa Award-winner and twice BBC Radio 2 Book Club author Jess Kidd.
The thirteenth tale
Setterfield, Diane
Paper Book
When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and...
The turn of the key
Ware, Ruth
Paper Book
IT WAS THE DREAM JOB. IT WOULD BECOME HER WORST NIGHTMARE. 'So clever and original . . . from the first gripping page to the last shocking twist' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said 'Ruth Ware just gets better and better. The Turn of the Key...
White Is for Witching
Oyeyemi, Helen
Paper Book
In a vast, mysterious house on the cliffs near Dover, the Silver family is reeling from the hole punched into its heart. Lily is gone and her twins, Miranda and Eliot, and her husband, the gentle Luc, mourn her absence with unspoken intensity. All is not well with the house, either, which creaks and...
The woman in the mirror
James, Rebecca
Paper Book
'A dark treat' Kate Riordan, author of The Stranger Haunting and moving, The Woman in the Mirror is a tale of obsession tinged with suspense, perfect for fans of Tracy Rees and Lulu Taylor. 'You'll be the woman of this house, next, miss. And you'll like it.' 1947 ...

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