Horror & Gothic

A miser learns he is the villain of his own life after a series of supernatural home invasions.

A student builds a giant from old parts, abandons it, and spends the rest of his life being stalked by it.

A solicitor visits a client in the mountains, only to find the client has teeth.

A doctor creates a chemical shortcut to immorality and finds the commute is impossible to stop.

A young socialite stays perpetually beautiful while his oil portrait pays for his sins in wrinkles and rot.

A foundling spends two generations dismantling two families to avenge a broken heart and a lost social standing.

A girl gets invited to an old manor and promptly assumes everyone is a serial killer.

A celebrated monk breaks every vow for a demon in disguise, leading to a family reunion in the catacombs.

The Opera House has a phantom, a basement lake, and an employee who refuses to retire.

A traveling salesman transforms into a giant insect, and his family is mostly just annoyed by his poor work attendance.

A charming sociopath treats Europe like an all-you-can-steal buffet until he runs out of luck.

An orphan girl inherits a castle and a guardian who treats hospitality like a hostage negotiation.

A governess protects two beautiful children from ghosts only she can see, until her protection becomes their greatest danger.

A stranger moves in, refuses to leave, and treats the host like a midnight buffet.

A giant helmet crushes the heir, and the lord decides the best solution is marrying the fiancée.

An old friend visits a crumbling estate where the architecture is as unstable as the family’s sanity.

An antiquarian’s curiosity proves hazardous as long-dead monks, cursed ash trees, and forgotten whistles unleash specific, physical, and very angry spirits.

A bank clerk is arrested for a crime no one will name. He decides to argue.

An ancestral curse requires blood to drink, but the Pyncheons settle for selling ginger-beer instead.

A collection of sleuths, secrets, and enough missing pages to fill a police report.

A man receives divine orders to kill his family. His neighbors call it madness.

A law student, a secretary, and several medical students encounter spectral visitors in isolated cabins and drafty city rentals.

A doctor prescribes rest for his wife. She decides to dismantle the architecture instead.

A stage play turns its readers into walking disasters. The city is just collateral damage.

An invisible predator stalks the wilderness, but the jury is only interested in your sanity.

A Fleet Street barber offers a very close shave while his neighbor sells the most popular, mysterious pies in London.

A century of tragedy in a cellar, until the narrator brings a carboy of acid.

A director tracks a missing woman to a jungle clinic where fertility meets a terrifying, proprietary agenda.

A boy grows fast, hides his twin in the attic, and everything goes wrong.

From murderous cats to phantom toes, twenty-five accounts of the supernatural range from the psychological to the suspiciously culinary.

A man inherits a box of clippings and discovers the stars are finally aligning for a giant, gelatinous apocalypse.

A man lures his enemy into a wine cellar. The enemy never leaves.

A scientific expedition to Antarctica discovers that the continent’s original inhabitants are not extinct, just very, very irritable.

A drawing teacher meets a woman in white at midnight, triggering a frantic, multi-witness conspiracy.

A doctor performs brain surgery to grant a glimpse of reality. Reality refuses to be polite.

A surgeon ruins his life for a lady, a train vanishes without tracks, and the sky is full of jelly.

Two vagabonds claim a kingdom, a traveler finds a village of the dead, and the colonial heat breeds restless ghosts.

A man's garden contains a pit of pig-men and a doorway to the end of time.

A Confederate sympathizer stands on a gallows, dreaming of a narrow escape while the rope is already tightening.

A wealthy orphan travels with a dead-eyed lord who dies in Greece and returns to London to marry his sister.

An old soldier brings a mummified paw to tea, turning a modest mortgage payment into a domestic horror story.

A man wanders his garden, stares at his reflection, and finds ghosts in the furniture.

A prince attempts to outrun a fatal pandemic by welding his doors shut and throwing a very expensive party.

Professional men encounter things that shouldn't exist, and things that certainly do.

A murderer mocks the law, a chess player faces a ghostly rival, and the dead refuse to remain quiet at evening.

A man returns to a rotting village to save his partner from a basement-dwelling horror.

A young doctor takes a quiet summer job only to find a missing predecessor and a creature with steel claws.

An artist moves to the California coast only to discover the local marine life wants his body and his soul.