Carmilla

“To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations—sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door.” I...

Deadheading and other stories

From the brokenhearted to the afflicted, the women in these often macabre stories fight like hell to find their voices and survive the darkness inherent in the modern South.

Ether

A God whose powers are reduced to petty acts of destruction attempts to reclaim his lost seat in the heavens.

Fifteen wild decembers

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 A SUNDAY TIMES’ BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023 Isolated from society, Emily Brontë and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to...

Frankenstein

Unleash the Monster Within with Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinStep into the world of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a novel that has sparked debates, challenged beliefs, and captivated readers for centuries. Part of the Contested Classics series, this special edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is ...

Frankenstein

With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley’s paragon of horror vividly back to life—published to coincide with the two-hundredth anniversary of the infamous night of its creation.A towering mast...

Heart of darkness

Discover the Controversial Classic That Dares to Confront the Darkest Depths of HumanityDive into the haunting world of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, a novel that has both captivated and challenged readers for generations. Often banned and fiercely debated, this literary masterpiece pulls no...

Horse latitudes

In the tradition of Joseph Conrad, Ethan, haunted by guilt in the wake of his wife’s tortured descent into madness, loses himself in a lawless and sensual world beyond the US’s southern border.

Let the dark flower blossom

An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anything—lie, steal, kill—to get the perfect story.

Medusa's daughters

The witchy women are Medusa’s daughters indeed—their gaze kills. But rather than sending heroes to slay them, the writers of this collection celebrate the deadliness of these femmes fatales. After a period of decline, Gothic literature underwent a revival at the end of the 1800s. As the century t...

Netsuke

A descent into the abyss of one troubled psychoanalyst’s practice.

Shadowplay

Set during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater ...

The iliac crest

A labyrinthine excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers, this Gothic novel illustrates how gendered language can wield destructive power.

The lost country

"A wonder of Southern Gothic storytelling." --Southern Living (Best Southern Books of 2018) Southern Independent Booksellers Pick, July 2018 Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking ho...

The port-wine stain

A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story.In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sw...

The possessed

From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translation Witold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, ...

The rise & fall of the scandamerican domestic

Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life.In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. ...

The salt fields

On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanati...

The snow collectors

Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she’s plunged into the mystery of a centuries-old letter regarding one of the most famou...

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