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  The Door in Penrose Forest - A...

  Sean David Robinson

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  As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a research trip to investigate a stalled migration of monarch butterflies. One night, upon hearing her sneak out of their rented cabin, he followed her to a clearing in the forest where a famed mansion once stood. Paralyzed with fear, he watched his mother climb a staircase and vanish, along with the stairs and the strange glowing door at its peak. No one believed his story, and as he grew older, he too stopped believing it was real.As an adult, Nico returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father. But something strange is happening to the town. There are unexplained power fluctuations, people are going missing, and, reportedly, phantoms are roaming the woods. When Nico finds his mother's field journal from the week she disappeared, including her account of the vanishing staircase, he begins to pick apart the mystery. All the tangled strings trail back to the same starting point: the gilded age family whose mansion burned down under mysterious circumstances in those very same woods where his mother vanished.Equally a compelling mystery and a moving story of family and destiny, this speculative novel will spellbind readers of Emily St. John Mandel and Susanna Clarke.

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  Can Such Things Be? - Delve into...

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Are the dead truly at rest, or do they walk among us when the sun goes down?
   
  From the fog-drenched graveyards of the eerie frontier to dimly lit parlors where machines learn to think and kill, Can Such Things Be? immerses listeners in a relentless atmosphere of dread. This collection pulls you through harrowing encounters: a poet stranded in a haunted wood stalked by a soul-less corpse, a chess-playing automaton driven by an unfathomable rage, and isolated soldiers trapped not by enemy fire, but by the paralyzing gaze of the supernatural. The stakes are nothing less than one’s sanity and soul.
   
  Why you will love this audiobook:If you are a fan of classic Horror / Supernatural Fiction, this collection delivers unparalleled gothic suspense and macabre chills. Infused with themes of psychological terror, ghostly vengeance, and grim irony, these weird tales laid the very foundation for modern horror. Listeners who devour dark fantasy, ghostly anthologies, and eerie suspense will find themselves completely captivated by the twisted endings and masterful, poetic prose that define Bierce's legendary style.
   
  About the Author:Ambrose Bierce was a 19th-century master of the macabre, often standing shoulder to shoulder with Edgar Allan Poe. Known as "Bitter Bierce" for his sardonic wit and psychological depth, his mysterious disappearance in Mexico in 1913 remains as puzzling and legendary as the dark fiction he left behind.

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  Thornby Manor - The spellbinding...

  Stephanie Bramwell-Lawes

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  Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors … Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril – a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not forget…
  'With echoes of many gothic romances, Thornby Manor nonetheless has its own take on the genre … a compelling tale' Sunday Times
  'Gloriously and traditionally gothic, rich in mist, rattling windowpanes, hidden missives and feverish dreams … an addictive Victorian mystery' Joanna Miller
  'A gripping gothic tale, simmering with menace' A.J. West
  'Oozing with menace, this intoxicating mystery reveals just how dangerous it was to be a woman in a time when her every move could be turned against her' Heat magazine Book of the Week
  'Fuses the brooding sense of menace of a Brontë novel with the twisty notes of a suspense thriller. A deliciously absorbing gothic mystery' Vaseem Khan
  'Atmospheric and accomplished … steeped in the gothic tradition of mystery and grief' Essie Fox
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  There – suddenly – was Thornby Manor.
  I would never forget the first time I saw it…
  A talisman of darkness, an emblem of death.
  Warwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets – not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.
  As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.
  Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.
  A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions
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  '[An] enthralling gothic debut … beautifully written, brimming with tension and full or intriguing, morally grey characters. A wonderfully dark historical mystery that kept me reading until 1am!' Caroline Lea
  'Gothic fiction has a new star' Annie Garthwaite
  'Dark, deliciously unsettling … A spellbinding, emotionally intense, intelligent tale dripping with betrayal and obsession' Barbara Havelocke
  'Darkly dramatic, delicious fun. If you love a gothic novel full of secrets to be unpacked this is one for you …' Liz Hyder

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  The Death Pit - A tale of...

  Oscar Schisgall

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  Incredibly prolific author Oscar Schisgall, who contributed over 4,000 stories to publications like Reader's Digest and Colliers, published this thrilling story in Weird Tales magazine, "The Death Pit" ("a novelette of grim tragedy") in November of 1923.  Enjoy this macabre tale which is sure to bring tingles to the spine! 

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  What the Silence Keeps - The...

  Vesper Hale

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  WHAT THE SILENCE KEEPSThe Silent Rule · Book One 
  Vesper Hale 
  When Verity was eleven, the charterhouse of Thornmere unsaid her mother. They erased her name, sealed her crime, and led her out a low iron door into a dark that had no weather in it. Verity they kept: a silenced ward, raised on logged kindnesses, taught that everything true in her is dangerous. For twelve years she has hidden the one inheritance the house's ledgers never found. Her mother's hand. 
  Now the house has a contract for her. Somewhere in the east keeping lies her mother's final work, a cipher no reader can carry above a line without cost, and Thornmere will trade Verity her freedom to render it fully and truly. But the gate to the work is one man. Caedmon, the Censor, exists to be read at by dangerous pages until nothing is left in him for a page to take hold of, and his word alone decides whether she reads at all. She has already heard his voice through a wall, low and exact, insisting it wants nothing. She has never believed a sentence less. 
  Line by line, her mother's script gives up its secret, and every granting comes due. A smiling confessor banks the truths that could ruin them both. A prior weighs a debt he can neither honor nor refuse. And when something crosses the killing ice to reach the archive, Verity understands what the house has spent twelve years making of her. Not free. Indispensable. On an island built entirely of hiding, the only two people who can truly read are the two who have stopped hiding from each other. 
  WHAT THE SILENCE KEEPS is Book One of The Silent Rule: a slow-burning gothic romance of language, power, and the debts the heart keeps in the dark. 
  For readers who love: gothic atmospherics · forced proximity · forbidden slow burns · a hollowed-out guardian who insists he wants nothing · a formidable heroine whose only weapon is her mind · mysteries that pay out across a trilogy. 
  Adult gothic romance (18+). Slow burn. Book one of a trilogy.

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  The Evil Offers a Blessed Gift

  Scare in a Box

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  The existence of demons is woven into the fabric of the natural world, serving a dark yet necessary purpose. They are the whispers in the dark that keep humanity in line. Yet in most cases, those who are hunted never see the demon before he is at their throat. 
  But there are sacred rules to the hunt. For each group targeted, one must survive. Marked by the demon and gifted with an amulet, they are immune to him and he is powerless to stop them. A single wound from them would be fatal. He is a monster to humanity, but these select humans are monsters to him. 
  Yet, a weakness from years past is haunting him. Despite years of successful hunts, as this hunt approaches—something is different. Is he still the hunter or has he become the hunted?

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