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Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to turn-of-the-century Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. When the clues she finds lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a postmortem photographer to gain access and assist grounds keeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken...
Author
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," raved poet W. H. Auden about this classic Victorian novel. Known as the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald was a Scottish minister who later turned to writing poetry and novels, gaining acclaim for his children's books and influencing J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Lilith is considered to be one of the most important visionary novels of the nineteenth century. Written in 1895, Lilith...
83) Bellefleur
Author
Series
Publisher
E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken...
Author
Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
New York Times–bestselling author Dorothy Eden brings Gilded Age New York and Victorian England to dazzling life in this romantic saga about an American heiress who defies society's expectations by refusing to live without love The daughter of one of New York City's brash new millionaires and an impoverished socialite, Christabel Spencer inherited both her father's passionate nature and her mother's beauty and breeding. An American debutante...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The author of The Woman in Black returns to the realm of supernatural hauntings in a tale.
When Oliver returns to Cambridge, he makes sure to pay a visit to his former professor, now retired and living in a small college apartment. Oliver can't help but notice a peculiar painting on the wall, a mysterious depiction of masked revelers at the Venice carnival. Yet in the foreground, there is an anachronistically modern figure.
On this cold winter's...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For history readers, travelers, and scholars alike, an indispensable behind-the-scenes guide to the great cathedrals of Paris from one of our leading scholars. Eminent French literature professor R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for his insider tours of Paris, given to college students abroad. Long sought after for his encyclopedic knowledge of French cathedrals, Bloch has at last decided to share his intimate knowledge with a wider audience....
89) Gothic art
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
90) Grange House
Author
Publisher
Picador USA
Language
English
Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels THE POSTMISTRESS and THE GUEST BOOK comes Sarah Blake's GRANGE HOUSE.
"Pleasing, intricate...[a] delightful book" -New York Times Book Review
Maisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange. In 1896, when Maisie turns 17, her visit marks a turning point. On the morning after her arrival, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery:...
91) The lost orphan
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl--and why....
Author
Series
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose nineteenth-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture When their sister is plucked from the shores of the Bloodsmoor River by an eerie black-silk hot air balloon that sails in through a clear blue sky, the lives of the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are terrible secrets from generations past buried at Maidenwood. Medical student Julie Newcomb has returned to her family's decaying plantation-the site of so many painful childhood memories-to tend to her tyrannical grandmother, felled by a stroke. The fire of malevolence still burns in the cruel, despotic matriarch's eyes-yet, for Julie, a faint spark of redemption and second chances flickers in this hated, haunted place. But her hope-and...
Author
Publisher
Folio Press
Pub. Date
1968
Language
English
Description
The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is a novel by Eliza Parsons. Employing themes common to the popular genre of Gothic fiction, Parsons crafts a chilling tale of murder and mystery that remains uniquely entertaining to this day. Referred to as a "horrid" novel in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, The Castle of Wolfenbach was recognized as a terrifying precursor to such classics as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), often considered the quintessential...
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 103
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
96) Pure
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to...
97) The Asylum
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After waking up in a small asylum in England with no memory of the past several weeks, Georgia Ferrars learns that her family believes she is an imposter.
Author
Language
English
Description
"What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn's writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal--stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own--Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage....
99) Millersburg
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Harry Cauley's third novel, Millersburg (Bridie and Finn and The Botticelli Angel preceding), might well be described as "New Jersey Gothic." It's set in 1939 in a small town in Northern New Jersey, narrated by Ben, a 17-year-old boy. He's part of a family ruled by Mamu, his tyrannical grandmother, and starts with a grisly double murder that eventually involves his family and changes the family dynamics forever as long-kept secrets begin to unravel....
100) The long home
Author
Language
English
Description
In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes...