29 Best Gothic, Fiction Books
Gothic, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Gothic, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Gothic, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Vow to Protect
- By: J. L. Beck
- Narrator: Meghan Kelly
- Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(1267 ratings)
4.05(1267 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThey call me a monster. Murderous and hateful. Beautiful but broken. Nothing can calm the ever-raging storm inside of me. As the ruthless leader of the Doubeck family, there is a certain standard of brutality I have to uphold. Then I meet her.They call me a monster. Murderous and hateful. Beautiful but broken. Nothing can calm the ever-raging storm inside of me. As the ruthless leader of the Doubeck family, there is a certain standard of brutality I have to uphold.
Then I meet her. Beautiful, innocent, and so very afraid. Valentina is a rival family’s daughter, and the little temptress has purposely tangled herself in my dark web. She seeks me out, needing my help, but the price for what she wants will be steep.
Since my father’s death, I’ve needed a wife to solidify my family name, and this woman has piqued my interest. So we strike a deal, intertwining our futures. I’ll put a ring on her finger, own her body, keep her safe, and kill them all.
I make a vow to protect her at all costs. That is until her secrets come to light, and I’m left with the choice of becoming the monster she’s only ever heard rumors about.
*This is a dark, arranged-marriage mafia romance. It contains dub-con/non-con as well as other scenes that may be triggering to some listeners.
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Blood Assassin
- By: Alexandra Ivy
- Narrator: Alexandra Ivy
- Length: 11 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 30, 2014
- Language: English
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4.03(1086 ratings)
4.03(1086 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThey are the outcasts of humanity. Blessed with power. Cursed by fate. Driven by passion. The Sentinels have returned. . . Out Of The Shadows At six-foot-three and two-hundred-fifty pounds, Fane is a natural born guardian. A flawless mix of muscledThey are the outcasts of humanity. Blessed with power. Cursed by fate. Driven by passion. The Sentinels have returned. . . Out Of The Shadows At six-foot-three and two-hundred-fifty pounds, Fane is a natural born guardian. A flawless mix of muscled perfection and steely precision, he has devoted years of his life to protecting a beautiful necromancer. But after she found love in the arms of another, Fane has been a warrior adrift. He swears allegiance only to the Sentinels. And no woman will ever rule his heart again. . . Into The Fire Not only a powerful psychic, Serra is that rare telepath who can connect to minds through objects. When the daughter of a high-blood businessman is kidnapped, Serra agrees to help. But when she stumbles onto a conspiracy involving secrets sects and ancient relics, her life is in mortal danger–and Fane is her only hope. Is the warrior willing to risk his body, his soul, and his heart, for Serra? Or will one last betrayal destroy them both? Praise for Born in Blood “Ivy’s fans will be invested in the development of romances introduced between supporting characters as well as further building of this conflicted universe.” –Publishers Weekly “An exciting and sizzling new paranormal romance series.” –RT Book Reviews
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Dracula
- By: Bram Stoker
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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4.01(1018927 ratings)
4.01(1018927 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.95 USDThis blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication. Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys toThis blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.
Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely unprepared for what he will discover in the days to come–and the horrifying chain of events sparked by his unsettling stay with the mysterious Count.
The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. He succeeds entirely in his aim to terrify. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious, unconquerable by strength of mind or virtuous action.
Van Helsing’s high-thinking and scientific skill cannot resist the dreadful potency of the undead. The high virtue of Lucy can simply be drained away, as her blood is drained away, until she too joins the vampire brood. Only the old magic–a crucifix, garlic, a wooden stake–can provide effective weapons against the Count’s appalling power.
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The Woman in White
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrator: Roger Rees
- Length: 25 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4(124994 ratings)
4(124994 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.95 USDWhen Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. Full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and surprise revelations,When Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified, beautiful woman dressed in white on a moonlit night in London, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. Full of secrets, locked rooms, lost memories, and surprise revelations, The Woman in White features heroine Marian Halcombe and drawing-master Walter Hartright as sleuthing partners pitted against the diabolical Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde.
This gothic psychological thriller, a mesmerizing tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity, has gripped the imaginations of readers since its first publication in 1860. The breathtaking tension of Collins’ narrative created a new literary genre of suspense fiction, which profoundly shaped the course of English popular writing.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrator: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 2 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDStark and skillfully woven, this fascinating novel is a brilliantly original study of man’s dual nature as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Dr. Jekyll, a generous and philanthropic physician, is preoccupied with the problem ofStark and skillfully woven, this fascinating novel is a brilliantly original study of man’s dual nature as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror.
Dr. Jekyll, a generous and philanthropic physician, is preoccupied with the problem of good and evil, and how to separate them. He develops a drug that will transform him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he can exhaust all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him to his respectable existence as Dr. Jekyll. Gradually, however, the unmitigated evil of his darker self begins to predominate.
This tale of the twisted, malevolent persona unleashed from a mild-mannered physician has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Dr. Jekyll’s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul—and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us.
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The Cherry Robbers
- By: Sarai Walker
- Narrator: January LaVoy
- Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: May 17, 2022
- Language: English
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4(2746 ratings)
4(2746 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USD“Sarai Walker has done it again.¬†With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.”¬†‚ÄîMaria Semple The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her ‚Äúslyly“Sarai Walker has done it again.¬†With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal.”¬†‚ÄîMaria Semple
The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her “slyly subversive” (EW) cult-hit Dietland—a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up.
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
INSTEAD IT WAS THE LAST.
Iris Chapel and her five elegant sisters, all of them heiresses to the Chapel firearms fortune, live cloistered in a lavish Victorian mansion. Neglected by both a distant, workaholic father and a mentally troubled mother—who believes their home is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons—the sisters have grown up with only each other for company. They long to escape the eerie fairy tale of their childhood and move forward into the modern world, but for young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is through marriage.
Yet it soon becomes clear that for the Chapel sisters, marriage equals death. 
When the eldest sister walks down the aisle, tragedy strikes. The bride dies mysteriously the very next day, leaving her family and the town in shock. But this is just the beginning of a chain of disasters that will make each woman wonder whether true love will kill her, too. Only Iris, the second-youngest, finds a way to escape—but can she outrun the family curse forever?
Sarai Walker, the acclaimed author of the cult-hit novel Dietland, building off the Gothic tradition of Shirley Jackson, brings to life this riveting, deliciously twisted feminist tale, a gorgeous and provocative page-turner about the legacy of male power and the cost of female freedom.
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Spinning the Moon
- By: Karen White
- Narrator: Karen White
- Length: 26 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 06, 2016
- Language: English
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4(1322 ratings)
4(1322 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDIn the Shadow of the Moon When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she’s overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman withIn the Shadow of the Moon When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she’s overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura’s face. Soon afterwards, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival. Whispers of Goodbye Alone and with nothing left to fear, Catherine deClaire Reed answers her sister’s desperate plea and travels to the cold comfort of her home in Reconstruction Louisiana. But Elizabeth is nowhere to be found. No one-including her husband-has seen her for days. Now, Catherine must search for her sister in a place where secrets wait behind every closed door…
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Amy Snow
- By: Tracy Rees
- Narrator: Melody Grove
- Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4(6459 ratings)
4(6459 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDWinner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally toWinner of the UK’s Richard & Judy Search for a Bestseller Competition, this page-turning debut novel follows an orphan whose late, beloved best friend bequeaths her a treasure hunt that leads her all over Victorian England and finally to the one secret her friend never shared.
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It is 1831 when eight-year-old Aurelia Vennaway finds a naked baby girl abandoned in the snow on the grounds of her aristocratic family’s magnificent mansion. Her parents are horrified that she has brought a bastard foundling into the house, but Aurelia convinces them to keep the baby, whom she names Amy Snow. Amy is brought up as a second-class citizen, despised by Vennaways, but she and Aurelia are as close as sisters. When Aurelia dies at the age of twenty-three, she leaves Amy ten pounds, and the Vennaways immediately banish Amy from their home.
But Aurelia left her much more. Amy soon receives a packet that contains a rich inheritance and a letter from Aurelia revealing she had kept secrets from Amy, secrets that she wants Amy to know. From the grave she sends Amy on a treasure hunt from one end of England to the other: a treasure hunt that only Amy can follow. Ultimately, a life-changing discovery awaits…if only Amy can unlock the secret. In the end, Amy escapes the Vennaways, finds true love, and learns her dearest friend’s secret, a secret that she will protect for the rest of her life.
An abandoned baby, a treasure hunt, a secret. As Amy sets forth on her quest, readers will be swept away by this engrossing gem of a novel–the wonderful debut by newcomer Tracy Rees. -
The Obsidian Chamber
- By: Douglas Preston
- Narrator: Rene Auberjonois
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2016
- Language: English
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3.98(9807 ratings)
3.98(9807 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.98 USDA TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCEAfter a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.A SHOCKING RETURNSick with grief, Pendergast’s ward, Constance, retreats toA TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE... Read more
After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead.
A SHOCKING RETURN
Sick with grief, Pendergast’s ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive–only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past.
AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT
Proctor, Pendergast’s longtime bodyguard, springs to action, chasing Constance’s kidnapper through cities, across oceans, and into wastelands unknown.
BUT IN A WORLD OF BLACK AND WHITE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.96(141192 ratings)
3.96(141192 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDShirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere. Six years after four family members diedShirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods–elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat–live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives–cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune–and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more–like some of her other fictions–as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself.
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The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant
- By: Kayte Nunn
- Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: March 03, 2020
- Language: English
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3.95(1932 ratings)
3.95(1932 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to anA cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert.
1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther’s prison but soon surprisingly becomes her refuge.
2018. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to take shelter on a far-flung island, she discovers a collection of hidden love letters. Captivated by their passion and tenderness, Rachel determines to track down the intended recipient. But she has no idea of the far-reaching consequences her decision will bring.
Meanwhile, in London, Eve is helping her grandmother, a renowned mountaineer, write her memoirs. When she is contacted by Rachel, it sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to reveal secrets kept buried for more than sixty years.
With an arresting dual narrative that immediately captivates the reader, The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant is an inspirational story of the sacrifices made for love.
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Fake Like Me
- By: Barbara Bourland
- Narrator: Xe Sands
- Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 18, 2019
- Language: English
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3.89(1120 ratings)
3.89(1120 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0025.98 USDFrom critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an “impressively intelligent thriller,” nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncoveringFrom critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an “impressively intelligent thriller,” nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29).
After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught — or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.
Taking up residence in Carey’s former studio, the painter works with obsessive, delirious focus. But when she begins to uncover strange secrets at Pine City and falls hard for Carey’s mysterious boyfriend, a single thought shadows her every move: What really happened to Carey Logan?
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The Hawkline Monster
- By: Richard Brautigan
- Narrator: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.86(4137 ratings)
3.86(4137 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDThe time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men. She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an abortedThe time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men.
She finds Cameron and Greer, two gunmen taking a timeout from the game after an aborted job in Hawaii.
Their violent past doesn’t concern Magic Child. She wants them to kill a monster for her, one she says lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline’s yellow house, and one she says has killed before.
But the more she tells them about the monster, the more her story unravels until it isn’t clear if the monster is even real, or if anything else is.
Richard Brautigan’s classic surrealist novel has inspired readers for decades with its wild, witty, and bizarre encounters with western-themed psychedelia.
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrator: Anthony Heald
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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3.85(424656 ratings)
3.85(424656 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThis special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, underThis special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of award-winning audio producer Yuri Rasovsky.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot creature and succeeds in animating him but, horrified by his visage, perceives his creation to be a monster and frightens him away. The monster, wandering in search of human companionship, is spurned and repulsed by all he approaches and learns to hate and to kill. He confronts his maker with a terrible choice: unless Frankenstein creates for him a mate, he will go on a rampage of destruction.
A subversive tale about the corrupt tendencies in humanity’s most “civilized” ambitions, this haunting thriller, the original science fiction novel, maintains its hold in the collective imagination centuries after its first publication.
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Frankenstein
- By: Mary Shelley
- Narrator: Kenneth Branagh
- Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 1994
- Language: English
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3.85(424643 ratings)
3.85(424643 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.95 USDA timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).A timeless,A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).
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A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life‚Äîand the monster that became his legacy.
This edition includes:
-A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
-A chronology of the author’s life and work
-A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context
-An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
-Detailed explanatory notes
-Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
-Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
-A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world’s finest books to their full potential. -
The Storycatcher
- By: Ann Hite
- Narrator: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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3.84(915 ratings)
3.84(915 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom the author of the “wonderfully crafted” (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a deadFrom the author of the “wonderfully crafted” (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a dead woman takes up residence in their home.
Shelly Parker, a sixteen-year-old servant who works for the tyrannical Pastor Dobbins and his family, has had the gift of sight for as long as she can remember. She’s grown accustomed to coexisting with the spirits of the dead who roam Black Mountain, telling Shelly their stories and warning her of the dangers that surround her. When the ghost of Arleen Brown, a poor woman who died on the mountain during childbirth five years earlier, begins to pursue Pastor’s daughter Faith–hell-bent on revealing a terrible secret that she took to her grave–Shelly is the only person that can help her. The two young women soon find themselves tangled up in a web of secrets and lies that takes them from Black Mountain to the murky saltwater marshes of Georgia, uncovering long-hidden truths that put their own lives in danger.
Atmospheric and infused with supernatural elements, Hite’s novel is a rich and wonderfully eerie tale that will stay with you long after the story ends.
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Lost among the Living
- By: Simone St. James
- Narrator: Justine Eyre
- Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.84(6605 ratings)
3.84(6605 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFor fans of historical fiction and gothic romance, an atmospheric ghost story from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders stillFor fans of historical fiction and gothic romance, an atmospheric ghost story from the award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare
England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex’s wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to Wych Elm House, the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband’s origins … and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths’ past is just the beginning. All is not well at Wych Elm House: Dottie’s husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls. Items in her bedroom are eerily rearranged. The locals say the family is cursed, and that a ghost in the woods has never rested. And when Jo discovers her husband’s darkest secrets, she wonders if she ever really knew him. Isolated in a place of deception and grief, she must find the truth or lose herself forever.
And then an eerily familiar stranger arrives at Wych Elm House …
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Born in Blood
- By: Alexandra Ivy
- Narrator: Alexandra Ivy
- Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: December 31, 2013
- Language: English
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3.84(2188 ratings)
3.84(2188 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDSergeant Duncan O’Conner has seen it all before. Beautiful erotic dancer murdered at home, no suspect, no motive. But there’s one clue: she’s missing her heart. It’s enough to make the hard-bitten Kansas City cop enlist theSergeant Duncan O’Conner has seen it all before. Beautiful erotic dancer murdered at home, no suspect, no motive. But there’s one clue: she’s missing her heart. It’s enough to make the hard-bitten Kansas City cop enlist the help of a necro – one of the dead-channeling freaks who live in the domed city of nearby Valhalla. It’s a long shot, but desperate crimes call for desperate measures. Unlike the other “high-bloods” in Valhalla, Callie Brown considers her abilities a gift, not a curse. But when she reads the dancer’s final thoughts, she senses a powerful presence blocking her vision. This is no ordinary homicide. This is the work of a legendary necromancer who controls souls. A ravenous force that will put Callie’s skills to the test, O’Conner’s career at risk, and both their hearts on the line…literally.
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The House of Ashes
- By: Stuart Neville
- Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 07, 2021
- Language: English
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3.83(1203 ratings)
3.83(1203 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Here, now, till I tell you …” Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows“Here, now, till I tell you …”
Sara Keane’s husband, Damien, has uprooted them from England and moved them to his native Northern Ireland for a “fresh start” in the wake of her nervous breakdown. Sara, who knows no one in Northern Ireland, is jobless, carless,
friendless–all but a prisoner in her own house. When a blood-soaked old woman beats on the door, insisting the house is hers before being bundled back to her care facility, Sara begins to understand the house has a terrible history her
husband never intended for her to discover. As the two women form a bond over their shared traumas, Sara finds the strength to stand up to her abuser, and Mary–silent for six decades–is finally ready to tell her story …Through the counterpoint voices–one modern Englishwoman, one Northern Irish farmgirl speaking from half a century earlier–Stuart Neville offers a chilling and gorgeous portrait of violence and resilience in this haunting narrative.
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The Haunting of Hill House
- By: Shirley Jackson
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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3.83(194403 ratings)
3.83(194403 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDNow a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits. Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion:Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton
Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.
Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a lonely, homeless girl well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the adventurous future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable noises and self-closing doors, but Hill House is gathering its powers and will soon choose one of them to make its own.
This classic horror novel has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror.
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The Body in the Ballroom
- By: R. J. Koreto
- Narrator: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.83(139 ratings)
3.83(139 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDPresident Teddy Roosevelt’s daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, hasPresident Teddy Roosevelt’s daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated.
Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin’s bullet to solve one murder. She never expected to have to sleuth another, but she’d never pass up the opportunity, either. Anything to stave off boredom.
And such an opportunity presents itself when Alice is invited to a lavish ball. The high-society guests are in high spirits as they imbibe the finest wines. But one man, detested by nearly all the partygoers, quaffs a decidedly deadlier cocktail. An African American mechanic, who also happens to be a good friend of former Rough Rider-turned-Secret Service Agent Joseph St. Clair, is suspected of the murder-by-poison, but Alice is sure he’s innocent and is back on the scene to clear his name.
From downtown betting parlors to uptown mansions, Alice and Agent St. Clair uncover forbidden romances and a financial deal that just might change the world. But neither Alice nor her would-be protector may survive the case at hand in The Body in the Ballroom, R. J. Koreto’s gripping second Alice Roosevelt mystery.
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Seeds of Yesterday
- By: V.C. Andrews
- Narrator: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.83(34411 ratings)
3.83(34411 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDNow a major Lifetime movie event–Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic–the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.TheyNow a major Lifetime movie event–Book Four of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic–the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.
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They escaped their mother’s hellish trap years ago, but a cruel history of lies and deceit has come full circle…
The forbidden love that blossomed when Cathy and Christopher were held captive in Foxworth Hall is one the Dollanganger family’s darkest secrets. Now, with three grown children and even a new last name, the pair seem to have outlived a twisted legacy. But on their son Bart’s twenty-fifth birthday, when the spiteful and disturbed young man claims his rightful inheritance, the full, shattering truth of their tainted past will be revealed at Foxworth Hall–the place where the nightmare began, and where Christopher and Cathy were once just innocent flowers in the attic… -
Wylding Hall
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrator: Jennifer Woodward
- Length: 4 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.82(3936 ratings)
3.82(3936 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0013.95 USDIn the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. There they record Wylding Hall, the albumIn the aftermath of the mysterious death of their lead singer, the young members of a now-legendary British acid folk band hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient English country house with its own dark secrets. There they record Wylding Hall, the album that makes their reputation–but at a terrifying cost, when Julian Blake, their new lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen again.
Now, years later, each of the surviving musicians, their friends and lovers–including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager–meets with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own version of what happened during that summer. But whose story is the true one? And what really happened to Julian Blake?
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Sorrowland
- By: Rivers Solomon
- Narrator: Karen Chilton
- Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 04, 2021
- Language: English
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3.82(7970 ratings)
3.82(7970 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece…The echoes of Chilton’s haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over.” — AudioFile“Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece…The echoes of Chilton’s haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over.” — AudioFile Magazine
A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction
Vern–seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised–flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.
But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes.
To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future–outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it.
Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.
A Macmillan Audio production from MCD
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Petals on the Wind
- By: V.C. Andrews
- Narrator: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.82(52893 ratings)
3.82(52893 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDThe captivating and unforgettable saga of the Dollanganger family continues in Petals On the Wind, the New York Times bestselling sequel to Flowers in the Attic and the inspiration behind the Lifetime original movie and “tortured loveThe captivating and unforgettable saga of the Dollanganger family continues in Petals On the Wind, the New York Times bestselling sequel to Flowers in the Attic and the inspiration behind the Lifetime original movie and “tortured love story” (Variety).
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Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong…but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother, Christopher, discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail sister, Carrie, they have broken free and scraped together enough for three bus tickets and a chance at a new life. The horrors of the attic are behind them…but they will carry its legacy of dark secrets forever. -
The Woman in the Mirror
- By: Rebecca James
- Narrator: Charlotte Newton-John
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 17, 2020
- Language: English
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3.79(1835 ratings)
3.79(1835 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDRebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror. For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside ofRebecca James unveils a chilling modern gothic novel of a family consumed by the shadows and secrets of its past in The Woman in the Mirror.
For more than two centuries, Winterbourne Hall has stood atop a bluff overseeing the English countryside of Cornwall and the sea beyond.
In 1947, Londoner Alice Miller accepts a post as governess at Winterbourne, looking after Captain Jonathan de Grey’s twin children. Falling under the de Greys’ spell, Alice believes the family will heal her own past sorrows. But then the twins’ adoration becomes deceitful and taunting. Their father, ever distant, turns spiteful and cruel. The manor itself seems to lash out. Alice finds her surroundings subtly altered, her air slightly chilled. Something malicious resents her presence, something clouding her senses and threatening her very sanity.
In present day New York, art gallery curator Rachel Wright has learned she is a descendant of the de Greys and heir to Winterbourne. Adopted as an infant, she never knew her birth parents or her lineage. At long last, Rachel will find answers to questions about her identity that have haunted her entire life. But what she finds in Cornwall is a devastating tragic legacy that has afflicted generations of de Greys. A legacy borne from greed and deceit, twisted by madness, and suffused with unrequited love and unequivocal rage.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
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The Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers (And Their Muses)
- By: Terri-Lynne DeFino
- Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 12, 2018
- Language: English
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3.78(2038 ratings)
3.78(2038 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDA whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them. Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life toA whimsical, moving novel about a retirement home for literary legends who spar, conjure up new stories, and almost magically change the lives of the people around them.
Alfonse Carducci was a literary giant who lived his life to excess–lovers, alcohol, parties, and literary rivalries. But now he’s come to the Bar Harbor Home for the Elderly to spend the remainder of his days among kindred spirits: the publishing industry’s nearly gone but never forgotten greats. Only now, at the end of his life, does he comprehend the price of appeasing every desire, and the consequences of forsaking love to pursue greatness. For Alfonse has an unshakeable case of writer’s block that distresses him much more than his precarious health.
Set on the water in one of New England’s most beautiful locales, the Bar Harbor Home was established specifically for elderly writers needing a place to live out their golden years–or final days–in understated luxury and surrounded by congenial literary company. A faithful staff of nurses and orderlies surround the writers, and are drawn into their orbit, as they are forced to reckon with their own life stories. Among them are Cecibel Bringer, a young woman who knows first-hand the cost of chasing excess. A terrible accident destroyed her face and her sister in a split-second decision that Cecibel can never forgive, though she has tried to forget. Living quietly as an orderly, refusing to risk again the cost of love, Cecibel never anticipated the impact of meeting her favorite writer, Alfonse Carducci–or the effect he would have on her existence. In Cecibel, Alfonse finds a muse who returns him to the passion he thought he lost. As the words flow from him, weaving a tale taken up by the other residents of the Pen, Cecibel is reawakened to the idea of love and forgiveness.
As the edges between story and reality blur, a world within a world is created. It’s a place where the old are made young, the damaged are made whole, and anything is possible….
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If There Be Thorns
- By: V.C. Andrews
- Narrator: Corey Brill
- Length: 11 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.77(42229 ratings)
3.77(42229 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDNow a major Lifetime movie event–Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic–the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.TheyNow a major Lifetime movie event–Book Three of the Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic–the novel of forbidden love that captured the world’s imagination and earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fanbase.
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They hide the shocking truth to protect their children. But someone who knows their dark secret is watching.
Christopher and Cathy have made a loving home for their handsome and talented teenager Jory, their imaginative nine-year-old Bart, and a sweet baby daughter. Then an elderly woman and her strange butler move in next door. The Old Woman in Black watches from her window, lures lonely Bart inside with cookies and ice cream, and asks him to call her “grandmother.” Slowly Bart transforms, each visit pushing him closer to the edge of madness and violence, while his anguished parents can only watch. For Cathy and Chris, the horrors of the past have come home…and everything they love may soon be torn from them. -
A Whisper in the Dark
- By: Louisa May Alcott
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 10 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.75(268 ratings)
3.75(268 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight. This collection represents the best of Alcott’s adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramaticFrom the author of Little Women comes a collection of gothic, romantic, and spellbinding tales guaranteed to surprise and delight.
This collection represents the best of Alcott’s adult oeuvre. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Listeners will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer all.
The book takes its title from the tale “A Whisper in the Dark,” arguably Alcott’s gothic masterpiece, a story of imperiled innocence. Also featured are “The Mysterious Key and What It Opened,” “The Abbot’s Ghost; or, Maurice Treherne’s Temptation: A Christmas Story,” “La Jeune; or, Actress and Woman,” “Ariel: A Legend of the Lighthouse,” and “The Skeleton in the Closet.”
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