Showing posts with label Gothic. Show all posts
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Saturday, 17 December 2016

The Inmost Light By Arthur Machen


The Inmost Light
Title : The Inmost Light
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ISBN : 1419167324
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 48




Dyson was shocked at the result of his own audacity The man shrank and shrivelled in terror, the sweat poured down a face of ashy white, and he held up his hands before him....

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Monday, 7 November 2016

The Pride of the Peacock By Victoria Holt


The Pride of the Peacock
Title : The Pride of the Peacock
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ISBN : 0449213528
Format : Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages : 0




Victoria Holt demonstrates her mastery once again in her most exciting novel set in turn of the century England where a young woman grows up in the shadow of the great estate and privileged way of life that was once her family s birthright But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia Th Victoria Holt demonstrates her mastery once again in her most exciting novel set in turn of the century England where a young woma...

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Saturday, 10 September 2016

Mistress of Mellyn By Victoria Holt


Mistress of Mellyn
Title : Mistress of Mellyn
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ISBN : 0449019942
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 240




Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisionedBut what about its master Connan TreMellyn Was Martha Leigh s new employer as romantic as his name sounded As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her TreMellyn s young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the t Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisionedBut what about its master Connan TreMellyn Was Martha Leigh s new employer a...

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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

The Devil All the Time By Donald Ray Pollock


The Devil All the Time
Title : The Devil All the Time
Author :
ISBN : 038553504X
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 261




From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff called powerful, remarkable, exceptional by the Los Angeles Times comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone s Natural Born Killers with the religious and G From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff called powerful, remarkable, exceptional by the

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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Bride of Pendorric By Victoria Holt


Bride of Pendorric
Title : Bride of Pendorric
Author :
ISBN : 044944998X
Format : Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages : 271




Favel Farrington meets Roc Pendorric on the idyllic Mediterranean island of Capri, where she was raised and lives with her father Roc sweeps her off her feet, taking her from her home by an emerald sea to the ancient family home of the Pendorrics, in Cornwall His sister and her family await them with open arms, welcoming young Favel She is the much anticipated Bride of

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Thursday, 6 August 2015

The Hidden Twin By Adi Rule


The Hidden Twin
Title : The Hidden Twin
Author :
ISBN :
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 272




For eighteen years, Redwing has lived in hiding in a city of hissing pipes and curving temples perched on the side of Mol, the great volcano Her father hoped she would grow up to be a real human girl and not a wicked creature out of mythology, so he secretly spared her life as an infant.But when two priests track her down and attack, she calls forth fire to protect hersel For eighteen years, Redwing has lived in hiding in a city of hissing pipes and curving temples perched on the side of Mol, th...

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Saturday, 16 May 2015

The House of a Thousand Lanterns By Victoria Holt


The House of a Thousand Lanterns
Title : The House of a Thousand Lanterns
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ISBN : 0449214214
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 383




ONE OF VICTORIA HOLT S INCOMPARABLE AND INIMITABLE STORIES FASCINATING KEEPS ONE GUESSING TO THE VERY END Best SellersIt was the house she had dreamed of since childhood the house where her worst nightmares were about to come true The House of a Thousand Lanterns.Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy Nor that she would fall in love w ONE OF VICTORIA HOLT S INCOMPARABLE AND INIMITABLE STORIES FASCINATING KEEPS ONE GUESSING TO THE VERY END Best SellersIt was the house she had dreame...

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Sunday, 26 April 2015

Silence is Golden By Elsie Lee


Silence is Golden
Title : Silence is Golden
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ISBN : 0440179033
Format : Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages : 190




When nineteen year old Silence Eddington came to be companion to the beautiful young future heiress of Hazelhurst Grange, she entered a dazzling, disturbing new world The orphanage where Silence had grown up had left her unprepared for the dreamlike luxury of this great manor, and for its nightmare danger.What spell did this place cast over all who dwelled here the gi When nineteen year old Silence Eddington came to be companion to the beautiful young future heiress of Hazelhurst Grange, she entered a daz...

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Friday, 17 April 2015

Tales By H.P. Lovecraft


Tales
Title : Tales
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ISBN : 1931082723
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 838




This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of Howard Phillips Lovecraft s fiction Early stories such as The Outsider, The Music of Erich Zann, Herbert West Reanimator, and The Lurking Fear demonstrate Lovecraft s uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and the non human The Horror at Red Hoo This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of Howard Phillips Lovecraft s fiction Early stories such as The Outsider, The Music of Erich Z...

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Friday, 13 March 2015

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft By H.P. Lovecraft


Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
Title : Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
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ISBN : 0060957905
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 352




When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally and physically ruined H.P Lovecraft had no idea that he would come to be regarded as the godfather of the modern horror genre, nor that his work would influence an entire generation of writers, including Stephen King and Anne Rice Now, at last, the most important tales of this distinctive American genious are gathered in o When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally and physically ruined H.P Lovecraft had no idea that he would come to be regarded as the ...

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The Ghost Orchid By Carol Goodman


The Ghost Orchid
Title : The Ghost Orchid
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ISBN : 0345462149
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 350




In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present, Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date For than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to U In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes tha...

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Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Darkness at Fair Winds By Charlotte Douglas


Darkness at Fair Winds
Title : Darkness at Fair Winds
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ISBN : 0843933569
Format : Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages : 352




Fair Winds, Foul Deeds

Sent to care for a young widower s son, Varina Cameron was captivated by Florida s Gulf Coast But the paradise of Andrew McLaren s plantation harbored dark secrets not the least of which was whether Andrew s wife had died of natural causes.

Trapped in a maze of murder and mystery, Varina turned to McLaren for protection only to discover that the han

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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

A Sicilian Romance By Ann Radcliffe


A Sicilian Romance
Title : A Sicilian Romance
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ISBN : 0192836668
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 256




In A Sicilian Romance 1790 Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics This early novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily s castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all powe In A Sicilian Romance 1790 Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description t...

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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

The Monk By Matthew Lewis


The Monk
Title : The Monk
Author :
ISBN : 0140436030
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 386




Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions tempts its main character into breaking his vows....

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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Elijah's Mermaid By Essie Fox


Elijah's Mermaid
Title : Elijah's Mermaid
Author :
ISBN : 1409123359
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 387




Following the success of Essie Fox s highly acclaimed debut THE SOMNAMBULIST, this is a gloriously gothic new novel from one of the most talented historical writers around.Since she was found as a baby, floating in the Thames one foggy night, the web toed Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the House of Mermaids Cosseted and pampered there, it is only when her Following the success of Essie Fox s highly acclaimed debut THE SOMNAMBULIST, this is a gloriously gothic new novel from one of the mos...

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Saturday, 25 January 2014

Melmoth the Wanderer By Charles Robert Maturin


Melmoth the Wanderer
Title : Melmoth the Wanderer
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ISBN : 014044761X
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 659




Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th c Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his s...

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Wednesday, 11 December 2013

The Woman in Black By Susan Hill


The Woman in Black
Title : The Woman in Black
Author :
ISBN :
Format : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 216




The classic ghost story by Susan Hill a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town.Arthur Kipps is an up and coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, Mrs Alice Drablow of Eel Marsh House Mrs Drablow s The classic ghost story by Susan Hill a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town Arthur Kipps is an up and comi...

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