Best Gothic Novels 21st Century - April 2024

Sweet Barbarian

Look what the Chihuahua dragged in.When Karly wanders outside her mountain cabin into the snowstorm to see why her dog is going nuts, she’s expecting an injured animal, not a muscular mammoth of a man who’s unconscious and about to freeze to death if she doesn’t drag him inside and try to tend his wounds. He’s wearing only a few pieces of fur-and-leather armor—cosplayer or insane mountain man?—and his wild hair and beard haven’t seen a pair of scissors in a year or more. But when he wakes up and opens those amber-hazel eyes, Karly’s too caught off guard to protest his lack of a... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MREJNA7
• ASIN: B01MREJNA7

Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel

• ASIN: B004O0UTVM
• ASIN: B004O0UTVM
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Dark Enemy Redeemed (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Series Book 6)

"I could not stop reading! This read is brilliant. If you are a current fan of J. R. Ward and have read The Brotherhood Series, then these books are for you. Great Suspense, Drama and sex all rolled into a package that I T Lucas writes seamlessly... I am waiting for the next installment impatiently just as I do for the Brotherhood Series.""I love this series!!! From the beginning to this point I have waited excitedly for each new addition! I particularly enjoyed this book because it brought all the previous story lines together in a way the anticipation would not let me stop reading until I ha... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01ELQDCK8
• ASIN: B01ELQDCK8
• Manufacturer: I.T. Lucas

First Lessons: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 1)

Enjoy the complete historical romance and time travel series by a bestselling Amazon author right now!Aliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. Her life seems perfect…until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during alternate medieval times. Confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she was given a second chance in life — so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life.Aliya’s situation is confusing an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079318YMX
• ASIN: B079318YMX
• Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction“[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”―Roxane Gay“In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”―Karen RussellIn Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 155597788X
• ASIN: 155597788X
• ISBN: 155597788X
• Manufacturer: Graywolf Press

The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life (All Souls Trilogy)

A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy—"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People).  Look for the hit TV series “A Discovery of Witches” airing Sundays on AMC and BBC America, and streaming on Sundance Now and Shudder. A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Lifecarried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion. In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735220743
• ASIN: 0735220743
• ISBN: 0735220743
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Viking

Haunted: A Novel

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.

• ASIN: 1400032822
• ASIN: 1400032822
• ISBN: 1400032822
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)

In her short lifetime, Flannery O’Connor became one of the most distinctive American writers of the twentieth century. By birth a native of Georgia and a Roman Catholic, O’Connor depicts, in all its comic and horrendous incongruity, the limits of worldly wisdom and the mysteries of divine grace in the “Christ-haunted” Protestant South. This Library of America collection, the most comprehensive ever published, contains all of her novels and short-story collections, as well as nine other stories, eight of her most important essays, and a selection of 259 witty, spirited, and revealing le... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0940450372
• ASIN: 0940450372
• ISBN: 0940450372
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

• ASIN: 0385469012
• ASIN: 0385469012
• ISBN: 0385469012
• Brand: Mahfouz, Naguib/ Johnson-Davies, Denys (TRN)
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Fingersmith

“Oliver Twist with a twist…Waters spins an absorbing tale that withholds as much as it discloses. A pulsating story.”—The New York Times Book Review  The Handmaiden, a film adaptation of Fingersmith, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Kim Tae-Ri, is now available. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transient family of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this house in th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1573229725
• ASIN: 1573229725
• ISBN: 1573229725
• Brand: Riverhead Trade
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Blonde: A Novel

In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that of an emblematic American artist—intensely conflicted and driven—who has lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N979PNC
• ASIN: B01N979PNC
• Manufacturer: Ecco

20th Century Ghosts

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . Francis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the su... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000W916P2
• ASIN: B000W916P2
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Serena: A Novel (P.S.)

• ASIN: B001FA0UTA
• ASIN: B001FA0UTA
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins e-books

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon Book 1)

• ASIN: B000FBFO8C
• ASIN: B000FBFO8C
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Del Rey

The Land Breakers

Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little live... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590177630
• ASIN: 1590177630
• ISBN: 1590177630
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Discover What You're Best At : Revised for the 21St Century

Describes a wide range of occupations and provides a test of skills in subjects, such as logic, business, and mathematics, designed to determine the reader's career

• UPC: 375360
• Rating: 4.0

The Global Novel : Writing the World in the 21st Century

"Illuminating." - The New York Times Book Review Named one of "Ten Books to Read this April" by the BBC What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel,

• UPC: 55548105
• Rating: 5.0

A 21st Century Courtesan - eBook

A world of silk sheets, imported champagne, and endless delight await in A 21st Century Courtesan.** **She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is

• UPC: 387364681
• Rating: 3.0

21st Century Dead - eBook

The Stoker-award winning editor of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology The New Dead returns with 21st Century Dead*,* and an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on

• UPC: 386593269
• Rating: 4.188

Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century - eBook

Neil Gaiman has emerged as one of the most influential literary figures of the 21st century. To borrow a phrase from his viral 2012 University of the Arts commencement speech, Gaiman “makes good art,” from

• UPC: 859812066
• Rating: 3.8

Vernon God Little : A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

Hailed by the critics and lauded by readers for its riotously funny and scathing portrayal of America in an age of trial by media, materialism, and violence, "Vernon God Little" was an international sensation when

• UPC: 19602958
• Rating: 3.389

Vernon God Little : A 21st Century Comedy in the Presence of Death

Books : Vernon God Little

• UPC: 757110803
• Rating: 3.389

The Gothic Vision : Three Centuries of Horror, Terror and Fear

The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing.

• UPC: 25455980
• Rating: 5.0

21st Century Dead : A Zombie Anthology

The author of the acclaimed, eclectic anthology "The New Dead" returns with an all-new lineup of authors from all corners of the fiction world, shining a dark light on our fascination with tales of death

• UPC: 19405602
• Rating: 4.188

The Great Mormon Novel of the 21st Century - eBook

A writer tries to capture his changing people in prose, but what does a Mormon look like in the 21st century? He strives to answer that question through the creation of a General Relief Society

• UPC: 296294297