Like few novels before it, The Woman in White thrilled readers across England when it debuted in 1860. It famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit road. Engaged as a drawing-master to beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the...

"In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie circumstances, Daisy is thrust into a web that may threaten to steal her sanity, if not her life. In the present day, Cleo Clemmons is hired by the grandson...

In Florida's Key West, young Laurel is reunited with her long-lost father, but an unidentified danger looms over the reunion as Laurel finds herself haunted by a strangely threatening dream.

"From the New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina series, now Lifetime movies, comes book two of the haunting saga of identical twin sisters tortured by their perfectionist mother--until one of them snaps. Haylee and Kaylee Fitzgerald are twin sisters who have been forced to be identical in every way by their domineering mother. She insists they wear the same clothes, eat the same food, get the same grades,...

"A Gothic retelling of the real story behind the legend of Sleeping Beauty"-- When Elise Dalriss hears her great-granddaughter recount a minstrel's tale about a beautiful princess asleep in a tower, it pushes open a door to the past, a door Elise has long kept locked. For Elise was the companion to the real princess who slumbered-- and she is the only one left who knows what actually happened so many years ago. Her story unveils a labyrinth where...

"Revel in the sumptuous language of Edgar Allan Poe's best works.The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe features key works, spanning from 1827 to his death in 1849, from the famous Gothic American writer, especially Poe's spine-chilling short stories and melodious poems.Included in this indispensable edition, with an introduction by renowned author Daniel Stashower, are 21 short stories, including 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Pit and the...

A collection of seven stories by the Danish author, written in English and first published in 1934.

"Includes an introduction, over 160 illustrations, and detailed annotations that illuminate the literary, historical, social, and biographical aspects of the text." --

While staying with her dead mother's family in Italy when that country is in the midst of Garibaldi's Red Shirt uprising, Francesca is plunged into a situation of political and emotional turmoil.

Maud Ruthyn is haunted by premonitions of death during her sojourn in a gloomy old mansion.