Historical Horror Fiction

In the latest novel from “our most significant rising writer of the American West” (Vulture), a woman searches for a way to reclaim the miracle of life in a world seemingly hellbent on doom In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live “on the other side of the portal...

In a literary landscape saturated with predictable ghost stories and superficial historical fiction, Port Gamble: Shadows of the Sound emerges as a revelatory achievement. This meticulously researched novel transforms a real Washington lumber town into a setting where history and the supernatural intertwine with rare sophistication and emotional resonance. The narrative spans from Port Gamble's bloody founding in the 1850s to the present day, where historian Emily Walker discovers her ancestral connection to the town's supernatural legacy.

In this cozy queer romantic fantasy from the award-winning authors of Homegrown Magic, two members in a motley crew of adventurers must confront monsters, hostile landscapes—and their growing attraction for each other. Sage has made her living as a ranger, moving constantly between adventuring...

The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Under the Same Stars. It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life...

On the eve of the Civil War, Polish immigrants Marcin and Agnieszka Anderwald arrive in Bandera, Texas, seeking faith, fertile land, and freedom. But when Marcin provokes a vengeful specter, the Anderwalds and their unusual community—Arab camel wranglers, battle-scarred soldiers, and a songstress on the brink of madness—are drawn into a generational battle against relentless evil.

When Makenna Hadley loses her job, and her long-term relationship ends abruptly, she gets away from it all by taking a trip to New England, where she stays with her Aunt Jenny Markham, an eccentric widowed farmer living in Connecticut's famous Quiet Corner. When she finds a diary in a box from a garage sale at her aunt's house, she becomes enthralled with the tragic love story of Jemima Brown and the Revolutionary War soldier she loved and tried to save. She also learns about the local legend that says her apparition still inhabits the town.

1612 saw one of the largest and well-documented witch hunts in England. To the people of Pendle, Demdike is a name both scorned and feared. Matriarch or monster, they only see an impoverished hag. At her age, Demdike knows she should be long in her grave, but with mouths to feed she hasn't the luxury of rest. Trained in the cunning arts, she uses her craft to help others, but not all look favourably on her gift. When the Justice of the Peace arrives in Pendle, Demdike soon realises the whispers of witches are spreading, and they're focused on her.

Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother. But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.

Ezekiel "Coop" Cooper is lonely. He's no longer with the NYPD due to cancer that's in remission. His daughter Bette is in New Jersey, and he doesn't talk with her about anything personal, but he loves her. He's looking forward to seeing her at the family bungalow, but when he gets there, he...

Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, Rabbit Remembered returns readers to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the...

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy-covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her...

If you have found this booklet, I am hopefully already dead, buried next to my father and mother, within spitting distance of Thomas, Elsie, and Sally Somers. And, though it is called the Gilley Burying Ground, my father would be irked (when was he not?) to lie for eternity next to the neighbors he so despised. Though I wanted to understand his feelings, I wanted even more to understand the Somers, whose exploits in Southwest Harbor were the subject of so much scrutiny and conjecture, but whose daily lives were full of earnest hard work.

In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess’s spell—and the Countess takes full advantage.

It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus' Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning to trickle home. Amongst these is Lt. Benjamin Braddock, survivor of the massacre that ended the war, and begrudgingly ready to return to a world that, well, doesn't seem to need him any more than it did in peacetime.

Pamela Colman Smith, newly arrived from New York to her birthplace of London, is received as an oddball in Victorian society. Her second sight helps her in her new job: illustrating tarot cards for the Golden Dawn, a newly formed occult group. But when Pamela refuses to share her creations with Aleister Crowley, a controversial magician, he issues a threat: give up the cards’ power, or he’ll harm her muses.

Something is stalking the queen of England, and Irene Adler is ready to find whatever monster may lurk behind this new gruesome string of murders—with or without the help of Sherlock Holmes. Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes were both sent away from Oxford’s All Souls class after uncovering a...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The riveting second novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy. “There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London) The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The indelible final novel in the acclaimed Spanish writer's detective trilogy. “There is no one writing in English like this. . . . Powerful stuff.” —The Sunday Times (London) A father's worst nightmare: Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared...

In 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 afterward, 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.

Sharp Objects meets William Kent Kreuger in this new searing southern mystery from acclaimed author Lo Patrick. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past—because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers. Meg Gregory...