Dark Academia and Gothic Fiction

Visual and performance artist, and winner of the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Manuscript Award, SJ Norman turns their hand to fiction with spectacular results. This brilliant collection of short fiction...

Celebrated novel involves a handsome young Londoner who sinks into a life of depravity. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recent portrait reflects the ravages of his...

"An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan's Labyrinth upon strange foundations. You're never really safe here, with Midnight Rooms wondrously defying expectation and refusing obedience. Donyae Coles...

Her fate is sealed. Her death is inevitable... Carrie Rickard , leaving an abusive relationship back in London, tries to escape her past by throwing herself into her restoration project:...

'When it comes to Gothic crime, Craig Russell is peerless. Absolutely stunning.' - M W Craven From international bestselling author Craig Russell comes a modern Gothic masterpiece. Edward Hyde has...

London, 1919: a city of ghosts and absences, haunted by the men who marched away but never came back. 'A poignant and readable mystery' THE TIMES Grace Armstrong believes that...

' Lush, complex, and close to the bone, The Decadence filled me with horror in the best way' Krystelle Bamford, author of Idle Grounds 'A genuinely creepy and evocative contemporary...

This stunning chapbook perfect for fans of the mysterious and macabre comprises three of Edgar Allan Poe s short literary masterpieces: The Tell-Tale Heart, Metzengerstein, and The Masque of the...

'A deliciously twisted gothic fantasy you'll want to read again and again, with characters you'll adore, prose that'll spellbind you, romance you'll swoon over, and a mystery that'll keep you...

A deliciously gothic story of wishes and curses - a new dark fairy tale set against a Victorian backdrop full of lace and smoke. 'Deliciously dark' Woman Magazine Once upon...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: DJ: good with minor wear along the edges, in mylar. Binding: remains intact. Boards: faded spine; square and...

A Times Best Book of 2019. 'Paver is one of Britain's modern greats. This sinister, gothic chiller shows why' BIG ISSUE , Books of the Year 2019. "Something has been...

Captain Hal Stirling is flown to England from Afghanistan after a roadside bomb renders him battered and broken. Once home, he retreats to his ancestral family seat of Stirling Towers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDeep in the fever-swamps of an isolated Southern town, Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel introduces...

A Spanish-gothic version of a Patricia Highsmith novel. Jon and Katharina spend the winter in Jon's childhood home on the Cantabrian coast, lonely and bored, ambivalent about their precarious freelance...

Elena Weaver, in her skimpy dresses and bright jewellery, exuded intelligence and sexuality. A student at St Stephen's College, Cambridge, she lived a life of casual but intense physical and...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was...

Perfect for fans of Saltburn, For the Wolf, and Wuthering Heights, Tenderly, I Am Devoured is a moody, monstrously Gothic romantasy in which a young woman must bind herself to...

A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in Nineties Dublin - perfect for fans of dark academia **An Irish Times Book of the Summer** 'A rrives...

'Reads like an instant fairytale classic' - 5* Reader Review 'An elegant, dreamy tale steeped in folklore' - Irish Times 'Dark and enticing; an atmospheric, folklore-infused fantasy' - Kirkus Reviews...

Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Small marking on reverse fep (top left corner); otherwise, internally sound. Binding remains tight. Unclipped dj. In...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew names in the literary canon conjure darkness and beauty in equal measure quite like Edgar Allan Poe, and this illustrated collection presents his most...

From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales. In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on...

'Reads like an instant fairytale classic' - 5* Reader Review 'An elegant, dreamy tale steeped in folklore' - Irish Times 'Dark and enticing; an atmospheric, folklore-infused fantasy' - Kirkus Reviews...

Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father -...

' Ambitious, gruesome and appallingly fascinating ' - The Guardian In a rotten and bloody world, four magical rivals are forced to work together to avoid certain death in a...

An instant New York Times bestseller! The Cruel Prince meets Powerless in this dark academia romantasy that will tattoo itself onto your heart Viola Sinclair has hidden her shadow magic...

Jasmin has always known that monsters are real. And they wear ordinary faces. When she was a child, she witnessed her famous, adored grandfather attempt to kill her grandmother. Now...

**Don't miss Ashley's next explosive book HOT GIRL MURDER CLUB available to pre-order now** Twilight meets True Detective in this creepy Southern Gothic thriller, from TikTok sensation Ashley Winstead. 'One...

"A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart." - Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling...

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood , an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention. Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for...

Discover the sequel to gothic fantasy sensation The Bell Witches from Sunday Times bestseller, Lindsey Kelk. Blood is thicker than water... Since arriving in Savannah, Emily Bell has faced prophecies,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three supernatural spirits...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFirst published in 1824, James Hogg's masterwork of psychological terror and theological dread presents the chilling confession of Robert Wringhim, a fanatical...

Packed full of atmosphere and deliciously gothic detail, the first in a brand-new adventure series: when three cousins discover they're descendants of Dracula, they combine their powers to form the...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR* A dark, captivating novel of family secrets, desperate ambition and the deepest betrayal. TO BECOME ONE...

Secondhand Vintage Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2967 Twenty-four vintage Penguin and Pan paperbacks — three Hemingway titles, Tolstoy, Sartre, Austen, Wilkie Collins, D.H. Lawrence, Turgenev, Thomas Mann, Joseph Heller,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew novels in the English language have captured the turbulent passage from innocence to experience with the raw emotional power of Great Expectations. Charles...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew literary marriages have produced such a remarkable story as that of Maeve Gilmore and the visionary genius Mervyn Peake — the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most harrowing and enduring works in Australian literary history, For the Term of His Natural...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA fever dream set along the dark corridors of the River Thames, Iain Sinclair's Downriver is a visionary and hallucinatory...

Edition: Forth edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the glittering and treacherous world of sixth-century Byzantium, one man stands above all others — Belisarius, the...

Librarian Anne Adams has found the perfect escape: a job cataloguing the library of Winterbourne, an architectural masterpiece on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Surrounded by...

Immerse yourself in the mysterious world of gothic elegance, antique curiosities, and academic enigmas with the Dark Academia Coloring Book. Magnificent libraries, candlelit corners, and brooding landscapes await your artistic...

1953. Mei's 'gift' of speaking to ghosts is one that she has endeavoured to bury while fighting to survive as a refugee in post-war, post-revolution Hong Kong. When former silent...

A 'marvelous' (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. Deeply humane, quietly devastating, mesmerisingly beautiful.' Olivia Sudjic 'Haunting, irresistible.' Brandon Taylor 'Marvelous.' Lauren Groff A...

A stunning hardcover edition of the classic gothic romance, with cover art by Anna Bond of lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Margot...

'If I wasn't dead, I would sue.'-Bram Stoker This is the origin story of the first real vampyre (not Dracula). The trouble with immortality is that eventually you get sick...