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Kerri Maniscalco's #1 New York Times bestselling Kingdom of the Wicked trilogy — comprising Kingdom of the Wicked, Kingdom of the Cursed, and Kingdom of the Feared — arrives in a single paperback boxed set published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (May 2024), collecting the complete arc of Emilia's collision with demons, murder, and the supernatural underworld. This review is based on the series' published content and reception from named sources, not hands-on reading of the physical set.
Jul 31, 2026
Two Twisted Crowns is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Rachel Gillig's The Shepherd King duology, picking up directly from the cliffhanger of One Dark Window as Elspeth and Ravyn race to gather the final Providence Cards — a quest that drives them into a cursed forest for a potentially ruinous bargain with the Spirit of the Wood. This review covers the book's content, structure, and reception from published sources, not hands-on use.
Aug 1, 2026
Dire Bound launches The Wolves of Ruin trilogy with a high-stakes survival premise — the Bonding Trials — that places protagonist Meryn Cooper in a brutal contest to forge a mental bond with one of the world's massive, vicious direwolves. Written under the pen name Sable Sorensen by two co-authors, this debut romantasy draws comparisons to Fourth Wing and The Hunger Games, and some readers find it a gripping, immersive start to a planned three-book series set in the Kingdom of Nocturna.
May 15, 2026
Originally published in 2012 and now reissued by Tor Nightfire, Between Two Fires is a historical horror novel set during the Black Death, following a disgraced French knight, a visionary girl, and a fallen priest on a harrowing journey across plague-ravaged France — a book that blends cosmic theological warfare with earthy, lyrical prose to powerful effect.
Apr 8, 2026
Rachel Gillig's debut gothic romantic fantasy, originally published by Orbit Books in 2022, introduces Elspeth Spindle and a five-hundred-year-old spirit called Nightmare in a mist-locked kingdom where magic is a death sentence — a premise that earned the novel a devoted BookTok following and mixed-but-engaged critical attention, with reviewers praising its evocative prose and magic system while flagging uneven pacing and a predictable romantic subplot.
Apr 9, 2026
Victor Hugo's 1831 French Gothic novel — originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris — is a cornerstone of world literature, centering on the deformed bell-ringer Quasimodo, the Romani street dancer Esmeralda, and the obsessive Archdeacon Claude Frollo against the vivid backdrop of 15th-century Paris. This Kindle edition presents the text as complete and unabridged, making it a substantive entry point to a novel considered a classic of French literature. Its ambitions run far beyond a love triangle: Hugo designed the work as a sustained argument for the preservation of Gothic architecture and France's cultural heritage, and readers who come expecting a streamlined narrative will encounter something richer, stranger, and more architecturally digressive than the story's many film adaptations imply.
Jun 2, 2026
Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a philosophical fiction and Gothic horror classic that follows the beautiful Dorian Gray as he bargains his soul so that his portrait — rather than himself — bears the marks of age and moral corruption. Originally published in 1890 and widely regarded as a cornerstone of both Gothic and English literature, this Grapevine Kindle edition makes the novel readily accessible to a new generation of readers. The Guardian has listed it among the 100 best novels ever written in English, and it remains among the most widely read Gothic novels in the world.
May 3, 2026
Assassin: A Dark Epic Fantasy Novel is the opening entry in Andy Peloquin's eleven-book Darkblade series, published by The Fantasy Fiends Publishing Inc. In July 2021, and it delivers exactly what its title promises — a relentless, action-driven descent into the grimdark end of the fantasy spectrum, centered on a legendary immortal killer known only as the Hunter of Voramis. Readers drawn to morally complex antiheroes, blood-soaked urban fantasy settings, and sprawling epic ambition will find a great deal to engage with here, though the book's considerable length and unrelenting darkness will naturally suit some tastes more than others.
Jun 28, 2026
The Troop is a 2014 horror novel by Canadian author Craig Davidson, writing as Nick Cutter, that pits five Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster against a parasitic nightmare on a remote island — a debut that won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing and drew a blurb from Stephen King himself.
May 15, 2026
The Deathless Girls is Kiran Millwood Hargrave's YA debut — a gothic feminist retelling of the origin of Dracula's brides, following twin sisters Lil and Kizzy, captured from their Traveller community on the eve of Lil's divining and enslaved by a cruel Boyar. Published by Orion Children's Books in 2019, it reimagines figures long reduced to the margins of Bram Stoker's Dracula as full, complex subjects of their own story of survival, love, and sisterhood.
Jul 7, 2026
Night Watch by true george is a short-fiction Kindle collection of seven supernatural and dark tales, each built around a distinct paranormal encounter — from restless spirits in an abandoned mansion to a succubus preying on the lonely — designed for readers who enjoy quick, atmospheric horror and the uncanny.
May 18, 2026
The second entry in Black Library's landmark Horus Heresy series, False Gods by Graham McNeill is the novel that turns the tide — delivering the central corruption of Warmaster Horus Lupercal with escalating tension, body horror, and the tragic weight of a betrayal whose consequences echo across the entire Warhammer 40,000 universe.
May 8, 2026Search
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