Good Reads - Fiction

Gothic Revival

Thirteen haunting tales of tragedy, deception, and mysterious happenings…

FICTION/GOODMAN
Goodman, Carol - The Ghost Orchid - 2006, 336p.
A novelist uncovers century-old secrets surrounding a séance and supernatural happenings at a wealthy family's estate.

MYSTERY/HART
Hart, Erin - Haunted Ground - 2003, 328p.
The discovery of a woman's severed head in a peat bog links past and present crimes with events at an Irish manor house.

FICTION/HARWOOD
Harwood, John - The Ghost Writer - 2004, 369p.
A 100-year-old ghost story chronicling a passionate crime of revenge is discovered in a locked dresser drawer.

FICTION/KOSTOVA
Kostova, Elizabeth - The Historian - 2005, 642p.
A modern-day English professor's perilous hunt for Dracula begins after finding a compelling manuscript.

FICTION/MASON
Mason, Richard - The Drowning People - 1999, 340p.
In a tale of obsessive love and blackmail, the 70-year-old perpetrator confesses to murder at an English family manor.

FICTION/MILLS
Mills, Mark - The Savage Garden - 2007, 324p.
A visiting Cambridge professor investigates two murders committed 400 years apart in a remote Tuscan villa.

FICTION/MOSSE
Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre - 2008, 572p.
A rare tarot deck and secret love affair at a mysterious estate in the French countryside at the turn of the nineteenth century puts a biographer's life in jeopardy.

FICTION/PALLISER
Palliser, Charles - The Unburied - 1999, 403p.
A professional historian researching a lost manuscript witnesses a gruesome murder while visiting an old English cathedral.

FICTION/PRIEST
Priest, Christopher - The Prestige - 1996, 404p.
A hidden diary re-tells the tale of two rival stage magicians' obsession with each other, and the multiple tragedies that resulted.

FICTION//RUIZ ZAFON
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos - The Shadow of the Wind - 2004, 486p.
Secrets surrounding the disappearance of an enigmatic author in 1940s Barcelona sparks the curiosity of a bookseller's son.

FICTION/SETTERFIELD
Setterfield, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale - 2006, 406p.
A dying writer reveals her tragic life story to a young biographer mysteriously summoned to the author's decrepit family estate.

FICTION/SHEPARD
Shepard, Lucius - Softspoken - 2007, 179p.
Ghostly voices reveal the dark and violent history of an eerie South Carolina mansion.

FICTION/STOTT
Stott, Rebecca - Ghostwalk - 2007, 304p.
The mysterious death of a Cambridge student writing a biography about Sir Isaac Newton is connected to a murder in the 17th century.

Prepared by Debbie Deady, October 2008