She came back to rebuild. He came back to be forgiven. Five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger never expected to see Draco Malfoy again - especially not at the staff table. But as two professors forced to share the same corridors, their old hatred begins to unravel... revealing something far more dangerous beneath. Because sometimes, the hardest lessons aren't taught in classrooms - they're written in the heart.

When Clara and Alice begin exchanging emails, they expect to share everyday musings - books, boys and sisterly confessions. But their words soon become a lifeline through the veil between the ordinary and the unknown. Clara, with her whimsical heart, finds herself haunted by whispers of spirits and shadows. Alice, ever the gothic soul, seeks comfort in old-world beauty while battling the mysteries that stalk her family. Together, their correspondence traces the fragile thread between friendship, magic, and secrets too dark to ignore. As each reply unfolds, ghosts stir, portals open, and the past refuses to stay buried. But what truly binds them - their shared love, or the darkness that follows? Join Alice and Clara in this gothic epistolary tale of sisterhood, secrets, and the strange beauty found in the shadows.

Step into a world where silence is a sentence and every shadow hides a secret. The House of Silent Ornaments is a chilling Gothic horror short story that will haunt your imagination. Trapped in an antique, decaying mansion filled with lifeless dolls, forgotten toys, and grotesque ornaments, the narrator discovers that the house is no ordinary dwelling-but a prison for the abandoned and the forgotten. With eerie corridors, haunted rooms, and a presence that defies reason, this dark tale blends psychological terror, supernatural suspense, and twisted fantasy. Perfect for fans of horror stories, gothic fiction, haunted houses, and short story collections.

Shadows stir, walls whisper, and the familiar becomes alien. How far can a single soul endure when reality itself turns against it? Beneath the gaslit streets of London, shadows twist and reality wavers. A man of ambition and vanity will find that the familiar can mask the unfathomable, and that the night hides truths too terrible to behold. Enter a world where beauty and dread entwine, and where the boundary between the known and the incomprehensible begins to unravel.

In the year 1695, in the shadow of the Salem witch trials, nineteen-year-old Augusta Penn arrives in the haunted town of Swampscott. The daughter of the new reverend, she longs for solitude, sketching plants in the forest and hiding from the whispers of suspicious townsfolk. But when she crosses paths with the mysterious and wounded Captain Nathaniel Winslow, a soldier scarred by war and secrets, Augusta finds herself pulled into a dangerous web of forbidden attraction, gothic mystery, and eerie superstition. As shadows move in the forest, secrets rise from the graves, and whispers of witchcraft spread once more, Augusta must decide who she can trust-before the darkness claims her heart, her soul, and perhaps her life.