Gothic Stories

Belle Morte is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Wattpad Original Edition and the Wattpad Books Published Edition upon purchase. Thank you so much for your support! ***** Renie Mayfield volunteers as a blood donor for the Vampire House where her sister disappeared, when she's drawn to the smouldering vampire Edmond Dantès. ***** It's been ten years since vampires came out of the coffin, and now they are the world's biggest celebrities. Renie Mayfield is a new live-in blood donor assigned to the most famous vampire House - Belle Morte. Unlike the other donors though, Renie isn't here for fame and fortune. Her sister disappeared inside the Belle Morte House, and she wants to know why. But she isn't prepared for Edmond Dantès, a smouldering vampire who sets her blood racing. She can't deny their mutual attraction, and their dangerous dance begins. With each step into darkness Renie is drawn further into Edmond's influence, and closer to uncovering Belle Morte's secrets. If she has to choose, would she rather lose her heart or her humanity? (Book 1, the Belle Morte Series) [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] The sequel, Revelations, is now in Paid: https://www.wattpad.com/story/97728300

In the dark town of Pietranera, truth is buried under lies and blood. Luce is determined to uncover the town's suffocating secrets, an investigation that brings her dangerously close to Corvo, a feared and lethal outcast. But Corvo hides a massive secret: he is actually the missing heir of the powerful D'Alto family. He lives in the shadows to hunt down the ruthless Sect responsible for the murder of his brother Valerio and his cousin Gaia. As Luce's search for the truth makes her a target for the Sect, Corvo must make an impossible choice: stay hidden to get his revenge, or step into the light to save the only woman he has ever loved. #thrillerpsicologico #goticomoderno #vendetta #societasegreta #mistero #darkthriller #romancegotico --- 🔥 NUOVO CAPITOLO OGNI GIOVEDÌ 🔥 (Segui la storia e attiva le notifiche per non perdere l'aggiornamento!) This is the official English translation of my Italian novel, "L'Ombra sul Campanile".

What's in the heart of a Hyde? Is it purely dark and filled with hatred, or is it still possible to make it flicker? *** Tyler Galpin is done with mothers and masters. His heart can't take any more sorrows and rejections. He believes himself to be a lost cause. But yet, when Isadora Capri, the new principal at Nevermore Academy, offers him the opportunity to enroll in a special rehabilitation program for outcasts whose abilities have made them dangerous to others, he reluctantly agrees. The moment he steps into the school, the whispers and gasps start. They all fear him. Everyone but Wednesday Addams. She who saw him. She who freed him. She who he swore to kill. When another string of Hyde attacks occurs, Tyler becomes the prime suspect. With no one on his side, he is about to give up when an unlikely ally steps forward: Wednesday Addams. She believes he's innocent, asking him to aid her in the investigation. But they have to work fast, before Tyler is deemed too dangerous for the school and sent to another asylum. The hunt for the culprit leads right into Tyler's past and makes him question whether what he believes about himself is actually true. Perhaps it's not too late to make the heart of this Hyde flicker? *** This story is set in an imagined season 4 of the show. It's told entirely in Tyler's POV as he navigates Nevermore after having learned to control his Hyde (well, somewhat at least... you'll see!). It also features a slow burn (because I don't think there is any other way to do this, as there is a lot of healing and mending needed) romance between him and Wednesday.

For (Y/n), the world has always been crowded by the whispers of those who refuse to stay buried. Plagued by the ghosts that haunt her, she is drawn to a crumbling castle where she finds the stones themselves have memories. Beneath the keep, ancient catacombs hold more than just dust. They hold a seductive, creeping shadow that recognizes the darkness in her soul. To survive the awakening of her blood, she must navigate a treacherous game where the line between protector and predator has long since blurred. The vault is open. The blood is calling. And in these woods, the truth is never free.

｡⚓︎ - In the lonely village of Eidolon Cove, the ocean is feared and worshipped. Every full moon, lanterns are sent into the water and during every generation, one person is chosen to be given to the sea as 'Beloved'. When Elias arrives looking for the truth behind the strange drowning of his sister, he finds Cael - a quiet and mysterious boy washed up near the cliffs. Elias begins to care for him and slowly, the two grow close. But the sea is waking up and terrible things begin to happen. People hear songs in their sleep, flowers grow from dead bodies and the village starts to fall apart. As the ocean rises and the curse grows stronger, Elias must make the hardest choice of his life. He can let the sea take or he can step into the water and face whatever waits beneath it. ⋆˚࿔

Dual affinities were never supposed to exist. Now Lyra Vale has two. After unexpectedly awakening both magical and combat astral powers, Lyra becomes the first student in years forced to attend two rival divisions at Valmere Academy-an elite institution filled with powerful nobles, dangerous training, and students who seem far too talented for their own good. But surviving impossible schedules and academy politics quickly becomes the least of her problems. Especially after catching the attention of Black Crest. Feared throughout the academy, Black Crest is a legendary group of elite second-year students known for their overwhelming strength, influence, and terrifying reputation. Yet the more Lyra encounters them, the less the rumors make sense. A calm leader hiding secrets. A smiling troublemaker who notices too much. A silent boy with eyes that never seem to miss anything. And beneath the academy itself- something ancient is beginning to awaken. As forgotten legends surrounding dragons resurface and strange powers begin appearing across the kingdom, Lyra slowly realizes her existence may not be normal at all. Because some bonds are written long before destiny begins. And some flames were never meant to return.

She was never meant to touch the stars. But the stars chose her anyway. Now Ophelia must survive a world of secrets, darkness, and a fate that could destroy everything she knows.

𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 moved to London to be invisible. She wanted quiet libraries, rainy cobblestone streets, and a chance to escape the childhood nightmares locked deep inside her mind. She thought she was safe. But monsters don't let you hide. 𝐀𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 is a lethal executioner for the London syndicate. He rules the underground with violent efficiency, fueled by nine years of seething hatred for the girl whose lie condemned his mother to die. When he tracks Amara to her university, his plan is cold and calculated: stalk her, shatter her fragile mind, and use her as leverage to eradicate her family. But the girl he corners in the shadows isn't a calculating liar. She's a terrified, traumatized student with vivid green eyes who smells like vanilla and fights back with a desperate fire. The moment he touches her, the vengeance burns to ash. His cold hatred violently mutates into a dark, unhinged obsession. He doesn't want to destroy her anymore. He wants to own every fractured piece of her soul. As Ace systematically isolates her from the world, blurring the terrifying line between a predator and a protector, Amara realizes the executioner isn't just haunting her life-he's claiming it. Safe in a cage is still in a cage. But what happens when you start falling for the monster standing guard at the door? Tropes: • Dark Mafia Romance • "Touch Her and Die" • Stalker to Protector • Morally Black MMC / Traumatized FMC • Forced Proximity & Jealousy • Gothic London Aesthetic

Blackthorne Academy: Shadows of the Vale - Short Summary At Blackthorne Academy, supernatural students feared by society struggle to survive within a dangerous gothic world filled with ancient bloodlines, dark powers, and hidden politics. Hayden is a feared, antisocial student with fiery red hair, sapphire blue eyes, and a violent reputation. Though cold and emotionally guarded, he secretly has a protective side. When Hayden Blackwell witnesses Angelus Vale - a quiet vampire-shadow wielder constantly bullied for being "different" - getting brutally attacked by other students, he steps in without hesitation. Angel, the youngest son of the powerful Vale family, suffers a concussion and severe malnutrition after enduring ongoing abuse at the academy. Hayden carries him to safety and stays beside him through his recovery, quickly becoming protective of the mysterious boy. As Angel slowly begins trusting Hayden, a strong emotional connection forms between them. Their relationship grows into a dark, protective romance built on healing, vulnerability, and loyalty. Meanwhile, Angel's intimidating family - including his powerful father Lucien Vale and sharp-tongued twin brother Kylo Vale - begin noticing Hayden's growing attachment to him. The story explores supernatural prejudice, found family, emotional healing, hidden power, and two dangerous boys learning to protect each other in a world that fears them both.

Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Jennie fetched a drink of water. She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. A DEAD BODY! Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" Surprised to see his little mistress awake at this hour, Taehyung stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here. "Gardening." "And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief. "Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Jennie was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?! She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Kim?" he gave her a sweet smile. Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you.

Formerly known as Bulletproof Volume One In the world called the Lively, life is literally a fairy tale, where fairies live in huts and Cinderella gets abandoned by the Prince. A land of happily afters...or is it? In 2018, an adopted fairy princess Flume-Ophelia runs away from her fairy tale world, leaving her life behind. More than two years later, Flume lives a normal life in the Human World away from the consequences of evil and the tight controlling council who wishes to persecute her because of her unique ability to create fire. She spends her days as simply Ophelia, attempting to enjoy her twenties while navigating a pandemic with her roommates. After a planned visit to Neverland to visit her eternally teenaged adopted parents, the kind yet forceful tree nymph Maleficent and the grumpy Peter Pan, Flume-Ophelia discovers an evil villain stealing something valuable in the asylum prison of Wonderland, something that could potentially cause the end of the world. A nineteen-year-old Flume returns to the shattered world she once knew and is reluctantly forced to save the world. But how much will it cost her? #1 in Summertime Sadness Awards ( Fantasy Category) #2 in the Vintage Glamour Awards

**UPDATES TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS** When ten-year-old Kensington Brooks is thrown from a ship during a violent storm, she expects to die beneath the waves. Instead, she wakes on the shores of Neverland. But this is not the story her mother once read to her. The island is wild. Hungry. Ancient. The forests breathe at night, the trees whisper warnings in the dark, and every creature seems to survive by tearing something else apart. Peter Pan rules from the shadows like a beautiful, feral ghost, and the Lost Boys are no longer boys anyone should want to find. Alone and desperate to survive, Kensy is drawn into the hidden corners of the island by those who have learned to live beyond Peter's reach: Tinkerbell, sharp-tongued and dangerous; Thrash, a merciless mermaid with blood in her teeth; and Olea, a quiet native girl who knows the jungle better than anyone alive. High in the trees, inside a tiny house of sticks and woven branches, Kensy begins to carve out a fragile home among a band of rebel girls who refuse to kneel to the island's cruel rules. But Neverland does not allow children to grow safely. And something old is waking beneath the roots of the forest. Kensy must put her trust in the most fearsome creature on the island. The Bird is even more terrifying than the monster lurking in the skies, and she has no choice. Because in this Neverland, happy endings are the first thing to die.

When the veil lifts, mercy ends. In the ruins of Hollowgate Manor, the air never sleeps. Whispers crawl through the walls, and shadows breathe like living things. Every night, the veil thins-revealing faces that should have stayed buried. When a grieving woman returns to uncover the truth behind her sister's death, she finds that the veil doesn't just hide the dead... it hungers for the living.

Massive reparations have long since been a burden for the Malfoy family, forcing them to enter the workforce. It's been eleven years since the war, and Draco Malfoy is now a skilled Dispeller for the Ministry's Spirit Division. He used to pride himself on maintaining a healthy work-life balance, but that changed when Harry's ghost showed up to haunt Malfoy Manor. Draco, although reluctantly, has to figure out who killed his former rival in order for his spirit to move on, as it seems like the most logical course of action. But Harry, on the other hand, becomes attached to more than a sense of justice after realizing how much Draco has matured. He's almost proud, but another feeling overshadows that.

This is a public domain text of Carmilla (1872) by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is one of the earliest vampire stories, predicting Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years.

Lady Evelyn Ashbourne was meant to become the perfect noble wife. Instead, she awakened in the body of a man. In the kingdom of Vaelmora, noble houses survive on reputation, arranged marriages, and whispered scandals. Now hidden behind a false identity, while society believes Lady Ashbourne has fallen mysteriously ill. Evelyn suddenly finds herself walking through freedoms she was never meant to possess. Moonlit streets. Noble courts. Dangerous secrets. And a life she was never supposed to live. But in Vaelmora, rumours spread faster than war. And someone is beginninhg to suspect that Lady Evelyn Ashbourne may not be as absent as the world believes. ✦ New Chapters Daily

𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 SEASON ONE. When Katherine Ashvale arrives at Ravenspire Fortress Academy, she expects strict rules, endless rain, and a forest filled with stories meant to frighten students into obedience. Instead, she finds whispers beneath the walls. Every monsoon season, strange sounds echo through the underground tunnels hidden beneath the fortress. Students are warned never to follow them. Never to answer them. But Katherine begins hearing the whispers long before anyone else. As the storms grow stronger, creatures emerge beyond the forest, ancient symbols appear where they shouldn't, and the academy's buried secrets begin clawing their way to the surface. Because Ravenspire Fortress was never built to protect its students. It was built to hide something beneath them.

Hollis is committed to the shadowed halls of the Marrowbend Institute. But he quickly realizes it's more than just a cage. The Boonies, a cult of Cora Boone's followers, operate within the walls of the teenage asylum. Ready and willing to perform tasks set before them by Cora herself, even if it means great personal harm. Her three-year confinement left a dark legacy within these walls, forcing Hollis to confront a version of her he never knew existed, and allowing him to see the power she truly holds over others. He must form alliances with other patients to survive, while combating new and dangerous rivalries. On the outside, Cora's relentless pursuit to expose the police cover-up regarding her parents' deaths has earned her a formidable new enemy in Officer Bradwell. With the law weaponized against her, Cora fights to make the truth known before the town buries her along with its secrets. Unfortunately for Cora, the law and the Headmaster of Marrowbend, Abel Trenner, push back, threatening to make Hollis disappear forever.

Two timelines. Two souls. One mirror. People who were never meant to meet-yet the mirror keeps showing them each other. And something about it feels like déjà vu... or a life that already ended once before.

​En Rumania, existen leyendas de un lago que concede dones a quienes se adentran en sus aguas. ​Pero cada don nace de la tristeza que cada alma guarda en su corazón. Las dos princesas del reino de Sidonia han obtenido bendiciones para la prosperidad del reino, pero solo ellas cargan con el peso de aquel don. ​Ophelia, la princesa más joven, aún no ha llegado a la edad de obtener su bendición, pero la actitud de sus hermanas después de ir al lago oculta una verdad que debe descubrir.