Gothicfantasy Stories

A lost moon. A forbidden love. A memory that should have stayed buried. On the night of her twenty-third birthday, Elara Veyne wakes to a world without a moon. No eclipse. No clouds. No explanation. The moon is simply gone. And then a stranger appears in the forest. A man with silver eyes, a dark sword, and a voice that somehow feels like a forgotten memory. His name is Lucien Valen, Crown Prince of Asterra. He tells Elara three impossible things. He has known her before. She is not who she believes she is. And one hundred years ago, she died in his arms. Elara refuses to believe him-until a strange mark appears on her palm, ancient creatures begin whispering her name, and visions of a bloody castle invade her dreams. Then she discovers a portrait hidden inside the royal palace. A woman who looks exactly like her stands beside Lucien. The painting is one hundred years old. The woman's name is Elarienne. And beneath the portrait, someone has written: SHE WAS NEVER MEANT TO RETURN. As Elara searches for the truth, she begins to uncover a buried history of forbidden magic, royal conspiracies, erased identities, and a love that survived a century of lies. But the closer she gets to Lucien, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because Lucien may be the only person capable of protecting her. He may also be the man who betrayed her in her previous life. And when the lost moon finally returns, Elara must face the truth hidden beneath the legend: Some loves are destined to return. Some memories are meant to stay forgotten. And some people are worth destroying the world for.

In Saltgrave, every Chosen carries a Kindred blade bound to them by a bond no one fully understands. But the Kindred are changing. Blades are refusing their bearers. Ancient records are being erased. Something beneath the drowned cathedral is waking, and the old Houses are hiding what they know. When Adrian's newly chosen blade carries a connection to a dead girl, he and Elena begin pulling at a thread that leads far deeper than either expected. Then there is Lucien the strange boy who carries only a broken fragment of a Kindred, yet wields it with terrifying precision. And Sera, who was never supposed to trust anyone, finds herself trusting him. As secrets surface, bonds break, and the sea begins giving back what Saltgrave buried centuries ago, four young bearers are forced to confront a truth their town has spent generations trying to drown. Because some bonds are written in blood. Others are drowned to survive. And something beneath the water is still waiting.

For twenty-six years, Tessaly Wade believed the tide-shaped mark on her wrist was nothing more than an unusual birthmark, a quiet reminder of the sea that surrounded her cliffside home. She learned to respect the water's moods, to keep her distance from traditions she never understood, and to live with the feeling that something ancient lingered just beyond the horizon. When a storm unlike any before it shattered the world she knew, the ocean finally answered a call that had echoed through her life for longer than she realized. What followed drew her into a realm hidden beneath impossible depths, where memory drifted through living architecture, darkness bloomed with impossible beauty, and the deep carried secrets older than history itself. Surrounded by a kingdom shaped by the sea's will, Tessaly found herself caught between the person she had always been and something she could neither name nor resist. At the center of this mysterious world stood a distant ruler burdened by centuries of silence and loss. Around him moved a court steeped in shifting loyalties, forgotten truths, and the weight of ancient expectations. As old certainties unraveled, every encounter tested the boundaries of identity, belonging, and choice. © 2026 Relle H.

She wasn't his bride-she was his battery. Sold to the aristocratic Boudreaux family as a child, Kimbra Woods spent eleven years bound by a parasitic blood ritual. Her life force was quietly harvested to tether Damian-The Crimon Root's comatose heir-to the living world, feeding an ancient entity consuming them both. On the night of the final ceremony meant to seal her as a permanent vessel for life, Kimbra does the unthinkable: she breaks the contract and burns her chains to the ground. Her escape leads her to Our Lady of Tears Academy-a salt-and-stone fortress in New Orleans where "Exceptions" are forged into spiritual weapons. Against the abyss stands Roman De La Croix, a penitent upperclassman sworn to act as her Shield against demonic interference. But the Boudreaux Empire does not lose its property, and Damian has finally stepped into his Legacy... ⚠️ NOTE TO READERS: This Wattpad entry contains an exclusive 3-chapter preview of The Reform School for Witches: The Blood Lily Contract. 📖 READ THE FULL NOVEL: Available now on Amazon in Paperback & Kindle / Kindle Unlimited! 🏛️ INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: What is your classification at Our Lady of Tears Academy? Take the official 5-question Diocesan Placement Exam and join the community Discord: 🩸 rsfwseries.com

When the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice meets medieval horror fantasy and the classic fairytale of Snow White. A rough draft of my upcoming novel

A mysterious apothecary is taken from her quiet life in the forest by a feared knight and dragged toward a dark castle, where a cursed Sovereign is waiting for her. She doesn't know why he needs her... or what he truly is.

Cover Made by Canva When mysterious herbalist Cordelia Finch arrives in Maple Hollow, her unusual ways and strange bond with the local crows make her an outsider. But when two children disappear into the surrounding forest, the townspeople begin to wonder if the woman they feared might be the one who can bring them home.

Eleanor Harrow, a quiet archivist at the crumbling Marlowe Gallery, has always felt there was something uncanny about the art she tends. The painted eyes seem too watchful, the landscapes too restless. One stormy night, she encounters a painting of a forest that hums with music a melody both sorrowful and alluring. Her discovery draws the attention of Lucien, a mysterious man who should not exist within the locked gallery. Lucien reveals that the paintings hold trapped voices echoes of those who once lived, souls bound to canvas by an artist whose mastery bordered on the occult. Some beg for release. Others thirst for vengeance. As Eleanor and Lucien delve deeper, they uncover a hidden history: the Marlowe Gallery was not built merely to display art but to contain it, a sanctuary and a prison for works infused with dangerous magic. The singing painting is only the beginning. Behind gilded frames lie entire worlds forests, oceans, cities frozen in brushstrokes each containing lives, each waiting to be remembered. But the more Eleanor listens, the more the paintings demand. Their songs grow louder, more insistent, until she can no longer tell where her own heart ends and theirs begin. She must choose: to ignore the voices and let them wither in silence, or to step inside the canvas itself and risk losing her own soul. Torn between duty, curiosity, and a fragile bond with Lucien who carries secrets of his own Eleanor's journey becomes a battle against time, against the haunting power of art, and against the darkest truth of all: that not every voice deserves to be freed.

Cherry looks like any other college girl on campus-except for the sharp fangs hidden behind her smile and a week-long hunger for blood. Starving and desperate, she feeds on an unsuspecting local behind a dumpster to restore her power, only to head to class and pine after her crush, Owen, But Owen belongs to Widow, a ruthless rival who hides a dangerous secret of her own: she's a dark witch hunting for the ancient magical amulet hanging around Cherry's neck. When Widow threatens to drain Owen dry unless Cherry surrenders the artifact, a high-stakes supernatural war erupts in the dorm halls. Desperate to protect the boy she loves, Cherry resorts to theft, poisoned cherry pie, and a dark blood ritual to turn Owen into a creature of the night. But in a clash of dark magic, fangs, and betrayal, love comes at a lethal price.

Awoken in disarray, a lone figure is agasedly stranded in an expanse of horror.

«في كل أسطورةٍ جزءٌ من الحقيقة... وفي كل لعنةٍ شخصٌ يدفع ثمنها.» يقولون إن الحضارة انتهت منذ زمن. أن ما تبقى منها ليس سوى أطلالٍ صامتة، وكتبٍ لا يفهمها أحد، وأجهزةٍ فقدت وظيفتها مع مرور السنين. لكنهم مخطئون. فبعض الأشياء لم تنتهِ. السحر ما زال موجودًا. المانا ما زالت تتدفق. الوحوش ما زالت تتغذى على البشر. والأفيرون ما زالوا يؤمنون بأن هذا العالم وُجد لهم. وبين الممالك، والسحرة، وأصحاب القوى، والوحوش التي فقدت إنسانيتها... هناك أسرار أقدم من كل ما يعرفه البشر. أسطورة بدأت بلعنة. لعنة لم يجد أحدٌ بدايتها... ولا نهايتها ​"عندما تصبح الحضارة السابقة مجرد لعنة، لا يتبقى للأحياء سوى القتال على هامش التاريخ."

THE FORGOTTEN COVENANT For a hundred years, vampires and witches have lived under one fragile promise- The Forgotten Covenant. A sacred agreement created to prevent another war between two powerful supernatural bloodlines. But when an ancient oath is broken, strange magic begins to surface, old secrets awaken, and the fragile peace between vampires and witches begins to crumble. Adrian Vasile, the newly crowned Vampire King, inherits an ancient power he never asked for. Elena Dragomir, a powerful witch with the ability to trace ancient magic, is determined to uncover the truth behind the darkness spreading through their world. As the two are drawn into a mystery buried for a century, they begin to realize that the Covenant may be hiding something far more dangerous than either of them imagined. Old enemies are awakening. Forbidden magic is returning. And the truth could change everything they know about their world. Because the Covenant was never just a promise. It was a secret. And some secrets were meant to stay forgotten. Genre: Dark Fantasy • Supernatural Mystery • Gothic Fantasy • Slow Burn • Vampire Fiction © 2026 VelvetRozalin. All Rights Reserved.

: 🐺 The Wolf Family 🐺 In the House of a Million Echoes, the walls remember everything-and so does its matriarch. Arabella Wolf arrives as a foundling, a child with no past but a name whispered like a spell. Raised among three extraordinary triplets and watched over by a mother who commands storms with a glance, Arabella learns that love in the Wolf family comes with a price-and that destiny does not always follow blood.

Tristan hears the hum before the bodies are found. And then he meets her-the voice that promises heaven, and drags men to hell.

Olivia Lysander always wanted to join the Silent order. Ancient order set up by one of the old Kings of Imlallond. But when her brother dies suddenly when working for the order, she is determined to find the cause. Was he murdered or was it truly just an accident in service of the king. While at the orders headquarters she finds love in the mysterious Rhysand Thorne. Or so she thinks. She winds up cursed by the ancient magic she is sworn to protect.

Maris never meant to stumble into the Archive. One moment she was escaping the noise of her ordinary life, and the next she was wandering through endless halls of books that shouldn't exist-stories of people who were never born, futures that never happened, memories no one should remember. The Archive isn't just a library. It's alive. Its shelves rearrange, its staircases spiral into shadows, and its silence listens. And for some reason, it wants Maris. Drawn deeper by a trail of impossible books-one that knows her name, another that knows her past-Maris must decide if the Archive is offering her answers... or trapping her in a story she can never escape. Between days, between choices, between truths and lies... the Archive is waiting.

When Iris Hale receives a summons from the enigmatic Tortured Poets Department, she's thrust into a vast underground Archive where sorrow is currency and memory is devoured page by page. Every poet there feeds the shelves with confessions, griefs, and secrets-truth turned into sustenance for something larger and hungrier than they can see. Among them are August, the boy who once dreamed of a simple life with the girl he loved and lost; Mara, a foster child whose need to be seen has become a blade against her own skin; and Elias, a man hollowed out by betrayal, doomed to watch the Archive wear his lost wife's face. Over them all presides Arista, beautiful and merciless-an echo born of sorrow, who would see the Archive grow until it swallows London itself. But Iris refuses to be only prey. Guided by Rebecca, a mysterious crow who claims her as fiercely as any guardian, she begins to test the Archive's hunger. What if lies poison it? What if silence starves it? And what if consent-the right to keep your own words-could break its chains? As London flickers above them and the walls groan with collapse, Iris must decide what she is willing to lose-memory, love, even herself-to unmake a cathedral built of grief and begin again. Darkly lyrical and devastating, The Tortured Poets Department is a story of resistance, of friendship and sacrifice, and of the small, ordinary mercies that outlast even the hungriest of cathedrals.

[short story / paranormal] After her father's death, Ester longs to make a connection with someone, especially her mother. When she finds a possibly haunted old lamp, the family's past revisits them in an unexpected way. This is my entry for Low Fantasy's first contest. (1492 words.)

For centuries, the people of Ashfallow have sacrificed four souls each winter to the mountain that keeps them alive. When the ancient creature demanding the offerings suddenly disappears, the village's oldest certainty collapses overnight. Asa, the Stairwarden who has spent her life delivering the tithe, must uncover what killed the mountain before whatever replaced it reaches Ashfallow.

Thirty years. That's how long Luciless ruled. Thirty years of war and empire and roads that were safe and justice that didn't bend for gold - and in the end, it took one trusted hand, one poisoned cup, and one blade between her ribs to end it. She died on the floor of the palace she built. She woke up seventeen. New body. New name. New world - a fractured kingdom called Verrath where a corrupt council has been strangling its people for eleven years and a young noblewoman just lost a rigged succession hearing and somewhere in the capital, an Inquisitor is filing a very careful report about a mill girl from Ashford with the wrong eyes. Her memories are intact. Every campaign. Every lesson. Every face. Including Caelum's. She is not here for revenge. (The revenge is just a bonus.) She is here because she has been dead and she has been patient and she has thirty years of knowing exactly how a council like this one falls - and this time, she is going to build something that lasts. Luciless: The Dark Queen's Reign is a dark fantasy reincarnation story featuring: - A ruthlessly competent female lead who approaches a new kingdom the way a general approaches a new battlefield - A slow-burn reverse harem: the blacksmith who sees through her first, the lord's son hiding grief under wit, the foreign prince who came through a window at midnight, and the Crown Prince who arrived alone and asked the right questions - Political intrigue sharp enough to cut, a corrupt council falling from the inside out, and a dead woman's spy network assembled years before Luciless arrived to use it - Gothic prose, dark romance, and a queen who makes other people kneel She was a queen once. She intends to be so much worse this time.