Gothicmystery Stories

She was hired to serve. And so she does. When a young woman arrives at Thornfield Manor to take up the role of lady's maid, she brings with her no name, no history, and no questions she is willing to answer. She is capable beyond expectation, unnervingly composed, and always watched by a small bird that never leaves her shoulder. Thornfield is a house that does not welcome curiosity, yet it is steeped in it. Lady Ravenna Thornfield, fragile of mind, keeps her close. The master of the house keeps his distance. And Charles Thornfield, heir and observer, watches her with an interest that unsettles more than it flatters. Within the manor's shadowed corridors, books whisper in unfamiliar hands, doors murmur secrets they were never meant to keep, and the line between servant and family begins to thin. She is not merely employed. She is being tested. As affection sharpens into something perilous and devotion slips toward obsession, the maid must decide whether anonymity is her shield or her prison. Some truths, once spoken, cannot be returned to silence. And some households are not meant to survive the revelation of who is truly standing within their walls. A Gothic historical romance of quiet power, dangerous intimacy, and the cost of being seen. The Strange Maid is a slow-burn tale of class, control, and the perilous allure of belonging.

In the tumultuous Fall of 1969, Aubrey Blackwood's carefully constructed future crumbles with a single phone call from the past. Fresh from nursing school with New York City beckoning, Aubrey's plans dissolve when her grandmother's desperate plea summons her back to Hollow Wind-the remote farmhouse where childhood innocence withered after her parents' tragic deaths. Banished to boarding school at twelve, Aubrey had locked away memories of the ancient estate with its whispering corridors and shifting shadows. Now, returning to care for her ailing grandfather, Aubrey finds more than familial obligation awaiting her. Her cousin Vanessa has vanished without trace, and questions about her disappearance are met with chilling silence. As twilight descends, the old house awakens-floorboards creak with phantom footsteps, voices echo through empty rooms, and something unseen watches from darkened corners. Night after night, she is held a prisoner of fear, from macabre visions to the nearly-fatal accidents that befall her-each one deepening her terror of the secrecy, the unknown, and the inexplicable hostility from her own family.. Beneath Hollow Wind's decaying grandeur lurks a malevolent secret, festering for generations. As Aubrey unravels the twisted threads of her family's past, she realizes the most terrifying truth of all-the darkness consuming Hollow Wind now hungers for her. Some family legacies are better left buried.

Why is my cousin dead after a mysterious trip to a hotel with a terrible and horrifying past?

A Gothic mansion in a secluded area contains an innocent enough dinner party - yet, our heroine suspects that something is amiss. How long will it take her to get to the bottom of this most misfortunate mystery?

Santa Fe, 1878. The Loretto Chapel stands unfinished-a choir loft mocking the sisters below, unreachable without ruin. Desperate prayers to St. Joseph summon a stranger: a weathered carpenter with a donkey, tools, and a whistle that hums like a hidden psalm. In the dead of night, he builds the impossible: a spiraling staircase of spruce and pegs, rising thirty-three steps without center or nail-warm as living wood, scented with snow and rosemary. But as doubt creeps in from skeptical reporters and weary knees, the sisters wonder: Is this man mere craftsman... or the hand that once mended the world? A reverent retelling of legend, laced with noir shadows and outsider faith. Climb the helix-where every step whispers belief amid the dark.

Every chapel keeps its prayers... but some keep their shadows. When whispers stir in the dark halls and secrets hide behind holy glass, two boys find themselves caught between truth and silence. In a world where trust is a fragile candle, will the light reveal salvation... or betrayal? ∆ Five Chapters Uploaded Every Week. ∆ Please Consider Reading and Giving Feedbacks, A Vote and even a follow.

When Celeste Duval finally wins the Victorian bed she's dreamed of since her childhood, she expects silk sheets and old-money glamour - not a ghost. But Lady Claribel Ashwyke, the bed's original owner, isn't just any ghost. She's beautiful, dangerous... and determined to have what she never had in life. True love. She wants Pete Thorne - the man Celeste has known forever, the man she refuses to admit she's drawn to. And to have him, Claribel wants something else first: Celeste's body. Now Celeste has one problem - the ghost wants to live her life and she especially wants Pete. And Celeste isn't interested in sharing. #WITWContest

In the shadowy depths of a medieval world, a skilled thief named Corvus embarks on his most daring heist yet, stealing a mysterious amulet from an ancient temple shrouded in darkness and legend. Unaware of the artifact's true power and the curse it holds, Corvus finds himself entangled in a web of nightmares and cosmic horrors that challenge the boundaries of reality. As he seeks to unravel the mystery of the amulet and its eerie connection to forgotten deities and otherworldly realms, Corvus must confront not only the darkness lurking in the world around him but also the shadows within his own soul

"Blood Tea: The Silence of Saturdays" "Every lie, carefully folded into the truth, becomes indistinguishable. Until you trip over the body." -From the anonymous letter, received April 1929

Lucrezia Poole's family has lost everything following a disastrous financial risk gone awry and her father's subsequent death. After authorities label his passing as a suicide, their once well established Bostonite name becomes steeped in failure and scandal. After turning down a proposal of marriage from a much older but wealthy man, Lucrezia's stepmother turns her out on her own. Forced to find a way to fend for herself, Lucrezia applies to a post for a governess position in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania at the infamous Winters estate, Wintergrove The Winters family, one of the most prominent in the country and yet the most secretive, has profited from their coal mines for decades. The patriarch of the family, Daniel Winters, is a renowned philanthropist and industrial tycoon of the last century. Now in his nineties, he lives in the sprawling castle with his grandson Theodore and great grandson Danny. Rumors abound in the house of a curse on the women of the family. Daniel Winters' own wife ran mad before throwing herself into a mountain chasm by her home. Theo's wife, Danny's mother, was rumored to have gone insane as well before she died in childbirth. With tensions rising between union strikers at their mines and Daniel Winters trying to wrestle business decisions from his stoic grandson, Lucrezia is plagued by dreams and visions in the echoing home as her attraction to Theo grows. Could the curse on the Winters family already be taking root in her? Or is there something more sinister afoot?

When Lily inherits her family's forgotten manor, she discovers letters from a lover she's never known - but who seems to know her. As shadows deepen and a mysterious presence stirs, she's drawn into a love story that transcends time, but it may claim more than just her heart.

classic set-up where a crime, usually murder, occurs in a seemingly impossible situation, such as a sealed room or isolated location, and there's no clear explanation of how the perpetrator managed it.

A 19th-century style short story that will transport you back to a time of quills and typewriters. A tale of mystery and tragedy awaits you in this first installation of my Gothic Fiction series.

When Kai inherits Blackwood Manor, he believes it's his second chance at belonging-a home tied to the family he barely remembers. But the halls whisper with secrets, and every shadow seems to watch. Beside him is Leo, the brooding groundskeeper who carries scars of his own and a hatred that runs deeper than Kai can understand. Then a stranger arrives. Julian. A name that freezes Leo's blood and a smile that makes Kai's pulse stumble. What begins as a fight for inheritance spirals into a game of psychological torment, betrayal, and desire. The manor hides the truth of old rivalries, planned tragedies, and bloodlines that refuse to rest. To survive, Kai must untangle the lies-while resisting the dangerous pull of two men bound to his fate. Dark romance. Gothic mystery. A house that devours. Welcome to Blackwood Manor.

When 22-year-old architect Patricia Taylor arrives at a remote German castle to fulfill her dreams, she finds herself swept up in a world of mystery, secrets, and dark allure. Haunted by the eerie beauty of the ancient castle and its enigmatic master, the brooding Baron, Patricia begins to unravel the hidden truths buried within the castle's walls. As Patricia navigates her way through the castle's shadowy corridors, she discovers a forbidden romance that threatens to consume her heart. Torn between her dedication to her work and her undeniable passion for the mysterious Baron, Patricia must choose between the life she's always known and the love that could change her destiny. Join Patricia in this captivating Gothic mystery as she uncovers the secrets of the forgotten castle and embarks on a journey of self-discovery, love, and intrigue.

They used to trade eggs for sugar out here. Now they trade secrets and blood. When Eleanor Quinn inherits her grandmother's store, she finds a ledger full of names - and a town full of things that don't sleep at night. Twin Hollow is a short, creepy read inspired by a real backroad town in Florida called Two Egg - yes, it's real, and yes, it's as weird as it sounds.

An underrated detective desperate for a worthy case. An ageing missing children's case that was assumed to be a runaway. Will he solve it?

"In Elmsmere, the past isn't dead-it's buried. And the soil won't let it rest." When investigative journalist Alex Hargrove returns to her hometown after a decade, she expects quiet grief-not the choked silence of a town hiding corpses. But Elmsmere's quaint streets hold rotten secrets: A girl's body in the church bell tower. A missing commune where women vanished without graves. And her own mother's signature on their falsified death certificates. Teaming up with her estranged sister Clara, Alex digs into the Preservation Committee-a cabal of the town's most powerful, clad in green robes and holy lies. But the deeper they go, the clearer it becomes: Elmsmere doesn't forgive those who disturb its dead.

After a scandal shatters her career and leaves her reputation in ruins, disgraced journalist Evelyn Crane retreats to the only place she can afford-a crumbling apartment above a forgotten bookstore in the rain-soaked college town of Blackwood. Surrounded by dust, regret, and silence, she stumbles upon an antique typewriter tucked in the shadows of her new home. At first, it seems like a relic. Until it begins to type. On its yellowed pages appear obituaries-chillingly detailed and disturbingly personal-of people who aren't dead yet. When the first death occurs exactly as written, Evelyn is drawn into a twisted mystery. Is the typewriter predicting deaths? Or causing them? Determined to stop the next fatality, Evelyn tries to intervene, only to learn that fate doesn't like to be rewritten. And the deeper she digs, the more terrifying the truth becomes: the typewriter is cursed. Every person who's ever used it has died... after their own obituary was typed. Now Evelyn must solve the dark origin of the machine, dodge the unraveling threads of reality it pulls apart, and confront the final horror-her name, slowly appearing on the page. To break the curse, she must let it write her end. To save herself, she must become the final story.