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

Her blood makes her what they hunt. Her scent makes her what they fear. And falling for the one boy she was warned to avoid might be the spark that sets the whole town on fire. Some secrets don't make you powerful. Some love stories don't save you from monsters. They help you survive them. ________________________________ Six months before everything went wrong, seventeen-year-old Kelsey Blackwell moves to her father's isolated forest town after losing her mother. She expects awkward family dinners, old grief, and the kind of small-town boredom that makes every day feel the same. She is very, very wrong. Cold Creek is nothing like she expected. It is a quiet forest town where people stare too long, whisper bloodkin like a curse, and act as if Kelsey has broken rules no one ever bothered to explain. Her father will not tell her the truth. Her grandparents pretend everything is normal. And the woods around town feel alive in a way no forest should. Then Kelsey crosses paths with Ethan Greystone, the one boy she was warned to avoid. Ethan belongs to everything Cold Creek understands: bloodline, instinct, power, control. Kelsey is someone everyone would rather keep hidden. She is human in a place built for predators, and the more Ethan notices her, the more the town begins to turn against them both. Because the danger in Cold Creek does not only wait in the forest. It watches her. It reacts to her. And the deeper Kelsey is pulled into the town's secrets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is the target, or someone everyone should have feared from the beginning. Because what they don't know is this: sometimes the most dangerous girl in town is the one who never becomes one of them.

You are an artist struggling with inspiration when you are commissioned to restore a century-old porcelain doll named Arthur. After completing his restoration, you begin dreaming of a beautiful, impossible world where the doll is no longer porcelain-but human. As your dreams grow stranger and Arthur becomes increasingly attached to you, unsettling events begin bleeding into reality. Meanwhile, your uncle mysteriously disappears, leaving behind unanswered questions surrounding the doll and a broken pocket watch. As reality and dreams intertwine, you begin to wonder whether Arthur is truly just a doll... or something that has been waiting for you all along.

In a secluded settlement of late 1800's Texas where faith and community rule, Emilia has spent her life learning to fear the creature that haunts her home. Known only as the Beast, he is said to be a monster who emerges beneath the moon to prey upon those who wander too far. But when Emilia is forced to flee the only home she's ever known, she finds herself drawn deeper into the woods and closer to the very creature she was taught to fear. The Beast is not what the village promised and behind crimson eyes of a terrifying shadow lies a loneliness familiar to her own. As Emilia begins to uncover the truth behind the monster lurking the prairies, she must decide whether she can trust the creature who seems to understand her better than anyone ever has. Because sometimes, the greatest monsters are not the ones hiding in the darkness and sometimes, the darkness is where you finally find yourself.

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

My Soul Dances the Blues No one knows exactly when enitnatsnoC oãoJ began walking backwards. Some say it was the day he buried his own name; others believe he was born that way, doomed to see the world through the reflection of its ruins. This is the story of a man who collects rust instead of memories, smokes to converse with ghosts, and turns every defeat into a song no one ever dared to write. Through cities where the rain smells of nicotine, forgotten bars, and abandoned railway stations, he follows a long road between love, guilt, solitude, and the slow decay of hope. Each chapter follows a track from the album My Soul Dances the Blues, revealing another fragment of his soul. There are no heroes, no happy endings, and no promises of redemption. There is only the blues-the only language capable of translating the weight of remaining alive when everything else has already gone. Because some people do not dance to celebrate. They dance to stop their souls from sinking into silence. And when the final note fades away, you may discover that enitnatsnoC oãoJ was never merely a man. Perhaps he is the part of all of us that keeps walking long after the heart has forgotten how to believe.

A modern gothic anthology of short stories filled with shadows, ghosts, forgotten places, and the quiet horrors hidden within human hearts.

Locked away in the freezing towers of Castle Dimitrescu by Mother Miranda's decree, former Connections operative Mia Winters expects only interrogation, captivity, or death. Instead, she is assigned to the estate's eldest daughter: Bela Dimitrescu. What begins as a cold, high-stakes game of observation and power rapidly shifts into a dangerous, slow-burn fascination. Bound by shared captivity within a world that demands absolute obedience, the two women forge an unspoken alliance built on vampire-coded intimacy, temperature play, and mutual defiance. As the ancient machinery of the castle prepares for a bloody final ceremony and an outsider's desperate rescue operation draws near, Bela and Mia must choose between the roles they were created to play and a future they carve out with their own hands. Content Warning: This work contains adult softcore gothic romance and dark themes, including vampire-coded tropes (controlled feeding, cold touch, biting, and blood-wine symbolism), power-exchange dynamics, possessiveness, psychological tension, horror elements, and intimate relationships between consenting adults. Reader discretion is advised.

The structural foundation that makes up the world places vampires at the top of the food chain, above humans. Their inhuman strength and ability's make them the perfect hunter. The world carters to them, as they hold the power to carve it. Their needs met and their society needing not want for anything. Tarun, A human tuned vampire, vows to find a way to cure his vampirism and to uncover the vampires weakness and destroy them. In his final year of collage, seven years after he was turned, yet no closer to a cure, maybe its time he considers working with the one vampire who wishes for peace, to find a way forward, towards a future they can both find happiness in...

Albuquerque East High is supposed to be the most progressive, PR‑friendly school in New Mexico... so of course it's a disaster. Between taxpayer-funded K-pop pep rallies, mandatory "mindfulness" workshops, and a Student Council that runs the halls like a pink-washed dictatorship, the air here is thick with manufactured joy and desperate clout. It's a place where the social hierarchy is decided by TikTok views, and the chemistry teacher looks like he's one bad day away from a very violent career change. Into this circus walks Sebastian Vale: a gothic shadow with an old‑school 80s aesthetic, a razor‑sharp tongue, and a hatred for clout culture. He fronts a niche goth band called The Stigmata, hangs with the art freaks and rivetheads, and would rather set himself on fire than join Drama Club or Glee. The only thing weirder than the fact he might be psychic is that he's one of the few actually sane people on campus. Colliding with him-literally-is Lexi Monroe: East High royalty, Cheerios darling, social media it‑girl, and self‑branded "future icon." She lives online as @LexiLuxe, drives a pink Mercedes, wears Lava Springs money, and thinks "goth" means Billie Eilish core. One hallway crash, one spilled latte, and one ill‑fated eye contact later, Lexi decides Sebastian is her next project: the brooding goth boy she'll turn into the internet's newest aesthetic obsession. He wants to stay underground. She wants him to go viral. Surrounded by Wildcats, Plastics, Glee kids, skaters, juggalos, conspiracy nerds, foreign exchange weirdos, and a chemistry teacher who's one bad day away from breaking bad, Sebastian and Lexi stumble into a messy, darkly comic romance. This is a story about love, cliques, and the ugly truth behind "picture‑perfect" high school culture. Welcome to East High, where not everyone sings, not everyone is okay, and the real drama isn't on the stage, it's in the comments.

Jhon lives alone. Or at least, that is what he tells himself. He lives inside a tired, yellowed flat where the clock is forever trapped at midnight, seven dead flowers wait in a cracked glass, and cigarette smoke hangs in the rooms like something that refuses to leave. Every morning, Jhon gathers enough courage to imagine another life. A life outside. A life with people. Friends. Laughter. Perhaps even love. Every night, however, the same old ghosts return. Fear. Shame. Desire. Regret. Sadness. They know his name. They know his memories. And, more disturbingly, they seem to know what Jhon refuses to remember. There is a door in the flat. There are seven steps beyond it. There is a woman who appears whenever Jhon begins to believe he might finally escape. There is a pub called The Black Lantern. There are letters he does not remember writing. There are rooms that should not exist. And there is always tomorrow. Tomorrow, Jhon will leave. Tomorrow, Jhon will find someone. Tomorrow, Jhon will finally begin to live. But tomorrow has a peculiar habit of never arriving. Below the Surface is a dark collection of seven narrative fables about loneliness, shame, memory, longing and the strange architecture of the human mind. But beneath the poetry lies another story. A quieter one. A story hidden inside the numbers. Inside the doors. Inside the clock. Inside the things Jhon remembers incorrectly. Every chapter brings him closer to something he has spent years refusing to face. Perhaps the ghosts are haunting Jhon. Perhaps Jhon is haunting the ghosts. Perhaps the door has never been locked. Perhaps it was never a door at all. Seven chapters. Seven steps. Seven memories. And beneath everything Jhon believes he knows... something is waiting. Welcome below the surface.

The dead whisper her name, but the living fear what she's becoming. ---- Mara has spent her life hidden away in her family's countryside estate, plagued by a mysterious illness, missing memories, and nightmares of the Crimson Veil - a blood-soaked cavern where a strange woman calls to her through the dark. While her sister thrives in Regency society, Mara survives through books and the hope that her world might someday grow larger. Everything changes when her family takes in an orphaned boy named Theodore. With Theo's arrival, Mara's illness begins to disappear, allowing her a long-awaited entrance into society. But beneath glittering ballrooms and secret societies lies something sinister. After a betrayal leaves Mara poisoned and broken, she is pushed through a portal into another realm entirely - a world of impossible forests, ancient magic, and dangerous truths. There, Mara discovers she was never truly ill. England itself was poisoning the magic within her. Dragged into the realm of Riamh, where power rests in the hands of women, Mara uncovers the truth about her stolen past, her connection to the corruption spreading through Ivy Society, and the bloodline that marks her as both heir and threat. Now caught between two realms, Mara must decide whether to return to the fragile life she once knew... or embrace the terrifying power growing inside her before it destroys everything she loves.

True evil doesn't lurk in the dark. It smiles at you from across the counter, smells like fresh laundry, and looks blindingly, terrifyingly innocent. Jane has a curse. She can taste lies like copper on her tongue and feel the exact shift of a person's malevolent energy. But she lives by one golden rule: The people with the dark clouds over their heads-the grieving, the broken, the angry-are never the monsters. They're just the targets. When Jane moves to the isolated, fog-choked timber town of Oakhaven, she expects quiet. Instead, she gets a nightmare. When local tragedies start piling up, the town instantly points its finger at Caleb, a volatile local drowning in a storm of rage. But Jane knows Caleb is innocent. The real predator is hiding in plain sight, wearing a pristine mask of community leadership and radiating a fake, sterile light that makes Jane's teeth ache. As the winter closes in, the shift-changes blur, and the nightmares start bleeding into her waking life, Jane must track the movement and unmask the witch before she becomes the next victim. Everyone thinks Oakhaven is safe. They're looking at the shadows. They should be looking at the light.

A Gothic Cinderella Romantasy || Dorella's gift is forged from suffering ~ a dark power awakened by a tragedy that leaves her family's estate in ruin and her own soul unraveling. Prince Carmyne bears a voice that commands yet curses him, a weight that shapes his moral descent and fragile rise. Bound by a love fraught with enmity and longing, they navigate a world where mercy and vengeance intertwine, and sacrifice is the only currency. ⋆｡°✩ ⋆⁺｡˚⋆˙‧₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ ✩°｡⋆ In this gothic tale, light and shadow weave through hearts and halls alike, revelaing that power born of pain is a double-edged blade and that salvation oft demands a grievous price. ⋆｡°✩ ⋆⁺｡˚⋆˙‧₊✩₊‧˙⋆˚｡⁺⋆ ✩°｡⋆ A spellbinding gothic-fantasy Cinderella retelling. NO AI. Amanda L. Rautio is an indie author of five books. She does all her own writing, and hires all her own human artists and editors. She does not outsource her thinking or creativity to machines.

Edgeweena Cuttleteri and her husband, Smoothpoono Cuttleteri, move into a too-good-to-be-true house just in time to start their new family. The house itself, or rather some long-existing residents, are quite pleased with this development.

She'd always been drawn to beautiful things with something broken underneath, and she'd stopped caring what people thought the moment she walked into a room. She wasn't looking for anyone, especially not him. Then one ordinary night, backstage in a world of black velvet and smoke and music loud enough to shake something loose, there he is: Marilyn. To everyone else, an icon; to her, a man hiding behind the mythology, carrying his own ghosts. Their first encounter is brief. Their second isn't. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes something neither of them knows how to name: conversations into the early hours, lingering looks, attraction turning into trust, and trust into something far more dangerous. Because sometimes the person who sees the darkest parts of you is the one who makes you feel safest. And some loves don't arrive like sunlight. They arrive like a shadow and stay.

DUOX Original For most of his life, William SilverCross has fought the forces of darkness, carried the burden of his bloodline, and endured everything the world could throw at his family. Now, for the first time, he has peace. The SilverCross family is together again. Nolan has returned to his father. Alex has her family. Baby Gabriel is finally safe. And William is ready to leave the past behind him. But peace was never meant to last. When an old darkness resurfaces, William is forced into one final battle-one that will demand more from the Patriarch than any demon, curse, or enemy ever has. For the House of SilverCross, this will not simply be another fight against evil. It will be the end of an era. SilverCross: Death of the Patriarch

a teen alternative girl who goes through life crushing hard on her brothers best friend but still knowing that it will never work and she should look for her soulmate instead

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🧯Read at your own risk ⚠️ Sebastian St. James arrives in Paris with a future already waiting for him. Young, aristocratic, and betrothed, he has spent his life knowing exactly what is expected of him. His stay in Paris should be nothing more than another temporary stop to escape the growing scandals from his hometown. Then, in the quiet halls of a Parisian hotel, he meets a stranger. One encounter becomes companionship. A conversation becomes friendship. And before Sebastian understands what is happening, the man he never expected to meet has become the one person he cannot imagine leaving behind. Together, they leave Paris by train for the French Riviera. Their journey takes them through the countryside and into fields of lavender and along breathtaking seasides, where the world seems to slow down long enough for them to forget who they are supposed to be. Away from their families, their obligations, and the eyes of society, they find something neither of them was searching for. Each other. But every journey has an ending. And for Sebastian, the hardest part will not be falling in love-it will be discovering what the world intends to take from him. Some seasons are brief. Some loves are forbidden. And some are simply impossible to forget.