#the haunting of heatherhurst hall

[nothwell]

What if the monstrous was the feminine and the feminine was the monstrous but also the monstrous and the feminine made out. What then.

#gothic lesbians #sapphic horror #sapphic romance #lesbian romance #lesbian horror #wlw romance #wlw horror #gothic romance #gothic horror #queer romance #queer horror #the haunting of heatherhurst hall #sebastian nothwell #victorian romance #victorian horror #historical romance

[fourthleafluckart]

gothic horror + sapphic romance??? yes please???

Alexandra from The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by the fabulous @nothwell . This is the first side of a reversible keychain. Kit coming soon!

#the haunting of Heatherhurst Hall #sebastian nothwell #sapphic romance #gothic horror #queer book draw challenge #qbdc #2bdc #queer romance #lgbt books #book art #id in alt text #diverse book fanart #book fanart #queer book art

[fafalcon]

based on a scene from @nothwell´s book “the haunting of heatherhurst hall” but less angsty

#my art #the haunting of heatherhurst hall #sebastian nothwell #wlw art #book fanart #go buy it for a spooky story with victorian lesbians #the colors are too ugly sorry #books

[gogofio]

I read it was a “gothic lesbian romance rife with horror” and my hand impulsively smashed the purchase button.

I´m enjoying it, but I´ll have to finish it when I´m done with uni exams :_

#the haunting of heatherhurst hall #books #my posts #text or w/e

[marzipanandminutiae]

have you heard of the book “The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall”? It’s apparently a Crimson Peak rip-off, but if there were canon lesbians, no ghosts, and no incest? Which. I don’t know how that works.

I have indeed! I think it works via lavender marriage or something? I'm not sure how much I'd like it- I'm told it's not Femme4Femme like the subtext in the movie, and while that's totally fine...if I'm going for peak self-indulgence that way, you know I have to have gorgeous Victorian dress-on-gorgeous Victorian dress action.

Also, no ghosts? Tragic.

#ask #anon #gothic literature

[libraryleopard]

April reads

The Free People’s Village by Sim Kern

Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

That Summer Feeling by Bridget Morrissey

Be Gay, Do Comics: Queer History, Memoir, and Satire From The Nib edited by Matt Bors and Mattie Lubchansky

Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey, Pius Bak, and Roman Titov

A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein

The Earth in the Attic by Fady Joudah

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Sailor’s Delight by Rose Lerner

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall

Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein 

[Title unspecified for SMP boycott]

The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell

The Táin: The Woman’s Stories by Karina Tynan

Hard Sell by Hudson Lin

Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist

Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi

Just Lizzie by Karen Wilfrid

Empire of the Fesst by Bendi Barrett

Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish

#2024 reads #books #lulu speaks #lulu reads #i read a lot of ebooks while i was in ireland haha

[oviids]

Okay, so I GOTTA ask; out of all those books, which ones are gonna stick with you the most? Any real surprises or "I wish I could read this for the first time again" type stories?

hi thanks for asking!! normally i would try to give some specific answers but im really tired from work and, well, it would probably become an incredibly long post, so i'm just gonna post a list of books i read this year that were really good and/or i really enjoyed:

Empress Orchid duology

Iron Widow

Elektra

Abhorsen trilogy (reread)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

The Burning God

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

The Goddess of Nothing At All

Legends & Lattes

Blood Scion

The Lowest Healer and the Highest Mage

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Legendborn

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin duology

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome

Manhunt

Kill 6 Billion Demons vols 1&2,

The Wolf Den

The Daevabad Trilogy

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

Summer in Orcus

The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall

The Red Palace

Mirror Visitor Quartet

Beloved

Spear

#with links check them out or don’t up to u! #i forgot to add authors until I was like halfway through so I just went with it #the alie tag

[bookandcranny]

i tend to enjoy a historical romance, so my author recommendations are:

-sebastian nothwell (favorites are the Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall, a lesbian gothic horror, and Hold Fast, a fraught nautical-themed s/m romance)

-cat sebastian (love all her work)

-Aster Glenn Gray (favorite is Honey Trap, a realistic but hopeful romance between spies in the cold war)

hope one or two of these float ur boat!!

lesbian gothic horror definitely sounds up my alley. doesnt look like its available at my library unfortunately but i miight try and track it down regardless

#ask #lavosse

[queerlyloud]

It's finally Spoopy Season again, so I would like to offer up just a few of my favorite Spoopy WLW stories. I'll do two for each type of media. 👭🎃👻

Please note: I will NOT be including trigger warnings for this list. I am putting it together because I want to provide a useful resource but I am not cataloging these works and I definitely won't be including any kind of professional reviews. I just want to offer up some Stories I Like, and if you're interested in any of them, you can do further research on your own. :)

🌸TERFS can Fuck Off 🌸

First, Podcasts! I looooove podcasts this time of year, they do so much for queer horror fans!

1. Mabel

This podcast is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITES, I listen to it over and over again because it does the Fae as the eldritch horror creatures they are but also the romantic and often tragic figures they are and, most of all, as Not Human, and I just... deeply appreciate the entire aesthetic of this show. It is told through a series of voicemails left by two women trying to reach each other across impossible boundaries and I am just so here for it. 😭💕

2. Alice Isn't Dead

This podcast is soooo creepy, but it also explores grief and loss and what it means to go on afterwards. Told through radio transmissions from Kesha, a long-haul trucker out looking for the wife who had been pronounced dead, only to show up on a random news broadcast months later, and then again and again, always at the scene of some unbelievable atrocity. The story follows Kesha's journey as she tries to work through the betrayal of being left to mourn by the one she'd once trusted most and solve the mystery of what exactly had led her wife to abandon their home after more than a decade of building it together.

Next, my favorite Spoopy WLW shows! These give me so many feelings, and they are wildly different but I like them, and this is my list, so. 😌

1. Killing Eve

I KNOOOOOWWWW, alright, I KNOW it isn't technically a Spoopy Season pick, but it IS an awesome psychological horror (my favorite kind 🥰) which revolves around the twisted and complicated relationship between two women who are each, in their own ways, deeply fascinated, even obessessed with murder and death, and in their pursuit of it, end up becoming equally obsessed with each other. This show makes me so happy because it is unapologetically horrific but also somehow beautiful. I always think of this as the WLW Hannibal, and I stand by that. If you've ever hung out with mlm and also wlw, you'll know what I mean.

2. The Haunting of Bly Manor

This one is so soft! It has so many feelings and I would argue that there is only one (maybe one and a half) genuinely scary characters in the entire thing, which I know makes it almost not qualify for horror wlw, but it has the horror stuff in it (ghosts, murders, and creepy kids, oh my!) This one is my comfort spoop, so if you're looking for something a little less intense this Spoopy Season, this may be the watch for you. I watch it whenever I wanna let myself feel Big, Soft Feelings but also be vaguely creeped out, and also wanna look at lots of pretty ladies doing pretty lady things. All I have to say is:

🥰😍💖 Carla Gugino 💖 😍🥰

Finally, books! I'm going to rec a couple of books that I've either never or almost never seen recced. We all know about Gideon the Ninth (go read it 💕), but these books are ones that really did it for me when I read them and both of them were books I took a chance on and didn't regret it.

1. The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell

I've already written an actual review for this lesbian Gothic horror (I am using the word lesbian on purpose here, because it is the word the author used to describe it and it is important for textual context). This book is so gruesome and macabre and psychologically horrifying and simultaneously ethereal and grounded in the way it presents the story, a reflection of the characters of the two leads, as they are dragged into the tangled web of the seemingly cursed Heatherhurst Hall and the twisted ties of the bonds they've built with each other. If you love Gothic horror, old black and white movies, or scary lesbians, this is the story for you! Just be warned, this story is definitely not for the squeamish.

2. Women of the Dark Streets: Lesbian Paranormal edited by Radclyffe and Stacia Seaman

Hoo, buddy, this one is a MASSIVELY mixed bag. It is a collection of lesbian short stories, sometimes erotic, sometimes not, sometimes unabashedly horrific, sometimes softer. Some stories are phenomenal, some are terrible, and some are in between, but for me, the ones I loved have stuck with me for years. I DNF several of the stories, but I also read and reread some of them over and over again. Definitely visit Goodreads to get a feel for which stories sound right for you before just diving in, because a few are definitely triggering. I love horror that doesn't apologize for being horror, so this book held a lot of appeal for me, and if that's your jam, it might be an awesome chance for you to find some new favorite short stories, too. I'll say it again just in case, though, this might be one to miss if you're squeamish.

So there are my Spoopy WLW reccs for this Spoopy Season. Idk if anyone will read this, or if I just wasted an hour of my life writing a long post no one will ever see, but either way, it was a fun thing to do and if it helps even one other person, I think I'll call it good. Wishing all of you the very best Halloween. 🧡🎃👻

#mine #personal #reccs #lesbian #wlw #spoopy stories for spoopy season #mabel podcast #mabel #alice isn't dead #alice isn't dead podcast #killing eve #the haunting of bly manor #the haunting of heatherhurst hall #sebastian nothwell #women of the dark streets #radclyffe #stacia seaman #wlw recs #lesbian recs

[anisotropic-blue]

Hold up - spoiler ahead! If you haven’t read Sebastian Nothwell’s Gothic F/F romance The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall, then the full image contains a spoiler, though not one that would ruin the book for anyone, I don’t think. I enjoyed the spooky English country house tale quite a bit, though, so I’d recommend you read it first!

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 Keep going for the full image…

Alexandra Cranbrook, in the style of Victorian erotic photography c1890. Because if your girlfriend is into photography and develops her own plates, there’s really no reason not to take suggestive pictures, right?

I went for a slightly-below-the-knee amputation (the book says the leg “ended at the knee”), so I could do a period-appropriate prosthesis that could bend better and allow a sexy pose. Oh, and Alex would want you to know that the one in the picture is based off the work of James Gillingham, British shoemaker turned well-regarded prosthetic limb manufacturer. Morbid little details are the way to that girl’s heart ^_^

Completed April 2020

#sebastian nothwell #the haunting of heatherhurst hall #alexandra cranbrook #book fanart

[colorful-yarns-queer-stories]

Do you want a gruesome but satisfying Gothic lesbian romance? Then do I have a recommendation for you! The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell has all the appeal of the Gothic style of the 19th and 20th centuries, but features a fantastically queer cast and a spine-chilling ambiance that I really cannot recommend highly enough. With all the illicit thrill of the twisted macabre typical of a Gothic novel, this book leaves you feeling like you're peeking in on something forbidden as you follow its heroines through the exploration of the dark history of the Cranbrook family and their navigation of the secret, desperate desire they hold for each other that pushes them to extremes bordering on madness. From the introduction to the final page, you cannot help but sink into the seemingly fractured minds of the two young women trapped by the rules of the societies in which they live and the dark Cranbrook history that seemingly returns haunt them both. This book was absolutely satisfying, reminiscent of the black and white horror movies of old, while citing and exalting such powerful literary predecessors as Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Christina Rosetti's The Goblin Market and Other Poems. If you are a fan of lesbians, Gothic romance, or dark stories where secrets abound, this book is definitely worth the read!

#lesbian character #lesbian main character #gay character #lesbian romance #gothic romance #lgbtq plus #lgbtq books #lgbtq book review #bookblogger #book blog #tw gore #tw mental instability #tw horror

[nothwell]

#historical romance #wlw romance #sapphic romance #sapphic yearning #gothic romance #gothic horror #victorian romance #lesbian romance #gothic lesbians #queer romance #queer horror #the haunting of heatherhurst hall #sebastian nothwell

[fourthleafluckart]

Quick sketch page for Gertie of Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by @nothwell cause I can't stop thinking about her 👀

#the haunting of heatherhurst hall #sebastian nothwell #queer books #queer romance #book art #id in alt text

[lgbtqiahistoricalromance]

LGBTQIA+ Historical Romance Novels with Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gothic themes 2019 - Updated October 17

A list of titles that either came out after the last update in 2018 or were published this year. Many series!

Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers

- An elegant werewolf in Edinburgh…

1788. When Lindsay Somerville, the most elegant werewolf in Paris, learns that the man who held him in abject captivity for decades is on his way to France, intent on recapturing him, he knows he must leave the Continent for his own safety. Lindsay cannot take the risk of being recaptured—he may have been free for a century but he can still feel the ghost of his old chains under his fine clothes.

… on a mission…

While he’s in Edinburgh, Lindsay has been tasked with acquiring the “Naismith Papers”, the writings of a long-dead witchfinder. It should be a straightforward mission—all Lindsay has to do is charm an elderly book collector, Hector Cruikshank. But Cruikshank may not be all he seems, and there are others who want the papers.

… meets his match

As if that were not enough, while tracking down the Naismith Papers, Lindsay meets stubborn architect Drew Nicol. Although the attraction between them is intense, Nicol seems frustratingly determined to resist Lindsay’s advances. Somehow though, Lindsay can’t seem to accept Nicol’s rejection. Is he just moonstruck, or is Nicol bonded to him in ways he doesn’t yet understand?

Note: this is the first book of a duology – the story continues and will complete in the second book, Master Wolf.

A Hidden Beauty by Jamie Craig

- Student of letters, Micah Yardley wants one thing: to meet the poet Jefferson Dering. After hearing his idol speak at Harvard, Micah travels to Jefferson’s home in nearby Wroxham, entertaining visions of discussing poetry over dinner and drinks. What he experiences exceeds anything he ever anticipated. Jefferson finds Micah mesmerizing and passionate, everything he has ever wanted. But after getting caught in a compromising position with another young man a decade earlier, he exiled himself from Boston and from affairs of the heart. Jefferson represses his longing for Micah, but his tumultuous emotions cannot be contained. Micah denies the truth of his desire for Jefferson. Jefferson refuses to act on his passion for Micah. But all it takes is a single kiss in Wroxham's haunted church to change the course of their lives ... and ignite the flame that could fulfill a generations-old promise.

Deosil by Jordan L Hawk (Whyborne & Griffin series finale!!!!)

- Whyborne, Griffin, and their friends have faced down cultists, monsters, and sorcerers. But their greatest challenge is now upon them. On the return voyage from Balefire Manor, Whyborne receives the worst news possible: Widdershins has fallen before the onslaught of the Fideles and their servants. There’s still time to stop the return of the Masters, but that window grows shorter by the hour. Together with Christine and Iskander, Whyborne and Griffin must reach Widdershins to face the ultimate test—and decide the fate of the world, once and for all.

The Ingenious Mechanical Devices series by Kara Jorgensson (bisexual, pansexual, asexual, persons with disabilities, and POC characters in this series!!!)

Book One = The Earl of Brass

- Eilian Sorrell is no stranger to cheating death, but when a dirigible accident costs him his arm, he fears his days of adventuring are over. As the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, Lord Sorrell knows he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy unless he can escape. On a quest to return to his old life, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm, but the craftsman isn’t quite what he expected.

Fenice Brothers Prosthetics is in trouble. Hadley’s brother is dead, and she is forced to pick up the pieces and finish what he started. When clients begin turning her away, she fears she will fail until she crosses paths with the enigmatic Lord Sorrell. In exchange for a new arm, he offers her a chance at adventure in the deserts of Palestine.

Beneath the Negev’s sand lies something far more precious than potsherds or bones. A long lost crystal city has been found that could change Eilian and Hadley’s world forever, but they aren’t the only ones who know its secrets. Will they make it out alive or will they, too, be buried beneath the desert sands?

Shinigami by Xia Lake

- A coming-of-age love story between an orphan and the heir of the richest family in the Land of Yamato. The human world meets the yōkai in a power struggle for the fate of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu. While he battles to find his own path, Hirotsugu finds solace in a boy who will become his secret friend, then his salvation, and then as they become adults together, the love of his life.

The Sea May Burn by Rose Lerner (Part of the St. Lemeston universe, a f/f retelling of Jane Eyre!!!) COMING SOON!

- Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Mary Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.

I was the perfect choice to give Mary a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.

I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Mary’s mother, Sir Kit’s companion, Goldengrove’s mistress.

All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.

Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on the guitar I found in the music room, why all the doors in the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night…

Lost in Time series by AL Lester

Book One = Lost in Time

-  Lew Rogers's life is pleasantly boring until his friend Mira messes with magic she doesn't understand. While searching for her, he's pulled back in time to 1919 by a catastrophic magical accident. As he tries to navigate a strange time and find his friend in the smoky music clubs of Soho, the last thing he needs is Detective Alec Carter suspecting him of murder. London in 1919 is cold, wet, and tired from four years of war. Alec is back in the Metropolitan Police after slogging out his army service on the Western Front. Falling for a suspect in a gruesome murder case is not on his agenda, however attractive he finds the other man. Both men are floundering and out of their depth, struggling to come to terms with feelings they didn't ask for and didn't expect. Both have secrets that could get them arrested or killed. In the middle of a murder investigation that involves wild magic, mysterious creatures, and illegal sexual desire, who is safe to trust?

We Met in Dreams by Rowan McAllister

- In Victorian London, during a prolonged and pernicious fog, fantasy and reality are about to collide—at least in one man’s troubled mind. A childhood fever left Arthur Middleton, Viscount Campden, seeing and hearing things no one else does, afraid of the world outside, and unable to function as a true peer of the realm. To protect him from himself—and to protect others from him—he spends his days heavily medicated and locked in his rooms, and his nights in darkness and solitude, tormented by visions, until a stranger appears. This apparition is different. Fox says he’s a thief and not an entirely good sort of man, yet he returns night after night to ease Arthur’s loneliness without asking for anything in return. Fox might be the key that sets Arthur free, or he might deliver the final blow to Arthur’s tenuous grasp on sanity. Either way, real or imaginary, Arthur needs him too much to care. Fox is only one of the many secrets and specters haunting Campden House, and Arthur will have to face them all in order to live the life of his dreams.

The Clearwater Mysteries by Jackson Marsh

- Book One = Deviant Desires

The Victorian East End lives in fear of the Ripper and his mission to kill rent boys. Silas Hawkins, nineteen and forging a life on the streets could well be the next victim, but when he meets Archer, his life changes forever. Young, attractive and rich, Archer is The Viscount Clearwater, a philanthropist, adventurer and homosexual. When Archer suspects the Ripper is killing to lure him to a confrontation, he risks his reputation and his life to stop the madman's murders. Every man must play his part, including Silas. A mashup of mystery, romance and adventure, Deviant Desire is set in an imaginary London of 1888. The first in an on-going series, it takes the theme of loyalty and friendship in a world where homosexuality is a crime. Secrets must be kept, lovers must be protected, and for Archer and Silas, it marks the start of their biggest adventure - love.

Highland Haunting: A Townsend Halloween Story (The Townsends) by Lily Maxton

- For the past few months, Ian Cameron and Robert Townsend have been settling into their new life together, but when a series of odd events occur at Llynmore Castle, Ian begins to suspect that he's being haunted. The question is, is the spirit malevolent or benevolent? Does it want to harm him or warn him of something to come? As Halloween draws closer, the ghost becomes stronger. Ian and Robert will have to trust each other and trust themselves to find the answers they need before it's too late. *Highland Haunting is 16,000 words and features the main characters from A Scot's Surrender

The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall by Sebastian Nothwell (f/f!!!)

- Heatherhurst Hall

Cumberland, England

1892

American heiress Kit Morgan is heartbroken at the wedding of her dearest school-friend. At her lowest moment, she is rescued from her agonies by the mysterious and alluring Alexandra Cranbrook, sister of a visiting English baronet. Alexandra is beautiful, charming, and effortlessly beguiling. Kit cannot help but fall in love with her.

When Sir Vivian Cranbrook proposes marriage, it seems natural for Kit to accept—if only to live with the woman she desperately loves.

But the Cranbrook’s ancestral home of Heatherhurst Hall is not all it seems. The attic is forbidden. Strange scratching noises echo from within the walls. Wraiths stalk the corridors by night. And worst of all, Alexandra’s love has turned to scorn.

Still, Kit is determined to earn her happily-ever-after and save the Cranbrooks from the horrors of Heatherhurst Hall.

If only she could know Alexandra loved her in return.

~The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall is a Gothic romance rife with horror and heartache, wherein an American heiress makes an ill-advised marriage to bring herself closer the woman who’s stolen her heart.

Read by Candelight series by Gillian St. Kevern (7 book so far, with m/m and f/f love stories!!!)

- Book One = The Secretary and the Ghost: A Gothic Paranormal Romance

Pip Leighton is in a fix. His sister’s marriage hinges on him staving off the family’s impending financial ruin by taking the job of secretary to Lord Cross, a reclusive man with a temper befitting his name. Developing a passion for his employer was not on the cards. Neither was getting caught up in the deep mystery surrounding Foxwood Court and its resident ghost, but Pip has never been one to shirk a duty. As Pip delves deeper into the past, he discovers that his only hope for a future with Cross may depend on a man long dead—a man with a curious resemblance to himself.

The Gentleman Attraction: a short victorian mm paranormal romance by Connor Peterson

Emerson Mallory never mixes business and pleasure. His eyes might wander but he certainly wouldn’t risk his professional reputation over a tryst. Not even for a silver-haired scoundrel who clearly knows his way around a bedroom and makes his heart race with just one look.

When a flirtatious train ride turns into a weekend in close quarters, Bennet Clarke doesn’t agree that it would be best to leave their attraction at the door. He gave up worrying about human sensibilities the night he became a vampire centuries ago, and right now he wants more than one taste of Emerson’s charm and unnerving ability to see past his cavalier masks.

Their host has a few secrets of their own and a madcap plan that requires Emerson to enlist Bennet’s help. When the inevitable happens, Emerson begins to think that maybe Bennet’s way of looking at things isn’t so bad. Bennet, however, is faced with a dilemma. Keep up the ruse, or confess that Emerson has no idea who he’s gotten involved with.

Amidst the flurry of activity surrounding their host, the two men will have to keep their affair secret, plan a successful party, and decide if forever is too much to ask.

Spellbound: A Paranormal Historical Romance (Magic in Manhattan Book 1) by Allie Therin

- To save Manhattan, they’ll have to save each other first… 1925 New York Arthur Kenzie’s life’s work is protecting the world from the supernatural relics that could destroy it. When an amulet with the power to control the tides is shipped to New York, he must intercept it before it can be used to devastating effects. This time, in order to succeed, he needs a powerful psychometric…and the only one available has sworn off his abilities altogether. Rory Brodigan’s gift comes with great risk. To protect himself, he’s become a recluse, redirecting his magic to find counterfeit antiques. But with the city’s fate hanging in the balance, he can’t force himself to say no. Being with Arthur is dangerous, but Rory’s ever-growing attraction to him begins to make him brave. And as Arthur coaxes him out of seclusion, a magical and emotional bond begins to form. One that proves impossible to break—even when Arthur sacrifices himself to keep Rory safe and Rory must risk everything to save him.

Hayden Thorne is reissuing many of her LGBT romances this year, with some of the most original content in the genre. Many are YA options, but very enjoyable for adults!

Extensive 2018 Halloween List 

Since links have been failing in Tumblr, here is the URL for Halloween 2018: https://lgbtqiahistoricalromance.tumblr.com/post/188457088709/lgbtqiahistoricalromance

[oviids]

goodnight I’m losing my mind over this gothic horror lesbian romance novel I just started

#it’s the haunting of heatherhurst hall and it’s soooooo good so far omg #the alie tag

[nothwell]

Ladies, is it gay to marry a man just to get closer to his sister? THE HAUNTING OF HEATHERHURST HALL is a sapphic romance rife with horror and heartache, wherein an American heiress makes an ill-advised marriage to bring herself closer the woman who’s stolen her heart. American heiress Kit Morgan is heartbroken at the wedding of her dearest school-friend. At her lowest moment, she is rescued from her agonies by the mysterious and alluring Alexandra Cranbrook, sister of a visiting English baronet. Alexandra is beautiful, charming, and effortlessly beguiling. Kit cannot help but fall in love with her. When Sir Vivian Cranbrook proposes marriage, it seems natural for Kit to accept—if only to live with the woman she desperately loves. But the Cranbrook’s ancestral home of Heatherhurst Hall is not all it seems. The attic is forbidden. Strange scratching noises echo from within the walls. Wraiths stalk the corridors by night. And worst of all, Alexandra’s love has turned to scorn. Still, Kit is determined to earn her happily-ever-after and save the Cranbrooks from the horrors of Heatherhurst Hall. If only she could know Alexandra loved her in return.

#historical romance #sapphic romance #gothic romance #sapphic horror #ff romance #wlw romance #lesbian romance #queer romance #victorian romance #the haunting of heatherhurst hall