Best of
Gothic

1970

Savannah Purchase


Jane Aiken Hodge - 1970
    They were cousins, but they looked enough alike to be twins.Life and war separated them, but the years didn't dim the astonishing resemblance.Now Fate suddenly threw them together again -- two beautiful, desirable women playing out a deadly masquerade.Set against the elegance, splendor and gentility of the early 19th-century South, this is a suspenseful tale of high intrigue and dangerous deception.

Fiona


Catherine Gaskin - 1970
    However the passions of the white masters and their restless slaves, on the brink of emancipation, are at boiling point. As hurricane winds and forbidden drums sweep the island, all secrets are laid bare.

House of Dark Shadows (Dark Shadows tie-in)


Marilyn Ross - 1970
    This is a Special Edition tie in to Dark Shadows Tv show with sixteen pages of B/W pictures.

The Secret Woman


Victoria Holt - 1970
    And so she was--until the memory of a cherished moment with a blue-eyed stranger suddenly returned to haunt her with savage intensity. It was then Anna discovered the secret woman who waited within her-- impetuous, daring...and dangerous.

Lost Island


Phyllis A. Whitney - 1970
    They grew up together on a mist-shrouded island off the Georgia coast. Long ago, and without Giles's ever knowing it, Lacey gave birth to his son. But Elise, the beautiful, domineering one, got Giles. She got Lacey's child, too, to bring up as her own.Lacey has tried hard to forget. But in ten years she hasn't been able to. So she's going back. To see her son. To confront Elise. To exorcise the spell of the island - and of Giles. Or perhaps to be trapped by them forever....

Lady Ingram's Room


Jill Tattersall - 1970
    Arabel, a young woman of good family, runs away and takes a position as a governess in the household of a glowering widower, where she salvages his motherless and seemingly unwanted little girl, and investigates the mysterious room of the long gone Lady Ingram's room, to determine what really happened to her.

The Curse of Mallory Hall


Dorothy Daniels - 1970
    

The Snow-White Soliloquies


Sheila Macleod - 1970
    She is part of a traveling freak show managed by Doc (who drives a black Mercedes). "[A] spooky little novel...It reads as if Kafka, Beckett, and Ingmar Bergman collaborated on it." (LIFE, 10 Aug 1970)

The House on the Brink


John Gordon - 1970
    When a teenager follows a strange trail in the marsh, he finds himself haunted by the legend of King John's lost treasure and increasingly aware of mysterious undercurrents in the town where he lives.

The Mystery of the Crimson Ghost


Phyllis A. Whitney - 1970
    Burley and her beautiful mare, Star, live. Janey knows that if she ever wants to ride Star, she must solve this chilling mystery!

Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale


David Case - 1970
    Case wrote The Cell: Three Tales of Horror which appeared in 1969 and even without the prescriptive subtitle, you'll know where you're at right on the first page--glowering in the gloaming of the 19th century. Fengriffen House, all towers and spires and moors, is also the scene of an older legend or curse materializing as Catherine Fengriffen is having a baby and losing her mind. A doctor summoned from London pursues what happened two generations ago (a brutal rape of a young wife and a bloody attack against her woodsman husband which left him with only a stump of a hand) as the background for the nocturnal visitations of an incubus. . . . For those who, unlike Catherine, willingly take leave of their senses but it's easily enough read by the light of the full moon.

Whispers in the Night


W.E.D. Ross - 1970
    

Ivorstone Manor


Elsie Cromwell - 1970
    Would an ancient good luck charm be powerful enough to protect Holly from the unseen evil at Ivorstone Manor?

The Man From Yesterday


Dorothy Daniels - 1970
    Gothic Romance

Journey Into Terror


Dorothy Daniels - 1970
    Here, among high-placed relatives whom the Yankees had come to trust, she might work in secrecy to aid the Southern cause.At the insistence of her daring cousin Nathaniel, she participated in the glittering social life of the capital, ferreting out bits of information that might insure a Rebel victory.One thing only threatened all that she and Nathaniel might accomplish -- the bewildering memory of Jeff Bayliss, the handsome Union major who had so brashly embraced her and vowed that they would meet again....