5 must-read gothic books like On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2) by Marian Womack

Cover of On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2) by Marian Womack

On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

By: Marian Womack

2.76

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A Gothic supernatural mystery for fans for The Quickening and The Shape of Darkness, featuring real…

If you liked the gothic plot in On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2) by Marian Womack , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.18

Format: 211 pages, ebook

Magic in the blood. Danger in the streets. Lord Crane has never had a lover quite as elusive as … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • paranormal
"I like to make you know your master,"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"You look like the cat that swallowed the cream," Stephen said softly. "That comes later."

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Dear me, Mr. Day. You really do love to get fucked on desks, don't you? Put you on a desk, and you're begging for it. What is so particularly exciting about desks?"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

"Charm's a very dangerous thing. Lucien, tell me," Stephen said thoughtfully. "This respect for shamans, this inviolability..." "Mmm?" "Well, I don't know if you remember, but some three weeks ago, yo…"

-K.J. Charles, A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)

2. Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)

By: K.J. Charles

3.40

Format: 96 pages, ebook

Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying oc… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

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3. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

Similar categories in Noah Medlock's A Botanical Daughter book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

Cover of Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan

4. Now She is Witch

By: Kirsty Logan

3.54

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

She dug her mother's grave in the poison garden so it would stay hidden... From the snowy winter… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Logan's Now She is Witch book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3) by C.K. McDonnell

5. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one o… read more

Similar categories in C.K. McDonnell's Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"It flicked through all the channels until it found a repeat of the 1990s show in which people in swimwear saved other people from drowning by running in slow motion towards them"

-C.K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

Cover of Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

6. Our Hideous Progeny

By: C.E. McGill

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of men. . . For readers of Circe o… read more

Similar categories in C.E. McGill's Our Hideous Progeny book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"We had built here, in this half-ruined boat house on the edge of the Moray Firth, a temple to our own strange gods- to Chemistry and Anatomy and Electricity."

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"There is something romantic about feeding a predator from the palm of your hand, I think- a creature which might bite you if it chooses, but chooses not to. But how does one turn such awful beauty to…"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I will always hold dear to my heart that fact that I was the first to see those golden eyes open, to see its reptilian pupils narrow and focus on my own- for in those eyes I saw, for the first time, …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

"I suppose that is why it often makes me sad to read about history, or even natural history, as you do; I cannot help but think of everyone whose tale cannot fit in one book, those poor creatures who …"

-C.E. McGill, Our Hideous Progeny

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7. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Cogman's Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

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8. The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

By: Josiah Bancroft

3.82

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josia… read more

Similar categories in Josiah Bancroft's The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"Do not neglect to live your life. No cause, no matter how noble, will ever love you."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"Administrators are oblivious and generally get in the way; effective employees learn to work around them. That's how it always is."

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

"I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like our rock does. They call them nomads. These nomads are up there wanderi…"

-Josiah Bancroft, The Hexologists (The Hexologists, #1)

Cover of Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony  Santorella

9. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

Similar categories in Tony Santorella's Bored Gay Werewolf book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of In Charm's Way (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #4) by Lana Harper

10. In Charm's Way (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #4)

By: Lana Harper

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A witch struggling to regain what she has lost casts a forbidden spell—only to discover much more t… read more

Similar categories in Lana Harper's In Charm's Way (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #4) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
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11. Unraveller

By: Frances Hardinge

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Fra… read more

Similar categories in Frances Hardinge's Unraveller book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and i…"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd know you were a boy, so she would too. If someone knows they're a man or boy, that's what matters. Outside appearences aren't important. It's what's inside that counts—who we are in our souls. …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

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12. Bitterthorn

By: Kat Dunn

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild… read more

Similar categories in Kat Dunn's Bitterthorn book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"She was lost to me in a hundred little griefs I found anew each year"

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"Loneliness can be something other people do to us, and something we do to ourselves."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"The hurtful truth of death was that it was as mundane as a meal uneaten, a cup knocked over."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

"My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre."

-Kat Dunn, Bitterthorn

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13. Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

By: H.M. Long

3.86

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

A stormsinger and pirate hunter join forces against a deathless pirate lord in this swashbuckling J… read more

Similar categories in H.M. Long's Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"What I wanted to do was speak—I was dying to, with the wind curling in my lungs. I wanted to sing, to soothe the ache of it."

-H.M. Long, Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)

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14. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's My Throat an Open Grave book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
Cover of Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3) by Lana Harper

15. Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3)

By: Lana Harper

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Even though she won’t deny her love for pretty (and pricey) things, Nineve Blackmoore is almost pai… read more

Similar categories in Lana Harper's Back in a Spell (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #3) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2) by Katy  Watson

16. A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2)

By: Katy Watson

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One murder mystery movie. Three Dahlias. And a whole cast of suspects... Ex-child star Posy Star… read more

Similar categories in Katy Watson's A Very Lively Murder (Three Dahlias #2) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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17. A Light Most Hateful

By: Hailey Piper

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's A Light Most Hateful book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Witches at the End of the World by Chelsea Iversen

18. The Witches at the End of the World

By: Chelsea Iversen

3.52

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Rage burns brighter than any spellfire… Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Iversen's The Witches at the End of the World book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
  • paranormal
Cover of On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2) by Marian Womack

19. On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

By: Marian Womack

2.76

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A Gothic supernatural mystery for fans for The Quickening and The Shape of Darkness, featuring real… read more

Similar categories in Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 20th century
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal mystery
  • paranormal
Cover of A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) by Sarah  Hawley

20. A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3)

By: Sarah Hawley

3.99

Format: 444 pages, ebook

Ben Rosewood never meant to be bound to a vampire succubus, especially one as sexy-yet-terrifying a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hawley's A Werewolf’s Guide to Seducing a Vampire (Glimmer Falls, #3) book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
Cover of Everything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca

21. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.77

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the 2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. A haunting… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and Marian Womack's On the Nature of Magic (Helena Walton-Cisneros #2)

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy

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