21 Best fiction books like The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

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The Shape of Darkness

By: Laura Purcell

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep…

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1. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

By: Bridget Collins

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
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2. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
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3. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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4. The Hemlock Cure

By: Joanne Burn

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a d… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Burn's The Hemlock Cure book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Shape of Darkness by Laura  Purcell

5. The Shape of Darkness

By: Laura Purcell

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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6. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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7. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

Cover of The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights by Bridget Collins

8. The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

By: Bridget Collins

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for ga… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • horror
  • paranormal
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9. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hinchcliffe's Hare House book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

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10. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • paranormal
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11. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of Fyneshade by Kate   Griffin

12. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. The Ghost Woods

By: C.J. Cooke

3.98

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Ghost Woods book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
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14. The Lost Ones

By: Anita Frank

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Some houses are never at peace. England, 1917 Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella March… read more

Similar categories in Anita Frank's The Lost Ones book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • paranormal
Cover of The Asylum by Karen Coles

15. The Asylum

By: Karen Coles

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu… read more

Similar categories in Karen Coles's The Asylum book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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16. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • historical
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

17. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Silence Factory book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Quickening by Rhiannon Ward

18. The Quickening

By: Rhiannon Ward

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feminist gothic fiction set between the late 19th century and the early 20th century - an era of bu… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Quickening book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • paranormal
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19. The Shadow Key

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more

Similar categories in Susan Stokes-Chapman's The Shadow Key book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Company by J.M. Varese

20. The Company

By: J.M. Varese

3.46

Format: 320 pages, ebook

London, 1870. Lucy Braithwhite lives a privileged existence as the heir to the fortune of Braith… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Varese's The Company book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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21. The Shadowing

By: Rhiannon Ward

4.04

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she trave… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Shadowing book and Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

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