Gwendolyn Kiste Books in Order

Fourteen horror and dark fantasy stories follow outsiders confronting death, transformation, and dangerous illusions. A murdered film star, a cursed orchard, secretive sisters, and a resentful ghost inhabit worlds where familiar beauty conceals something monstrous.

Five ghosts drawn from folklore and urban legends share a house but cannot remember the lives that preceded their haunting. When Resurrection Mary discovers a way between their worlds, the women seek freedom from a darkness determined to keep them.

In 1980 Cleveland, girls in Phoebe Shaw’s neighborhood begin transforming, their bodies exposing glass and corroded metal. As outsiders arrive to investigate, Phoebe tries to understand what her former friends know and how she is implicated in their fate.

Odette has hidden in the woods and abandoned magic after surviving the execution of her family. But strange birds, voices, and forgotten nighttime wanderings signal returning power just as the witchfinders come back to finish their work.

Lucy Westenra and Bertha Mason survive as undead immortals in 1967 Los Angeles, far from the men who once controlled them. When Dracula and Rochester return in San Francisco, the women must confront their past and defend their freedom.

Twenty years after her neighborhood vanished behind a mysterious veil, Talitha accepts payment to return and investigate. One of only three people who escaped becoming ghosts, she must confront the tragedy that took her family and shaped her life.

After Daisy Buchanan is found dead in an abandoned mansion, her daughter Mel encounters Daisy’s youthful ghost and the phantom of Jay Gatsby. Freeing her mother means confronting family secrets inside a house growing stronger on thwarted love.

Women and queer outsiders confront the lingering malice of the past in these gothic stories. Through hauntings, bodily transformations, and unsettling encounters, they resist the social forces that confine them and struggle to survive on their own terms.