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The Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Ultimate Gothic

47 books — 16 voters

The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems by James Thomson

Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Symbo-Gothicomantic

131 books — 9 voters

Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont

The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson

•The Ultra-Black Grave of Eternity

133 books — 10 voters

Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

At Home Among Unsuspecting Victims

32 books — 5 voters

Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle

243 books — 209 voters

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Greatest Parties In Literature, according to 'A Curious Invitation'

41 books — 18 voters

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“ Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. ...more ”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“ In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. ”
― Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios

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