Gothic

Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both the uncanny and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is considered to be the parent genre for both Horror and Mystery, among other genres.

The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initi
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Reap & Sow
Vasmora (The Eating Woods, #3)
Scorpion Deep
Our Dark Incantations
One of My Patients is a Vampire
When the Night Comes Knocking
Milkteeth
Hallowed Bones (Sons of Salem #1)
Mothsblood
Please Enjoy Your Stay
The House Built on Alligator Bones
The Haunting of Lavender House
Mystery Play
The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches
Lethal Kiss
The Washwoman at the River's End (The Curse of the Fates, #1)
Dead Beat (Ninth House Trilogy, #3)
Daybreak (Sorrowsong University, #2)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
When the Night Comes Knocking
The Last House on Needless Street
Our Dark Incantations
Ghost Orchid
Vasmora (The Eating Woods, #3)
Reap & Sow
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
Mortdale: Anatomy of a vampire's heart
Scorpion Deep
Our Wives Under the Sea
Lázár
Frankenstein
Dracula
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mexican Gothic
Carmilla
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Haunting of Hill House
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Turn of the Screw
The Castle of Otranto
The Phantom of the Opera
Northanger Abbey

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