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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The Library After Dark
A Fortune of Sand
Bone of My Bone
The Bone Door
Solace House
Hunger and Thirst
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
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The Arcane Arts
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Decomposition Book
A Dark and Wild Wood
The Last Lady B
The Temptation of Charlotte North
Crown Me Dead (Heartstring Duet, #1)
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Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The Last House on Needless Street
Lázár
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
The Wife Before
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)
You Did Nothing Wrong
The Children
A Fortune of Sand
Ladies in Hating (Belvoir's Library, #3)
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345 books — 513 voters

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Turn of the Screw
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This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
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