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 Storm
We Who Have No Gods (The Acheron Order, #1)
Tea & Alchemy
Fruit of the Flesh
The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
This House Will Feed
The Infamous Gilberts
Tidespeaker (Tidespeaker, #1)
A Slow and Secret Poison
Wicked Thieves
Ballad of the Bone Road
Winterbourne: A spellbinding reinvention of the Gothic genre
An Arcane Inheritance
Dark Sisters
An Archive of Romance (A Study in Drowning)
The Storm
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
Tea & Alchemy
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
The Last House on Needless Street
Hollow
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Wife Before
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
Wicked Onyx (The Veritas Legacy, #1)
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
An Arcane Inheritance
The Unraveling of Julia
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
689 books — 414 voters
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeAsylum by Madeleine RouxThe Diviners by Libba BrayBad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
147 books — 192 voters

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. MaasThe War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. ArmentroutGlow by Raven KennedyKingdom of the Feared by Kerri ManiscalcoDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
2022 Anticipated Fiction Fantasy Reads
162 books — 264 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.] by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillMisery by Stephen  King
Horror: 101
77 books — 82 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Darkest Frost, Vol. 1 by Tanya HolmesNine Coaches Waiting by Mary  Stewart
Best Gothic Romance
231 books — 355 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
339 books — 505 voters

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Dracula
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mexican Gothic
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Carmilla
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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