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 Girl with a Thousand Faces
The Library After Dark
A Fortune of Sand
Bone of My Bone
Solace House
The Bone Door
Hunger and Thirst
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 (Clara & the Devil, #1)
The Arcane Arts
Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)
Decomposition Book
A Dark and Wild Wood
The Last Lady B
The Temptation of Charlotte North
Crown Me Dead (Heartstring Duet, #1)
The Storm
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
The Children
The Last House on Needless Street
Souls In Ruin
Lázár
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
Our Wives Under the Sea
The Wife Before
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
A Fortune of Sand
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
Muñeca
Silent in the Grave by Deanna RaybournWhat Angels Fear by C.S. HarrisCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersAnd Only to Deceive by Tasha AlexanderThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Regency and Victorian Mysteries
712 books — 494 voters
Luna Sanguis by Simon OkillDescent of Blood by Elizabeth MarxLuna Aeturnus by Simon OkillWildalone by Krassi ZourkovaAscent of Blood by Elizabeth Marx
Great Gothic Paranormal
85 books — 163 voters

The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
197 books — 345 voters
From Doctor to Healer by Erica M. ElliottBabel by R.F. KuangThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. SchwabOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
52 Book Club 2024: #26 Hybrid Genre
210 books — 181 voters

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
715 books — 449 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
645 books — 3,630 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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