Gothic Romance

[close] The Best Place for PNR & UF Junkies ► A group for everyone who loves paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and related sub-genres like vampires, dragons, werewolves, shifters, witches, fae and everything else paranormal!!! Please be aware that although everyone is welcome in the group, many of the books we read have adult content.

[close] 2018 ocak ayında kurulan, gotik türünden okumalar ve incelemeler yapan Karanlık Şato Gotik Edebiyat Kulübü artık Goodreads'de! Bu grupta her ay seçilen bir gotik edebiyat eseri okunacak ve tartışılacaktır. Aralık ayına kadar okunacak olan eserler kulüp üyelerince seçilmiştir. Bizimle birlikte okumak ve gotik türünü keşfetmek isteyen herkesi Karanlık Şato'ya bekliyoruz. Twitter & Instagram: @karanliksato

[close] The Unsettling Book Society is a Goodreads group for readers drawn to gothic literature, feminine horror, literary unease, and stories that linger long after the final page. We believe the mind can be more terrifying than anything physical. The books we love are filled with dread, longing, grief, obsession, romance, memory, haunted houses, family secrets, and women unraveling under pressure. Gothic fiction takes emotions already present within women and pushes them into something darker, stranger, and unforgettable. This is a space for readers who love: • feminine gothic • psychological horror • atmospheric dread • unreliable narrators • inherited trauma • melancholy settings • unsettling romance • ambiguity and emotional haunting We gravitate toward books where tension builds through atmosphere, perception, and emotional unraveling rather than graphic violence or shock value. The Unsettling Scale: Level I: Candlelight Gothic Level II: Quiet Unease Level III: Lingering Dread Level IV: Existential Unraveling Level V: Emotionally Devastating Authors we love include Daphne du Maurier, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Cañas, Alix E. Harrow, Helen Oyeyemi, Paulette Kennedy, and Hester Fox.

[close] Midnight Gothic Sancturary Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror 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. The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of essentially Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, vampires, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.