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Gothic Books
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5506 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,926,968 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 4949 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,495,440 ratings — published 1897
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4714 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,183,944 ratings — published 1847
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4403 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 732,927 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4119 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,349,015 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3974 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,913,506 ratings — published 1890
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3534 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 448,827 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3391 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 301,844 ratings — published 1962
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3275 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 207,146 ratings — published 1872
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2880 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 402,227 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2421 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 674,006 ratings — published 1886
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2153 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.38 — 182,368 ratings — published 1898
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2058 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.19 — 43,602 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1912 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.96 — 280,952 ratings — published 1910
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1830 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.85 — 459,300 ratings — published 1817
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1707 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 34,537 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 1676 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 167,378 ratings — published 1859
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1626 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 327,889 ratings — published 2006
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1585 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 655,453 ratings — published 1976
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1550 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,132 ratings — published 1892
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
by (shelved 1507 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 689,138 ratings — published 2022
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1375 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 145,795 ratings — published 2022
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1360 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 168,506 ratings — published 2023
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1338 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,388 ratings — published 1794
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1253 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 105,702 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 1213 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,249 ratings — published 1983
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1192 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 65,908 ratings — published 1979
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
by (shelved 1177 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 181,472 ratings — published 2022
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1175 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,105 ratings — published 2017
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1113 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 59,638 ratings — published 2022
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 993 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 90,349 ratings — published 1839
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 946 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.31 — 729,069 ratings — published 2001
My Cousin Rachel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 930 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,529 ratings — published 1951
Jamaica Inn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 897 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 61,132 ratings — published 1936
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 852 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 155,995 ratings — published 1820
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 836 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 277,763 ratings — published 2005
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 816 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 105,586 ratings — published 2023
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,138 ratings — published 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 769 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.24 — 126,578 ratings — published 1843
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 765 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 31,356 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 760 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.40 — 297,519 ratings — published 1849
Gallant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 745 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 149,540 ratings — published 2022
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
by (shelved 739 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 526,128 ratings — published 2023
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.21 — 23,370 ratings — published 2021
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 695 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 171,985 ratings — published 1845
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 24,475 ratings — published 2022
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 661 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 220,785 ratings — published 1831
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 656 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.24 — 205,710 ratings — published 2025
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 642 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.19 — 175,469 ratings — published 2023
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 633 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 32,399 ratings — published 2025
“You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
“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.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
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