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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5771 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,996,240 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5184 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,537,427 ratings — published 1897
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4957 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,286,824 ratings — published 1847
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4591 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 762,357 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4319 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,408,962 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4156 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,995,101 ratings — published 1890
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3659 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 464,918 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3534 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 317,300 ratings — published 1962
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3533 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 226,187 ratings — published 1872
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2995 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 421,876 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2520 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 695,654 ratings — published 1886
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2228 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.38 — 187,442 ratings — published 1898
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2138 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.19 — 45,454 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1994 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.96 — 288,595 ratings — published 1910
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1892 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.85 — 470,760 ratings — published 1817
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1782 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 36,186 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 1746 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 171,146 ratings — published 1859
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1680 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 669,192 ratings — published 1976
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1657 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 330,812 ratings — published 2006
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1648 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 385,579 ratings — published 1892
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
by (shelved 1634 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 761,857 ratings — published 2022
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1457 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 158,602 ratings — published 2022
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1432 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 179,725 ratings — published 2023
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1396 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,852 ratings — published 1794
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1315 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,393 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 1257 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,798 ratings — published 1983
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1237 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,386 ratings — published 1979
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1231 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 49,248 ratings — published 2017
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
by (shelved 1228 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.93 — 190,518 ratings — published 2022
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1169 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 63,134 ratings — published 2022
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1034 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 93,307 ratings — published 1839
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 973 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.31 — 750,505 ratings — published 2001
My Cousin Rachel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 969 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,811 ratings — published 1951
Jamaica Inn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 936 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 63,830 ratings — published 1936
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 891 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,979 ratings — published 1820
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 870 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,049 ratings — published 2005
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
by (shelved 838 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 584,856 ratings — published 2023
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 835 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,040 ratings — published 2023
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 808 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 61,117 ratings — published 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 802 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.24 — 131,274 ratings — published 1843
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 800 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 273,344 ratings — published 2025
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 782 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,744 ratings — published 1849
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 780 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 32,231 ratings — published 2023
Gallant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 763 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 154,764 ratings — published 2022
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 746 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.23 — 24,610 ratings — published 2021
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 734 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 43,703 ratings — published 2025
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 724 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 175,698 ratings — published 1845
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 723 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,617 ratings — published 2022
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 715 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.19 — 208,793 ratings — published 2023
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 688 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 224,793 ratings — published 1831
“She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
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And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek.
”
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“His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
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dark-romanticism, gothic-fiction, gothic-literature, gothic-suspense, and modern-gothic