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Gothic Books
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5660 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,041 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5074 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,518,981 ratings — published 1897
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4867 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,251,140 ratings — published 1847
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4508 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 749,729 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4244 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,383,240 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4089 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,650 ratings — published 1890
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3599 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 457,259 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3473 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,517 ratings — published 1962
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3425 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 217,918 ratings — published 1872
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2943 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 412,983 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2470 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 686,035 ratings — published 1886
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2196 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.38 — 185,289 ratings — published 1898
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2099 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.19 — 44,623 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1963 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.96 — 285,308 ratings — published 1910
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1873 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.85 — 465,906 ratings — published 1817
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1738 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,459 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 1717 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 169,749 ratings — published 1859
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1650 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 329,622 ratings — published 2006
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1625 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 662,879 ratings — published 1976
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1610 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,084 ratings — published 1892
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
by (shelved 1581 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 730,873 ratings — published 2022
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1423 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 153,298 ratings — published 2022
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1398 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 174,600 ratings — published 2023
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1377 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,653 ratings — published 1794
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1293 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 109,198 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 1239 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 84,629 ratings — published 1983
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1224 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,754 ratings — published 1979
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1208 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,005 ratings — published 2017
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
by (shelved 1206 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 186,633 ratings — published 2022
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1150 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 61,725 ratings — published 2022
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1008 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,089 ratings — published 1839
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 960 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.31 — 740,749 ratings — published 2001
My Cousin Rachel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 957 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,461 ratings — published 1951
Jamaica Inn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 912 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 62,526 ratings — published 1936
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 870 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,105 ratings — published 1820
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 860 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 279,903 ratings — published 2005
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 833 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 109,578 ratings — published 2023
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
by (shelved 807 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 560,275 ratings — published 2023
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 794 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,676 ratings — published 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 787 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.24 — 129,308 ratings — published 1843
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 777 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 31,886 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 773 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.40 — 299,381 ratings — published 1849
Gallant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 753 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 152,639 ratings — published 2022
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 737 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 239,089 ratings — published 2025
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 730 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.22 — 24,202 ratings — published 2021
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 710 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,185 ratings — published 2022
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 174,122 ratings — published 1845
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 692 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,186 ratings — published 2025
Nocticadia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 692 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.19 — 194,637 ratings — published 2023
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 680 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 222,721 ratings — published 1831
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs.”
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“Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
― The Butterfly Cabinet
― The Butterfly Cabinet
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
dark-romanticism, gothic-fiction, gothic-literature, gothic-suspense, and modern-gothic
