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Gothic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,095
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,463,430 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,861,065 ratings — published 1818
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 438,175 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,854,896 ratings — published 1890
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 390,029 ratings — published 1959
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 191,816 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 660,861 ratings — published 1886
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 291,969 ratings — published 1962
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 714,207 ratings — published 1938
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 178,808 ratings — published 1898
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 646,536 ratings — published 1976
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 275,340 ratings — published 1910
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 42,161 ratings — published 1764
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 135,555 ratings — published 2022
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,022,845 ratings — published 1847
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 33,389 ratings — published 1796
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 154,332 ratings — published 1820
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 81,553 ratings — published 1983
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 57,553 ratings — published 2022
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,306,807 ratings — published 1847
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 43,734 ratings — published 2017
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 353,659 ratings — published 1892
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,773 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 165,492 ratings — published 1859
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,082 ratings — published 1794
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,887 ratings — published 2002
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 87,846 ratings — published 1839
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 122,666 ratings — published 1843
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,861 ratings — published 1979
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 215,960 ratings — published 1985
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,995 ratings — published 2005
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,693,013 ratings — published 1977
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 158,852 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,985 ratings — published 1849
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.20 — 22,471 ratings — published 2021
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,889 ratings — published 1979
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 23,668 ratings — published 2022
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 117,619 ratings — published 1928
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 450,601 ratings — published 1817
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 143,863 ratings — published 1886
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 161,371 ratings — published 1988
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 168,967 ratings — published 1845
Juniper & Thorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 28,429 ratings — published 2022
Vampires of El Norte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,390 ratings — published 2023
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,385 ratings — published 2025
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,460 ratings — published 2000
Blood on Her Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,308 ratings — published 2025
My Darling Dreadful Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,673 ratings — published 2024
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 41,538 ratings — published 2024
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 547,981 ratings — published 1985
“I learned that being invisible doesn’t get anybody anywhere to where they want to go. It doesn’t make anyone grow from being chained from all their traumas and anxieties.
Sometimes, we must force ourselves to be set free. Even if it won’t make certain people happy.
- Rose (Sweet Nectar, Book 1).”
― Sweet Nectar: Book 1
Sometimes, we must force ourselves to be set free. Even if it won’t make certain people happy.
- Rose (Sweet Nectar, Book 1).”
― Sweet Nectar: Book 1
“The Devil's Chapel by Stewart Stafford
Spires writhing in audacity's sky,
Laced masonry's Faustian high,
The Devil's Chapel invites by lie,
Embalmed, a cracked stone altar dry.
The golden Madonna rises above all,
Lucifer's War, in stained glass, tall,
In horned shadow, the angelic fall,
Dark kingdom formed of a lightning ball.
Bartholomew flayed by sadistic chagrin,
Bones laid bare, devotion anchored within,
Skin in the game took centuries to win,
Gargoyles leer in the paying tourist din.
Behind the veil of confession wood,
The all-seeing eye drips with blood,
Trickster's snare in nightmare's flood,
A gift shop trades where sacrifice stood.
Pungent echoes in incense crawl,
Catacombs beckon entombed gall,
To witness ornate veneration's pall,
Silent to a martyr's last breath call.
Croziers rest in chilled silver's display,
As pink-veined marble taints today.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Spires writhing in audacity's sky,
Laced masonry's Faustian high,
The Devil's Chapel invites by lie,
Embalmed, a cracked stone altar dry.
The golden Madonna rises above all,
Lucifer's War, in stained glass, tall,
In horned shadow, the angelic fall,
Dark kingdom formed of a lightning ball.
Bartholomew flayed by sadistic chagrin,
Bones laid bare, devotion anchored within,
Skin in the game took centuries to win,
Gargoyles leer in the paying tourist din.
Behind the veil of confession wood,
The all-seeing eye drips with blood,
Trickster's snare in nightmare's flood,
A gift shop trades where sacrifice stood.
Pungent echoes in incense crawl,
Catacombs beckon entombed gall,
To witness ornate veneration's pall,
Silent to a martyr's last breath call.
Croziers rest in chilled silver's display,
As pink-veined marble taints today.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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