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Gothic Horror Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 438 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,444,290 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,816,309 ratings — published 1818
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 430,706 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,830,497 ratings — published 1890
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 381,692 ratings — published 1959
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 183,069 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 653,284 ratings — published 1886
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 285,567 ratings — published 1962
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 176,464 ratings — published 1898
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 164 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 705,598 ratings — published 1938
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 641,986 ratings — published 1976
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 272,419 ratings — published 1910
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 41,386 ratings — published 1764
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 129,604 ratings — published 2022
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,996,778 ratings — published 1847
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 32,731 ratings — published 1796
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 152,686 ratings — published 1820
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 80,358 ratings — published 1983
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 55,984 ratings — published 2022
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 42,331 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,290,326 ratings — published 1847
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.94 — 99,014 ratings — published 2021
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 348,077 ratings — published 1892
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 86,352 ratings — published 1839
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 164,466 ratings — published 1859
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 16,897 ratings — published 1794
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 772,165 ratings — published 2002
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,295 ratings — published 1979
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 64 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 214,718 ratings — published 1985
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 120,612 ratings — published 1843
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,675,970 ratings — published 1977
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,138 ratings — published 2005
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 154,574 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 293,713 ratings — published 1849
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,285 ratings — published 1979
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.20 — 22,088 ratings — published 2021
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.64 — 23,083 ratings — published 2022
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 116,270 ratings — published 1928
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 446,721 ratings — published 1817
Juniper & Thorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 27,849 ratings — published 2022
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 166,477 ratings — published 1845
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 141,970 ratings — published 1886
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 160,698 ratings — published 1988
Vampires of El Norte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,552 ratings — published 2023
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 196,095 ratings — published 2000
The Masque of the Red Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 46,601 ratings — published 1842
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,245 ratings — published 2025
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 541,974 ratings — published 1985
My Darling Dreadful Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,210 ratings — published 2024
The Vampyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.31 — 15,673 ratings — published 1819
“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.”
―
“You thought that you knew me so well. But if you did, you’d have known that I never turned away from my trauma. I paid attention. I took it all in. Every single detail. I owned my pain. It wasn’t separate from me. It was me. I was it. The fact that you even thought that you could hurt me, to feed on me, to use me… and believe that that was enough for me to kill you… shows just how little you understand. Every time I gave you my pain, I held back. Each and every time. I held back because I cared. You only glimpsed the tip of the iceberg. You want my pain? Take it. Take it all. Take what I have learned to live with all my life. This time I won’t hold back.”
― In the darkness we share
― In the darkness we share
