105 books
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16 voters
Gothic Horror Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,095
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 449 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,463,338 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,860,871 ratings — published 1818
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 438,137 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,854,779 ratings — published 1890
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 389,985 ratings — published 1959
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 191,777 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 660,838 ratings — published 1886
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 291,945 ratings — published 1962
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 714,166 ratings — published 1938
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 178,801 ratings — published 1898
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 646,514 ratings — published 1976
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 275,320 ratings — published 1910
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 42,155 ratings — published 1764
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 135,518 ratings — published 2022
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,022,686 ratings — published 1847
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 33,386 ratings — published 1796
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 154,327 ratings — published 1820
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.75 — 81,550 ratings — published 1983
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 57,546 ratings — published 2022
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,306,729 ratings — published 1847
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 43,731 ratings — published 2017
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 353,622 ratings — published 1892
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 101,756 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 165,485 ratings — published 1859
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,081 ratings — published 1794
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,854 ratings — published 2002
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 87,837 ratings — published 1839
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 122,651 ratings — published 1843
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,844 ratings — published 1979
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 215,957 ratings — published 1985
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 275,988 ratings — published 2005
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,692,918 ratings — published 1977
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 158,842 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,976 ratings — published 1849
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.20 — 22,469 ratings — published 2021
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 64,887 ratings — published 1979
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 23,661 ratings — published 2022
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 117,617 ratings — published 1928
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 450,575 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 — 143,853 ratings — published 1886
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 161,367 ratings — published 1988
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 168,953 ratings — published 1845
Juniper & Thorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 28,425 ratings — published 2022
Vampires of El Norte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 41,384 ratings — published 2023
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 25,368 ratings — published 2025
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,442 ratings — published 2000
Blood on Her Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,291 ratings — published 2025
My Darling Dreadful Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,661 ratings — published 2024
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 41,521 ratings — published 2024
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 547,949 ratings — published 1985
“Now the truth is, I felt rather unaccountably to the beautiful stranger. I did feel, as she said, “drawn towards her,” but there was also something of repulsion. In this ambiguous feeling, however, the sense of attraction immensely prevailed. She interested and won me; she was so beautiful and so indescribably engaging.”
― Carmila
― Carmila
“Something about this place rots people. It rots people from the inside.”
― Fairhaven Falls
― Fairhaven Falls












