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Gothic Horror Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 466 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,516,266 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,962,606 ratings — published 1818
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,286 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 272 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,952,439 ratings — published 1890
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 411,676 ratings — published 1959
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 216,571 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 684,637 ratings — published 1886
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,461 ratings — published 1962
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 184 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 747,641 ratings — published 1938
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 184,900 ratings — published 1898
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 661,938 ratings — published 1976
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,245,213 ratings — published 1847
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 152,345 ratings — published 2022
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 44,513 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 284,757 ratings — published 1910
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,327 ratings — published 1796
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,379,265 ratings — published 1847
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,793 ratings — published 2017
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 61,468 ratings — published 2022
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 156,979 ratings — published 1820
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 84,448 ratings — published 1983
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,744 ratings — published 1892
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 108,781 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 169,499 ratings — published 1859
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 91,896 ratings — published 1839
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,625 ratings — published 1794
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 75 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 128,985 ratings — published 1843
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 69 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 220,398 ratings — published 1985
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 795,703 ratings — published 2002
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 279,670 ratings — published 2005
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,744,824 ratings — published 1977
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 243,338 ratings — published 1979
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 173,956 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 299,181 ratings — published 1849
Blood on Her Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 19,936 ratings — published 2025
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.22 — 24,130 ratings — published 2021
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,182 ratings — published 2025
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,086 ratings — published 2022
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 465,157 ratings — published 1817
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 173,888 ratings — published 1845
My Darling Dreadful Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,294 ratings — published 2024
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 148,983 ratings — published 1886
Vampires of El Norte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 45,207 ratings — published 2023
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,651 ratings — published 1979
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 163,974 ratings — published 1988
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 49,388 ratings — published 2024
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 208,207 ratings — published 2000
Juniper & Thorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,774 ratings — published 2022
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 573,375 ratings — published 1985
A House with Good Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.67 — 72,155 ratings — published 2023
“Names change but blood remembers.”
― Legacy of the Eye
― Legacy of the Eye
“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.”
―
