Gothic

Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both the uncanny and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is considered to be the parent genre for both Horror and Mystery, among other genres.

The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initi
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
The Library After Dark
A Fortune of Sand
Bone of My Bone
Solace House
Hunger and Thirst
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 (Clara & the Devil, #1)
The Arcane Arts
Mortedant's Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1)
Decomposition Book
A Dark and Wild Wood
The Last Lady B
The Temptation of Charlotte North
House of Margins
Crown Me Dead (Heartstring Duet, #1)
The Storm
The Children
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
The Last House on Needless Street
Our Wives Under the Sea
Lázár
Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)
A Fortune of Sand
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
The Wife Before
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
Muñeca
Carcoma
Beautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle HodkinDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorMina and the Undead by Amy McCawClockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
YA Gothic
196 books — 361 voters
Truly, Devious by Maureen JohnsonPeople Like Us by Dana  MelePrep School Confidential by Kara TaylorPrivate by Kate BrianThe Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Boarding School Mysteries
142 books — 91 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Darkest Frost, Vol. 1 by Tanya HolmesNine Coaches Waiting by Mary  Stewart
Best Gothic Romance
245 books — 366 voters

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom RiggsAnna Dressed in Blood by Kendare BlakeAsylum by Madeleine RouxThe Diviners by Libba BrayBad Girls Don't Die by Katie Alender
Young Adult Horror: Ghosts
180 books — 196 voters
The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
201 books — 349 voters

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Dracula
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mexican Gothic
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Carmilla
The Haunting of Hill House
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Turn of the Screw
The Castle of Otranto
The Phantom of the Opera
Northanger Abbey

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