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 House Saphir
Seven Deadly Thorns
Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire, #3)
The Burning Library
Blackthorn
The Sacred Space Between
As Many Souls as Stars
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark, #2)
The Devil in Oxford (Ruby Vaughn, #3)
I'll Make a Spectacle of You
The Villa, Once Beloved
The Cathedral of Lost Souls (The Hecate Cavendish, #2)
A Rather Vengeful Accord
The Red Cottage
Alchemised
The Christmas Guest
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
Nightshade (Sorrowsong University, #1)
Tea & Alchemy
Holly (Belladonna, #3.5)
In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)
Our Wives Under the Sea
Party of Liars
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart, #1)
The Last House on Needless Street
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire, #3)
The House Saphir
The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
Historical Ghost Fiction
231 books — 348 voters
American Gods by Neil GaimanGood Omens by Terry PratchettDracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Theological Weird Fiction
464 books — 283 voters

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. MaasThe War of Two Queens by Jennifer L. ArmentroutGlow by Raven KennedyKingdom of the Feared by Kerri ManiscalcoDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
2022 Anticipated Fiction Fantasy Reads
161 books — 263 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
711 books — 1,357 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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