Gothic Horror

Gothic horror is a genre of literature that has elements of both romance and horror. Although it is sometimes confused with paranormal romance, according to some horror writers, gothic horror is considered a more atmospheric type of literature.

See Gothic.
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Reap & Sow
Scorpion Deep
What Feeds Below
Milkteeth
Carrying
The House Built on Alligator Bones
The Haunting of Lavender House
Mystery Play
Monstera
The Scarlet Ball
Your Beloved Remains
Thorns in the Hollow
Mazywood
Our Cut of Salt
Our Strange Duet
Victorian Psycho
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Wolf Worm
The Hacienda
Muñeca
Hungerstone
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
Hazelthorn
Diavola
The Bog Wife
Monstera
Our Cut of Salt
The Possession of Alba Díaz
You Did Nothing Wrong
Blood on Her Tongue
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Best Dark Steampunk Novel
6 books — 2 voters
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettGoing Postal by Terry PratchettThe Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
SFF: Best Characters
98 books — 22 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerThe 13th is Friday by Geoff WoodFrankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.] by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Woman in Black by Susan         Hill
Horror: 101
90 books — 104 voters
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDracula by Bram StokerCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeVarney the Vampire, Volume I by Thomas Peckett Prest
Penny Dreadful
17 books — 12 voters

Dracula
Frankenstein
Mexican Gothic
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Haunting of Hill House
Carmilla
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Rebecca
The Turn of the Screw
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Wuthering Heights
The Castle of Otranto
The Phantom of the Opera

Sibley K.
“ Beauty will never be among Stryx’s virtues. She belongs to the rarer company of faces too strange to ignore. ”
― Sibley K., Raptoraem :

“ The cold was not the ordinary cold of a winter evening... It seemed to have an intention. It pressed against her skin as if testing for an entry point. ”
― E.P.Dunbar

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