Most Read This Week In 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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Gothic"

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
Tea & Alchemy
An Arcane Study of Stars
Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2)
How to Survive a Horror Story
You Did Nothing Wrong
The House Saphir
The Arachnid (The Poisoner #2)
Empire of the Dawn (Empire of the Vampire, #3)
Deathbringer (Deathbringer, #1)
Ladies in Hating (Belvoir's Library, #3)
Immortal Consequences (The Souls of Blackwood Academy, #1)
The Unraveling of Julia
The Cliffs
Bone of My Bone
The Swamps
Decomposition Book
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Heap Earth Upon It
A Sunny Place for Shady People
An Arcane Inheritance
The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree
The Bayou Never Tells
Bloom
The Last Lady B
Wormwood Abbey (The Secrets of Ormdale, #1)
Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 (Clara & the Devil, #1)
Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
The Fox and the Devil
Cinder House
The Missing Pages
As Many Souls as Stars
The Book of Blood and Roses (The Callisto Chronicles)
The Gravewood (The Gravewood, #1)
A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning, #2)
Solace House
Neverthorn (Of Quirks and Curses, #1)
Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting
City of Iron and Ivy
The Damned (Coven of Bones, #3)
Holly (Belladonna, #3.5)
El cielo de la selva
Hunger and Thirst
Odessa
Thrum
Drake Hall (The Secrets of Ormdale, #2)
Every Exquisite Thing
His Black Tongue
Helpmeet
It Came from Neverland
The Chateau on Sunset
You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom
A Treachery of Swans
Grimm Curiosities
The Midnight Hour
The Infamous Gilberts
Innamorata (The House of Teeth, #1)
The Deathless One (The Gravesinger, #1)
Vesselless (The Merciless Realms, #1)
She Waits Where Shadows Gather
Nowhere Burning
The Hemlock Queen (The Nightshade Crown, #2)
Lucien
Invasive Species
Hollow
The Exorcism of Faeries (Morbid Realities)
This House Will Feed
Her Dark Lies
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw
When Devils Sing
Let Me In
The Sleepwalkers
Looking Glass Sound
Ghost Eaters
Hemlock
Whispers at Painswick Court
The Nightshade God (The Nightshade Crown, #3)
Sundial
The Fourth Wife
The Butcher of the Forest
Silver Nitrate
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen (Pumpkin Queen, #1)
Venetian Vespers
Our Sister's Keeper
Eternal Ruin (Immortal Dark Trilogy, #2)

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
Bullet For My Valentine

J. Sheridan Le Fanu
She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, “Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw ...more
Sheridan Le Fanu

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