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Take a haunted house/castle/garden, throw in some supernatural elements, maybe a family curse or two, a young girl or woman, possibly some romance, maybe even a little time travel and what do you get? I'm calling it "modern gothic."

(Modern gothic time frame=books originally published from 1900 to the present)
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message 1: by Atikah (new)

Atikah Wahid Why is Lovely Bones a part of this list? It has some fantasy elements, sure, but it's far from gothic, imo.


message 2: by Demoness (new)

Demoness Tenebrae I found some great books here but TWILIGHT SERIES??? REALLY??? Oh, please, that's not modern gothic, that's not even a good young adult.


message 3: by Grace (new)

Grace Good list however inclusion of some titles questionable - such as The Disappearance of Esme Lennox, which is far from a gothic tale.


message 4: by Kara (new)

Kara Caroline wrote: "No one has noticed that some of these are not "modern" Gothic, just Gothic? As in, were written during the literal Gothic period, either in England, America, or elsewhere."

Ha! I was thinking the exact same thing!!! Some of my top gothic romances are on the list...not so modern...


message 5: by Beth (last edited Sep 13, 2014 07:18AM) (new)

Beth I was excited to find this list but a lot of these books don't fit the description.


Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* Yeah this list is suffering from people who aren't classing the fiction right.


message 7: by Abi (new)

Abi Ainley Some of these aren't quite "modern gothic" but I don't have a problem filtering through them as there seem to be quite a few interesting books in this list :)


message 8: by Nea (new)

Nea The Poisonwood Bible?! Really? What's gothic about that?


message 9: by Rach (new)

Rach FOLLOWING- this is a great list. Some don't really pertain or fit what I would call gothic but otherwise a good source.


message 10: by Alexa (new)

Alexa "Naps" Snow nice. finally not erotica in castles but actual books


message 11: by ❀⊱RoryReads⊰❀ (last edited Aug 29, 2016 12:21PM) (new)

❀⊱RoryReads⊰❀ I've cleaned this list up to better reflect the description. I hope this makes it more helpful to those looking for Gothic stories.


message 12: by Ewan (new)

Ewan Do try Gibbous House, it is most definitely Gothic.
Gibbous House
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Gibb...


message 13: by Bee (new)

Bee I found a few good books on here. But as I started reading the book descriptions I have found that some of these are just historical romances or other things.

I'm only part way through but I'm sensing that maybe this isn't the best list of modern gothic fiction.


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