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Contemporary Gothic Books
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Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 466,113 ratings — published 2020
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 331,026 ratings — published 2006
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 61,182 ratings — published 2009
White Is for Witching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.54 — 13,605 ratings — published 2009
She Is a Haunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.34 — 11,909 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 103,700 ratings — published 2018
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 145,196 ratings — published 2022
Tripping Arcadia (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.49 — 3,668 ratings — published 2022
Master of Salt & Bones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,720 ratings — published 2020
Violin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.35 — 20,250 ratings — published 1997
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 670,039 ratings — published 1976
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,122,193 ratings — published 1992
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 281,200 ratings — published 2005
The Turquoise Mask (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,486 ratings — published 1964
Madam, Will You Talk? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,669 ratings — published 1955
Jawbone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 16,635 ratings — published 2018
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,013 ratings — published 1997
Lulu Incognito (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.24 — 33 ratings — published 1988
Bellefleur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,800 ratings — published 1980
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 513,960 ratings — published 1987
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,563 ratings — published 1960
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 58,662 ratings — published 2014
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 159,360 ratings — published 2022
Pelea de gallos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,026 ratings — published 2018
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,530 ratings — published 1955
The Priest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 306 ratings — published 1994
Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,492 ratings — published 2020
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 194,219 ratings — published 1930
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 81,017 ratings — published 1959
Hurricane Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,143 ratings — published 2017
Vânător (The Revenants #2)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Japanese Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,904 ratings — published 2026
The Creepening of Dogwood House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.88 — 322 ratings — published 2024
I'll Make a Spectacle of You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.24 — 867 ratings — published 2025
Selah Gothic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,672 ratings — published
Carry Me to My Grave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.71 — 901 ratings — published 2026
The Darkest Part of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 91,246 ratings — published 2015
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,284 ratings — published 2023
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 232,982 ratings — published 2025
They're Watching You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,813 ratings — published 2023
All the Dead Lie Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,839 ratings — published 2023
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,967 ratings — published 2021
Muñeca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,523 ratings — published 2026
Vampire Lover (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.22 — 249 ratings — published 1994
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 690,580 ratings — published 2022
Child Taken (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.39 — 491 ratings — published 2017
Welcome to Dorley Hall (The Sisters of Dorley, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 876 ratings — published 2022
A Lily on the Heath (Medieval Herb Garden, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 430 ratings — published 2011
The Gloaming (The Revenants #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 142 ratings — published
Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch (Dark Shadows, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 507 ratings — published 2006
“She was stubborn.
She was evolving.
She needed SOLITUDE like normal people needed exercise.”
― Fallout Dreams
She was evolving.
She needed SOLITUDE like normal people needed exercise.”
― Fallout Dreams
“The whirlwind in his brain—which had so many times tugged his pituitary in ways that made him TAKE instead of GIVE—
subsided for the very first time.
Tightness in his crotch usually corresponded with a tightness in his gut, making him want to CONTROL, to CHOKE, to SUBDUE... but not this time.
Not ever again.”
― Fallout Dreams
subsided for the very first time.
Tightness in his crotch usually corresponded with a tightness in his gut, making him want to CONTROL, to CHOKE, to SUBDUE... but not this time.
Not ever again.”
― Fallout Dreams