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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 — 474,159 ratings — published 2020
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 332,064 ratings — published 2006
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 61,574 ratings — published 2009
White Is for Witching (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.54 — 13,684 ratings — published 2009
She Is a Haunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.34 — 12,050 ratings — published 2023
Once Upon a River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 104,271 ratings — published 2018
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 148,440 ratings — published 2022
Tripping Arcadia (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,703 ratings — published 2022
Master of Salt & Bones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.88 — 45,978 ratings — published 2020
Violin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.35 — 20,280 ratings — published 1997
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,894 ratings — published 1976
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,142,162 ratings — published 1992
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 282,184 ratings — published 2005
The Turquoise Mask (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,493 ratings — published 1964
Madam, Will You Talk? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,718 ratings — published 1955
Jawbone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.65 — 17,548 ratings — published 2017
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,042 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 — 2,809 ratings — published 1980
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 518,561 ratings — published 1987
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,603 ratings — published 1960
Fever Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 59,954 ratings — published 2014
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 165,224 ratings — published 2022
Pelea de gallos (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,240 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 — 51,851 ratings — published 1955
The Priest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 307 ratings — published 1994
Fresh Dirt From the Grave (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,548 ratings — published 2020
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,920 ratings — published 1930
Psycho (Psycho, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 82,128 ratings — published 1959
Hurricane Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 57,850 ratings — published 2017
Vânător (The Revenants #2)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
Japanese Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 31,648 ratings — published 2026
The Creepening of Dogwood House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 337 ratings — published 2024
I'll Make a Spectacle of You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.23 — 933 ratings — published 2025
Selah Gothic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,690 ratings — published
Carry Me to My Grave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,375 ratings — published 2026
The Darkest Part of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 91,655 ratings — published 2015
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 113,774 ratings — published 2023
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 246,061 ratings — published 2025
They're Watching You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,944 ratings — published 2023
All the Dead Lie Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,904 ratings — published 2023
The Devil Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.58 — 4,987 ratings — published 2021
Muñeca (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,380 ratings — published 2026
Vampire Lover (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.22 — 250 ratings — published 1994
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 716,758 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 — 894 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 3.90 — 143 ratings — published
Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch (Dark Shadows, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-gothic)
avg rating 3.67 — 510 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