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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5718 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,985,732 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 5122 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,530,489 ratings — published 1897
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 4918 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,274,188 ratings — published 1847
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4560 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 757,455 ratings — published 1938
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4287 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,399,299 ratings — published 1847
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4097 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,980,908 ratings — published 1890
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3630 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.66 — 462,008 ratings — published 2020
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3506 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 314,737 ratings — published 1962
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 3486 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 223,133 ratings — published 1872
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2970 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 418,503 ratings — published 1959
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2507 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.83 — 691,842 ratings — published 1886
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2208 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.38 — 186,604 ratings — published 1898
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2123 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.19 — 45,121 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1985 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.96 — 287,321 ratings — published 1910
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1884 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.85 — 468,898 ratings — published 1817
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1762 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,900 ratings — published 1796
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 1736 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 170,637 ratings — published 1859
The Thirteenth Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1660 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 330,323 ratings — published 2006
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1659 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 666,893 ratings — published 1976
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1629 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,915 ratings — published 1892
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
by (shelved 1611 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.25 — 750,370 ratings — published 2022
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 1446 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 156,713 ratings — published 2022
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1416 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 177,778 ratings — published 2023
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 1387 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,778 ratings — published 1794
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1303 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 110,564 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 1250 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.76 — 85,360 ratings — published 1983
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1219 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,800 ratings — published 2017
Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
by (shelved 1216 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.93 — 189,157 ratings — published 2022
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1215 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,140 ratings — published 1979
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1163 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 62,639 ratings — published
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 1020 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 92,812 ratings — published 1839
My Cousin Rachel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 967 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,264 ratings — published 1951
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 967 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.31 — 746,588 ratings — published 2001
Jamaica Inn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 924 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 63,333 ratings — published 1936
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 881 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 157,608 ratings — published 1820
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 866 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.80 — 280,590 ratings — published 2005
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 838 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 111,162 ratings — published 2023
Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King, #2)
by (shelved 826 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 575,825 ratings — published 2023
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 807 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,935 ratings — published 2009
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 800 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.24 — 130,560 ratings — published 1843
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 778 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.69 — 32,121 ratings — published 2023
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 777 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,255 ratings — published 1849
The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)
by (shelved 767 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,519 ratings — published 2025
Gallant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 759 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.70 — 153,980 ratings — published 2022
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 741 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.23 — 24,451 ratings — published 2021
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 42,229 ratings — published 2025
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 718 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 175,117 ratings — published 1845
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 717 times as gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,465 ratings — published 2022
Nocticadia (Nocticadia, #1)
by (shelved 703 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.19 — 203,067 ratings — published 2023
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 685 times as gothic)
avg rating 4.02 — 223,935 ratings — published 1831
“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Titus Groan
― Titus Groan
“It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
― The Lottery
― The Lottery
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dark-romanticism, gothic-fiction, gothic-literature, gothic-suspense, and modern-gothic