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Gothic Horror Books
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Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 465 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,507,526 ratings — published 1897
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,947,993 ratings — published 1818
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.66 — 453,121 ratings — published 2020
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,935,806 ratings — published 1890
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.81 — 407,506 ratings — published 1959
Carmilla (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 212,692 ratings — published 1872
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.83 — 680,130 ratings — published 1886
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,127 ratings — published 1962
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 181 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.25 — 741,295 ratings — published 1938
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.38 — 183,755 ratings — published 1898
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 659,088 ratings — published 1976
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 149,607 ratings — published 2022
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,223,187 ratings — published 1847
The Castle of Otranto (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.19 — 44,142 ratings — published 1764
The Phantom of the Opera (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.96 — 283,104 ratings — published 1910
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,001 ratings — published 1796
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.77 — 156,560 ratings — published 1820
The Hacienda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 60,601 ratings — published 2022
The Silent Companions (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.87 — 47,127 ratings — published 2017
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,366,487 ratings — published 1847
The Woman in Black (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.76 — 83,926 ratings — published 1983
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.07 — 372,564 ratings — published 1892
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 107,457 ratings — published 2021
The Woman in White (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.02 — 168,543 ratings — published 1859
The Mysteries of Udolpho (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.43 — 17,531 ratings — published 1794
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.84 — 91,255 ratings — published 1839
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 75 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.24 — 127,992 ratings — published 1843
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,518 ratings — published 2002
The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.11 — 219,316 ratings — published 1985
The Historian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.80 — 278,787 ratings — published 2005
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,736,268 ratings — published 1977
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.40 — 298,454 ratings — published 1849
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.86 — 242,126 ratings — published 1979
Starling House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.78 — 171,824 ratings — published 2023
Blood on Her Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 18,961 ratings — published 2025
House of Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.63 — 24,817 ratings — published 2022
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.22 — 23,913 ratings — published 2021
Hungerstone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,550 ratings — published 2025
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 462,689 ratings — published 1817
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.91 — 148,123 ratings — published 1886
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.29 — 173,099 ratings — published 1845
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.90 — 66,344 ratings — published 1979
Vampires of El Norte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,568 ratings — published 2023
My Darling Dreadful Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.85 — 20,679 ratings — published 2024
The Call of Cthulhu (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,326 ratings — published 1928
What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.79 — 48,119 ratings — published 2024
The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.93 — 163,445 ratings — published 1988
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,285 ratings — published 2000
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 4.04 — 569,025 ratings — published 1985
Juniper & Thorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as gothic-horror)
avg rating 3.62 — 29,519 ratings — published 2022
“Yet one had ancestors in literature, as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Complete Short Stories; The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
― The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Complete Short Stories; The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“There is a difference between horrible things that have gone on forever, because you can almost convince yourself of the inevitably of an age-old cruelty, or almost it’s necessity. But not a new one. With a new one, the change is too great, the wound too new, and you cannot convince yourself that it is simply the way of the world.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
