Recs if you like The Monk...

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Ancient horrors and creepy castles - creating a list of books that have been recommend, read, or heard of that contain the theme of medieval horror. Some books are religious based, please check all CWs before reading! (Contact me if something is listed incorrectly!)

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

...it would be a shame if it was corrupted….

a list of corruption arcs because i have an (probably unhealthy) obsession with them. a work in progress! suggestions welcome

Going back to the Dark Ages with all the horror and death they experienced. A comprehensive list including popular selections along with lesser known works to evoke the Olde Age scares.

(I try to update this list all any time I run across new ones!)

A list of 100 gothic classics which covers over 250 years of literature, from the high-drama castles of the 1700s to the psychological "New Gothic" of today.

A mix of classics & modern literature, that have to do with the witchy, gothic and horror genres ✨

Call me Ishmael for this is my white whale

angels, demons, monks, plague, puss, flesh, fear, fire,

A collection of recommendations for Autumn

Sinister hospitality plays on the theatricality or hierarchy of hospitality through the authority of a defined threshold, place or home, that allows the host to exert power over the guest in the guise of help, or for the guest to prey on the expected reciprocity of kindness. This can also include the burden of hospitality in gender roles, such as Rebecca and the Odyssey, or the strained relationship between guest and host due to race, such as The Dispossessed and Dawn. Recommendations welcome.

Notes in the margins are a must. — Me, a neurotic literature degree holder

A coworker asked for this and it got me thinking

horror, historical, and fantasy that are all in the medieval gothic genre. also includes books that are heavily inspired but are more scifi/fantasy to get a fully comprehensive vibe

Keeping those narrators unreliable and those mansions decaying. Embrace the madness and dark appetites of Gothic Literature.

Gothic novels and short stories in the Public Domain, available as free eBooks on gutenberg.org and standardebooks.org

Books to reach for when you feel the itch to daydream about running through a dimly lit castle, followed by a shadowy presence, only to discover a dark forest stretching out before you.

A comprehensive list from Dr. Rebecca Marks (ig:culture_dumper). Includes English, American, Irish, Scottish, German, French, Spanish and Latin American Gothic stories.

Transgressive, perverted, depraved, debased writings from before the Information Age ~1967.

At times disgusting, ecstatic, abhorrent, funny, erotic, evil. Occasionally, actually way less shocking than the reaction from the time of their initial publication suggested.

Seek content warnings. I haven’t read them all and many I regret having in my brain. But I think they’re all intriguing, maybe not all important but they offer us a different view of the past.

Suggestions welcome!