Recs if you like The Castle of Otranto...

Shorter books (under 200 pages) that are part of at least one quest. Many are also in the public domain, making them easily accessible when you want to grind for that next badge.

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

A collection of horror books without animal death/cruelty since it is prevalent in the genre! These books will avoid graphic scenes with animals and cruelty. Animal bones may be present, let me know if you need to know which ones. Suggestions welcome and if I am mistaken about the content let me know and I will remove!

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

A list for the cold months.

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

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

A collection of books that impacted the future of their own genre. ✨️please make recommendations✨️ (Picking emojis for this was hard)

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

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.

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

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

books to read if you want to delve into classic gothic classic literature

all penguins

Supreme Leader has opened a new library for minions to peruse and keep up with all recs off the podcast 🚨 🚨

books either about the goth subculture, contain goth characters, or are synonymous with the subculture itself.

All ye who enter here, To venture forth is to seek the disturbed, the wretched, the curse. You forsake the comfort for which you came from and enter into the depths of bone chilling literature. Ye hath been warned.