Recs if you like The Beetle...

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.

I like grasshoppers cause frogs eat 'em I like bees cause flowers need 'em I like spiders, I like slugs I like caterpillars, I like bugs I hate crowds, I love people I ain't down with the plague But I'm cool with beetles and bugs

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

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).

Gothic literature

(Almost) all books cited to be a part of the gothic genre, or having a part in creating the gothic genre (including the supernatural, romantic, and pre- & -post subgenres), in H.P Lovecraft's 28,000-word essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” which is mostly based on Edith Birkhead's historical study, The Tale of Terror.

These novels, stories, plays, and poems are “fertile in the element of the weird.”

For those who might want to take a deep-dive into [part of] the genre's development.