Recs if you like The House of the Seven Gables...

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

the darker side of new england. crumbling colonial-era brick, run down coastal towns, abandoned factories, dilapidated mills, foggy orchards, cold dark waters, whispers of witchcraft, venerated institutions, secret societies, and uneasy echoes of the past.

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.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

For Stephen King and co. Horrors, thrillers, and spooky vibes

Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Numerical Titles Prompt You must find titles with the words one through ten, plus one more of a random number 11 books total This is an on going list and always open for recommendations

Here's me keeping track of (most) of the books mentioned in this non-fiction adventure, for the good of all of us.

There is also a reading list at the back of the book, but I think I got them all.

Protagonists and supporting characters who see and/or hear the dead / ghosts

if you’re craving something that feels like the next martha’s vineyard (iykyk)! books that evoke the same feeling as the magnificent tv show ‘widows bay’

"As it ever was, so it will be again."

aka you know there's gotta be a river, there's gotta be some obscure and complicated folklore, there's gotta be some sort of myth/historical reference or retelling.

Dark tales of mystery, romance and the supernatural

The Primary Works section of the Reading List of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Books set in New England, for when I feel “Homesick”

My books are my babies, some are more precious than others If I give one to you, that means I think highly of you wink

This is the compendium of books from the 2012 edition.

collection of Gothic elements in literature, Gothic fictions...

1. The History of the Caliph Vathek (1786) by William Thomas Beckford
2. Salathiel the Immortal (1828) by George Croly

A book for every U.S. state. (except for Utah because I have yet to find a book that isn't about national parks or LDS 🙃)

the perfect books to cozy up with on a chilly evening while leaves fall

book in "Chapter 30: The Nocturnal Conspiracy by Smoke Wyannoch Harvey" is fictional