Recs if you like Young Goodman Brown...

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.

A novel is a prose work typically above 40k words, though many fall between 60-100k. Anything between roughly 17k and 40k words is generally considered a novella, while works between about 7k and 17k words are classified as novelettes, with some flexibility ~

TL;DR - short stories with 7k-17k words. Get out of that slump.

Books and stories featuring unreliable narrative situations.

deals with the devil throughout literature (in short, faust is everywhere)

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

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American Gothic fiction from the 18th century until today.