Recs if you like Melmoth the Wanderer...

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

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 ✨

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

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

Dark tales of mystery, romance and the supernatural

I will update this list frequently! Recommendations welcomed.

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

A list of books mentioned in Anne Rice’s “The Vampire Chronicles”. Incomplete and ongoing, I’ll add books as I come across them.

If there’s any you think of to add, let me know. I’m on TBT right now, but haven’t scoured the first three books yet— pulled only from memory.

Not on Pagebound: Eyes of the Mummy by Robert Bloch

(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.

This is the compendium of books from the 2012 edition.

Hauntingly beautiful, disturbingly unforgettable books that stay with you long after the last page.

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

Chonky doorstop classic tomes. (600+ pages)

Horror, Absurdity, Death