Recs if you like Vathek...

katabasis (n.) “descent”; often referring to a descent into the underworld, or the realm of the dead.

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!)

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

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 ✨

angels, demons, monks, plague, puss, flesh, fear, fire,

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).

The foundations of the genre.

books mentioned and/or quoted in the shadowhunters universe! up until lord of shadows! to be updated soon!

books mentioned/quoted by Will and/or Tessa in Cassandra Clare's Infernal Devices series (i added also the first book of the series to make it easier to navigate)