Guillermo del Toro is a mastermind in gothic art by using dark fantasy to explore religion and power. Here is a list of books I would LOVE to see come to life through the eyes of del Toro. What would you add?
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last updated June, 2026
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
Ken Follett
The Call of Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Patrick Rothfuss
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Marvels
Brian Selznick
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
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