books either about the goth subculture, contain goth characters, or are synonymous with the subculture itself.
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last updated July, 2026
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma (Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality)
Laura Westengard
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Lost Souls
Poppy Z. Brite
The Vampire Lestat
Goth: A History
Lol Tolhurst
The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
Nancy Kilpatrick
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys
What is Goth? Music, Makeup, Attitude, Apparel, Dance, and General Skullduggery
Aurelio Voltaire
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s
Andi Harriman
Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them
Jillian Venters
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