Hold on to your candelabras!

Keeping those narrators unreliable and those mansions decaying. Embrace the madness and dark appetites of Gothic Literature.

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created by literarymisanthrope

last updated January, 2026

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Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)

S.T. Gibson

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Haunting of Hill House

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The Monk

The Monk

Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Frankenstein

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dracula

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily BrontĂŤ

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

Anne Rice

The Complete Stories and Poems

The Complete Stories and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Carmilla

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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antisocialromantasy

Ugh I live for this genre! Some gothic fantasy books that I’ve loved are the Shepherd King duology, the Belladonna series, The Knight and the Moth, Starling House, and the Sisters of the Salt books 😍

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literarymisanthropeOP

I've read the first Shepherd King book and heard of The Knight and the Moth, but not the others. Good to know! 🤗

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moski

oo oo if you take recs, mexican gothic would be a good fit!

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literarymisanthropeOP

I'll add it!

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moski

oh yay!! thank u for this cool list :)

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literarymisanthropeOP

You're welcome! 🤗

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startripper
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i love this list so much it’s so perfect hehe

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literarymisanthropeOP

Thank you so much! 😊

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