Gothic

Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both the uncanny and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is considered to be the parent genre for both Horror and Mystery, among other genres.

The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initi
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Silent in the Grave by Deanna RaybournWhat Angels Fear by C.S. HarrisCrocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth PetersAnd Only to Deceive by Tasha AlexanderThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Regency and Victorian Mysteries
648 books — 440 voters
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldRebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Modern Gothic
720 books — 1,512 voters

Beautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle HodkinDaughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini TaylorMina and the Undead by Amy McCawClockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
YA Gothic
190 books — 394 voters


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