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Recommended Gothic Fiction

Description: Original list based on "gothic fiction" tag. Recommend your favorites; vote down the bad ones.

Based on tag: gothic fiction

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

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1
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
19,202 members, 339 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (1), souloftherose (1), sturlington (5), guyalice, Moomin_Mama

Score: 16.29

2
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
11,377 members, 629 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler (1), guyalice (2), Nickelini (4), sturlington (9), souloftherose (12)

Score: 14.65

3
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
32,963 members, 513 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), Nickelini (2), guyalice (3), souloftherose (3)

Score: 13.44

4
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
4,651 members, 357 reviews
3.4 stars (3.4 stars)

Lists: imager (1), lahochstetler (2), guyalice (4), sturlington (25)

Score: 11.98

5
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
10,546 members, 277 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: sturlington (2), Nickelini (3), guyalice (5), souloftherose (6)

Score: 11.63

6
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
19,543 members, 303 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (5), guyalice (6), sturlington (10), souloftherose (11)

Score: 9.68

7
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
12,112 members, 219 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (2), Nickelini (6), guyalice (7)

Score: 8.38

8
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
3,776 members, 100 reviews
3.48 stars (3.48 stars)

Lists: guyalice (8), sturlington (8), Nickelini (9)

Score: 7.07

9
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
7,912 members, 123 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: guyalice (9), Nickelini (10), sturlington (12)

Score: 6.71

10
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
2,341 members, 130 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler (3), sturlington (3)

Score: 6.08

11
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
19,787 members, 271 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: sturlington (6), Nickelini (7)

Score: 5.02

12
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
2,863 members, 135 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: sturlington (7), Nickelini (8)

Score: 4.84

13
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
7,000 members, 179 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (5), guyalice (14)

Score: 4.74

14
The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Radcliffe
1,620 members, 35 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (8), guyalice (15)

Score: 4.41

15
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
2,926 members, 220 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (7), sturlington (18)

Score: 4.4

16
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis
2,283 members, 46 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (9), guyalice (16)

Score: 4.31

18
Amphigorey
by Edward Gorey
1,856 members, 23 reviews
4.47 stars (4.47 stars)

Lists: guyalice (10), sturlington (20)

Score: 4.14

19
Edward Gorey's Haunted Looking Glass
by Edward Gorey
362 members, 2 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: sturlington (13), guyalice (17)

Score: 4.08

20
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1,122 members, 42 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (12), sturlington (19)

Score: 4.07

21
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
6,748 members, 46 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: guyalice (11), sturlington (24)

Score: 4

22
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
11,348 members, 269 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

Lists: imager (2)

Score: 3.36

23
The Merciful Women
by Federico Andahazi
147 members, 4 reviews
3.37 stars (3.37 stars)

Lists: Moomin_Mama

Score: 3.36

24
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
17,693 members, 250 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: imager (3), Nickelini (13)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3.15

25
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
340 members, 10 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: Moomin_Mama (3)

Score: 3.04

26
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
29,139 members, 407 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (4), Nickelini (14)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2.9

27
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
14,225 members, 182 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: sturlington (4)

Score: 2.83

28
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
4,801 members, 54 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: lahochstetler (4)

Score: 2.83

29
The Stolen Child
by Keith Donohue
1,970 members, 103 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: imager (4)

Score: 2.83

30
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
by Michael Cox
310 members, 6 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: Moomin_Mama (4)

Score: 2.83

31
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
1,826 members, 52 reviews
3.14 stars (3.14 stars)

Lists: guyalice (12), souloftherose (13)

Thumbs down: Nickelini

Score: 2.26

32
The House Next Door
by Anne Rivers Siddons
613 members, 20 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: sturlington (11)

Score: 2.2

33
The Italian
by Ann Radcliffe
696 members, 3 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: guyalice (13)

Score: 2.11

34
Asylum
by Patrick McGrath
939 members, 20 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: sturlington (14)

Score: 2.07

35
Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
11,409 members, 429 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (15)

Score: 2.03

36
Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
1,981 members, 40 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: sturlington (15)

Score: 2.03

37
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
2,142 members, 32 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: sturlington (16)

Score: 2

38
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
6,179 members, 76 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (18)

Score: 1.94

39
Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin
845 members, 13 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: guyalice (18)

Score: 1.94

40
The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story
by Clara Reeve
93 members, 0 reviews
2.8 stars (2.8 stars)

Lists: guyalice (19)

Score: 1.92

41
Amphigorey Also
by Edward Gorey
1,358 members, 15 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: sturlington (21)

Score: 1.87

42
Boneshaker
by Cherie Priest
2,006 members, 148 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: sturlington (22)

Score: 1.85

43
The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux
6,137 members, 96 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: sturlington (23)

Score: 1.83

44
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
14,980 members, 606 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Score: 0

45
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
12,808 members, 269 reviews
4.3 stars (4.3 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (16)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 0

46
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
4,299 members, 98 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Score: 0

47
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories
by Tim Burton
2,459 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Score: 0

49
The Bad Beginning
by Lemony Snicket
10,346 members, 265 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: Nickelini (17)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

50
The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
16,960 members, 621 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: souloftherose (10)

Thumbs down: Nickelini, sturlington

Score: < 0

51
The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
11,829 members, 217 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

52
The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice
9,118 members, 76 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

53
The Drawing of the Three
by Stephen King
9,002 members, 106 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

54
American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
8,411 members, 154 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

55
The Waste Lands
by Stephen King
7,911 members, 78 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

56
Wizard and Glass
by Stephen King
7,738 members, 80 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

57
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6,956 members, 145 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

58
Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King
6,881 members, 67 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

59
The Dark Tower
by Stephen King
6,764 members, 103 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

60
Song Of Susannah
by Stephen King
6,420 members, 62 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

61
The Heart is A Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
6,305 members, 109 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

62
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
5,921 members, 108 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

63
The Sandman: The Doll's House
by Neil Gaiman
5,453 members, 69 reviews
4.34 stars (4.34 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

64
Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
4,433 members, 52 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

65
Shutter Island
by Dennis Lehane
4,163 members, 207 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

66
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
2,159 members, 43 reviews
3.38 stars (3.38 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

67
Lost Souls
by Poppy Z. Brite
1,784 members, 28 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

68
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
1,780 members, 49 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

69
Petals on the Wind
by V.C. Andrews
1,664 members, 19 reviews
3.44 stars (3.44 stars)

Thumbs down: Moomin_Mama

Score: < 0

70
If There Be Thorns
by V.C. Andrews
1,562 members, 14 reviews
3.23 stars (3.23 stars)

Thumbs down: Moomin_Mama

Score: < 0

71
Child of God
by Cormac McCarthy
1,419 members, 22 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

72
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born
by Peter David
1,099 members, 27 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

73
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
by Ellen Rimbauer
988 members, 22 reviews
3.27 stars (3.27 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: < 0

74
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
23,195 members, 545 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Thumbs down: souloftherose, sturlington

Score: < 0

75
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman
19,630 members, 396 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

Thumbs down: souloftherose, sturlington

Score: < 0

76
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
17,677 members, 353 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Thumbs down: souloftherose, sturlington

Score: < 0

77
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
16,316 members, 288 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Thumbs down: souloftherose, sturlington

Score: < 0

78
The Shining
by Stephen King
10,871 members, 158 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington, Moomin_Mama

Score: < 0

79
The Talisman
by Stephen King
5,923 members, 66 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Thumbs down: sturlington, Moomin_Mama

Score: < 0

80
The 13 Clocks
by James Thurber
954 members, 34 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Thumbs down: Nickelini, sturlington

Score: < 0

81
Flowers in the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
3,185 members, 83 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Thumbs down: Moomin_Mama, Nickelini, sturlington

Score: < 0

82
The Queen of the Damned
by Anne Rice
7,773 members, 54 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)
83
Gormenghast Trilogy
by Mervyn Peake
2,846 members, 37 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)
84
Titus Groan
by Mervyn Peake
2,283 members, 45 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)
85
Vathek
by William Beckford
664 members, 23 reviews
3.25 stars (3.25 stars)
86
The Tale of the Body Thief
by Anne Rice
5,900 members, 34 reviews
3.43 stars (3.43 stars)
87
Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
1,332 members, 15 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)
88
The Angel's Game
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4,781 members, 276 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)
89
Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
2,014 members, 45 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)
90
My Cousin Rachel
by Daphne du Maurier
1,941 members, 47 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)
91
Titus Alone
by Mervyn Peake
1,319 members, 19 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)
92
Selected tales
by Edgar Allan Poe
861 members, 6 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)
93
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
by Jack Gantos
194 members, 15 reviews
2.93 stars (2.93 stars)
94
Memnoch the Devil
by Anne Rice
5,625 members, 43 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)
95
The Vampire Armand
by Anne Rice
4,663 members, 30 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)
96
Taltos
by Anne Rice
3,954 members, 22 reviews
3.47 stars (3.47 stars)
97
Gormenghast
by Mervyn Peake
1,695 members, 27 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)
98
Drawing Blood
by Poppy Z. Brite
1,226 members, 14 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)
99
In a Glass Darkly
by Sheridan Le Fanu
728 members, 9 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)
100
Sleep, Pale Sister
by Joanne Harris
540 members, 15 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)
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