My Gothic Reading List

I will include a mix of books that I have read and also still want to read, some of these are actually gothic literature and some are just things that remind me of the aesthetic

1.) Dracula

I have actually read this book and there is a lot of surprising details inside of it, at one point a man eats a spider. It is a bit more confusing than I expected but all around highly entertaining and I reccommend

2.) Coraline

It’s a children’s novel but it is genuinely very spooky, it’s a short read and a delight. Also the movie is very cute as well.

3.) Frankenstein

An amazing book that is largely misrepresented in media. I really loved reading it and now understand how it was so frightening to Shelley’s colleague’s at the time. The main theme I gathered from it is if you create life don’t be a deadbeat dad.

4.) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I can’t believe that I still haven’t read this book, it’s been on my list for awhile and I want to promise myself to read it this month.

5.) The Haunting of Hill House

I’ve only recently become aquainted with this novel’s existence but the premise of a haunting is a classic and it is on my want to read list

6.) We Have Always Lived in the Castle

This is another on my want to read list as I love psychological thrillers in movie form but haven’t experienced any in book form

7.) Edgar Allen Poe’s Poems

I love all sorts of his poetry and I believe his work to be fairly standard of gothic literature

8.) The Yellow Wallpaper

This is an amazingly disturbing short story that I adore and illustrates a lot of the horror of being a woman in that time period

9.) The Phantom of the Opera

At this point the musical is much more famous but the original novel is very compelling and much more disturbing

10.) The Picture of Dorian Gray

This book is a delight and I didn’t know it was considered gothic literature until very recently, I read it for AP English in high school and it still sticks out in my mind