Lists: Gothic Books

There used to be a blog by the name of Gothic Reading Challenge and, well, the challenge itself. Unfortunately, it seems to be defunct or misappropriated as of now, but back when it was online, I copied the list of fiction suggested on that site and kept it for easier reference.

I never joined the challenge back then, but now it's become one of those Perpetual Challenges for me. I identify as Goth, and I've loved Gothic themes in fiction since as long as I can remember, so eventually I want to read as many books that have these themes and elements as possible.

Start: (officially) April 2011

Last updated: 16.01.2014

End:

• A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Beast by Peter Benchley
• Belefleur by Joyce Carol Oates
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Black Creek Crossing by John Saul
• The Black Tower by P.D. James
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan
• The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
• Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
• Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Girl in the Swing by Richard Adams
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest by Ludwig Flammenberg
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
• Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen
• The Shining by Stephen King
• Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
• Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
• The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
• The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Villette, by Charlotte Bronte
• One Thousand and One Ghosts, by Alexandre Dumas-father

Additional resources:

• List of Gothic fiction works
• the Literary Gothic
• Gothic Fiction shelf on Gutenberg
• Gothic Novelists Biographies