Reading List · Gothic Fiction
From Mary Shelley's laboratory to Shirley Jackson's haunted house, gothic fiction explores the fears lurking beneath civilized life. Two free public-domain classics and four modern picks that define the genre.
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How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no stateme...
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my...
The unnamed heroine is haunted by the ghost of her husband's first wife in this gothic masterpiece.
Four strangers spend a summer in Hill House — and not all of them leave with their sanity intact.
Merricat Blackwood guards her eccentric family's estate against a world that fears and resents them.
1950s Mexico: socialite Noemí Taboada investigates a crumbling mansion with a sinister past.