🏷️ Gothic
16 entries tagged with this trope
Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 1872
Before Dracula, there was Carmilla. A mysterious young woman becomes Laura's intimate friend and perhaps something more. Classic vampire lesbian romance.
Gideon the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir · 2019
Gideon Nav, swordswoman extraordinaire, is stuck with necromancer Harrow in a deadly trial. Lesbian necromancers in space—what more do you need?
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
1950s Mexico. Noemí visits her cousin at a decaying English manor. The house is wrong. The family is wrong. The mushrooms in the walls are very wrong.
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth · 2020
A cursed New England boarding school, a true-crime book about it, and the movie being made about the book. Gothic sapphic horror with a wickedly smart structure.
Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Cassandra Khaw · 2021
A group of friends celebrate a wedding in a Heian-era Japanese mansion built on the bones of a bride. The house is hungry. Gorgeous, bite-sized horror.
Horrid
Katrina Leno · 2020
After her father's death, Jane moves into her mother's childhood home. The locked room upstairs is full of books. And something is reading them at night.
Sundial
Catriona Ward · 2022
Rob's daughter might be a psychopath. She takes her to the desert compound where she grew up — a place with its own dark history. Layers upon layers of unreliable narration.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
A glamorous 1950s socialite investigates her cousin's strange new husband — in a decaying English manor in Mexico.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
The original haunted house novel. Nobody walks these halls alone.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí goes to rescue her cousin from a crumbling English-style manor in 1950s Mexico. The house has secrets. The walls have something worse.
The Only One Left
Riley Sager · 2023
A caretaker arrives at a clifftop mansion to tend to Lenora, who allegedly slaughtered her family in 1929. Lenora wants to tell her story.
What Moves the Dead
T. Kingfisher · 2022
A retelling of Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher.' Something is very wrong with the lake, the house, and Madeline. Fungal horror done beautifully.
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959
Four people stay in a haunted house for a study. Hill House doesn't like visitors. The original haunted house novel. Still unmatched.
A House with Good Bones
T. Kingfisher · 2023
Sam visits her mom and finds the house has been redecorated in aggressive Southern grandmother chic. Something sinister is behind the lace curtains.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson · 1962
Merricat Blackwood lives with her sister Constance and uncle Julian in their old house. Most of her family is dead. She's perfectly happy about it. Eerie perfection.
Bag of Bones
Stephen King · 1998
Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan loses his wife and retreats to their Maine lakehouse. It's haunted. It wants something from him. King's most literary horror novel.