Classic & Older Gothic

The original haunted manor, the brooding aristocrat, the ancestral curse. Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, and the century they shaped — where the genre found its bones and its shadows.

On the Gothic shelf.

Books shelved as Classic & Older Gothic

• La dame aux camélias — Alexandre Dumas fils
• The Canon in residence — Victor L. Whitechurch
• The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Graphic Novel — Ian Edginton
• The Haunting of Moscow House — Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
• La Isla del Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
• This House Is Haunted — John Boyne
• La temporada de las apariciones: Historias de fantasmas para largas y oscuras noches de invierno — Bridget Collins
• Alice in Wonderland — Jane Carruth
• The Rats in the Walls — H.P. Lovecraft
• The Stepford Wives — Ira Levin
• La bruja de abril y otros cuentos (April Witch / Fog Horn / Other Foot / Veldt) — Ray Bradbury
• The Pit and the Pendulum — Edgar Allan Poe
• Clarimonde — Théophile Gautier
• Gulliver’s Travels — Jonathan Swift
• The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth — Sarah Monette
• The Queen of Spades — Alexander Pushkin
• La-Bas — Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty
• Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
• The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux
• La muerta enamorada — Théophile Gautier
• The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales — Edgar Allan Poe
• Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) — Anne Rice

Related genres

• Gothic
• Feminist & Sapphic Gothic
• Southern Gothic
• Dark Academia
• Feminist Gothic
• Sapphic Gothic
• American Gothic
• Australian Gothic

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