Feminist & Sapphic Gothic

The feminine gaze turned inward and outward on a world that haunts women in particular ways. From Shirley Jackson to Carmen Maria Machado — the gothic reimagined through queer and feminist lenses.

On the Gothic shelf.

Books shelved as Feminist & Sapphic Gothic

• Hex — Jenni Fagan
• Vile Lady Villains — Danai Christopoulou
• Spear — Nicola Griffith
• The River Has Roots — Amal El-Mohtar
• Black Water Sister — Zen Cho
• I Live to Serve the Witch — Jacque Aye
• Novels by Sarah Waters: Tipping the Velvet, the Little Stranger, the Night Watch, Fingersmith — Books LLC
• The Fox and the Dryad — Kellen Graves
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea — Maggie Tokuda-Hall
• In These Gilded Ghostly Hearts — Gwendolyn Kiste
• Ariadna — JENNIFER. SAINT
• Bone of My Bone — Johanna van Veen
• Bloom — Delilah S. Dawson
• When You Least Expect It — Haley Cass
• Those Who Wait — Haley Cass
• But Not Too Bold — H. Pueyo
• El rumor de los huesos — A. G. Slatter
• Summer Sons — Lee Mandelo
• Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• Notes of a Crocodile — Qiu Miaojin
• Wife Shaped Bodies — Laura Cranehill
• El poder — Naomi Alderman
• Sister Creatures — Laura Venita Green
• Hierba mora — Teresa Moure

Related genres

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

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