Shirley Jackson books: A reading guide for new and returning readers
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Edgar Allan Poe: The writer who made the Gothic personal
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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix: Grief, inheritance, and the things we can’t throw away
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Body Gothic: when the body becomes the horror
What is Body Gothic? Body Gothic turns the Gothic inward. The body becomes the site of instability, changing, failing, resisting,…
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The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell: The possession novel before The Exorcist
Ray Russell published The Case Against Satan in 1962, nine years before William Peter Blatty wrote The Exorcist. That chronology…
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Best books on Queer Gothics: where to start with the subgenre
I’ve always found the Gothic drawn to what’s left unsaid. It’s the thing in the locked room, the secret that…
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Best books on Ecclesiastical Gothic
The confessional is a box. The convent is a set of walls with a gate that locks from the outside….
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Slewfoot by Brom: Fear, beauty, and the devil in Puritan New England
Slewfoot is terrifying in the way the best fairy tales are terrifying, where horror and beauty keep feeding into each…
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15 best books like Rebecca for readers who love Gothic suspense
Some novels create such a complete atmosphere that readers spend years trying to find it again. Rebecca is one of…
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Best Gothic books for beginners: where to start with Gothic literature
Gothic books for beginners are novels that introduce the core elements of Gothic fiction—atmosphere, isolation, psychological tension, and inherited secrets—in…
