gothic fiction bot Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Melmoth
Sarah Perry
What might commend so drab a creature to your sight, when overhead the low clouds split, and the upturned bowl of a silver moon pours milk out on the river? Melmoth, Sarah Perry
Paperback, 2019
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Anatomy: A Love Story
Dana Schwartz
Death! Gruesome and terrible! Inevitable and senseless! We dance towards her as we might a beautiful woman (…) and Death waltzes back towards us, beckoning, always beckoning. Once the veil is pierced, we never return. Anatomy, Dana Schwartz
Hardcover, 2022
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Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler
I hope that my venom is strong and that you’ll come to me. It won’t be the same, I know, but you won’t be alone. Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler
Paperback, 2022
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Juniper & Thorn
Ava Reid
And what was a story except a berry you ate over and over again, until your lips and tongue were red and every word you spoke was poison? Juniper & Thorn, Ava Reid
Paperback, 2023
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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Angela Carter
There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Paperback, 2015
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Phantom of the Opera
Gaston LeRoux
He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Paperback, 2021
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The Sundial
Shirley Jackson
"Nothing out there is real. Everything is made out of something else, and everything is made to look like something else, and it all comes apart in your hands." The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
Paperback, 2014
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Paperback, 2017
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that racked me. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback, 2018
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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story
Horace Walpole
"Heaven nor Hell shall impede my designs." The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
Paperback, 2014
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