30 Books like The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Red Winter

by Cameron Sullivan

An immortal magician hunts the Beast that stole his lover and now curses their son.

3.95

9k+

🖤 Doomed Queer Love 🔥 Inner Demon 🐺 Monstrous Transformation 🌊 Fey Bargains ⛪ Religious Corruption

The Red Winter 90%

An immortal magician hunts the Beast that stole his lover and now curses their son.

by Cameron Sullivan 2026

3.95

9k+ ratings

🖤 Doomed Queer Love 🔥 Inner Demon 🐺 Monstrous Transformation 🌊 Fey Bargains ⛪ Religious Corruption

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde • 1890

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

4.14

1.9M+

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

The Picture of Dorian Gray 95%

A vain wish grants him eternal youth; a hidden portrait rots with every sin.

by Oscar Wilde 1890

4.14

1.9M+ ratings

😈 Faustian Bargain 🏙️ Victorian London 🎭 Double Life 🐍 Corrupting Influence 🥀 Decadent Horror

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

by James Malcolm Rymer • 1845

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

3.40

2k+

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood Summary

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood 93%

A fanged neighbor mirrors the cursed portrait on their wall. Their daughter is his prey.

by James Malcolm Rymer 1845

3.40

2k+ ratings

🏰 Victorian Gothic 🩸 Tragic Vampire 💀 Ancestral Curse 📰 Penny Dreadful 🎭 Gothic Melodrama

The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker • 1986

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

4.08

70k+

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

The Hellbound Heart 90%

Her lover vanished solving a puzzle box. Blood she spills brings him back piece by piece.

by Clive Barker 1986

4.08

70k+ ratings

🖤 Erotic Horror 🩸 Body Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 💔 Destructive Obsession 🔮 Forbidden Knowledge

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen • 1890

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

3.67

17k+

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment 🌹 Inhuman Beauty 🔗 Contagious Evil

The Great God Pan 90%

A forbidden brain experiment yields a child who grows into a woman of inhuman, ruinous beauty.

by Arthur Machen 1890

3.67

17k+ ratings

🪐 Cosmic Horror 📜 Weird Fiction ⚗️ Forbidden Experiment 🌹 Inhuman Beauty 🔗 Contagious Evil

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

3.83

674k+

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hide 90%

A lawyer uncovers a horrifying secret linking his friend Dr. Jekyll to a brutish criminal.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

3.83

674k+ ratings

🧠 Split Personality 🔬 Victorian Science 👥 Evil Double 🧪 Scientific Hubris 🎩 Repressed Gentleman

Ordinary Monsters

by J.M. Miro • 2022

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

3.77

23k+

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

Ordinary Monsters 90%

Gifted orphans find safety in a Scottish manor built upon a door to the dead.

by J.M. Miro 2022

3.77

23k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🫂 Found Family 🏛️ Sinister Institution 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🌑 Dark Destiny

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley • 2025

A scientist creates life, then recoils. Abandoned, his creature demands a companion or revenge.

4.19

504

🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧬 Playing God ❄️ Arctic Isolation 💔 Tragic Villain 👁️ Monster Perspective

Frankenstein 90%

A scientist creates life, then recoils. Abandoned, his creature demands a companion or revenge.

by Mary Shelley 2025

4.19

504 ratings

🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧬 Playing God ❄️ Arctic Isolation 💔 Tragic Villain 👁️ Monster Perspective

Midnight Rooms

by Donyae Coles • 2024

At her new husband's decaying manor, a young bride finds the family's appetites are not human.

3.38

2k+

🏚️ Gothic Manor 💍 Bartered Bride 👹 Monstrous In-Laws 🏠 House As Predator 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

Midnight Rooms 90%

At her new husband's decaying manor, a young bride finds the family's appetites are not human.

by Donyae Coles 2024

3.38

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Manor 💍 Bartered Bride 👹 Monstrous In-Laws 🏠 House As Predator 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

Marina

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón • 1999

A Barcelona boy follows a cemetery mourner to a greenhouse of puppets hiding an undying monster.

4.14

98k+

🧪 Mad Scientist 🦴 Body Horror 🧬 Forbidden Science 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Marina 90%

A Barcelona boy follows a cemetery mourner to a greenhouse of puppets hiding an undying monster.

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón 1999

4.14

98k+ ratings

🧪 Mad Scientist 🦴 Body Horror 🧬 Forbidden Science 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers 🏚️ Gothic Mansion

Shadowmancer

by G.P. Taylor • 2002

A shipwrecked priest and two orphans defy a shadow-wielding vicar to reclaim a sacred relic.

2.83

3k+

🕊️ Christian Fantasy 🌊 Gothic Seaside ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🤝 Found Family ⛪ Corrupted Priest

Shadowmancer 89%

A shipwrecked priest and two orphans defy a shadow-wielding vicar to reclaim a sacred relic.

by G.P. Taylor 2002

2.83

3k+ ratings

🕊️ Christian Fantasy 🌊 Gothic Seaside ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🤝 Found Family ⛪ Corrupted Priest

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

4.00

36k+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories 91%

A lawyer probes the bond between a revered doctor and the brute who trampled a child.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

4.00

36k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🎩 Victorian London 👤 Dark Alter Ego ⚗️ Scientific Hubris 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread

Interview with the Vampire

by Anne Rice • 1976

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

4.02

656k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Interview with the Vampire 91%

A vampire recounts his life: from 1791 Louisiana to Parisian vampire theater, an eternity of sorrow.

by Anne Rice 1976

4.02

656k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🎙️ Framed Narrative 🧛 Reluctant Vampire 👧 Eternal Child 🥀 Immortal Melancholy

Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

4.06

16k+

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

Angel Down 90%

A WWI gravedigger finds an angel in No Man's Land; her gifts destroy whoever asks.

by Daniel Kraus 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🖤 Literary Horror 🪖 World War I 😇 Wish Gone Wrong 🤝 Deadly Bargain ⛪ Religious Horror

The Silence Factory

by Bridget Collins • 2024

Seeking silence for his grief, a widower finds a factory where spiders spin refuge and ruin.

3.42

4k+

🔗 Industrial Gothic 👻 Victorian Gothic 🕸️ Cursed Artifact 💔 Forbidden Queer Desire 🤫 Silenced Voices

The Silence Factory 89%

Seeking silence for his grief, a widower finds a factory where spiders spin refuge and ruin.

by Bridget Collins 2024

3.42

4k+ ratings

🔗 Industrial Gothic 👻 Victorian Gothic 🕸️ Cursed Artifact 💔 Forbidden Queer Desire 🤫 Silenced Voices

Frankenstien (4)

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 1818

A scientist creates life and recoils. His creature, abandoned and enraged, demands a reckoning.

3.91

1.9M+

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧪 Mad Scientist ⚡ Scientific Hubris 💔 Sympathetic Monster 🗡️ Revenge Tragedy

Frankenstien (4) 89%

A scientist creates life and recoils. His creature, abandoned and enraged, demands a reckoning.

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818

3.91

1.9M+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Horror 🧪 Mad Scientist ⚡ Scientific Hubris 💔 Sympathetic Monster 🗡️ Revenge Tragedy

The Island of Doctor Moreau

by H.G. Wells • 1896

A castaway lands on an island of beasts carved into men by a surgeon playing god.

3.73

136k+

🧪 Mad Scientist 🩸 Body Horror ⚡ Man Playing God 🐺 The Beast Within 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

The Island of Doctor Moreau 89%

A castaway lands on an island of beasts carved into men by a surgeon playing god.

by H.G. Wells 1896

3.73

136k+ ratings

🧪 Mad Scientist 🩸 Body Horror ⚡ Man Playing God 🐺 The Beast Within 🌀 Unreliable Narrator

Faust, First Part

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 1808

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

3.83

87k+

📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

Faust, First Part 89%

A scholar bets his soul he will never find a moment worth keeping; the devil gives him Gretchen.

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808

3.83

87k+ ratings

📜 Faustian Bargain 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🥀 Seduction And Ruin 👰 Tragic Heroine ✝️ Religious Redemption

Wormwood

by G.P. Taylor • 2004

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

3.10

2k+

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

Wormwood 89%

When a comet fractures London, a servant's stolen prophecy book may be the city's only salvation.

by G.P. Taylor 2004

3.10

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Biblical Fantasy ⚔️ Angelic Warfare 🌫️ Gothic London 😇 Fallen Angel 📖 Forbidden Tome

Powers of Darkness

by Valdimar Ásmundsson • 1901

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

3.63

2k+

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Powers of Darkness 89%

A Transylvanian castle imprisons a solicitor as its blood-drinking master schemes to rule the world.

by Valdimar Ásmundsson 1901

3.63

2k+ ratings

🦇 Vampire Conspiracy 🖤 Erotic Horror 💋 Femme Fatale Vampire 🕯️ Ritual Horror 📜 Epistolary Horror

Apartment 16

by Adam L.G. Nevill

Her inherited London flat came with neighbors who hadn't stepped outside in sixty years.

3.20

7k+

🏚️ Haunted Building 🎨 Cursed Art 🏛️ Gothic London 🖌️ Artistic Obsession 🚪 Forbidden Room

Apartment 16 89%

Her inherited London flat came with neighbors who hadn't stepped outside in sixty years.

by Adam L.G. Nevill 2010

3.20

7k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted Building 🎨 Cursed Art 🏛️ Gothic London 🖌️ Artistic Obsession 🚪 Forbidden Room

Vathek

by William Beckford • 1786

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

3.23

7k+

🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

Vathek 91%

An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.

by William Beckford 1786

3.23

7k+ ratings

🏰 Early Gothic 🕌 Arabian Nights Fantasy 🤝 Faustian Bargain 📜 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Decadent Gothic

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

by Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

3.91

147k+

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 91%

A respectable doctor's strange will leaves everything to a violent man his lawyer has never met.

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1886

3.91

147k+ ratings

🧠 Split Personality 🧪 Mad Scientist 🏙️ Victorian London ✉️ Epistolary Horror 😰 Creeping Dread

The Monk

by Matthew Gregory Lewis • 1796

A monk revered as a saint falls into lust, murder, and a bargain with the Devil.

3.86

35k+

🖤 Gothic Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 😈 Demonic Pact ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 📉 Fall From Grace

The Monk 89%

A monk revered as a saint falls into lust, murder, and a bargain with the Devil.

by Matthew Gregory Lewis 1796

3.86

35k+ ratings

🖤 Gothic Horror ✝️ Religious Horror 😈 Demonic Pact ⛪ Corrupt Clergy 📉 Fall From Grace

The Night Gardener

by Jonathan Auxier • 2014

Two orphans take work at a crumbling manor where a wish-granting tree extracts a terrible price.

4.05

22k+

👻 Middle Grade Horror 🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🪵 Cursed Wishes 🐺 Dark Fairy Tale 🕯️ Cursed Estate

The Night Gardener 89%

Two orphans take work at a crumbling manor where a wish-granting tree extracts a terrible price.

by Jonathan Auxier 2014

4.05

22k+ ratings

👻 Middle Grade Horror 🏚️ Gothic Fantasy 🪵 Cursed Wishes 🐺 Dark Fairy Tale 🕯️ Cursed Estate

The Anubis Gates

by Tim Powers • 1983

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

3.90

18k+

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld 📚 Scholar In Peril 🩸 Grotesque Horror

The Anubis Gates 89%

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

by Tim Powers 1983

3.90

18k+ ratings

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld 📚 Scholar In Peril 🩸 Grotesque Horror

Père Goriot

by Honoré de Balzac • 1997

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

3.85

69k+

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Père Goriot 89%

In a Paris boarding house, a student learns ambition's cost from a ruined father and criminal.

by Honoré de Balzac 1997

3.85

69k+ ratings

🎭 Realist Novel 🇫🇷 19th Century Paris 😈 Corrupt Mentor 📈 Social Climbing 💔 Ungrateful Children

Geist

by Philippa Ballantine • 2010

A Deacon and a cursed Pretender hunt the traitors rewriting the boundary between life and death.

3.64

4k+

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ✨ Rune Magic 🖤 Psychic Bond 👑 Cursed Royalty 🤝 Found Family

Geist 89%

A Deacon and a cursed Pretender hunt the traitors rewriting the boundary between life and death.

by Philippa Ballantine 2010

3.64

4k+ ratings

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy ✨ Rune Magic 🖤 Psychic Bond 👑 Cursed Royalty 🤝 Found Family

Lapvona

by Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

3.54

104k+

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

Lapvona 89%

After killing the lord's son, a deformed boy is traded to a manor where cruelty wears silk.

by Ottessa Moshfegh 2022

3.54

104k+ ratings

🏰 Medieval Horror 🤢 Body Horror 🍖 Cannibalism 🎭 Dark Fable 🏡 Gothic Manor

A Great and Terrible Beauty

by Libba Bray • 2003

Visions of death send Gemma to finishing school, where a hidden diary reveals a magical realm.

3.80

226k+

🏰 Gothic Boarding School 🕰️ Victorian Fantasy 🔮 Secret Magical Society 🗝️ Hidden Magical Realm 👁️ Psychic Visions

A Great and Terrible Beauty 89%

Visions of death send Gemma to finishing school, where a hidden diary reveals a magical realm.

by Libba Bray 2003

3.80

226k+ ratings

🏰 Gothic Boarding School 🕰️ Victorian Fantasy 🔮 Secret Magical Society 🗝️ Hidden Magical Realm 👁️ Psychic Visions

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