Готика

Тёмные коридоры и призрачные особняки становятся декорациями для историй о психологических муках, запретных желаниях и сверхъестественном ужасе в викторианской Британии и за её пределами. Мрачные антигерои, проклятые артефакты и семейные тайны переплетаются с темами морали, науки и социального упадка в этих атмосферных произведениях, положивших начало литературе ужасов в её современном понимании.

Готика Саммари книг

The Wind off the Small Isles

— Mary Stewart • 1968

On a volcanic island, a young assistant discovers two lovers preserved in ash for a century.

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🌋 Volcanic Island Setting 💕 Slow-Burn Romance ✍️ Creative Renewal

The Wind off the Small Isles

On a volcanic island, a young assistant discovers two lovers preserved in ash for a century.

— Mary Stewart 1968 96 стр.

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🕰️ Dual Timeline Romance 🌊 Gothic Seaside 🌋 Volcanic Island Setting 💕 Slow-Burn Romance ✍️ Creative Renewal

Poor Things

— Alasdair Gray • 1992

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

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📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

Poor Things

A drowned woman, rebuilt with an infant's brain, awakens to a world trying to own her.

— Alasdair Gray 1992 317 стр.

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📜 Victorian Pastiche ✊ Feminist Revision 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📖 Competing Narratives ⚗️ Scientific Hubris

Hungerstone

— Kat Dunn • 2025

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

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🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

Hungerstone

Her husband is poisoning her. The stranger from the moor offers a darker hunger.

— Kat Dunn 2025 336 стр.

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40 000+ оценок

🩸 Sapphic Vampires 🗡️ Feminist Horror 🕯️ Victorian Gothic 🦴 Body Horror 💍 Toxic Marriage

Wed to the Lich

— Layla Fae • 2023

Desperate and starving, May marries a lich. She expects a monster; he offers gentle shadows instead.

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💍 Arranged Marriage 👹 Gentle Monster 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🔥 Slow Burn ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing

Wed to the Lich

Desperate and starving, May marries a lich. She expects a monster; he offers gentle shadows instead.

— Layla Fae 2023 208 стр.

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💍 Arranged Marriage 👹 Gentle Monster 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🔥 Slow Burn ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Healing

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2022

Carlota Moreau grew up among animal hybrids in the jungle. She never knew she was one.

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🧬 Gothic Science Fiction ✨ Feminist Retelling 🧪 Mad Scientist 💚 Chosen Family 🐆 Animal-Human Hybrids

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Carlota Moreau grew up among animal hybrids in the jungle. She never knew she was one.

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia 2022 306 стр.

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40 000+ оценок

🧬 Gothic Science Fiction ✨ Feminist Retelling 🧪 Mad Scientist 💚 Chosen Family 🐆 Animal-Human Hybrids

Every Fall

— Angela Douglas • 2025

Fleeing criminals, a mother hides in a house haunted by a ghost who understands her terror.

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🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤱 Postpartum Depression 👻 Haunted House 🎖️ PTSD

Every Fall

Fleeing criminals, a mother hides in a house haunted by a ghost who understands her terror.

— Angela Douglas 2025 384 стр.

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500+ оценок

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤱 Postpartum Depression 👻 Haunted House 🎖️ PTSD

Broken Beauty

— Ketley Allison • 2023

Chasing a dead witch's secrets, a student falls for four exiled criminals on campus.

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🏛️ Dark Academia 💕 Why Choose Romance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🚫 Student Teacher Taboo 👬 Brother's Best Friend

Broken Beauty

Chasing a dead witch's secrets, a student falls for four exiled criminals on campus.

— Ketley Allison 2023 418 стр.

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6 000+ оценок

🏛️ Dark Academia 💕 Why Choose Romance 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🚫 Student Teacher Taboo 👬 Brother's Best Friend

Make Me Better

— Sarah Gailey • 2026

A grieving woman joins an island festival for healing. The rituals work; the cured never leave.

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🕯️ Cult Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏝️ Isolated Community 🦴 Body Horror 🕸️ Coercive Control

Make Me Better

A grieving woman joins an island festival for healing. The rituals work; the cured never leave.

— Sarah Gailey 2026 432 стр.

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1 000+ оценок

🕯️ Cult Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🏝️ Isolated Community 🦴 Body Horror 🕸️ Coercive Control

Unholy Vows

— Mila Kane • 2023

To save her sister, a mob witness becomes the forced bride of a ruthless mafia kingpin.

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🔫 Mafia Romance 💍 Forced Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⏳ Age Gap 🐺 Alpha Hero

Unholy Vows

To save her sister, a mob witness becomes the forced bride of a ruthless mafia kingpin.

— Mila Kane 2023 446 стр.

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18 000+ оценок

🔫 Mafia Romance 💍 Forced Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Enemies To Lovers ⏳ Age Gap 🐺 Alpha Hero

Pretty Poisoned

— Elle Mitchell • 2024

An outcast infiltrates a rock band to expose murder, entering a cult where love demands blood.

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🎸 Rock Star Romance 💕 Why Choose 🔪 Cult Dynamics 🩸 Blood Play 🖤 Erotic Horror

Pretty Poisoned

An outcast infiltrates a rock band to expose murder, entering a cult where love demands blood.

— Elle Mitchell 2024 393 стр.

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2 000+ оценок

🎸 Rock Star Romance 💕 Why Choose 🔪 Cult Dynamics 🩸 Blood Play 🖤 Erotic Horror

Cartas de inverno

— Agustín Fernández Paz • 1995

A painter finds a hidden room in his new house, and something ancient begins to feed.

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✉️ Epistolary Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 📖 Cursed Object 🎨 Artist's Obsession

Cartas de inverno

A painter finds a hidden room in his new house, and something ancient begins to feed.

— Agustín Fernández Paz 1995 152 стр.

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1 000+ оценок

✉️ Epistolary Horror 🐙 Lovecraftian Horror 🏚️ Haunted House 📖 Cursed Object 🎨 Artist's Obsession

A Head Full of Ghosts

— Paul Tremblay • 2015

An eight-year-old girl watches her sister's possible possession turn into a televised nightmare.

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🤥 Unreliable Narrator 👭 Sisterly Bond 🏚️ Haunted House 🕷️ Creeping Dread 👻 Ambiguous Supernatural

A Head Full of Ghosts

An eight-year-old girl watches her sister's possible possession turn into a televised nightmare.

— Paul Tremblay 2015 287 стр.

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🤥 Unreliable Narrator 👭 Sisterly Bond 🏚️ Haunted House 🕷️ Creeping Dread 👻 Ambiguous Supernatural

The Cute Psycho

— Veronica Lancet • 2025

A Bratva berserker haunted by his twin meets a survivor whose demons answer his own.

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🖤 Dark Romance 🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Trauma Bonding 🔥 Obsessive Love 🏠 Found Family

The Cute Psycho

A Bratva berserker haunted by his twin meets a survivor whose demons answer his own.

— Veronica Lancet 2025 352 стр.

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1 000+ оценок

🖤 Dark Romance 🔫 Mafia Romance 💔 Trauma Bonding 🔥 Obsessive Love 🏠 Found Family

L’efecte Frankenstein

— Elia Barceló • 2019

Trapped in 1790, a medical student falls for the man Victor Frankenstein stitched back to life.

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🧟 Frankenstein Retelling ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🏰 Gothic Romance 🎭 Girl Disguised As Boy 📚 Dark Academia

L’efecte Frankenstein

Trapped in 1790, a medical student falls for the man Victor Frankenstein stitched back to life.

— Elia Barceló 2019 336 стр.

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1 000+ оценок

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling ⏳ Time Travel Romance 🏰 Gothic Romance 🎭 Girl Disguised As Boy 📚 Dark Academia

The Devil's Playground

— Craig Russell • 2023

A Hollywood fixer buries a star's scandalous death, then unearths the ritual murder behind it.

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🎬 Hollywood Gothic 🎥 Cursed Film 🩸 Generational Curse 🕯️ Secret Society 💋 Femme Fatale

The Devil's Playground

A Hollywood fixer buries a star's scandalous death, then unearths the ritual murder behind it.

— Craig Russell 2023 368 стр.

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🎬 Hollywood Gothic 🎥 Cursed Film 🩸 Generational Curse 🕯️ Secret Society 💋 Femme Fatale

An Education in Malice

— S.T. Gibson • 2024

At a gothic college, a shy poet and her rival fall under their professor's dark spell.

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🏛️ Dark Academia 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 🍷 Toxic Mentorship 🩸 Vampire Sire Bond

An Education in Malice

At a gothic college, a shy poet and her rival fall under their professor's dark spell.

— S.T. Gibson 2024 352 стр.

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🏛️ Dark Academia 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere ⚔️ Rivals To Lovers 🍷 Toxic Mentorship 🩸 Vampire Sire Bond

Sing Me Forgotten

— Jessica S. Olson • 2021

A masked memory-witch hides in an opera house, until a janitor's voice lures her toward ruin.

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🎭 Phantom Retelling 🧠 Memory Magic 🔮 Forbidden Magic 👤 Hidden Identity 💔 Tragic Lovers

Sing Me Forgotten

A masked memory-witch hides in an opera house, until a janitor's voice lures her toward ruin.

— Jessica S. Olson 2021 336 стр.

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4 000+ оценок

🎭 Phantom Retelling 🧠 Memory Magic 🔮 Forbidden Magic 👤 Hidden Identity 💔 Tragic Lovers

Vengeful Dove

— K.C. Kean • 2026

Her vampire betrays her to his brother. Her magic is now the weapon every faction hunts.

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🖤 Fated Mates 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🩸 Hidden Bloodline 🔥 Vengeful Heroine 💕 Polyamorous Bonds

Vengeful Dove

Her vampire betrays her to his brother. Her magic is now the weapon every faction hunts.

— K.C. Kean 2026 506 стр.

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1 000+ оценок

🖤 Fated Mates 🔪 Touch Her And Die 🩸 Hidden Bloodline 🔥 Vengeful Heroine 💕 Polyamorous Bonds

The Turnout

— Megan Abbott • 2021

A contractor's hammer tears through a family ballet studio, exposing secrets no renovation can fix.

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24 000+

🩰 Ballet Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Family Drama 👯 Sisters In Crisis 🐺 Charismatic Intruder 🖤 Sensual Noir

The Turnout

A contractor's hammer tears through a family ballet studio, exposing secrets no renovation can fix.

— Megan Abbott 2021 340 стр.

3.11

24 000+ оценок

🩰 Ballet Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Family Drama 👯 Sisters In Crisis 🐺 Charismatic Intruder 🖤 Sensual Noir

The London Séance Society

— Sarah Penner • 2023

A skeptic joins a medium, hunting her sister's killer through a gentlemen's club of dark séances.

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🕯️ Victorian Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 🎭 Secret Society 👻 Reluctant Medium 💕 Sapphic Romance

The London Séance Society

A skeptic joins a medium, hunting her sister's killer through a gentlemen's club of dark séances.

— Sarah Penner 2023 352 стр.

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73 000+ оценок

🕯️ Victorian Spiritualism 🏚️ Gothic Mystery 🎭 Secret Society 👻 Reluctant Medium 💕 Sapphic Romance

The Brit

— Jodi Ellen Malpas • 2021

A mafia boss takes a rival's mistress hostage, unaware she's a spy sent by his worst enemy.

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🖤 Mafia Romance ⛓️ Captive To Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Wounded Hero

The Brit

A mafia boss takes a rival's mistress hostage, unaware she's a spy sent by his worst enemy.

— Jodi Ellen Malpas 2021 413 стр.

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17 000+ оценок

🖤 Mafia Romance ⛓️ Captive To Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 💔 Trauma Bonding 🩹 Wounded Hero

What Kind of Mother

— Clay McLeod Chapman • 2023

A palm reader returns home and discovers a missing boy whose absence has become something hungry.

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🏚️ Southern Gothic 🦀 Body Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 🔍 Missing Child ✋ Psychic Protagonist

What Kind of Mother

A palm reader returns home and discovers a missing boy whose absence has become something hungry.

— Clay McLeod Chapman 2023 304 стр.

3.05

5 000+ оценок

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🦀 Body Horror 🖤 Grief Horror 🔍 Missing Child ✋ Psychic Protagonist

The Midnight Muse

— Jo Kaplan • 2026

A band gathers where their frontwoman disappeared. The woods have been listening all year.

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🎸 Band Horror 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🎵 Occult Music 💔 Sapphic Longing 🏚️ Cabin In The Woods

The Midnight Muse

A band gathers where their frontwoman disappeared. The woods have been listening all year.

— Jo Kaplan 2026 350 стр.

3.92

294 оценок

🎸 Band Horror 🍄 Fungal Body Horror 🎵 Occult Music 💔 Sapphic Longing 🏚️ Cabin In The Woods

Wuthering Heights

— Wuthering Heights • 2021

Two children on the Yorkshire moors forge a bond so deep that death cannot sever it.

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101

🏚️ Gothic Literature 🎩 Victorian Fiction 💔 Tragic Romance 🖤 Byronic Hero 🌫️ Psychological Landscapes

Wuthering Heights

Two children on the Yorkshire moors forge a bond so deep that death cannot sever it.

— Wuthering Heights 2021

3.90

101 оценок

🏚️ Gothic Literature 🎩 Victorian Fiction 💔 Tragic Romance 🖤 Byronic Hero 🌫️ Psychological Landscapes

Turns of Fate

— Anne Bishop • 2025

A cop investigates a bizarre shooting on a hidden island where truth costs years of life.

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🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🏙️ Mythic Urban Fantasy 🤝 Supernatural Bargains 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧬 Hidden Heritage

Turns of Fate

A cop investigates a bizarre shooting on a hidden island where truth costs years of life.

— Anne Bishop 2025 511 стр.

4.49

4 000+ оценок

🕵️ Paranormal Investigation 🏙️ Mythic Urban Fantasy 🤝 Supernatural Bargains 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 🧬 Hidden Heritage

It Sleeps Below

— William F. Gray • 2026

Something ancient beneath a lake knows her name. It took her partner. Now it wants her.

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🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🕯️ Grief As Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

It Sleeps Below

Something ancient beneath a lake knows her name. It took her partner. Now it wants her.

— William F. Gray 2026 398 стр.

3.81

171 оценок

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Psychological Horror 🕯️ Grief As Horror 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Horror 🔗 Intergenerational Trauma

The White Octopus Hotel

— Alexandra Bell • 2025

When a guilt-ridden woman finds a time-bending hotel, one letter could undo her sister's death.

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🏨 Magical Hotel ⏳ Time-Crossed Romance 💔 Sibling Loss 🎨 Art As Healing 🥀 Bittersweet Romance

The White Octopus Hotel

When a guilt-ridden woman finds a time-bending hotel, one letter could undo her sister's death.

— Alexandra Bell 2025 368 стр.

3.92

4 000+ оценок

🏨 Magical Hotel ⏳ Time-Crossed Romance 💔 Sibling Loss 🎨 Art As Healing 🥀 Bittersweet Romance

Arcane Entanglement

— Ava Marie Salinger • 2024

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

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🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Arcane Entanglement

A secret archmage and a magic-resistant Brute must solve a murder without falling in love.

— Ava Marie Salinger 2024 422 стр.

4.08

500+ оценок

🕯️ Gaslamp Fantasy 💔 Forbidden Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 🌫️ Gothic Atmosphere

Murder at Kensington Palace

— Andrea Penrose • 2019

Cousin murdered, twin accused. A satirist and a chemist hunt the real killer in Regency London.

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🧪 Scientific Murder Mystery 🎭 Aristocrat In Hiding ⚖️ Falsely Accused 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Murder at Kensington Palace

Cousin murdered, twin accused. A satirist and a chemist hunt the real killer in Regency London.

— Andrea Penrose 2019 359 стр.

4.15

10 000+ оценок

🧪 Scientific Murder Mystery 🎭 Aristocrat In Hiding ⚖️ Falsely Accused 🫂 Found Family 💕 Slow Burn Romance

Turn Off the Light

— Jacquie Walters • 2026

A single mother moves home with her daughter. The cellar remembers a witch trial from 1630.

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1 000+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Horror 🏚️ Colonial Gothic 🔥 Witch Trial Horror 🏠 Haunted Family Home 👯 Estranged Sisters

Turn Off the Light

A single mother moves home with her daughter. The cellar remembers a witch trial from 1630.

— Jacquie Walters 2026 336 стр.

3.87

1 000+ оценок

🕰️ Dual Timeline Horror 🏚️ Colonial Gothic 🔥 Witch Trial Horror 🏠 Haunted Family Home 👯 Estranged Sisters

Busted

— Karin Slaughter • 2013

A GBI agent interrupts a gas station robbery and uncovers a Southern family's deadly conspiracy.

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18 000+

🚔 Police Procedural 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👵 Manipulative Matriarch 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Conspiracy 🕵️ Undercover Agent

Busted

A GBI agent interrupts a gas station robbery and uncovers a Southern family's deadly conspiracy.

— Karin Slaughter 2013 103 стр.

3.81

18 000+ оценок

🚔 Police Procedural 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👵 Manipulative Matriarch 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Conspiracy 🕵️ Undercover Agent

Revelations in Black

— Carl Jacobi • 1947

A book bound in black, a carved cane: Jacobi's antiques carry horrors that won't stay buried.

3.78

129

🌀 Weird Fiction 🏺 Cursed Objects 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Ancestral Curses 🌫️ Atmospheric Horror

Revelations in Black

A book bound in black, a carved cane: Jacobi's antiques carry horrors that won't stay buried.

— Carl Jacobi 1947 272 стр.

3.78

129 оценок

🌀 Weird Fiction 🏺 Cursed Objects 📚 Forbidden Knowledge 🕯️ Ancestral Curses 🌫️ Atmospheric Horror

Thirst

— Carmen Rosales • 2022

At a gothic university, a secret society heir bets he can claim the new scholarship student.

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🖤 Dark College Romance 🤫 Secret Society ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Possessive Hero 😈 Bad Boy Good Girl

Thirst

At a gothic university, a secret society heir bets he can claim the new scholarship student.

— Carmen Rosales 2022 262 стр.

3.90

4 000+ оценок

🖤 Dark College Romance 🤫 Secret Society ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔥 Possessive Hero 😈 Bad Boy Good Girl

A Crown of Ivy and Glass

— Claire Legrand • 2023

Magic poisons her body; his touch eases the pain. Hunting a demon together entwines their fates.

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8 000+

🩸 Generational Curse 💫 Empath Love Interest ✨ Glamour Magic 🌑 Gothic Fantasy ⚔️ Rival Families

A Crown of Ivy and Glass

Magic poisons her body; his touch eases the pain. Hunting a demon together entwines their fates.

— Claire Legrand 2023 554 стр.

3.17

8 000+ оценок

🩸 Generational Curse 💫 Empath Love Interest ✨ Glamour Magic 🌑 Gothic Fantasy ⚔️ Rival Families

Dark Things I Adore

— Katie Lattari • 2021

A protégé lures her mentor to the Maine woods where her paintings reveal his buried crime.

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6 000+

🏛️ Dark Academia 🔥 Female Revenge ⚠️ Predatory Mentor 🩸 Generational Trauma ⏳ Dual Timelines

Dark Things I Adore

A protégé lures her mentor to the Maine woods where her paintings reveal his buried crime.

— Katie Lattari 2021 416 стр.

3.66

6 000+ оценок

🏛️ Dark Academia 🔥 Female Revenge ⚠️ Predatory Mentor 🩸 Generational Trauma ⏳ Dual Timelines

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

— Mariana Enriquez • 2025

Mariana Enriquez tours graves worldwide: erotic tombs, colonial mass graves, London vampire panic.

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5 000+

🪦 Cemetery History 🎟️ Dark Tourism 🧳 Travel Essays 🌑 Gothic Nonfiction 🗿 Funerary Art

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

Mariana Enriquez tours graves worldwide: erotic tombs, colonial mass graves, London vampire panic.

— Mariana Enriquez 2025 336 стр.

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5 000+ оценок

🪦 Cemetery History 🎟️ Dark Tourism 🧳 Travel Essays 🌑 Gothic Nonfiction 🗿 Funerary Art

They Call Her Regret

— Channelle Desamours • 2026

A teen drowns her best friend and strikes a ghostly bargain: a life for a life, a curse to shatter.

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500+

🌿 Southern Gothic Ya 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤝 Supernatural Bargain 💔 Dead Best Friend 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

They Call Her Regret

A teen drowns her best friend and strikes a ghostly bargain: a life for a life, a curse to shatter.

— Channelle Desamours 2026 320 стр.

4.00

500+ оценок

🌿 Southern Gothic Ya 🧠 Psychological Horror 🤝 Supernatural Bargain 💔 Dead Best Friend 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Blood Solace

— Vela Roth • 2018

A vampire ambassador's forbidden love for a mortal rebel could shatter an already fragile peace.

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2 000+

🏛️ Court Intrigue 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Forbidden Love 🩸 Blood Bond 🗡️ Secret Rebellion

Blood Solace

A vampire ambassador's forbidden love for a mortal rebel could shatter an already fragile peace.

— Vela Roth 2018 616 стр.

4.02

2 000+ оценок

🏛️ Court Intrigue 💫 Fated Mates 💔 Forbidden Love 🩸 Blood Bond 🗡️ Secret Rebellion

Her Body and Other Parties

— Carmen Maria Machado • 2017

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

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100 000+

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

Her Body and Other Parties

Eight stories where misogyny is body horror: women fade, split, and haunt the lives they lost.

— Carmen Maria Machado 2017 248 стр.

3.80

100 000+ оценок

🫀 Body Horror ✂️ Feminist Horror 🏠 Queer Domesticity ✊ Bodily Autonomy 🧠 Trauma And The Body

The Stranger Behind You

— Carol Goodman • 2021

After exposing a media mogul's crimes, a journalist hides inside a fortress built to silence women.

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4 000+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Suspense 📰 Journalist Protagonist 👥 Dual Narrative 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

The Stranger Behind You

After exposing a media mogul's crimes, a journalist hides inside a fortress built to silence women.

— Carol Goodman 2021 336 стр.

3.74

4 000+ оценок

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏚️ Gothic Suspense 📰 Journalist Protagonist 👥 Dual Narrative 🤔 Unreliable Narrator

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

— William Hope Hodgson • 2014

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

4.18

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack

Before Lovecraft, one writer filled the sea with cosmic terrors and the dark with ritual wards.

— William Hope Hodgson 2014 917 стр.

4.18

72 оценок

🌌 Cosmic Horror 🌊 Maritime Horror 👁️ Weird Fiction 🌀 Dimensional Rifts 🧫 Biological Horror

Our Hideous Progeny

— C.E. McGill • 2023

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

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9 000+

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

Our Hideous Progeny

Frankenstein's great-niece stitches life from fossils, but rivals will kill to steal her creation.

— C.E. McGill 2023 400 стр.

3.90

9 000+ оценок

🧟 Frankenstein Retelling 🔬 Victorian Women In Science ⚡ Scientific Hubris 🦴 Monstrous Creation 🏠 Found Family

The House on Sunflower Lane

— Gwenna McAllis • 2026

A mother moves into a farmhouse where every family before hers has lost a daughter.

4.29

335

🌀 Generational Curse 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👧 Child Sees Ghosts 🏠 House As Predator 🕯️ Folk Magic Cleansing

The House on Sunflower Lane

A mother moves into a farmhouse where every family before hers has lost a daughter.

— Gwenna McAllis 2026 435 стр.

4.29

335 оценок

🌀 Generational Curse 🏚️ Southern Gothic 👧 Child Sees Ghosts 🏠 House As Predator 🕯️ Folk Magic Cleansing

If You Don’t Tell

— Alana Sommers • 2022

When a blindfolded woman is marched into the sea, a newcomer uncovers her town's deadly secrets.

3.55

327

🖤 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🔍 Missing Persons

If You Don’t Tell

When a blindfolded woman is marched into the sea, a newcomer uncovers her town's deadly secrets.

— Alana Sommers 2022 238 стр.

3.55

327 оценок

🖤 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🔍 Missing Persons

I Died at Fallow Hall

— Bonnie Burke-Patel • 2024

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

3.72

500+

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case 🏛️ Country House Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

I Died at Fallow Hall

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

— Bonnie Burke-Patel 2024 256 стр.

3.72

500+ оценок

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case 🏛️ Country House Secrets 🕵️ Outsider Detective

Home Before Dark

— Riley Sager • 2020

A renovator inherits her father's notorious house and learns what his ghost story really covered up.

4.04

300 000+

🏚️ Haunted House Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Gothic Mansion 🔀 Twist Ending 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Home Before Dark

A renovator inherits her father's notorious house and learns what his ghost story really covered up.

— Riley Sager 2020

4.04

300 000+ оценок

🏚️ Haunted House Mystery 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏰 Gothic Mansion 🔀 Twist Ending 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Pew

— Catherine Lacey • 2020

A silent stranger tests a Southern town's charity as its forgiveness ritual looms.

3.69

13 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤐 Silent Protagonist 🎭 Ambiguous Identity 🌫️ Quiet Dread 📖 Literary Parable

Pew

A silent stranger tests a Southern town's charity as its forgiveness ritual looms.

— Catherine Lacey 2020 224 стр.

3.69

13 000+ оценок

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤐 Silent Protagonist 🎭 Ambiguous Identity 🌫️ Quiet Dread 📖 Literary Parable

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

— Sylvie Cathrall • 2024

An underwater recluse and a faraway scholar fall in love through letters as the deep stirs.

3.65

7 000+

✉️ Epistolary Fantasy 🌊 Underwater Fantasy 💌 Pen Pal Romance 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 😰 Anxious Heroine

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

An underwater recluse and a faraway scholar fall in love through letters as the deep stirs.

— Sylvie Cathrall 2024 432 стр.

3.65

7 000+ оценок

✉️ Epistolary Fantasy 🌊 Underwater Fantasy 💌 Pen Pal Romance 🕯️ Slow Burn Romance 😰 Anxious Heroine

House of Leaves

— Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000

A photojournalist's home defies physics: inside, an impossible dark labyrinth grows and shifts.

4.09

200 000+

🗞️ Found Manuscript 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Shifting Labyrinth 🏠 Cursed House 💀 Doomed Explorers

House of Leaves

A photojournalist's home defies physics: inside, an impossible dark labyrinth grows and shifts.

— Mark Z. Danielewski 2000 709 стр.

4.09

200 000+ оценок

🗞️ Found Manuscript 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🏚️ Shifting Labyrinth 🏠 Cursed House 💀 Doomed Explorers

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