The best Gothic novels The following list is not supposed to represent the ten most definitive Gothic novels ever published – it’s a list to inspire debate and discussion as much as it is a list of recommendations of classic Gothic works of fiction. Nevertheless, we reckon the reader of Gothic fiction could do worse […]
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There a couple of novels from this list I haven’t read. It is always exciting to discover something new.
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I’d toss in “Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall” by George Lippard (1845) as an early American grand opus. Best described as a “corruptions of the city” gothic novel, it does contain one memorable flight of fancy, a vision of the future in which democracy is crushed in the United States from causes prefigured in the novel
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I need to read this.
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