Warning: This article discusses topics of violence, death, and sexual matters. Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

A book that many readers cite as having left a ‘lasting impression’, this meticulously researched Southern gothic story will transport you to a time in history that many don’t know enough about.

Lucy Strange’s third book combines a spooky ghost story with a clever page-turning mystery. The author sets her shivery tale of spectres and wrongdoings in the English Lake District in 1899.

One of America’s most important writers – and civil rights activists – of the 20th century, everything Baldwin penned was a ...

Burn book review: Patrick Nees’ alternate Cold ... shadowy corridors and sinister servants – that are essential elements of any good Gothic novel. The tone changes when Seren and her crow ...

Davis, Amanda Blake Pozoukidis, Konstantinos Fancett, Anna Dolive, Emily Greentree, Shane and Khan, Yasser Shams 2023. XIILiterature 1780–1830: The Romantic Period ...

A reading and discussion of Palmyra, a Caribbean Gothic suspense novel by Trinidadian-Canadian Karen Barrow, will mark The ...

Gothic novels have been scaring us for 250 years. The mid-18th Century - an era of dark, satanic mills at home and nightmarish social upheaval abroad - saw public taste shift from traditional ...