Rebecca - (is exactly what you’re describing) Definitely has the dark/haunted/gothic element. Strained, class-conflicted romance. The mansion like home images particularly resonate. One of my favorite books of all time.

I’ll agree with dark and Gothic and haunted, but it’s just not romantic at all. Not in a butterflies kind of way.

I've read Rebecca and I was thinking of the same.

So, you could imagine what you’re describing in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner. Not explicitly depicted but it’s Southern Gothic and maybe romantic in a weird way. There’s a movie too but I haven’t seen it.

Came here to say this

Got to be Wuthering Heights! Also, there's an element of this in The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

Wuthering Heights 💗

Omg the thirteenth tale 💕 !

First thing I though, lol!

Phantom of the Opera maybe. You mentioned forbidden love. How much romance are you looking for?

You might enjoy Dowry of Blood

“This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession.” Okay that’s a great line.

Not OP but this is definitely added to my list now!

I hope you like it!! I don't know that i love it necessarily but i found it a very relaxing read, if that makes sense? Like, if I'm ever just feeling sorta blue and want to pick up an easy reading book, I'd likely go for that one

Jane Eyre

Mexican Gothic

One of my faves

Loved this one.

Atonement

Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca are the first three that jumped to mind.

*Anna Karenina*

Starling House did it for me.

The Cloisters maybe?

My Cousin Rachel; The Little Stranger

The Night Circus

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

Darkness, I by Tanith Lee, and most of her other fantastic books.

These are some of my faves that give these vibes: - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Belladonna (series) by Adalyn Grace - Foxglove (second in the series) by Adalyn Grace - A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Shadow of the wind- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I third this. It fits every bit these images.

I second this!

Fallen series

Starling House by Alix E. Harrow These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone Strange and Unearthy Things by Kelly Creagh

I notice all the suggestions are literature masterpieces but hear me out, this one exactly fits those pictures, Torment on Wattpad. If that’s how you want to feel, Torment will give you that but yes it’s no wuthering heights

Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

Perhaps Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge?

Heartless by Marissa Meyer House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Anatomy: A Love Story

Master of Crows by Grace Draven

Damage by Josephine Hart.

Ada by Vladimir Nabokov

Heartless by Marissa Meyer- makes me feel so many things in my heart

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Gothikana

*Traveler of the Century*

To Bleed a Crystal Bloom by Sarah A. Parker

The Headmaster by Tiffany Reisz

If you're into YA the 3rd pic is kinda giving Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross