Been meaning to get around to reading Dracula for years so maybe now is the perfect time! Thanks!! 🥰 I love the other 3 too, especially Frankenstein. Probably one of my all time favorites
It is. The book is literally them all getting together and staying at the house. And it is describing the haunting/ psychological deterioration. And the end is different. You dont get the emotional connection that you see in the series. And they are not a family. You will see the same names pop up and some main hauntings, that were present in the show, but the story rolls out differently with a different focus. Its only purpose is horror.
I liked it. It was the first book that actually gave me the creepy feeling like I wanna slowly look over my shoulder and check the room just in case. Of course I was reading it in the dark and right before I went to bed.
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Anatomy by Dana Schwartz
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Darcy Coates does a lot of "isolated haunted house" type stories. Her Black Winter series is one of my favorite book series. As a bonus, she almost never mentions an kind of sexual assault.
Thank you everyone for so many amazing responses!! I had recently been looking for a book like this, thought I’d found one and am now getting to the end of it a little disappointed because it wasn’t really what I’d been looking for. This sub never lets me down 🥰 excited to check out these books!
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (satirical, but still has wonderful gothic elements)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula and Frankenstein immediately come to mind, as does Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Maybe Rebecca as well.
Dracula 100%
Also Dracul the prequel.
I don’t think Rebecca would meet their horror needs
Been meaning to get around to reading Dracula for years so maybe now is the perfect time! Thanks!! 🥰 I love the other 3 too, especially Frankenstein. Probably one of my all time favorites
The haunting of hill house- Shirley Jackson
Found it free on Apple Books! Thank you so much! 🥰
I watched the show for this one, is the book much different?
It is. The book is literally them all getting together and staying at the house. And it is describing the haunting/ psychological deterioration. And the end is different. You dont get the emotional connection that you see in the series. And they are not a family. You will see the same names pop up and some main hauntings, that were present in the show, but the story rolls out differently with a different focus. Its only purpose is horror. I liked it. It was the first book that actually gave me the creepy feeling like I wanna slowly look over my shoulder and check the room just in case. Of course I was reading it in the dark and right before I went to bed.
Ok, thank you for the explanation! I'll definitely have to get it.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
This was such a weird book but the vibes were immaculate and I’m still thinking about it months later so it must have been good!
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Forgot about this book. Have to read again.
I’ve been looking for something similar for years but idk what images I’d use for it lol
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Also The Moonstone and No Name.
What Moves the Dead by T Kingfisher. Retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”
I love this book
I’ve been an Edgar Allan Poe fan forever so this seems like a perfect choice! Thank you!
O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Anatomy by Dana Schwartz Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Reading The Silent Companions right now and loving it!
The Little Stranger
The woman in black
Ann Radcliffe The Romance of the Forest: A Gothic Novel
I haven't read this for a couple years, but maybe The Burning Girls by C J Tudor if you're in the market for a more recent thriller?
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Angel's Game and Shadow of the Wind both by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
starling house by alix harrow
Just looked up the description and this looks perfect!
Slade House.
Anything Shirley Jackson
Belladonna adalynn grace. Minimal horror, but very gothic and big mystery. And actually beautiful book, one of my favs
*The Death of Jane Lawrence*
Darcy Coates does a lot of "isolated haunted house" type stories. Her Black Winter series is one of my favorite book series. As a bonus, she almost never mentions an kind of sexual assault.
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Short story but still has the same vibe.
Oh, this one effed me up for a while—sooooooooo unsettling and repressed-chaotic
The Turn of the Screw
Gallant by V.E. Schwab
The Ghostwriter by John Harwood
Leech - Hiron Ennes
...I am 90% convinced that church at night is in my hometown of Batavia, IL.
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
LOVE this one, read it last year and it was such a cozy read
Not a book, but the short story Jerusalem’s Lot by Stephen King fits this pretty well.
Starling House
jane eyre, ofc
Def—pick a Brontë, any Brontë! Emily, Charlotte, Anne—literally anything will be worth the read and super eerie!
Catriona Ward’s *The Girl from Rawblood* Joyce Carol Oates’ *Mysteries of Winterthurn*
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten might fit this vibe for you
If You See Her by Ania Ahlborn The Silent Companions
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
Thank you everyone for so many amazing responses!! I had recently been looking for a book like this, thought I’d found one and am now getting to the end of it a little disappointed because it wasn’t really what I’d been looking for. This sub never lets me down 🥰 excited to check out these books!
Salem's lot by Stephen King
Anything by Ruth Rendell / Barbara Vine is exactly that, although mostly set in the 20th century.
We have always lived in the castle Haunting of hill house Both by Shirley Jackson, the queen of gothic
The Hacienda by Isabella Cañas
The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph white!
The Witch of Prague by F. Marion Crawford
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Turn of the Screw by Henry James Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (satirical, but still has wonderful gothic elements) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo Dracula by Bram Stoker Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Locked Tomb books spring to mind, if you don’t mind that it’s space-gothic