8 must-read gothic books like Vampiros by Lord Byron

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Vampiros

By: Lord Byron

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

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1. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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2. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

By: Laird Koenig

3.90

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination… read more

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  • gothic
"My father says most people who say they like poetry only pretend to like it.' 'I guess you like it?' 'I love it very much.' Her long hair swirled as she shook her head to correct herself. That's redu…"

-Laird Koenig, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

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3. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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  • classics
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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4. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • classics
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

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5. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • classics

6. The House of Souls

By: Arthur Machen

4.57

Format: None pages,

Four of Machen's classic novellas (A Fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics

7. Olalla

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.98

Format: 296 pages,

'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?' Stevenson's chilling Victorian gothic novell… read more

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8. Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more

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  • classics
"In dreams begins responsiblities."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I don’t know what it means to live."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

9. Los que aman, odian

By: Adolfo Bioy Casares , Silvina Ocampo

3.57

Format: 256 pages,

El doctor Huberman llega al apartado hotel de Bosque de Mar <>. Poco imagina que pronto se vera env… read more

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10. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Lucia Graves

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Windcomes a riveting new masterpi… read more

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11. Los pazos de Ulloa

By: Emilia Pardo Bazán

4.05

Format: 12 pages,

A EMILIA PARDO BAZAN (1851-1921), que acabo con el tabu que circunscribia a las escritoras a la par… read more

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12. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

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  • classics
"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

13. Breakfast at Tiffany's

By: Truman Capote

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the Am… read more

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14. The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

By: Patrick Rothfuss

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Bast knows how to bargain. The give-and-take of a negotiation is as familiar to him as the in-and-o… read more

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"Laughter was the true applause you offered to the world for being beautiful."

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"But this? Convincing someone of the truth they were too twisted up to see? How could Bast begin to loosen such a knot? It was baffling. These creatures, fraught and frayed in their desire. A snake wo…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

"What he was asking for was, effectively, a story without all the conflict. Without tension and animosity. Without many of the things I'd been taught were essential to storytelling. This wasn't a tota…"

-Patrick Rothfuss, The Narrow Road Between Desires (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #0.6)

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15. Por si las voces vuelven

By: Ángel Martín

4.02

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Hace unos años me rompí por completo. Tanto como para que tuvieran que atarme a la cama de un hospi… read more

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"Mientras estuve loco, nosotros simplemente éramos los Sims de unos nosotros muchísimo más evolucionados que vivían en un plano superior."

-Ángel Martín, Por si las voces vuelven

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16. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

By: Michael McDowell

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more

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  • gothic
"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"

-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

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17. Our Share of Night

By: Mariana Enríquez

4.28

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family. … read more

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"Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Nothing can hurt you now, how long was now, how long did the present last?"

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

"Detestaba cuando la gente se reía de esas fiestas donde la gente trataba de ser feliz."

-Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

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18. El problema final

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

3.66

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Un crimen imposible. Un detective insospechado. No se trata de un desafío entre el asesino y el det… read more

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19. Night Cry

By: Borja González

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

When it comes to rituals, Teresa, who runs a bookstore specializing in magic and the occult, knows … read more

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20. Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)

By: Julie Kagawa

4.01

Format: 454 pages, ebook

One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the … read more

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"Those with no passion can never comprehend the drive for perfection."

-Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)

"Magic itself cannot be evil. It is how you use your powers that determines the intent."

-Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)

"Okay," he said cheerfully, and raised both hands in a hopeless gesture. "Now we're lost."

-Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)

"And yet, I've heard stories of wild dogs who would defend a stranger on the road to their last breath, simply because that person threw a crumb instead of a rock."

-Julie Kagawa, Shadow of the Fox (Shadow of the Fox, #1)

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21. Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)

By: Julie Kagawa

4.05

Format: 433 pages, ebook

One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightnin… read more

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"Is this an 'I'm sorry I tried to assassinate you' tea ceremony?"

-Julie Kagawa, Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)

"It’s not the spirits that call to us,' he murmured. “It is our own failures and regrets we see."

-Julie Kagawa, Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)

"I didn't think Naganori's Shadow magic would produce flowers and butterflies, unless they were black butterflies that ate your soul, which didn't seem healthy at all."

-Julie Kagawa, Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)

"This is why I don't trust magic," he muttered, leaning back against the tree. "Inanimate objects like swords and scrolls should not WANT to be found. They should not want anything."

-Julie Kagawa, Soul of the Sword (Shadow of the Fox, #2)

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22. Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox, #3)

By: Julie Kagawa

4.31

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Master storyteller Julie Kagawa concludes the enthralling journey into the heart of the fantastical… read more

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"Remember, you'll never be alone. No one is ever truly gone."

-Julie Kagawa, Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox, #3)

"Why are you crying? This isn't the end. Death isn't goodbye forever."

-Julie Kagawa, Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox, #3)

"Across the river, bathed in light, the samurai smiled "I've finally found you."

-Julie Kagawa, Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox, #3)

"Stop calling me Hakaimono. My name is Kage Tatsumi, and I am no longer yours to command."

-Julie Kagawa, Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox, #3)

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23. El pájaro y la serpiente

By: Borja González

3.42

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

LA HISTORIA DE TERESA LLEGA A SU FIN Con el aclamado ciclo Las Tres Noches, Borja González cierra… read more

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24. Dragón

By: Julián Ciocia

4.50

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Leandro vaga por las calles de Buenos Aires, de café en café, enamorado de Romina. Obsesionado por … read more

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25. Heterocromía

By: Julián Ciocia

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Situaciones de la vida cotidiana se entremezclan con relatos oníricos, mundos fantásticos e histori… read more

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26. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

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  • gothic
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

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27. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

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  • gothic
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28. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

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  • gothic
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29. Vampiros

By: Lord Byron

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «Un rayo de luna se filtró por la ventana entre las cortinas y … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
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30. Un asunto de muerte (Spanish Edition)

By: Julián Ciocia

4.67

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Leé tres historias de terror ubicadas en Saavedra, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.Luego de Dragón, su trucu… read more

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31. Lluvia (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

1958. Pasan los años entre suntuosas fiestas, uniones insólitas y estremecedoras revelaciones, pero… read more

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  • gothic

7 Best classics books like Vampiros by Lord Byron

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The Lover

Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

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Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

2.50

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Arthur Machen

4.57

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Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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