7 best-selling fantasy books like The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

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The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I…

"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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1. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 18th century
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  • fantasy
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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2. The Old English Baron

By: Clara Reeve , James Trainer

3.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

When Sir Philip Harclay returns to England after a long absence, he finds that his childhood friend… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 18th century
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3. A Sicilian Romance

By: Ann Radcliffe

3.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of t… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 18th century
"Wisdom or accident, at length, recall us from our error, and offers to us some object capable of producing a pleasing, yet lasting effect, which effect, therefore, we call happiness. Happiness has th…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

"As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, I recurred, by a natural association of ideas, to the times when these walls s…"

-Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance

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4. The Man of Feeling

By: Henry MacKenzie , Brian Vickers , Stephen Bending

3.01

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of 1771 is the foremost work of the sentimental movement, in which… read more

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  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • 18th century
  • fiction
  • novels
"Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: fo…"

-Henry MacKenzie, The Man of Feeling

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5. The Romance of the Forest

By: Ann Radcliffe

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

Set in a Roman Catholic Europe of violent passions and extreme oppression, the novel follows the fa… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
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6. The Mysteries of Udolpho

By: Ann Radcliffe , Jacqueline Howard

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

With The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 18th century
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

7. The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents

By: Ann Radcliffe , Robert Miles

4.18

Format: 213 pages,

From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ell… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
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8. The Vampyre; A Tale

By: John William Polidori

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Vampyreis a short story by John William Polidori. It is based on a fragment written by Lord Byr… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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9. Vathek

By: William Beckford

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 18th century
  • fantasy
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10. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • horror
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11. Melmoth the Wanderer

By: Charles Robert Maturin , Victor Sage

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a s… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
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  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker, David J. Skal, Nina Auerbach

12. Dracula

By: Bram Stoker , David J. Skal , Nina Auerbach

4.02

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here. When Jonathan Harker visi… read more

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  • gothic
  • literature
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  • novels
  • fantasy
"Despair has its own calms."

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"This man belongs to me, I want him!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"Enter freely and of your own free will!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

-Bram Stoker, Dracula

Cover of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Alfred J. MacAdam

13. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • british literature
  • literature
  • fiction
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

14. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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15. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

16. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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17. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

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18. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

19. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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20. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

By: Samuel Richardson , Thomas Keymer , Alice Wakely

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century… read more

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Cover of Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

21. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780143131847. Mary Shelley's seminal novel of t… read more

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"I am malicious because I am miserable"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"One wondering thought pollutes the day"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave"

-Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

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4.15

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4.00

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