5 must-read 19th century books like The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage by Florence Marryat

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The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

By: Florence Marryat

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Brandt defies conventional categories, and does not fit socially although she is carefree a…

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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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  • gothic
  • classics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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

Cover of The Great God Pan (Creation Classics) by Arthur Machen

2. The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

By: Arthur Machen

3.69

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

"I will not read it; I should never sleep again" A doctor performs an experiment on a young wom… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"There was something about Herbert which shocked him inexpressibly; not his poor rags nor the marks which poverty had set upon his face, but rather a indefinite terror which hung about him like a mist."

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Villiers, that woman, if I can call her a woman, corrupted my soul. The night of the wedding I found myself sitting in her bedroom in the hotel, listening to her talk. She was sitting up in bed, and …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"Clarke, in the deep folds of dream, was conscious that the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all, when suddenly, in …"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

"We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneat…"

-Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (Creation Classics)

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3. The Body Snatcher

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A young man studying medicine in Edinburgh is asked by his professor to be responsible for receivin… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Italian: Or the Confessional of the Black Penitents by Ann Radcliffe, Robert Miles

4. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Vampyre; A Tale by John William Polidori

5. 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
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Zofloya by Charlotte Dacre

6. Zofloya

By: Charlotte Dacre

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction

7. The Beggar's Opera

By: John Gay , Bryan Loughrey , T.O. Treadwell

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The Beggar's Opera introduced to theater the ballad-opera and an immortal cast of characters. The P… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Library Window by Mrs. Oliphant

8. The Library Window

By: Mrs. Oliphant

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Ostensibly a ghost story, The Library Window is also an exploration of what is real and what is not… read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • victorian
  • fiction
  • horror

9. 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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10. The Beetle

By: Richard Marsh

3.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The Beetle' (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, "born of neither god nor man," with … read more

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11. 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
  • vampires
  • paranormal
  • 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

12. 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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13. Castle Rackrent

By: Maria Edgeworth

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Set in Ireland prior to its achieving legislative independence from Britain in 1782, Castle Rackren… read more

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14. The Beth Book

By: Sarah Grand

4.25

Format: None pages,

This is a semi-autobiographical novel offering a portrait of the artist as a young woman. Grand's c… read more

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15. El vampiro. La familia del vurdalak

By: Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

La corriente literaria que arranca del romanticismo y que hizo del vampiro una figura cuya populari… read more

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16. Florence & Giles

By: John Harding

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, sinister Gothic tale inspired by and in the tradition of Henry James's The Turn of the … read more

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17. Our Vampires, Ourselves

By: Nina Auerbach

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. … read more

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Cover of The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage by Florence Marryat

18. The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

By: Florence Marryat

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harriet Brandt defies conventional categories, and does not fit socially although she is carefree a… read more

Similar categories in Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage book and Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire: An independent woman in Europe with White-Black mixed race heritage

  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • victorian
  • vampires
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo by Uriah Derick d'Arcy

19. The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo

By: Uriah Derick d'Arcy

2.99

Format: 59 pages, ebook

In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published “The Vampyre: A Tale by … read more

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  • gothic
  • classics
  • 19th century
  • vampires
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Linghun by Ai Jiang

20. Linghun

By: Ai Jiang

3.96

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

WELCOME HOME. Follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. in this modern gothic ghost story by Chinese-Canadian… read more

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  • gothic
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • paranormal
"In HOME, Liam was a dream. Here, he's a flawed but beautiful reality. Whispers of our future together lull us both into a dreamless sleep. It's the first time we find such emptiness comforting."

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

"Feelings, emotions, experiences, are all part of humanity's shared language, and in Linghun, that shared language is grief. Grief is a language that tears us apart, but it is also what brings us toge…"

-Ai Jiang, Linghun

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21. The War of the Poor

By: Éric Vuillard

3.38

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ W… read more

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"For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust."

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré."

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the …"

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que no…"

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

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