Nightmare Abbey (Thomas Love Peacock): an 1818 novel that makes fun of the Victorian Gothic movement. Will also appeal to your interest in darkness as a concept and a physical thing.Ħ. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Washington Irving): QUINTESSENTIAL HALLOWEEN READING. Dracula is still one of the creepiest books I’ve ever read and it’s the only one in the trifecta I really really love (and finished).ĥ. She’s a precursor to true Victorian Gothic. Shelley’s the best writer out of all of them but she’s a Romantic and I’m sort of biased against Romantics. Hyde (Swift & Stevenson): First mainstream vampire, original English monster movie fuel, and the dawn of psychological fiction. “The Trifecta,” according to Gothic fans: Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Shelley), and Dr. Great Halloween read I read it almost every autumn.ģ. The real strong point here is the imagery and the dawn of the English vampire. The writing is good, but not the absolute greatest I’ve ever read. Arguably a same-sex romance (VERY arguably), but can also be read as a close friendship. ![]() Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu): Considered the first English vampire story (Germans invented the European vampire allegedly), and published in 187…9? 1871? Something like that. ![]() Most of these are available for free online due to copyright law being born late or whatever.Ģ.
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