Gothic Fiction Books of the 1970s
The 87 most-read gothic fiction books first published between 1970 and 1979, led by The Shining (1977), The Stand (1978) and Flowers in the Attic (1979).
This list collects 87 books from the 1970s by 51 authors, published between 1970 and 1979. 1 is free to read and 2 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
The Shining
Stephen King
The Stand
Stephen King
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
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The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
Lord of the Far Island
Eleanor Burford
Julia
Peter Straub
This Other Eden
Marilyn Harris
The Duchess Disappeared
Barbara Cartland
Domino
Phyllis A. Whitney
House of Many Shadows
Barbara Michaels
The Turquoise Mask
Phyllis A. Whitney
The Golden Unicorn
Phyllis A. Whitney
The Stone Bull
Phyllis A. Whitney
Bride of a Stranger:(Classic Gothics Collection)
Jennifer Blake
Dark Masquerade:(Classic Gothics Collection#3)
Jennifer Blake
The Stone Maiden
Alexandra Manners
A Room with Dark Mirrors
Velda Johnston
American Gothic
Robert Bloch
The Etruscan smile
Velda Johnston
Relentless Storm
Claire Lorrimer
Waiting for Willa
Dorothy Eden
Eight Tales of Terror (Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Imp of the Perverse / Ligeia / Mask of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
The United States in Literature -- The Glass Menagerie Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden
The Chaperone
Ethel Edison Gordon
Stranger by the Lake
Jennifer Wilde
The Silver Dolphin
Velda Johnston
Bledding Sorrow
Marilyn Harris
The Brackenroyd inheritance
Erica Lindley
Danger at Dahlkari
Jennifer Wilde
Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson
Betrayal at Blackcrest
Jennifer Wilde
Prior Betrothal
Elsie Lee
The house at Sandalwood
Virginia Coffman
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Zofloya, or, The Moor
Charlotte Dacre
Nightfrights
Pete Haining, Ambrose Bierce
Gabrielle
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Winds of Terror
Patricia Hagan
When Emmalyn Remembers
Jennifer Wilde
The Millionaire's Daughter
Dorothy Eden
In a House Unknown
Dolores Hitchens
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories
Cochrane, James., J. Cochrane
Come to Castlemoor
Jennifer Wilde
The Leavetaking
Anna Gilbert
Raven's Forge
Gwendoline Butler
The Lady of Lyon House
Jennifer Wilde
![Cover of Great American Short Stories [34 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9378337-M.jpg?default=false)
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]
Reader's Digest Association, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The United States in Literature -- All My Sons Edition
James Edwin Miller, Robert Hayden
The World of Mystery Fiction
Elliot L. Gilbert, Elliott Gilbert
Tomorrow Is Mine
Rebecca James
Jamintha
Jennifer Wilde
The Best Short Stories of the Modern Age -- Revised
Douglas Angus, Антон Павлович Чехов
Room Beneath the Stairs
Jennifer Wilde
Judas Flowering
Jane Aiken Hodge
The Red Staircase
Gwendoline Butler
Sweet Cassandra
Denise Robins
Tales of Terror and Fantasy (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ms. Found in a Bottle / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
Walk the Night Unseen
Lucinda Baker
Midnight At Mallyncourt
Jennifer Wilde
Classic American Short Stories
Ted Hipple, Washington Irving
Echoes From the Past
Marjorie McEvoy
Meet a Dark Stranger = Whisper in the Darkness
Jennifer Wilde
Nine Buck's Row = Susannah, Beware
Jennifer Wilde
Hyde Place
Virginia Coffman
River Rising
Jessica North
Cast a Long Shadow
Hebe Elsna, Laura Conway
![Cover of The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe [15 stories, 1 poem]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11879079-M.jpg?default=false)
The Illustrated Edgar Allan Poe [15 stories, 1 poem]
Edgar Allan Poe, Roy Gasson
Legacy of Loneliness
Sharon B. Wagner
Wherever Lynn Goes
Jennifer Wilde
![Cover of Tales of Terror [12 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/1956629-M.jpg?default=false)
Tales of Terror [12 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce
Mistress Devon
Virginia Coffman
![Cover of The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe [69 stories]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/12391616-M.jpg?default=false)
The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe [69 stories]
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine
Love, Mystery, and Misery
Coral Ann Howells
Literature as Art
Ralph A. Britsch, Todd A Britch
The passions of Medora Graeme
Elsie Lee
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction
R. V. Cassill, Ernest Hemingway
Meadowsweet
Gwendoline Butler
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The Gold Bug and Other Tales of Mystery [9 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
The house on Cheyne Walk
Perry Organ
Achievements in Fiction
Burton L. Cooper, Антон Павлович Чехов
Storm's End
Rebecca James
Seven Tales (Black Cat / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Mesmeric Revelation / Oval Portrait / Purloined Letter)
Edgar Allan Poe
Shadow of Dungeon Wood
Erica Lindley
The Lady of Wildersley
Mary Howard
Visions of Darkness (Cask of Amontillado / Masque of the Red Death / Oval Portrait / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart / To Helen)
Edgar Allan Poe, Clarence Merton Babcock
Manfroné
Mary Anne Radcliffe
Delusional Madness
Kimberly K. Taylor