Gothic Fiction Books of the 1980s
The 79 most-read gothic fiction books first published between 1980 and 1989, led by Petals on the Wind (1980), Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining) (1981) and The Demon Lover (Chivers Sound Library) (1982).
This list collects 79 books from the 1980s by 53 authors, published between 1980 and 1989. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Petals on the Wind
V.C. Andrews
Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)
Stephen King
The Demon Lover (Chivers Sound Library)
Eleanor Burford
Thornyhold
Mary Stewart
The Time of the Hunter's Moon
Eleanor Burford
The Mask of the Enchantress
Eleanor Burford
Here I stay
Barbara Michaels
The Best of Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Flaming Tree
Phyllis A. Whitney
The Wizard's Daughter
Barbara Michaels
Be Buried in the Rain
Barbara Michaels
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Edgar Allan Poe
Dream of Orchids
Phyllis A. Whitney
Someone in the House
Barbara Michaels
Search the Shadows
Barbara Michaels
Dark Desire
Virginia Coffman
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe [68 stories, 31 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
False Pretenses
Catherine Coulter
Mirror Sisters
V.C. Andrews
In the Dark
Edith Nesbit
Vermilion
Phyllis A. Whitney
A Presence in an Empty Room
Velda Johnston
Vampire Junction
S. P. Somtow
All That Glitters
Thomas Tryon
A Forgotten Girl
Elisabeth Ogilvie
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The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [73 stories, 48 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
Three by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby / Stepford Wives / This Perfect Day)
Ira Levin
Gaywyck
Vincent Virga
Castle of Foxes
Alanna Knight
Dark Surrender
Laurel Collins
The Evil Image
Patricia L. Skarda, Nora Jaffe
Shadowtide
Dianne Price
Wide Is the Water
Jane Aiken Hodge
Across a Starlit Sea:(Chandlers of Highclyffe Hall #2)
Rebecca Brandewyne
Tempestuous Eden
Heather Graham
Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers
James Vinson
The other Karen
Velda Johnston
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The Fantasy Hall of Fame [22 stories]
Robert Silverberg, Martin H. Greenberg
Short Fiction, Classic and Contemporary -- Second Edition
Charles H. Bohner, Alice Adams
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh
Great Ghost Stories
Betty Ann Schwartz, Edgar Allan Poe
Haunted Castles
Ray Russell
The Stone Maiden
Velda Johnston
The Orchid Tree
Virginia Coffman
The Literature of Terror
David Punter
The Rector
Virginia Gay
Tales of Horror and Suspense (Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
Great Tales of Terror (Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Ligeia / Pit and the Pendulum)
Edgar Allan Poe
China House
Vincent Lardo
Long Masquerade
Madeleine Brent
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Visions of Poe [16 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
More Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
William F. Russell, Russell, William F.
Literature of the Occult ; A Collection of Critical Essays
Peter B. Messent
Short Stories
Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Annotated tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Heritage of Shadows
Madeleine Brent
![Cover of Works [71 stories, 36 poems] (Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Raven and Other Poems)](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11774526-M.jpg?default=false)
Works [71 stories, 36 poems] (Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination / Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym / Raven and Other Poems)
Edgar Allan Poe
Rightfully Mine
Doris Mortman
Fiction 100
James H. Pickering, Fiódor Dostoievski
The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Tam Mossman
Haunted Presence
S. L. Varnado
Poe Stories and Poems [17 Stories, 9 Poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
The Essential Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Ronald Porcelli
Tales of Suspense
Edgar Allan Poe
Lucia's Legacy
Susan Moody
Albion Walk
Gwendoline Butler
The Stone Maiden
Pamela Townley
The Lombard heiress
Virginia Coffman
Literature--second Edition
James H. Pickering, Jeffrey D. Hoeper
Pictures of Fear
Lucy Fuchs
The Haunted Heart
Renate Chapman
Rebecca
A. S. M. Ronaldson
Jane Eyre / Wuthering Heights / Shirley / Villette
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë
Advances in Liver Diseases
Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver. (6th 1988 New Delhi, India)
The Monster in the Mirror
Mary K. Patterson Thornburg
In the Circles of Fear and Desire
William Patrick Day
The Demon-lover
Peter D. Grudin
Cloak And Dagger (Intrigue, No 118)
Jenna Ryan
The Hand of Ganz
Isadore Hailblum