Gothic Fiction Books of the 2010s
The 354 most-read gothic fiction books first published between 2010 and 2019, led by Prince Lestat (2014), The Silent Companions (2017) and Once Upon a River (2018).
This list collects 354 books from the 2010s by 277 authors, published between 2010 and 2019. 1 is free to read and 3 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.
Prince Lestat
Anne Rice
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield
Secret Brother
V.C. Andrews
This Dark Endeavor
Kenneth Oppel
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition
X. J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia
Dracul
Dacre Stoker, J. D. Barker
House of Secrets
V.C. Andrews
Bellman & Black
Diane Setterfield
The Serpent of Venice
Christopher Moore
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
The Story and Its Writer -- Compact Eighth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
Such Wicked Intent
Kenneth Oppel
Florence Giles
John Harding, Laurence Bouvard
Mr. Splitfoot
Samantha Hunt
Psychomania
Stephen Jones, Joe R. Lansdale
Echoes in the Walls
V.C. Andrews
Broken Glass
V.C. Andrews
Shattered Memories
V.C. Andrews
Strange Bodies
Marcel Theroux
Dark Tales
Shirley Jackson
Wakenhyrst
Michelle Paver
The Tale of Halcyon Crane
Wendy Webb
The Glass Woman
Caroline Lea
The Asylum
John Harwood
The Dressmaker
Rosalie Ham
The Story and Its Writer -- Ninth Edition
Ann Charters, Chinua Achebe
The girl from Rawblood
Catriona Ward
Jane Steele
Lyndsay Faye
Rawblood
Catriona Ward
Melmoth
Sarah Perry
Ironskin
Tina Connolly
While Beauty Slept
Elizabeth Canning Blackwell
Fiercombe Manor
Kate Riordan
Little Sister Death
William Gay
The Au Pair
Emma Rous
The Vines
Christopher Rice
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Twelve Creepy Tales [11 stories, 1 poem]
Edgar Allan Poe
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Six Creepy Stories (Berenice / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Masque of the Red Death / Raven / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
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Miscellaneous Poe [2 stories, 15 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
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Heroine, or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader
Eaton Stannard Barrett, Avril Horner
The Lantern
Deborah Lawrenson
Silent Fountain
Victoria Fox
Gothic Romanticism
Tom Duggett
The Witch of Painted Sorrows
Rose, M. J.
Anno Dracula - Johnny Alucard
Kim Newman
Gothic Novel and the Stage
Francesca Saggini
The Lost Country
William Gay
The Secret Language of Stones
Rose, M. J.
The Heavenly Table
Donald Ray Pollock
Dracula in Love
Karen Essex
Charlotte Markham And The House Of Darkling
Michael Boccacino
Chilling Horror Short Stories
Laura Bulbeck, Ambrose Bierce
The Corset
Laura Purcell
Dracul
Bram Stoker
Immortal with a Kiss
Jacqueline Lepore
The late Victorian Gothic
Hilary Grimes
The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates
Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright
Chris Riddell
Ann Radcliffe Romanticism And The Gothic
Dale Townshend
The Gothic Child
Margarita Georgieva
Beyond Your Touch
Pat Esden
Daughters of the Lake
Wendy Webb
Lost Among the Living
Simone St. James
Listen to Me
Hannah Pittard
The Woman in the Mirror
Rebecca James
Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
Aspasia Stephanou
Gothic's Gothic
Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV
Miraculum
Steph Post
Strands of Bronze and Gold
Jane Nickerson
Transnational Gothic
Monika M. Elbert, Bridget M. Marshall
The White Lie
Andrea Gillies
Arcanum
Simon Morden
The Witches of New York
Ami McKay
Secret by the Lake
Louise Douglas
War Gothic in Literature and Culture
Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Dawn Keetley, Matthew Wynn Sivils
Gothic Heroines on Screen
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Frances A. Kamm
Great American Ghost Stories
Bill Bowers, Peattie, Elia Wilkinson
A Quaint and Curious Volume
Sarah Perry
The Poison Thread
Laura Purcell
Bone China
Laura Purcell
Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture
Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno
Tales of Horror (Berenice / Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Devil in the Belfry / Eleonora / Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Fall of the House of Usher / Imp of the Perverse / Ligeia / Man of the Crowd / Masque of the Red Death / Metzengerstein / Morella / MS. Found in a Bottle / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Never Bet the Devil Your Head / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Purloined Letter / Some Words with a Mummy / Sphinx / Tale of the Ragged Mountains / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson)
Edgar Allan Poe
Eloise
Judy Finnigan
Grief Cottage
Gail Godwin
Limits of Horror
Fred Botting
Splattered Ink
Sarah E. Whitney
Hebrew Gothic
Karen Grumberg
Post-Millennial Gothic
Catherine Spooner
All That Gothic
Agnieszka Lowczanin, Dorota Wisniewska
Expanding the Gothic Canon
Anna Kedra-Kardela, Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk
Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820
Angela Wright