Gothic novels

[onlyoranges]

Can anyone recommend a good Gothic novel please?

[DuchessofMalfi]

Dracula?

Or, more modern, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, The Taxidermist's Daughter by Kate Mosse.

[RhuBarbarella]

Tom Holland's Supping with Panthers. He has written three vampire novels, this is the one I have recently read. Contemporary, he's a historian and I had high hopes. I must admit it got a bit boring, but I'm easily bored so it might just be me!

Wilkie Collins' Moonstone and John Fowles' A Maggot, does that count as Gothic?

[CoteDAzur]

Drood by Dan Simmons

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

The Witching Hour & its sequels by Anne Rice

[KatharineClifton]

Some of Alice Hoffman's are really quite gothic.

[Aelfwynn]

Florence and Giles (modern)

The Monk (old)

[Aelfwynn]

If you're after vampire novels, though, then I've no idea!

[CherylTunt]

Well, of the old school Gothic novels:

The Monk is quite fun
The Mysteries of Udolpho, bit of a slog
The Castle of Otranto, short and weird, one of the very first - worth a read
Melmoth the Wanderer, very long and verbose but I loved it as a Gothy student
Vathek is worth a look

• these are the types of books Jane Austen poked fun at in Northanger Abbey. She had a point but I am fond of them nonetheless!

[Aelfwynn]

The Monk is quite fun

Rape, murder and incest

[TheOrchardKeeper]

Angela Carter's Bloody Chamber collection. Or The Oxford Book Of Gothic Tales (has everything you could want, obviously We dig it out and dust it off this time of year).

[spabbygirl]

The Ghost House by Helen Phifer, that'll get your spine tingling!! She's a policewoman in real life too so its not just a great story but full of fascinating detail

[cooperG]

Asylum by Patrick McGrath