100 more Gothic, horror and supernatural reads!

I got a bit carried away with the earlier sections of my ‘101 Gothic reads’ list so didn’t have much room for the 20th or 21st centuries. Please bear in mind this list is based on my own reading and areas of knowledge and so it really leans towards the Gothic, the UK and areas of fiction I specialise in! There are literally 1000s or books missing from this list, I know! It’s not meant to be definitive. No list is.

How many have you read!?

Cover Art by Walter Popp. A woman floating nervously down the stairs, mostly-useless candle in hand.
  1. The Wind in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural – Mary Wilkins Freeman – 1903
  2. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux – 1911
  3. ‘The House’ – Katherine Mansfield (short story) – 1912
  4. The Metamorphorsis – Franz Kafka – 1915
  5. Tales of Love, Madness and Death – Horacio Quiroga – 1917
  6. Visible and Invisible – E. F. Benson – 1923
  7. Uncanny Stories – May Sinclair – 1923
  8. ‘The Human Chair’ – Edogawa Rampo – 1925
  9. Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov – 1925
  10. Witch Wood – John Buchan – 1927
  11. ‘A Rose for Emily’ – William Faulkner (short story) – 1930
  12. The Hound of Death – Agatha Christie – 1933
  13. ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ – H. P. Lovecraft – 1936
  14. ‘The Roaring Tower’ – Stella Gibbons – 1937
  15. Penhallow – Georgette Heyer – 1943
  16. The Ghost and Mrs Muir – R. A. Dick – 1945
  17. Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake – 1946
  18. ‘Cwm Garon’ – L T C Rolt (short story) – 1948
  19. ‘The Lottery’ – Shirley Jackson (short story) – 1948
  20. ‘Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch’ – Dorothy K. Haynes – 1949
  21. The Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer – 1951
  22. I am Legend – Richard Matheson – 1954
  23. Psycho – Robert Bloch – 1959
  24. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys – 1966
  25. Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin – 1967
  26. Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov – 1967
  27. Court of Foxes – Christianna Brand – 1969
  28. The Exorcist – Peter Blatty – 1971
  29. Krabat – Otfried Preußler – 1971
  30. A Bride for Bedivere – Hilary Ford – 1976
  31. The Devil’s Laughter – Frank Yerby – 1977
  32. Hôtel Transylvania – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro – 1978
  33. The Wicker Man – Robin Hardy – 1978
  34. The Vampyre Tapestry – Suzie Charnas – 1980
  35. The Color Purple – Alice Walker – 1982
  36. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill – 1983
  37. House of Hell – Steve Jackson – 1984
  38. ‘The Forbidden’ – Clive Barker (short story) – 1985
  39. Linden Hills – Gloria Naylor – 1985
  40. The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker – 1986
  41. Misery – Stephen King – 1987
  42. The Moth – Catherine Cookson – 1987
  43. The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris – 1988
  44. From Hell – Alan Moore (writer) and Eddie Campbell (artist) – 1989 – 1996
  45. Symposium – Muriel Spark – 1990
  46. Gilda Stories – Jewelle Gomez – 1991
  47. Let the Dead Bury Their Dead – Randall Kenan – 1992
  48. Lost Souls – Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin) – 1992
  49. The Hitchhiker – R. L. Stine – 1993
  50. My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due – 1997
  51. House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski – 2000
  52. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters – 2002
  53. Tokyo Cancelled – Rana Dasgupta – 2005
  54. The Testament of Gideon Mack – James Robertson – 2006
  55. The Terror – Dan Simmons – 2007
  56. Deathless – Catherynne M. Valente – 2011
  57. Widdershins – Jordan Hawk – 2012
  58. The Black Country – Alex Grecian – 2013
  59. Spirits Abroad – Zen Cho – 2014
  60. Slade House – David Mitchell – 2015
  61. What is Not Yours is Not Yours – Helen Oyeyemi – 2016
  62. The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle – 2016
  63. ‘The Famine King’ – Darcie Little Badger (short story) – 2017
  64. Spectred Isle – K J Charles – 2017
  65. Under the Pendulum Sun – Jeanette Ng – 2017
  66. ‘Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time’ – K M Szpara – 2017
  67. ‘The Price of Meat’ – K J Charles (short story) – 2017
  68. Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward – 2017
  69. Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica – 2017
  70. Intruders – Mohale Mashigo – 2018
  71. Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi – 2018
  72. The Crows – C M Rosens – 2019
  73. ‘The Brightest Lights in Heaven’ – Maria Haskins (short story) – 2019
  74. ‘Parasitism’ – Alberto Chimal (short story) – 2019
  75. The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins – 2019
  76. Haunted Voices – Various (from Haunt Publishing) – 2019
  77. ‘On the Lonely Shore’ – Silvia Moreno Garcia (short story) – 2019
  78. Things We Say in the Dark – Kirsty Logan – 2019
  79. The Deep – Rivers Solomon (novella) – 2019
  80. Pet – Akwaeke Emezi – 2019
  81. The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher – 2019
  82. Benny Rose, The Cannibal King – Hailey Piper – 2020
  83. ‘Mandragora’ – Nibedita Sen (short story) -2020
  84. ‘Baby Brother’ – Kaylynn Bayron (short story) – 2020
  85. Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas – 2020
  86. Unhallowed – Jordan Hawk – 2020
  87. The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones – 2020
  88. Surrender Your Sons – Adam Sass – 2020
  89. Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger – 2020
  90. The Wife in the Attic – Rose Lerner – 2021
  91. The Bayou – Arden Powell – 2021
  92. Dire Days at Willowweep Manor – Shaenon K. Garrity (writer) and Christopher Baldwin (illustrator) – 2021
  93. The Death of Jane Lawrence – Caitlin Starling – 2021
  94. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRocca – 2021
  95. ‘Queen of the Cloven Heart’ – Hailey Piper (short story) – 2021
  96. Weep, Woman, Weep – Maria De Blassie (novella) – 2021
  97. Black Water Sister – Zen Cho – 2021
  98. The Hacienda – Isabel Cañas – 2022
  99. Tripping Arcadia – Kit Mayquist – 2022
  100. All The White Spaces – Ally Wilkes – 2022

Published by SamHirst

This started off as a story blog to share the little fictions that I like to write but it's turned into something a bit more Goth! I'm Dr Sam Hirst and I research the Gothic, theology and romance and at the moment I'm doing free Gothic classes online! We also have readalongs, watchalongs and reading groups. And I post fun little Gothic bits when I have the chance. Find me on twitter @RomGothSam

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