The best books for adult of all time

Loved by 58 people

Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ,

Loved by 53 people

Rebecca

By Daphne du Maurier ,

Loved by 39 people

The Haunting of Hill House

By Shirley Jackson ,

Loved by 31 people

Dracula

By Bram Stoker ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Loved by 18 people

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë ,

Loved by 16 people

Mexican Gothic

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Loved by 16 people

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By Oscar Wilde ,

Loved by 12 people

The Thirteenth Tale

By Diane Setterfield ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 11 people

Halfway to the Grave

By Jeaniene Frost ,

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Her Body and Other Parties

By Carmen Maria Machado ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

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By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 10 people

Fight Club

By Chuck Palahniuk ,

Loved by 10 people

One Dark Window

By Rachel Gillig ,

Loved by 9 people

The Woman in White

By Wilkie Collins ,

Loved by 8 people

Sense and Sensibility

By Jane Austen ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 8 people

Let the Right One in

By John Ajvide Lindqvist , Ebba Segerberg (translator) ,

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 7 people

The Turn of the Screw

By Henry James ,

Loved by 7 people

Carmilla

By J. Sheridan Le Fanu ,

Loved by 7 people

The Witching Hour

By Anne Rice ,

Loved by 7 people

Starling House

By Alix E. Harrow ,

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Once Upon a River

By Diane Setterfield ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 5 people

Plain Bad Heroines

By Emily M. Danforth , Sara Lautman (illustrator) ,

Loved by 5 people

The Historian

By Elizabeth Kostova ,

Loved by 5 people

Things in Jars

By Jess Kidd ,

Loved by 5 people

The Hacienda

By Isabel Cañas ,

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The Essex Serpent

By Sarah Perry ,

Loved by 5 people

The Stranger Diaries

By Elly Griffiths ,

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The Searcher

By Tana French ,

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By Roshani Chokshi ,

Loved by 5 people

The Only One Left

By Riley Sager ,

Loved by 4 people

Anno Dracula

By Kim Newman ,

A Haunting at Venus Bay

By Julie Brooks ,

Draakensky

By Paula Cappa ,

Wolf Magick

By Paula Cappa , Joanna Halerz (illustrator),

Sea and Stars

By Kelly Jarvis ,

Loved by 4 people

Gormenghast

By Mervyn Peake ,

Loved by 4 people

The Cicada Tree

By Robert Gwaltney ,

Loved by 4 people

A Dowry of Blood

By S. T. Gibson ,

Loved by 4 people

The Turn of the Key

By Ruth Ware ,

Loved by 4 people

Daisy Darker

By Alice Feeney ,

Loved by 3 people

The Wife Upstairs

By Rachel Hawkins ,

Loved by 3 people

Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Bernie Wrightson (illustrator) ,

Loved by 3 people

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By Victor Hugo , Lucy Corvino (illustrator) ,

Loved by 3 people

Weaveworld

By Clive Barker ,

Loved by 3 people

The Silent Companions

By Laura Purcell ,

Loved by 3 people

Lady Audley's Secret

By Mary Elizabeth Braddon ,

Loved by 3 people

The Phantom of the Opera

By Gaston LeRoux , Lowell Bair (translator) ,

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The Cutting Room

By Louise Welsh ,

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Poor Things

By Alasdair Gray ,

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By Anne Brontë ,

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The Postscript Murders

By Elly Griffiths ,

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Joan Lindsay ,

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The Mysteries of Udolpho

By Ann Radcliffe , Bonamy Dobree (editor) ,

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Our Hideous Progeny

By Charlie McGill ,

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The Monk

By Matthew Lewis ,

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The Accursed

By Joyce Carol Oates ,

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Haunting Adeline

By H.D. Carlton ,

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Out There Screaming

By Jordan Peele (editor) ,

Loved by 3 people

The Bloody Chamber

By Angela Carter ,

Loved by 2 people

The Drowned World

By J.G. Ballard ,

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Wieland

By Charles Brockden Brown ,

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Harvest Home

By Thomas Tryon ,

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Blackwater

By Michael McDowell ,

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Dracul

By Dacre Stoker , J.D. Barker ,

Loved by 2 people

The Walker in Shadows

By Barbara Michaels ,

Loved by 2 people

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

By Henry Farrell ,

Loved by 2 people

Twilight

By William Gay ,

Loved by 2 people

Wakenhyrst

By Michelle Paver ,

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Midwinter of the Spirit

By Phil Rickman ,

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Parting the Veil

By Paulette Kennedy ,

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Midnight is a Lonely Place

By Barbara Erskine ,

Loved by 2 people

A Stitch in Time

By Kelley Armstrong ,

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On the Night of the Seventh Moon

By Victoria Holt ,

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The Family Plot

By Cherie Priest ,

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Revelator

By Daryl Gregory ,

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The Falls

By Ian Rankin ,

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The Corset

By Laura Purcell ,

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Querelle of Roberval

By Kevin Lambert , Donald Winkler (translator) ,

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Hawk Mountain

By Conner Habib ,

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Looking Glass Sound

By Catriona Ward ,

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Marvelous

By Molly Greeley ,

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House of Hunger

By Alexis Henderson ,

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The Darkness That Comes Before

By R. Scott Bakker ,

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What Feasts at Night

By T. Kingfisher ,

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Two Twisted Crowns

By Rachel Gillig ,

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A Haunting on the Hill

By Elizabeth Hand ,

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Enlightenment

By Sarah Perry ,

Loved by 2 people

Our Share of Night

By Mariana Enriquez , Megan McDowell (translator) , Pablo Gerardo Camacho (illustrator)

Loved by 2 people

Vampires of El Norte

By Isabel Cañas ,

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Tempest at Annabel's Lighthouse

By Jaime Jo Wright ,

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Katabasis

By R. F. Kuang ,

Loved by 2 people

Alchemised

By SenLinYu ,

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After Alice Fell

By Kim Taylor Blakemore ,

Loved by 1 person

American Gothic Tales (William Abrahams)

By Joyce Carol Oates (editor) ,

Loved by 1 person

Dark Tales

By Shirley Jackson ,

Loved by 1 person

What Happens at Night

By Peter Cameron ,

Loved by 1 person

Death and the Seaside

By Alison Moore ,

Loved by 1 person

The Vampire's Violin

By Michael Romkey ,

Loved by 1 person

The Bone Valley

By Candace Robinson ,

Loved by 1 person

Scandalous Desires

By Elizabeth Hoyt ,

Loved by 1 person

Imaginary Friend

By Stephen Chbosky ,

Loved by 1 person

Thrill of the Chaste

By Valerie Weaver-Zercher ,

Loved by 1 person

Ill Will

By Michael Stewart ,

Loved by 1 person

The Beguiled

By Thomas Cullinan ,

Loved by 1 person

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

By Eve Chase ,

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The Searcher

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

The Only One Left

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Sea and Stars

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Daisy Darker

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Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Weaveworld

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Lady Audley's Secret