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gothic litterature 12/09/25(Tue)12:50:26 No.24937379

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gothic litterature Anonymous 12/09/25(Tue)12:50:26 No.24937379 Archived

lets have a gothic literature thread. I'm reading carmilla right now and it is comfy,after that I'll read dracula. I want to buy the vurdalak family but after reading the summary I worry if the book is worth it, any ody read the vurdalak family?

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)05:30:23 No.24939508

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)05:30:23 No.24939508

No

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)05:32:23 No.24939512

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)05:32:23 No.24939512

Real Gothic Literature reccomendations. If you read all of these then you can move on to books written after the gothic golden age (Dracula) or books that aren't fully gothic yet use gothic themes (Frankenstein)
Books
>Longsword by Thomas Leland (Proto-Gothic)
>The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom by Tobias Smollett (Proto Gothic)
>The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Start with this one)
>The Mysteries of Udolpho, Romance of the Forest, and the Italian by Anne Radcliffe
>The Monk by MG lewis
>The Mysterious Freebooter, The Midnight Bell and the Castle of Ollada by Francis Lathom
>The Haunted Cavern by John Palmer
>Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
Short Story collections
>Literary Hours by Nathan Drake
>Great Tales of Terror by Peter Haining
Poetry
>Tales of Terror and Wonder by MG lewis

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)06:19:55 No.24939565

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)06:19:55 No.24939565

>>24939512
thanks very much. I have otranto castle but will read after I finish carmilla. also you forgot carmilla in your recommendation

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)17:30:39 No.24940906

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)17:30:39 No.24940906

>>24939512
How is Radcliffe's work besides Udolpho? I read that and am over all, in retrospect, glad I did, but she did take 200 pages hiking and describing how sublime the mountains are before I ever got to see the castle

>>24939565
Based Carmilla enjoyed

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)18:05:30 No.24940967

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)18:05:30 No.24940967

>>24940906
I really like carmilla so far

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)18:34:41 No.24941022

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)18:34:41 No.24941022

Did you see the newish French movie?

https://youtu.be/1NIXWgBkJNU

It starts out funny and becomes goofy and then toward the end becomes very horror

Anonymous
12/10/25(Wed)19:15:10 No.24941082

Anonymous 12/10/25(Wed)19:15:10 No.24941082

>>24939565
>also you forgot carmilla in your recommendation
Great book, but like Dracula came after the Gothic Golden age that lasted from the 1760s to the year 1820
>>24940906
Less long winded than udolpho though it's a female gothic work so feel free to skip over them if you didn't like udolpho

Anonymous
12/11/25(Thu)08:15:12 No.24941943

Anonymous 12/11/25(Thu)08:15:12 No.24941943

>>24941022
no I didn't

Anonymous
12/11/25(Thu)08:17:00 No.24941946

Anonymous 12/11/25(Thu)08:17:00 No.24941946

>>24941022
I don't like watching movies of a book I'm reading because after that I have the faces of the actors in my mind when I read the book and I hate it