I am 15 and to read Gothic novels.Can anybody commend me any of the best Gothic novels to read?Also I like thillers,
horrors too?
2007-02-27 10:19:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Daphne DuMaurier is the queen of the gothic novel -- start with Rebecca.
The Historian by Kostova is good
Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, Annette Curtis Klause, Anne Rice James Patterson, all good horror/thriller authors.
2007-02-27 10:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i like to determine the "unique" Gothic novels from the eighteenth century... in case you have not tried them, please do, they're going to scare you! the desirable ones are: The Monk by skill of Matthew Lewis The Italian by skill of Anne Radcliffe others are: The citadel of Otranto, or maybe issues like Frankenstein and Dracula. curiously, Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" replace into written as in basic terms a splash a mickey-take off each and all of the gothic novels that have been wide-unfold on the time, so as that's well worth a examine too.
2016-10-16 21:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by porix 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_novel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gothic_novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gothic_fiction
I'm actually very interested in the (actual) gothic fiction (the stuff that's from the 18-19th centuries, and even the early part of the 20th, mainly) so I've read a bit.... a some of them can be graphic or scary, so be prepared for what you're reading. :)
My favorite I've ever read, at least so far, was Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera" (the book, not the play), and I read that in 8th grade. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker is probably the best known example, but it can be lengthy and boring for some... He got his inspiration for his novel from various sources, though, one of them being a very similar, albeit much shorter, novel called "Carmilla" by J. Sheridan LeFanu. I read both of those novels when I was 14-15, if I remember correctly. :)
2007-02-27 13:33:30 · answer #3 · answered by Multi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Jim Butcher's books. They have recently made a TV show called The Dresden Files out of them. It's on SciFi channel.
Book one is called Storm Front. Harry Dresden is a wizard in modern day Chicago. He helps out the Chicago Police when they have a "special case"
2007-02-27 10:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by Haley 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Jane Eyre" and "Villette" Novels by Charlotte Brontë are the best.....
2016-04-24 23:53:53 · answer #5 · answered by anzish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋