Best Gothic Romance Books for a Dark Autumn Shelf
Big house, bad history, a love that is partly a haunting. The gothic romance is doing well again and these are the load-bearing ones.
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1. Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Manderley, a second wife, and a dead woman who runs the household anyway.
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2. Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
High Place is damp, English, and wrong. The most propulsive modern gothic.
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3. Love Beyond The Glass On this site
by Simran Mehta
A curiosity shop that only appears at night, a hundred-year pattern of vanishings, and a romance the building intends to profit from.
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4. Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Not a comfort read and never was. The moor-level intensity everything here is descended from.
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5. The Death of Jane Lawrence
by Caitlin Starling
A marriage of convenience, a crumbling house, and a husband with a rule about nightfall.