Gothic books and short stories are an important part of literary history, and several are defining titles in the genre. The term is often vague, but at its core, gothic stories spark fear in a reader.

This book has it all ... Like many of the best-known Gothic thrillers of centuries past, “Fledgling” blends genres and bends morality with grisly determination. One part horror, one part ...

A book that many readers cite as having left ... But don’t expect it to stick solely to the gothic genre, Carmen Maria Machado’s debut collection spoils us by ‘demolishing the borders ...

The novel, which has been retrospectively classed as ‘Male Gothic', features the genre’s typical themes of a lone male, exiled and an outsider. On the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron ...