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Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews

Gothic HorrorEmotional AbuseToxic Family DynamicsGothic Fiction
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A House with Good Bones

T. Kingfisher · 247 pages

Gothic HorrorToxic Family DynamicsGothic FictionEmotional Abuse
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The Once and Future Witches

Alix E. Harrow · 517 pages

Witch ProtagonistFairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftToxic Family Dynamics
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The Lamb

Lucy Rose

Toxic Family DynamicsBody HorrorChild AbuseGothic Fiction
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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

Emotional AbuseToxic Family DynamicsChild AbuseAtmospheric
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Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 320 pages

An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Tabo

Gothic HorrorBody HorrorToxic Family DynamicsGothic Fiction
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What Moves the Dead

T Kingfisher · 175 pages

When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed w

Gothic HorrorBody HorrorGothic FictionAtmospheric
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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice · 1,002 pages

The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher. Lasher gives the witches gi

Witch ProtagonistGothic FictionWitches & WitchcraftHorror
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Gregory Maguire · 448 pages

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a

Witch ProtagonistFairy Tale RetellingWitches & WitchcraftSisters
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Fitcher's Brides

Gregory Frost · 400 pages

Gothic HorrorFairy Tale RetellingGothic FictionSisters
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Your Blood, My Bones

Kelly Andrew · 368 pages

Body HorrorGothic FictionToxic Family DynamicsAtmospheric
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Hazelthorn

C.G. Drews · 358 pages

Toxic Family DynamicsGothic FictionAtmosphericBody Horror
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Roses and Rot

Kat Howard · 328 pages

Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn't imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program; Imogen as a writer and Marin a

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 318 pages

Emotional AbuseToxic Family DynamicsGothic FictionChild Abuse
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The Death of Jane Lawrence

Caitlin Starling · 362 pages

Gothic HorrorGothic FictionBody HorrorAtmospheric
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White Oleander

Janet Fitch · 390 pages

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.

Emotional AbuseToxic Family DynamicsChild AbuseLyrical Prose
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 246 pages

First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with po

Gothic HorrorGothic FictionToxic Family DynamicsLyrical Prose
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The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver · 596 pages

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of on

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 95 pages

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.

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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Angela Carter · 128 pages

Gothic FictionFairy Tale RetellingGothic HorrorAtmospheric
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Edgar Allan Poe · 419 pages

17 STORIES [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) [Black Cat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41068W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W) [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) [Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40987W)

Gothic HorrorGothic FictionAtmosphericHorror
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A Choir of Ill Children

Tom Piccirilli · 240 pages

This lyrical tale of evil, loss, and redemption is a stunning addition to the Southern gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and Harry Crews.A Choir of Ill Children is the startling story of Kingdom Come, a decaying, swamp backwater that draws the lost, ill-fated, and damned. Since his mother's disappearance and his father's suicide, Thomas has cared for his three brothers--conjoined triplets wit

Gothic HorrorGothic FictionBody HorrorHorror
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The Thirteenth Child

Erin A. Craig · 498 pages

Fairy Tale RetellingToxic Family DynamicsGothic FictionAtmospheric
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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy · 320 pages

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a

Emotional AbuseToxic Family DynamicsChild AbuseFirst Person Narrator
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