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What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - readertim - 10-11-2007
What's your favorite horror Gothic novel?
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - maisonvivante - 10-26-2007
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jakcson is an economical, riveting horror Gothic that set the literary standard for horror Gothics of the 20th century. I like my horror restrained and psychological, and this book delivers.
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - Desdemona - 10-28-2007
Agreed! I also enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle, also by Shirley Jackson. I found this book to be even more disturbing than Hill House.
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - maisonvivante - 10-28-2007
Desdemona Wrote:Agreed!  I also enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle, also by Shirley Jackson.  I found this book to be even more disturbing than Hill House.
Yes! Another excellent Gothic novel, very Lizzie Borden in tone.
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - Heathcliffe's girl. - 12-27-2008
Dracula... I love it. It's my all time favourite novel.
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - romanticdress - 03-28-2009
Heathcliffe's girl. Wrote:Dracula... I love it. It's my all time favourite novel.
DITTO!
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - simpleviolet - 06-17-2009
Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia defines a gothic novel as "one characterized by horror, violence, supernatural effects, and a taste for the midieval, usually set against a background of Gothic architecture, esp. a gloomy & isolated castle." A broad category indeed. A lot could fit into it.
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - alex123 - 12-30-2009
nice post.......
RE: What's your favorite horror Gothic novel? - Des Esseintes - 01-04-2010
(10-28-2007, 09:10 PM)Desdemona Wrote: Agreed! I also enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle, also by Shirley Jackson. I found this book to be even more disturbing than Hill House.
I only just recently read this novel but I thought it was good too. It would make an excellent Tim Burton movie if he could stick to the darkness of it and avoid making it cute.