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Any good gothic/dark fantasy books to read?

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Why is gothic fiction such a hard find these days? Like, on one hand, you have the Byronic side with northanger Abby, Frankenstein, Dracula, Vathek, etc. but on the other hand you have the supernatural side such as Algernon Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Arthur Machen, etc., yet neither seemed to have reach a full equilibrium or breaking point to help the sub genre branch out. It seems that most of the time gothic fiction seems to cater to the former kind, in which case I find too elementary, trite, and melodramatic?

Any ideas on how we fix the gothic sub genre?

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