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I'm looking for gothic horror that is like the modern prometheus or Bram's original vampire.

Anne rice isn't doing it for me.

>> No.18625549
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>>18625493
Matthew Lewis' The Monk might be to your liking.

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https://consequence.net/2021/07/toyah-robert-fripp-system-of-a-down-chop-suey/

>> No.18625656

>>18625493
Do you mean monsters? The Witch of Ravensworth. The witch is a predecessor to Frankenstein's monster and Dracula.
If you are looking for more vampire stories, Polidori's The Vampyre and Le Fanu's Carmilla are about vampires

>> No.18625666

>>18625656
And The Beatle, I was forgetting that one. It's basically Dracula but the creature is Egyptian instead of Romanian.

>> No.18625695

OP here. Thanks for the responses. FYI, my favorite gothic book is wuthering heights, but it's not the kind of horror that I'm looking for.

Honestly, I am pretty interested in some "jumpscare books" if those exist....do they?

>>18625549
Looks good. Added to my goodreads list.

>>18625656
I will look into this witch. Polidori is seriously boring , do you agree? Carmilla was also very boring, but not as soul-crushing. Do you agree? It's been at least a decade since I have read camilla...longer for polidori.

>>18625666
Who is The Beatle written by? This is intriguing.

>> No.18625714

I'm reading Phantom of the Opera. It's good.

>> No.18625721

>>18625714
that's some fugaz musical tho right?

its not actually goth or horror--just a dude that fucked up his face and stalks a diva, right?

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>>18625695
>Who is The Beatle written by?

Richard Marsh. Here's a nice review:

>[T]he best-selling horror novel of the 1890s, a book that appeared in the same year as “Dracula” — 1897 — and that was, for a long while, even more popular than the immortal vampire classic. Even now “The Beetle,” by Richard Marsh (1857-1915), remains gripping, transgressive and deeply disturbing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-19th-century-best-selling-horror-novel-that-isnt-dracula/2015/02/11/fbdbad48-ae20-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html

>> No.18626076

>>18625721
It's very gothic.

>> No.18626125

>>18625695
Nigga issa book. You want the words to jump off the page or something. The closest thing to a horror book would be just a gothic theme like Casa Tomada.

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>> No.18626409

>>18626125

Pop-up books are a thing.

why has nobody published a jump scare pop-up book?

>> No.18626555

>>18625493
Vathek

>> No.18627185

>>18625721
The "horror" comes mainly from the passions and feelings he triggers on the protagonists through his very dramatic actions, but yes you are correct, there is no monster, only a fucked up man beneath the opera. Maybe the real monster is us after all.

Joking aside it's preddy gub.