Fantasy with rot in it. These are the books where the enchantment has gone wrong somewhere, where the house is owned by something, and where the bargain on offer is always worse than it sounds.
About this shelf
It starts with Frankenstein, the gothic novel Mary Shelley wrote at eighteen, which we carry as a pocket paperback, the original 1818 text, and a clothbound gift edition. Anne Rice is the centre of gravity from there: the Vampire Chronicles from Queen of the Damned through The Tale of the Body Thief and Memnoch the Devil, plus the complete Mayfair Witches trilogy. Also Cry to Heaven, her eighteenth-century Venice novel about a castrato's twenty-year revenge, which has no supernatural element at all and is arguably her best book.
Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian hunts Dracula through monastery archives and manuscript catalogs. Clive Barker's The Thief of Always is nominally for younger readers and will frighten adults. Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast is gothic architecture as a state of mind. Cynthia Gómez's Muñeca brings the mode into the present with a queer, working-class Latine witch and a house that rearranges itself.
Some titles here contain explicit content, and each product page says so plainly.
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