I’ve just finished reading “The Dunwich Horror” by H.P. Lovecraft and also “Carmilla” by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. I loved both of them, as I really enjoy reading older English and I love gothic tales, but I am having a hard time finding a new horror book that compares. I’m really not a big fan of modern day horror books – not really sure why, I’ve just always read the classics which typically are written in old English. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!
by Routine_Amphibian257
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My go-to rec is Melmoth the Wanderer by Robert Maturin. It features a number of narratives embedded within one another, with an excellent payoff.
Matthew Lewis’s The Monk reads as WAY more modern and thrilling than you’d expect from something from that era. Bonus, since Anne Radcliffe – the matron of gothic fiction – then wrote The Italian as a “response” to his work.
For a short fun read, Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is surprisingly fitting as a gothic horror.