Hi, hope this is the right place to ask
I recently started reading novels again, and I finished rereading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein about a month ago (tempted to read it again immediately tbh). I read it as a child in English class, so I thought it would be a good place to restart. Finished it, loved it, would love to be able to read something similar – the suggestion was Dracula.
Whilst I do very much like the story, I’m finding it very difficult to keep hooked just based on the way its written – the flitting between different POVs and the back-and-forth timeline is something I've always struggled with. Its not going to be a permanent DNF, but I'm only on page 80 and I think I need to pause and get my general vocabulary back up to speed.
Does anyone have any recommendations for books similar to Frankenstein, (potentially Gothic horror?) I do love the language in Frankenstein and how it’s written, but I don’t know much about Mary Shelley‘s other works besides the general consensus online; which seems to say that the others don't quite meet the same bar.
Any recommendations? Preferably Wordsworth/penguin classics (I’m limited by price and often second hand books atm)
by Archer_Flinthell