6 Gothic Books to Read if You Loved Crimson Peak
Gorgeous gothic ruins and whispering ghosts, doomed love stories that end in blood, this is Gothic Horror at its most beautiful and most captivating.
Crimson Peak isn’t just a film; it’s a feeling. The soft glow of candlelight as you walk down an epic staircase in a beautiful nightgown, rotting wallpaper next to glittering jewels, the sound of footsteps echoing in empty halls, the ache of memory filling rooms that once held romance.
These six books capture the same haunting magic, the same grief and beauty of the film, and they’ll leave you just as obsessed.
A mysterious author, his famous book and the girl who’s obsessed. A crumbling seaside manor and a chance to prove herself. A story of obsession, of art, of the line between myth and madness. Dark forces, mortal and magical and truth could ruin it all. Prose that stays with you.
Sisters and the secrets buried between them. A centuries-old corpse unearthed and new hungers discovered, a mysterious medical condition, a fight to keep one sister safe or risk losing her forever. A gothic tale of love and family, intimate and beautiful.
In the heat of the desert, something sinister lurks in the night. Lovers once lost, found again, and a fight for the future begins. Cañas weaves a western gothic tale of blood and devotion where the sun burns as fiercely as the creatures that stalk the night.
A house full of secrets, and a girl determined to find them all. The means to save her brother or the potential for a home. This southern gothic fairytale echoes with the ache of small town secrets and the pull of a dark inheritance, wrapped in longing and dust.
A journey to the country, an unexpected visitor. Secrets between lovers, secrets between friends, appetites and ambitions, hunger rising, rising. Kat Dunn’s prose drips with longing and desire. A modern retelling of the classic Carmilla, this novel will have you begging for more and more.
Family secrets long buried come to light. Assassins’ blades in the night, Leech Lords creeping ever closer, ancient witches and broken promises. Slatter builds the world of the Sourdough Universe with reverence, crafting a tale that feels both ancient and new, a gothic elegy lined with teeth.
If Crimson Peak showed us anything, it’s that horror can be exquisite, and tragedy can be tender. These stories are for anyone who finds beauty in the broken, for those who linger in the empty rooms and listen for ghosts, who believe that love can be a ruin but also a redemption. These six books prove it again and again each one waiting for you to turn the page.
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