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Gothic Romance
Naive young heroines; isolated houses; dark, brooding men who are strangely attractive; secrets from the past; hints of the supernatural; these are the elements of the Gothic Romance.
Related Genres
Romantic Suspense
Contemporary Women's Psychological Suspense (i.e. Mary Higgins Clark)
Authors & Titles
- Aiken, Joan: Castle Barebane
- Aiken, Joan: The Girl From Paris

- Aiken, Joan: The Haunting of Lamb House

- Aiken, Joan: If I Were You
- Aiken, Joan: Morningquest

- Aiken, Joan: The Smile of the Stranger

- Argers, Helen: Noblesse Oblige

- Beauman, Sally: The Sisters Mortland

- Blake, Sarah: Grange House

- Boylan, Clare: Emma Brown (A novel from the unfinished manuscript by Charlotte Brontë)

- Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre

- Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights

- Carr, Philippa: Cornwall series (aka Daughters of England series)
(Philippa Carr is a pen name of Victoria Holt. The Philippa Carr titles are a series of fictional journals kept by the women of one family, beginning during the English Reformation and continuing through World War II.)
- The Miracle at St. Bruno's

- The Lion Triumphant

- The Witch From the Sea

- Saraband for Two Sisters

- Lament for a Lost Lover

- The Love Child (DNO )

- The Song of the Siren

- Will You Love Me in September?

- The Adulteress

- Knave of Hearts

- Voices in a Haunted Room

- The Return of the Gypsy

- Midsummer's Eve

- The Pool of St. Branock

- The Changeling

- The Black Swan

- A Time for Silence

- The Gossamer Cord

- We'll Meet Again

- Coffman, Virginia: The Orchid Tree

- Cookson, Catherine: Feathers in the Fire

- Cookson, Catherine: The Girl

- Crane, Teresa: The Italian House

- DuMaurier, Daphne: Flight of the Falcon

- DuMaurier, Daphne: Frenchman's Creek

- DuMaurier, Daphne: Hungry Hill

- DuMaurier, Daphne: The King's General

- DuMaurier, Daphne: Loving Spirit

- DuMaurier, Daphne: My Cousin Rachel

- DuMaurier, Daphne: Rebecca

- Eden, Dorothy: An Afternoon Walk

- Eden, Dorothy: Darkwater

- Eden, Dorothy: Listen to Danger

- Eden, Dorothy: Ravenscroft

- Eden, Dorothy: The Shadow Wife

- Eden, Dorothy: The Storrington Papers

- Eden, Dorothy: The Voice of the Dolls

- Eden, Dorothy: Waiting for Willa

- Erskine, Barbara: House of Echoes

- Erskine, Barbara: Midnight is a Lonely Place

- Eyre, Katherine Wigmore: The Sandalwood Fan

- Gaskin, Catherine: Edge of Glass

- Gaskin, Catherine: A Falcon for a Queen

- Gaskin, Catherine: The Lynmara Legacy

- Gilbert, Anna: A Hint of Witchcraft

- Gilbert, Anna: Images of Rose

- Gilbert, Anna: A Walk in the Wood

- Godden, Rumer: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

- Godden, Rumer: Black Nacissus

- Grange, Amanda: Stormcrow Castle

- Harris, Jane: The Observations
(not really a romance, but steeped in Gothic style) 
- Hawks, Kate: Watch By Moonlight

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Caterina

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Leading Lady

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: The Lost Garden

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Marry in Haste

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Polonaise

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Red Sky at Night, Lover's Delight?

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Watch the Wall, My Darling

- Hodge, Jane Aiken: Whispering

- Holt, Victoria: Black Opal

- Holt, Victoria: The Captive

- Holt, Victoria: Daughter of Deceit

- Holt, Victoria: The Demon Lover

- Holt, Victoria: The Devil on Horseback

- Holt, Victoria: The House of a Thousand Lanterns

- Holt, Victoria: The Judas Kiss

- Holt, Victoria: Kirkland Revels

- Holt, Victoria: The Landower Legacy

- Holt, Victoria: Legend of the Seventh Virgin

- Holt, Victoria: Lord of the Far Island

- Holt, Victoria: The Mask of the Enchantress

- Holt, Victoria: Menfreya in the Morning

- Holt, Victoria: Mistress of Mellyn

- Holt, Victoria: On the Night of the Seventh Moon

- Holt, Victoria: The Pride of the Peacock

- Holt, Victoria: The Road to Paradise Island

- Holt, Victoria: Secret for a Nightingale

- Holt, Victoria: Seven for a Secret

- Holt, Victoria: The Silk Vendetta

- Holt, Victoria: Snare of Serpents

- Holt, Victoria: The Spring of the Tiger

- Holt, Victoria: The Time of the Hunter's Moon

- Hood-Stewart, Fiona: The Journey Home

- Hunt, Ayn: Unwilling Killers

- Johnston, Velda: Deveron Hall

- Johnston, Velda: Flight to Yesterday

- Johnston, Velda: The Hour Before Midnight

- Johnston, Velda: The House on the Left Bank

- Johnston, Velda: A Howling in the Woods

- Johnston, Velda: I Came to the Highlands

- Johnston, Velda: The Late Mrs. Fonsell

- Johnston, Velda: Masquerade in Venice

- Johnston, Velda: The Mourning Trees

- Johnston, Velda: The People on the Hill

- Johnston, Velda: Shadow Behind the Curtain

- Johnston, Velda: The Silver Dolphin

- Johnston, Velda: The Underground Stream

- Knox, Elizabeth: Billie's Kiss

- Leroy, Margaret: Yes, My Darling Daughter

- Leslie, Susan: An Unfinished Tapestry

- Lofts, Norah: Bride of Moat House

- Lofts, Norah: Charlotte

- Lofts, Norah: Checkmate

- Lofts, Norah: Gad's Hall series

- Gad's Hall

- The Haunting of Gad's Hall (aka The Haunted House)

(omnibus volume) Gad's Hall and The Haunting of Gad's Hall 
- Lofts, Norah: The Golden Fleece

- Lofts, Norah: Heaven in Your Hand

- Lofts, Norah: Out of the Dark

- Lofts, Norah: Uneasy Paradise (aka Her Own Special Island)

- MacDonald, Ann-Marie: Fall On Your Knees

- Maybury, Anne: The Birdes of Bellenmore

- Maybury, Anne: The Jeweled Daughter

- Maybury, Anne: The Terracotta Palace

- McCaffrey, Anne: The Kilternan Legacy

- McCaffrey, Anne: The Mark of Merlin

- McCaffrey, Anne: Ring of Fear

(NOTE: The above three titles were published in one volume as Three Gothic Novels
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- Mostert, Natasha: Windwalker

- Perlberg, Deborah: Cliff House

- Priest, Cherie: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

(NOTE: This title is part of the Eden Moore series, listed under Dark Fantasy)
- Rice, Patricia: Much Ado About Magic

- Roberts, Michele: Daughters of the House

- Ryan, Meg: The Song of the Tide

- Seton, Anya: Green Darkness

- Seton, Anya: The Winthrop Woman

- Silver, Eve: Dark Prince

- Smith, Sarah: A Citizen of the Country

- Sole, Linda: Rose series
- The Rose Arch

- A Cornish Rose

- Sole, Linda: The Shadow Players

- St. Giles, Jennifer: The Mistress of Trevelyan

- Stewart, Mary: Airs Above the Ground

- Stewart, Mary: The Gabriel Hounds

- Steart, Mary: Madam, Will You Talk?

- Stewart, Mary: The Moon-Spinners

- Stewart, Mary: My Brother Michael

- Stewart, Mary: Nine Coaches Waiting

- Stewart, Mary: The Stormy Petrel

- Stewart, Mary: This Rough Magic

- Stewart, Mary: Thornyhold

- Stewart, Mary: Thunder on the Right

- Stewart, Mary: Wildfire at Midnight

- Tanner, Janet: The Penrose Treasure

- Whitnell, Barbara: After Jodie

- Whitney, Phyllis: Amethyst Dreams

- Whitney, Phyllis: Black Amber

- Whitney, Phyllis: Daughter of the Stars

- Whitney, Phyllis: Domino

- Whitney, Phyllis: Dream of Orchids

- Whitney, Phyllis: Ebony Swan

- Whitney, Phyllis: Emerald
- Whitney, Phyllis: Feather on the Moon

- Whitney, Phyllis: The Flaming Tree

- Whitney, Phyllis: The Glass Flame

- Whitney, Phyllis: Hunter's Green

- Whitney, Phyllis: Lost Island

- Whitney, Phyllis: Poinciana

- Whitney, Phyllis: Rainsong

- Whitney, Phyllis: Sea Jade

- Whitney, Phyllis: Seven Tears for Apollo

- Whitney, Phyllis: Silverhill

- Whitney, Phyllis: Silversword

- Whitney, Phyllis: The Singing Stones

- Whitney, Phyllis: Spindrift

- Whitney, Phyllis: Star Flight

- Whitney, Phyllis: The Stone Bull

- Whitney, Phyllis: Thunder Heights

- Whitney, Phyllis: The Turquoise Mask

- Whitney, Phyllis: Vermilion

- Whitney, Phyllis: Window on the Square

- Whitney, Phyllis: Woman Without a Past

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