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"We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things." — Dracula , Bram Stoker A little time after creating my Classics Club List I began to ponder the titles I'd included, to muse upon the genres, to think of myself submerged in their atmospheres, and discovered an in-and-of-itself disturbing lack of . . . disturbance . The du Mauriers, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë,—where Mrs. Radcliffe? M. R. James? Where Gorey and Poe? I then peered inwards: what, as Catherine Morland and her friends would say, horrid novels did I know of? Disgusted, I determined to create (with no particular chronological guidelines) A To-Be-Read List of Gothic Tomes, Horrific Tales, Eerie Mysteries, & Unsettling Volumes Date Created: August 2nd, 2025 0/50 1. "A Ghost Story For Christmas" Stories, Various — ongoing 2. Trilby , George du Maurier 3. Rebecca , Daphne du Maurier 4. Mrs. de Winter , Susan Hill 5. "Jamaica I...