https://pithybooks.com/tags/gothic/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “gothic”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/mexican-gothic/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mexican-gothic/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the chilling Doyles and their dark fungal secret. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders. https://pithybooks.com/books/northanger-abbey/ https://pithybooks.com/books/northanger-abbey/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Naive Catherine Morland mixes gothic novels with real Bath society and love. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing. https://pithybooks.com/books/salems-lot/ https://pithybooks.com/books/salems-lot/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires. https://pithybooks.com/books/haunting-adeline/ https://pithybooks.com/books/haunting-adeline/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A writer in a gothic manor is stalked by Zade while reading her great grandmother's diary. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bad-beginning/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-bad-beginning/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT After a fire kills their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to Count Olaf, who plots to steal their fortune. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves. https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ https://pithybooks.com/books/interview-with-the-vampire/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris. https://pithybooks.com/books/rebecca/ https://pithybooks.com/books/rebecca/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A shy bride at Manderley learns she competes with Maxim's perfect dead wife Rebecca. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shadow-of-the-wind/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-shadow-of-the-wind/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches. https://pithybooks.com/books/dracula/ https://pithybooks.com/books/dracula/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him. https://pithybooks.com/books/frankenstein/ https://pithybooks.com/books/frankenstein/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal. https://pithybooks.com/books/jane-eyre/ https://pithybooks.com/books/jane-eyre/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre retold: Lowood, Thornfield, the attic secret, and Jane's refusal to shrink. https://pithybooks.com/books/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/ https://pithybooks.com/books/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jacob Portman finds his grandfather dead in the woods, follows a cryptic letter to a ruined orphanage in Wales, and meets children living inside a repeating day. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dorian Gray retold: Basil paints, Henry talks, wish holds youth while canvas bears years. https://pithybooks.com/books/wuthering-heights/ https://pithybooks.com/books/wuthering-heights/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights retold: Heathcliff and Cathy on the moors, two houses, two generations.