Gothic Non-fiction
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
by:
David J. Skal
4.22 avg rating — 528 ratings 3. 
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
by:
Angela Carter
4.04 avg rating — 1,544 ratings 4. 
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The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology 4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,258 ratings 
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by:
Charles Mackay
3.82 avg rating — 4,977 ratings 
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A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
by:
John Waller
3.46 avg rating — 871 ratings 
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Theatre of Fear & Horror: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962
by:
Mel Gordon
3.93 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
by:
Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,063 ratings 17. 
Female Gothic Histories: Gender, History and the Gothic
by:
Diana Wallace
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings 17. 
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating — 45,197 ratings 21. 
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,512 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,260 ratings 
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by:
John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,592 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,396 ratings 
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Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work (Iconic Filmmakers Series)
by:
Ian Nathan
4.25 avg rating — 119 ratings 37. 
Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
by:
David J. Skal
3.86 avg rating — 824 ratings 37. 
Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors: Two hundred years of crime
by:
Pauline Chapman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 39. 
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural (Volume 1) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age
by:
Dara Downey
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Bluebeard and After: Three Decades of Murder in France really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess
by:
Tony Thorne
3.76 avg rating — 279 ratings 47. 
The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend
by:
Robert L. Mack
3.67 avg rating — 66 ratings 47. 
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Spirits of an Industrial Age: Ghost Impersonation, Spring-heeled Jack, and Victorian Society
by:
Jacob Middleton
3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture
by:
Per Faxneld
4.26 avg rating — 165 ratings 
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H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil
by:
Adam Selzer
3.62 avg rating — 1,328 ratings 58. 
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
by:
Holly Tucker
3.60 avg rating — 3,275 ratings 58. 
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull 3.93 avg rating — 437 ratings
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
by:
Anne Somerset
3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings 63. 
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London 3.92 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
by:
Eric Jager
3.97 avg rating — 6,851 ratings 65. 
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England
by:
Alex Owen
3.99 avg rating — 141 ratings 65. 
Wanted Undead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-ass Enemies of Evil
by:
Jonathan Maberry
3.71 avg rating — 113 ratings 
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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
by:
Megan Rosenbloom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,449 ratings 
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History 4.24 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania 3.50 avg rating — 191 ratings