Current nonfiction: The Queen of All Witcheries by Jack Chanek

Current Fiction: Cities of the Dead by Alys Arden

Next nonfiction: Jailbreaking the Goddess by Lasara Firefox Allen

Next fiction: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Current favorites are The Gothic Literature Tarot, The Eldritch Overload Tarot, and The Unofficial Schitty Tarot.

Though Deviant Moon is a long time fall back.

So happy to help!

I'm currently reading The Casquette Girls series by Alys Arden. I'm almost time with book 4 (5 isn't yet publishes). The further in I get the more it leans paranormal teen romance & the less it leans Gothic romance, but still a fun read)

I'm also peppering my reading with modern tales:

•The Poisoner by I. V. Ophelia
•The Crimson Debt by Rose Sinister
•Raise the Blood by b Nina Campbell

I haven't read any of these, so I can't vouch for them, but they look really interesting.

Bonus Poe poems:

•The raven
•Lenore
•Annabel Lee
•The bells
•A dream
•The haunted palace

Poe sub list:

•the gold bug
•the murders in the Rue Morgue
•The Fall off the House of Usher
•the purloined letter
•tell-tale heart
•The black cat
•The Cask of Amontillado
•The pit an the pendulum
•The masque of the red death
•Ligeia

•Frankenstein
•Dracula
•The Hunchback of Notre Dame
•Wuthering Heights
•Jane Eyre
•Phantom of the Opera
•just an obscene number of Edgar Allan Poe stories
•Dr. Faustus
•The House of the Seven Gables
•The Monk
•The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

My 2025 resolution is to (re)read all the classic Gothic horror/romance. Here's my list:

Okay, okay... Gothic major ghost--but mossy elk skull is a VERY close second!

I think you'll find lots of Gothic things are, totally unironically, beautiful. ;)

Also, we have extant examples of former chuds who saw the light and none of them required a come-to-Jesus talk, they got there on their own. We need to stop acting like leftists and centrists are required to parent the right.