On Our Bookshelf.
The gothic classics and quietly obsessive novels that shape the Bit of Ink world. We're an affiliate of Bookshop.org, so purchases made through these links support independent bookstores as well as our own writing desk.
Bunny
A dark, twisted look at an elite MFA program, for anyone who's ever wondered how far academic ambition can go.
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Rebecca
A haunting, obsessive gothic classic, the house, the marriage, and the woman who never quite leaves either.
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Piranesi
A strange, beautiful, dreamlike novel about memory and a house that is also a world.
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Crime and Punishment
A murderer's conscience unravels in real time. Heavy, obsessive, and impossible to put down, the original psychological thriller.
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Frankenstein
The original meditation on ambition, creation, and what we owe each other.
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The Name of the Rose
A murder mystery inside a medieval monastery library. Exactly as scholarly as it sounds.
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Dracula
The original gothic horror, told in letters and diary entries.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Vanity, beauty, and consequence in Wilde's sharpest prose.
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Wuthering Heights
Moody, brutal, and endlessly quoted for a reason.
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The Secret History
The book that started it all. If you only read one, make it this one.
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