Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

10 best books like Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales (Deborah Noyes): The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats, Everything Is Teeth, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, All Hallows' Eve, Remembering Raquel, Daddy's Girl, The Fate of the Artist, The Road to Epoli, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

Author	Chris Wooding
ISBN	0439598516

The Alienist meets Dracula in this gripping, gothic-horror thriller from young UK phenom Chris Wooding.

Thaniel, just seventeen, is a wych-hunter. Together, he and Cathaline--his friend and mentor--track down the fearful creatures that lurk in the Old Quarter of London. It is on one of...

I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats

Author	Francesco Marciuliano
ISBN	1452110581

Cat lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness of their feline friends with these insightful and curious poems from the singular minds of housecats.

In this hilarious book of tongue-in-cheek poetry, the author of the internationally syndicated comic strip Sally Forth helps cats unlock...

Everything Is Teeth

Author

Evie Wyld

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims.

Everything is Teeth is a delicate and intimate collection of the memories she brought...

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0060596384

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery...

All Hallows' Eve

Author	Vivian Vande Velde
ISBN	0152055762

A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning. Celebrated author...

Remembering Raquel

Author	Vivian Vande Velde
ISBN	0152059768

Fifteen-year-old Raquel Falcone is, as one of her classmates puts it, the kind of kid who has a tendency to be invisible. That is until the night she's hit by a car and killed while walking home from the movies.
    
In brief, moving chapters, we hear about Raquel from her classmates, her best...

Daddy's Girl

Author

Debbie Drechsler

Daddy's Girl is a powerful book that uses a childlike graphic style to explore the adolescence of a young girl, Lily, whose life is being destroyed by sexual abuse. Drechsler pulls no punches in her depiction of incest, and many scenes are hard to read, but this book shows that comics can be a vehicle for...

The Fate of the Artist

Author	Eddie Campbell
ISBN	1596431334

In this pseudo-autobiography, the subject of the memoir has vanished without a trace. Through six separate threads, each one typographically and stylistically distinct, a private investigator tries to discover the artists' fate through false trails, family and daily life reenactments, and even...

The Road to Epoli

Author	Ben Costa
ISBN	0399556133

Meet Rickety Stitch . . . a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why.

His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and...

The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner: And Other Stories

Author	Terry Pratchett
ISBN	0857534831

Poor Mr Swimble is having a bad day.

Rabbits are bouncing out of his hat, pigeons are flying out of his jacket and every time he points his finger, something magically appears – cheese sandwiches, socks . . . even a small yellow elephant on wheels!

It’s becoming a real nuisance –...

To Kill a Mockingbird: A Graphic Novel

Author	Fred Fordham
ISBN	0062798189

‘Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’

A portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains...