Start with high-confidence gothic & romance lit crit books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Gothic
David Punter, Glennis Byron
Gothicka
Victoria Nelson
Secular Scripture
Northrop Frye
Mazes of the Serpent
Roger B. Salomon
Gothic Reflections
Peter Garrett
Gothic and Modernism
John Paul Riquelme
THE GOTHIC TEXT
Marshall Brown
American Gothic Fiction
Allan Lloyd-Smith
Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
T. Khair, Tabish Khair
Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives
A. Soon, Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Tales of the Troubled Dead
Catherine Belsey
Theology, Horror and Fiction
Jonathan Greenaway
Ecogothic
Andrew Smith, William Hughes
California Gothic: the Dark Side of the Dream
Charles L. Crow
