🥀 Mourning Ink Reading List 🕯️⚰️✨🕸️

• Gothic / haunted / old-house energy
  • We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson-
  • The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson (on hold)
  • The Woman in Black — Susan Hill
  • Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
  • The Hacienda — Isabel Cañas (on loan)
  • Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia (on hold)
  • The Death of Mrs. Westaway — Ruth Ware-
  • The Turn of the Key — Ruth Ware (on loan)
  • The Only One Left — Riley Sager (on hold)
  • Home Before Dark — Riley Sager (on hold)
  • The Nanny — Gilly Macmillan (on loan)
  • The Manor House — Gilly Macmillan (on loan)
• Someone disappeared here and everybody is lying
  • What She Knew — Gilly Macmillan (Currently reading)
  • I Know You Know — Gilly Macmillan
  • The Girl Who Was Taken — Charlie Donlea
  • Some Choose Darkness — Charlie Donlea
  • The Night She Disappeared — Lisa Jewell
  • Then She Was Gone — Lisa Jewell
  • All the Missing Girls — Megan Miranda
  • A Flicker in the Dark — Stacy Willingham
  • All the Dangerous Things — Stacy Willingham
  • What Happened to Nina? — Dervla McTiernan
  • All Good People Here — Ashley Flowers
• Dark family secrets / deeply questionable people
  • The Best of Friends — Lucinda Berry
  • When She Returned — Lucinda Berry
  • Keep Your Friends Close — Lucinda Berry
  • The Good Sister — Sally Hepworth
  • The Soulmate — Sally Hepworth
  • Little Secrets — Jennifer Hillier
  • Things We Do in the Dark — Jennifer Hillier
  • Every Last Fear — Alex Finlay
  • The Night Shift — Alex Finlay
  • On a Quiet Street — Seraphina Nova Glass
• Pretty, strange, melancholy, slightly dead
  • Carmilla — J. Sheridan Le Fanu-
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
  • The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman — tiny!
  • The Bloody Chamber — Angela Carter
  • The Thirteenth Tale — Diane Setterfield
  • Belladonna — Adalyn Grace
  • Starling House — Alix E. Harrow
  • The Once and Future Witches — Alix E. Harrow
  • The Bear and the Nightingale — Katherine Arden
  • Slewfoot — Brom
• Fantasy for when Mourning Ink wanders into the woods
  • The Last Unicorn — Peter S. Beagle
  • The Ocean at the End of the Lane — Neil Gaiman
  • Piranesi — Susanna Clarke
  • A River Enchanted — Rebecca Ross
  • Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries — Heather Fawcett
  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches — Sangu Mandanna
  • Nettle & Bone — T. Kingfisher
  • Thornhedge — T. Kingfisher — very short
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call — T. Kingfisher
  • The Book of Lost Things — John Connolly
• read when the world feels too loud
  • Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt
  • The Last Unicorn — Peter S. Beagle
  • The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  • The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The House at Pooh Corner — A.A. Milne