Vintage gothic romance books

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of vintage gothic romance books. Explore our collection and indulge in the captivating tales of love, mystery, and suspense.
This cover holds connotations of both happiness and dark evil connotations due ti the elements used and illustrated. With the foreground of the women figure dressed in a purple garment holding warm tones, as the yellow title/heading illustrates warm happy tones, the background holds dark, dull and moody tones of hidden male figure watching upon the women figure, with a building within the background which illustrates a forbidden area, story of darkness. A very contrasting mixture of emotions. Gothic Romance Books, Gothic Novels, Gothic Literature, Romance Covers Art, Gothic Books, Horror Book Covers, Gothic Fiction, Dark Evil, Gothic Novel

A significant contribution to the runaway success of the paperback Gothic Romance boom of the late 60s and early 70s was the seductively sinister cover illustrations. Unlike the majority of today’s romance novel cover art, paranormal and otherwise, which tends to focus on a peacock alpha male with his shaved chest pumped and oiled to entice the reader to pick him up from the bookstore shelf or download him to her eReader, the Golden Era Gothic Romances emphasized the mystery aspects of the…

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The esteemed Jeffrey Catherine Jones painted this, one of my favorite-ever covers, of a delightfully ghoulish lass writhing upon a coffin attended to by fluttering batwings. I mean, I think it is just spectacular. My expectations weren't high for the actual novel, but even so they were dashed as I began to read, for The Vampire Women (Popular Library, 1973) is a dreary rip-off of the original opening chapters of Dracula, right down to its epistolary narrative. Victor Samuels—or should I say…

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