Books like The Historian
If you liked The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Mexican Gothic
Because shares tags: horror, gothic, historical fiction.
In 1950 Mexico, glamorous Noemi Taboada leaves Mexico City for High Place after a desperate letter, to rescue cousin Catalina from the…
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Because shares tags: gothic, horror, mystery.
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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'Salem's Lot
Because shares tags: horror, vampires, gothic.
A writer returns to Jerusalem's Lot as an old house fills with vampires.
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The Shadow of the Wind
Because shares tags: mystery, historical fiction, gothic.
In postwar Barcelona, Daniel finds a cursed novel and hunts its vanished author while a burned man watches.
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Interview with the Vampire
Because shares tags: horror, vampires, gothic.
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Because shares tags: gothic, mystery, horror.
Jacob Portman finds his grandfather dead in the woods, follows a cryptic letter to a ruined orphanage in Wales, and meets children living…
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Dracula
Because shares tags: horror, gothic, vampires.
Count Dracula sails for England in letters and diaries, and Van Helsing leads the hunt to stop him.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Turn of the Key
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
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The Thirteenth Tale
Because shares tags: mystery, gothic.
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
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The Rose Code
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Because shares tags: horror, gothic.
Eleanor joins a ghost study at Hill House, bonds fast with Theodora, and feels the house single her out by name.
