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Books like The picture of Dorian Gray, and selected stories
A glittering, velvet-draped descent into the darkest corners of vanity and moral decay. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The picture of Dorian Gray, and selected stories.
- opulent
- gothic
- claustrophobic
- bittersweet
- 01
The Happy Prince and other tales
Oscar Wilde
A beautifully tragic collection of fairy tales that will break your heart and mend it with pure, lyrical grace.
- 02
A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde
An ornate and sophisticated collection of classic fairy tales that subverts traditional expectations.
- 03
The Oxford Sherlock Holmes (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes / His Last Hour / Hound of the Baskervilles / Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Return of Sherlock Holmes / Sign of Four / Study in Scarlet / Valley of Fear)
Arthur Conan Doyle · 1993
Step into a gaslit, fog-drenched London where every baffling crime is merely a puzzle waiting for the right mind to solve it.
- 04
À rebours
J.K. Huysmans · 1972
A plotless, suffocatingly lush descent into the ultimate aesthetic obsession and aristocratic decay.
- 05
Fifty-one tales
Lord Dunsany
A collection of fleeting, mythic dreams that feel like ancient secrets whispered in the dark.
- 06
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
A deeply internal, language-obsessed journey of shedding the suffocating weights of religion and nation to forge a new self.
- 07
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Monsieur Oscar Wilde
A sparkling, razor-sharp romp through high society where the only thing taken seriously is absolute triviality.
- 08
Daisy Miller
Henry James
A sun-drenched, gossipy stroll through European high society that slowly tightens into a tragic clash of innocence and rigid tradition.
- 09
"The yellow wallpaper" and other stories
Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 1995
A chilling, claustrophobic descent into the mind of a woman trapped by the very walls meant to heal her.
- 10
Short Stories (Cask of Amontillado / Gold-Bug / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words with a Mummy / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
A feverish descent into the darkest, most obsessive corners of the human psyche, wrapped in velvet-heavy prose.
- 11
Lord Peter
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1971
An elegant, puzzle-filled stroll through 1920s England, where sparkling aristocratic wit masks a razor-sharp intellect and a touch of post-war melancholy.
- 12
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories (Black Cat / Pit and the Pendulum / Premature Burial / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
A feverish, claustrophobic plunge into the darkest and most paranoid corners of the human psyche.
