Books like Garden of Shadows
Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews reads as dark, melodramatic. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Scattered Leaves
V. C. Andrews · 2007
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83% genome match
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole · 1764
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69% genome match
Le fantôme de l'opéra
Gaston Leroux · 1911
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69% genome match
De hof der verschrikking
Bram Stoker · 1911
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69% genome match
Uncle Silas
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1864
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69% genome match
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice · 1976
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69% genome match
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818
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69% genome match
The Haunted Hotel
Wilkie Collins · 1878
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69% genome match
The Shivering Sands
Eleanor Burford · 1750
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69% genome match
The Mystery of the Gulls
Phyllis A. Whitney · 1949
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69% genome match
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe · 1794
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69% genome match
The Vampyre
John William Polidori · 1819
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69% genome match
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