“Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Du Maurier’s masterpiece follows an unnamed, insecure heroine who marries a scarred hero and moves into his magnificent, creepy Cornwall estate, haunted by the memory of his dead wife. It is the gothic romance to start with.

Charlotte Brontë’s orphan governess and her brooding employer, Mr. Rochester, with secrets hidden inside Thornfield Hall. Thandiwe Newton’s reading is one of the best-rated classics on Audible, with 4.8 stars from about 22,000 ratings.

Emily Brontë’s wild, stormy story of Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors, read by Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey. It rates 4.4 stars from about 8,700 ratings on Audible.

An American gothic set in the Hudson River Valley in 1844. Eighteen-year-old Miranda Wells, bored with farm life, accepts an invitation from a mysterious distant relative to his luxurious estate, but terrible secrets are in store. It is entertaining and atmospheric, without graphic or sexy scenes.

Victoria Holt wrote countless bestselling gothic romances in the 1970s, and her wordiness makes for a rich audiobook. A teenage English schoolgirl lost in the misty Black Forest is rescued by a handsome man on horseback, and dream and reality begin to blur. It rates 4.5 stars from about 460 ratings on Audible.

Noemí travels to a remote mansion in the Mexican countryside after an alarming letter from her newlywed cousin. It is atmospheric and eerie, and it leans more toward horror than romance. It rates 4.1 stars from about 12,400 ratings on Audible.

A thoroughly modern, steamy gothic romance. College student and budding paranormal investigator Rae is fated to meet a security guard named Leon, a known assassin in the demon realm who refuses to kill her. It rates 4.5 stars from about 3,600 ratings on Audible.

Alva Webster escapes an abusive marriage and returns to New York to restore a rundown Gilded Age mansion, but its ghosts don’t want to leave. Enter Samuel Moore, a brilliant professor sure he can end the hauntings. It is as delightful as it is dark, with period dialogue and steamy attraction.

Inspired by Jane Eyre, with a bold serial killer for a heroine. Jane takes a governess job at her childhood home, now owned by Mr. Thornfield, and falls for him while hiding her murderous past. It rates 4.4 stars from about 900 ratings on Audible.

Book 5 in the Carsington Brothers series, and it works as a standalone. A Regency debutante drags an earl into a scandalous scheme at a gloomy Scottish castle with ghosts and murderers, but their unruly passion is the bigger danger. It rates 4.6 stars from about 700 ratings on Audible.