Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
1847
Books with the “Byronic Hero” trope
A brooding, cynical, and magnetic rebel haunted by a dark secret from his past.
Characters and archetypes · Byronic Hero
Books with this trope
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
1847
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
1938
Seduce Me at Sunrise
Lisa Kleypas
2008
The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapkowski
1993
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
2005
Dark Lover
J. R. Ward
2005
Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
2009
The Vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
1985
Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
1820
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
1851
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Jules Verne
1870
Darkfever
Karen Marie Moning
2006
Elric of Melniboné
Michael Moorcock
1972
Lord of Scoundrels
Loretta Chase
1995
The Highwayman
Kerrigan Byrne
2015
Venetia
Georgette Heyer
1958
The Sea-Wolf
Jack London
1904
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
1840
The Last Werewolf
Glen Duncan
2011
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Morally Grey Character
Slow Burn
Forbidden Love
GothicRelated tropes
Unreliable Narrator
The person telling the story hides the truth, is biased, or cannot be trusted about what is really happening.
Morally Grey Character
A character who is not a villain but will cross ethical lines to reach their goal.
Mad Scientist
A scientist whose obsession with knowledge makes them break nature's or humanity's rules.
Sympathetic Monster
A creature rejected by the world that longs for acceptance and warmth but is doomed to rage.