Gothic Fiction (Bookshelf)
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Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of essentially Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel.
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.
—Excerpted from Gothic fiction on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Wikipedia: Horace Walpole: 4th Earl of Orford
- The Castle of Otranto
(English)
Beckford, William, 1759-1844
Wikipedia: William Thomas Beckford
- Vathek (English)
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (English)
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
- Caleb Williams (English)
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818
Wikipedia: Matthew Gregory Lewis
- The Monk; a romance (English)
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
Wikipedia: Charles Brockden Brown
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Frankenstein (English)
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- Northanger Abbey (English)
Peacock, Thomas Love, 1785-1866
Wikipedia: Thomas Love Peacock
- Nightmare Abbey (English)
Polidori, John William, 1795-1821
Wikipedia: John William Polidori
- The Vampyre; a Tale (English)
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 [Editor]
- The Lock and Key Library (English)
De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (English)
Hogg, James, 1770-1835
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Wikipedia: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 (English)
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- Wuthering Heights (English)
Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan, 1814-1873
Wikipedia: Joseph Sheridan le Fanu
- Carmilla (English)
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Wikipedia: Robert Louis Stevenson
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (English)
Maupassant, Guy de, 1850-1893
- Le Horla and Others (French)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
Wikipedia: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Yellow Wallpaper (English)
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912
- Dracula (English)
- Lair of the White Worm (English)
James, Henry, 1843-1916
- The Turn of the Screw (English)
Jacobs, W. W., 1863-1943
- The Monkey's Paw (English)
Leroux, Gaston, 1868-1927
- The Phantom of the Opera (English)
