Gothic novel

The gothic novel is an English literary genre, which can be said to have been born with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. It is the predecessor to modern horror fiction and it above all has led to the common definition of gothic as being connected to the dark and horrific.

Examples

• The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Vampyre; a Tale (1819) by John William Polidori (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin (Full text at HorrorMasters.com)
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Mummy's Foot (1863) by Théophile Gautier (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Horla (1887) by Guy de Maupassant (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
• The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Monkey's Paw (1902 by W.W. Jacobs (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Lair of the White Worm (1911) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
• Gormenghast (1946 - 1959) by Mervyn Peake

Gothic satire

• Northanger Abbey (1818) by Jane Austen (Full text at Wikisource)
• Nightmare Abbey (1818) by Thomas Love Peacock (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
• The Ingoldsby Legends (1840) by Thomas Ingoldsby (Full text at The Ex-Classics Website)