The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.
Vathek (A Gothic Novel: the Original Translation by Reverend Samuel Henley)
William Beckford
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The Italian
Ann Radcliffe
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Ghosts from the Library : Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
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H. G. Wells : The Stolen Body
H. G. Wells
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Man Overboard!
Francis Marion Crawford
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The Vampyre
John Polidori
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B. J. Harrison Reads The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale
Mary Fortune
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Haunted House on Henry Street
Jeff Walker
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The Remaking
Clay McLeod Chapman
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The blood of the vampire
Florence Marryat
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The Wishing-Well
Edward Frederic Benson
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England's Haunted Places
Steven Plant
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