List of gothic fiction works
Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romanticism.
List of Books[]
A[]
- Joan Aiken's (1976)
- John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Barbauld's (1773)[1]
- Sophie Albrecht's (1797) and (1799)
- Louisa May Alcott's A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)
- Alexander Amfiteatrov's (1910)
- Leonid Andreyev's (1899) and (1913)
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin's (1895)
- Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle (1976)
- Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1818)
- Álvares de Azevedo's Noite na Taverna (1855)
B[]
- François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud's (1768)
- Yevgeny Baratynsky's (1832)
- Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart (1986)
- Eaton Stannard Barrett's The Heroine (1813)
- Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov's (1810)
- Charles Beaumont's The Vanishing American (1955)
- William Thomas Beckford's Vathek (1786)
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's (1861)
- Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit (1842)
- Alexander Bestuzhev's (1827), (1830), (1831) and (1831)
- Ambrose Bierce's The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891) and The Spook House
- 's The House on Black Lake (2010)
- Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (1907)
- Robert Bloch's (1942) and Psycho (1959)
- Petrus Borel's (1833)
- Marjorie Bowen's (1909)
- Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn (1951)
- Ivo Brešan's Cathedral (2007)[2]
- Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls (1992) and Exquisite Corpse (1996)
- Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1850)
- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland (1798), Ormond; or, the Secret Witness (1799), (1799) and Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799)
- Valery Bryusov's (1902) and The Fiery Angel (1908)
- Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov's (1922) and (1922)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton's (1841)
- Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin's Dry Valley (1912)
- Gottfried August Bürger's Lenore (1773)
- Frances Burney's The Wanderer (1814)
- 's (2011)
- Lord Byron's The Giaour (1813) and Fragment of a Novel (1819)
C[]
- Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948)
- Luigi Capuana's Spiritismo? (1884), "Il dottor Cymbalus" and "Un vampiro" and other stories (1867-1904)
- Abelardo Castillo's (1967)
- Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1974)
- 's The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey (1797)
- Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (1772)[3]
- Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow/Yellow Sign (1895)
- Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov's (1918), (1921) and (1923)
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's Ward No. 6 (1892) and The Black Monk (1894)
- Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov's (1921)
- Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life (1874)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798) and Christabel (1816)
- Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War (1974)
- Marie Corelli Barabbas, A Dream of the World's Tragedy (1893)
D[]
- Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya (1806)
- Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000)
- Grigory Danilevsky's (1879)
- Robertson Davies's The Deptford Trilogy (1970-1975)
- Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis's (1799)
- Horrid Mysteries) 's (1796) (also translated by in an abridged version as
- Walter de la Mare's (1910)
- Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine (1811)
- Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror (1869)
- Guy de Maupassant's The Horla (1887)
- Isabelle de Montolieu's (1788), (1790), (1796), (1797) and (1800)
- Gérard de Nerval's Les Filles du feu (1854) and (1855)
- Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
- Marquis de Sade's Justine (1791)
- August Derleth's The Lonesome Place (1948)
- Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838), A Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1854), Great Expectations (1861) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)
- Thomas M. Disch's The Priest: A Gothic Romance (1994)
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's The Double (1846), The Landlady (1847), Bobok (1873) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
- Arthur Conan Doyle's Lot No. 249 (1892)
- Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and My Cousin Rachel (1951)
- George du Maurier's Trilby (1894)
- François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil's (1799)
- Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova's (1839)
E[]
- Dorothy Eden's The Shadow Wife (1968)
- Hanns Heinz Ewers's The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1910), Alraune (1911), Vampyr (1921) and (1922)
F[]
- Ángel Faretta's (2009)
- Henry Farrell's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1960)
- J.G. Farrell's Troubles (1970)[4]
- William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- Paul Féval, père's Le Chevalier Ténèbre (1860), La Vampire (1865) and La Ville Vampire (1874)
- Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
- Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish (2001)
- Antonio Fogazzaro's Malombra (1881)
- Alberto Fortis's (1774)
G[]
- Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book (2008)
- Elena Gan's (1840)
- Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin's The Red Flower (1883)
- Elizabeth Gaskell's (1858), and Lois the Witch
- Theophile Gautier's The Mummy's Foot (1863)
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
- Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius's (1906)
- Milovan Glišić's (1880)
- Nikolay Gnedich¨s (1803)[5]
- William Godwin's The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) and (1799)
- Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's St. John's Eve, May Night, or the Drowned Maiden and A Terrible Vengeance from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831),[6] Viy from Mirgorod (1835), The Portrait from (1835) and The Nose (1835-6)
- Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider (1842)
- Barbara Gowdy's Mister Sandman (1995)
- Julien Gracq's The Castle of Argol (1938)
- Nikolay Ivanovich Gretsch's (1834)
- Alexander Grin's (1924) and (1925)
- 's Horrid Mysteries (1796)
- Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter (1953)
- Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi's (1854)
H[]
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835), The Minister's Black Veil (1836), (1838) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Rappacini's Daughter (1844)
- Susan Hill's The Woman in Black (1983)
- E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixir (1815), (1817)[7] and (1819)
- James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
- William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland (1907)
- Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn (1960) and Kirkland Revels (1962)
- Robert E. Howard's Pigeons from Hell (1934)
- Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831)
- Evan Hunter's Last Summer (1968)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans's Là-bas (1891)
I[]
- Thomas Ingoldsby's The Ingoldsby Legends (1840)
- Washington Irving's The Adventure of the German Student (1824) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1821)
- Junji Ito's Uzumaki (2002)
- 's (1909)[8]
- Alexei Ivanov's (2011)
- Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov's (released in 1968)
J[]
- Shirley Jackson's The Lottery (1951), A Visit (1952), The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
- W.W. Jacobs's The Monkey's Paw (1902)
- Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) and The Real Right Thing (1899)
- M. R. James's Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919) and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (1925)
- Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten (1995)
- Rikard Jorgovanić's (1876), (1878) and (1878)
K[]
- 's The Necromancer (1794)
- Nikolay Karamzin's Poor Liza (1792) and (1793)
- Uladzimir Karatkievich's (1964)
- Pavel Katenin's Olga (1816)
- John Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) and Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1820)
- Raymond Kennedy's (1988)
- Caitlin Kiernan's Silk (1998)
- Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (1975) and The Shining (1977)
- Stephen King and Ridley Pearson's The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2002)
- Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky's (1834)
- T.E.D. Klein's (1972)
- 's (1907) and (1910)[9]
- Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko's (1889)
- Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky's (released in 1991)
- Aleksandr Kuprin's (1901)
- The Dead House And the Trees Crept In (2016) and Teeth in the Mist (2019)
L[]
- Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon (1816)
- Francis Lathom's (1795) and The Midnight Bell (1798)
- Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas (1864), In a Glass Darkly (1872), and Carmilla (1871)
- Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
- Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island (2003)
- Fritz Leiber's (1949)
- Julia Leigh's The Hunter (1999)
- Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's Vadim (1832), Demon (1838) and "Bela" and "Tamanj" in A Hero of Our Time (1840)[10][11] and (1845)
- Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1910)
- Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov's (1880)
- Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby (1967) and The Stepford Wives (1972)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797)
- Thomas Ligotti's (1987)
- George Lippard's The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845)
- Frank Belknap Long's So Dark a Heritage (1966)
- Jane Loudon's The Mummy! (1827)
- H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider (1921), The Rats in the Walls (1923), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky's (1923)
M[]
- Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan (1890)
- Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet's (1876)
- Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
- Frederick Marryat's The Phantom Ship (1839)
- Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mystery (1897)
- Richard Matheson's Long Distance Call (1953), I am Legend (1954) and A Stir of Echoes (1958)
- Antun Gustav Matoš's (1898), (1899) and (1900)
- Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
- Michael McDowell's (1981)
- Patrick McGrath's The Grotesque (1989)
- John Meaney's Bone Song (2007)
- Wilhelm Meinhold's The Amber Witch (1838) and Sidonia von Bork (1847)
- Prosper Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille (1837) and Lokis (1869)
- Barbara Michaels's Ammie Come Home (1968)
- John Moore's Zeluco (1789)
- Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987)
- Manuel Mujica Lainez's Bomarzo (1962)
- Alice Munro's Selected Stories (1996)
N[]
- Vasily Narezhny's (1801)
- Momčilo Nastasijević's
- Benedikte Naubert's (1788)
- Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko's (1911)
- Vítězslav Nezval's Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1945)
O[]
- Peter O'Donnell's Moonraker's Bride (1973)
- Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur (1980), (1980), (1982), (1983) and My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
- Fitz-James O'Brien's (1859)
- Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (1952), The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
- Vladimir Odoevsky's (1837), (1838), (1839), (1840), (1840), Russian Nights (1844) and The Living Corpse (1844)
- Margaret Oliphant's (1880)
- 's (1838-9)[12][13]
- Lauren Owen's The Quick (2014)
P[]
- 's The Mystery of the Black Tower (1796)
- Gilbert Parker's The Lane that Had No Turning, and Other Tales Concerning the People of Pontiac (1900)
- Eliza Parsons's The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) and The Mysterious Warning (1796)
- Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey (1818)
- Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy (1946-1955)
- Pyotr Pletnyov's The Gravedigger (1820)
- Edgar Allan Poe's Berenice (1835), Ligeia (1838), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1839), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Oval Portrait (1842), The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Black Cat (1843) and The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
- Antony Pogorelsky's (1825) and (1830-31)
- Nikolai Polevoy's (1829) and (1833)
- John William Polidori's The Vampyre (1819)
- Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805)
- W.H. Pugmire's (1997)
- Alexander Pushkin's The Bridegroom (1827), (1831) and The Queen of Spades (1834)[14]
R[]
- Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and The Italian (1797)
- Jean Ray's Malpertuis (1943)
- Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (1778)
- Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov's The Sacrifice (1909) and (1910)
- Władysław Stanisław Reymont's The Vampire (1911)
- G.W.M. Reynolds's Faust (1846), (1847) and (1857)
- Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976)
- Regina Maria Roche's Clermont (1798) and The Children of the Abbey (1800)
- W. E. D. Ross' Dark Shadows by Marilyn Ross (1966-1972)
- Yevdokia Petrovna Rostopchina's Poedinok (1838)
- James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampire (1847)
- Ryukishi07's Umineko: When They Cry (2007 - 2010)
S[]
- Ernesto Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs (1961)
- Evgeny Salias De Tournemire's [12]
- Friedrich Schiller's The Ghost-Seer (1787-9)
- Marcus Sedgwick's "My Swordhand is Singing" (2006)
- Osip Senkovsky's (1833)
- Anya Seton's Dragonwyck (1945)
- Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale (2006)
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Zastrozzi (1810) and St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian (1811)
- Anne Rivers Siddons' The House Next Door (1976)
- Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine (1798)
- Clark Ashton Smith's (1932)
- Orest Somov's (1829), (1829) and (1833)
- Christian Heinrich Spiess's (1793), (1792), (1794) and (1798);
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Mary Stewart's Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
- Robert Lawrence Stine's Goosebumps (1992)
- Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)
- Theodor Storm's The Rider on the White Horse (1888)
- Oleksa Storozhenko's (1861)[3]
- Peter Straub's Julia (1975)
T[]
- Rabindranath Tagore's The Lost Jewels
- Donna Tartt's The Secret History (1992) and The Little Friend (2002)
- G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer (2004)
- Ludwig Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert (1797) and (1804)
- Vladimir Pavlovich Titov and Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's (1828)
- Yana Toboso's Kuroshitsuji (2006)
- Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's The Family of the Vourdalak (1839) and The Vampire (Upyr') (1841)[15]
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's (1921)
- Zacharias Topelius's Linnaisten kartanon viheriä kamari (1859)
- Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's Faust (1856), (1864), (1881) and (1883)[15]
U[]
- Miloš Urban's The Seven Churches (1999)[16] and Lord Mord (2008)
V[]
- Alexander Fomich Veltman's (1837) and (1838)
- Giovanni Verga's Le storie del castello di Trezza (1877)
- Ludwig Achim von Arnim's Die Majoratsherren (1819)
- Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814)
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff¨s The Marble Statue (1819)
- Heinrich von Kleist¨s (1810)[17] and (1811)
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch¨s (1886)
- Christian August Vulpius's (1797)
W[]
- Karl Edward Wagner's Endless Night (1987)
- Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)
- Hugh Walpole's Portrait of a Man with Red Hair (1925) and The Killer and the Slain (1942)
- Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger (2009)
- Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green (1941)
- Edith Wharton's Afterward (1910)
- Walt Whitman's Franklin Evans (1842)
- Phyllis A. Whitney's Lost Island (1970)
- Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Salome (1894)
- F. Paul Wilson's The Keep (1981)
Z[]
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind (2001)
- Marija Jurić Zagorka's (1912-1914)[18] and (1928-9)
- Mikhail Zagoskin's Unexpected Guests (1834)
- Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin's (1921)
- Andrei Yefimovich Zarin's Black Lady (1895) and (1904)
- Maria Semyonovna Zhukova's (1845)
- Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky's (1808) and (1813)
- Michelle Zink's (2009)[19]
- Heinrich Zschokke's (1793)
Anonymous[]
- (1794)
- (1804)[20]
References[]
- ^ Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840, Rictor Norton, page 7
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
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- ^ Smith, Andrew and Hughes, William. "Empire and the Gothic: the politics of genre", p. 175.
- ^ The Gothic-fantastic in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Neil Cornwell, page 59
- ^ http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/gogol.html
- ^ The Gothic-fantastic in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Neil Cornwell, page 12
- ^ http://az.lib.ru/i/iwanow_a_p/
- ^ Иван Панкеев (editor). Готическая проза Серебряного века (2009)
- ^ http://www.bibliographing.com/2010/03/08/a-hero-of-our-time-by-mikhail-lermontov/
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- ^ Наталия Будур (editor): Русская готическая проза (1999)
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