List of gothic fiction works

A

John Aikin's Sir Bertrand, a Fragment (1773)

Louisa May Alcott's A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

Alexander Amfiteatrov's Kymeriyskaya Bolezn (1910)

Leonid Andreyev's The Grand Slam (1899) and On (Rasskaz neizvestnogo) (1913)

Aleksey Nikolayevich Apukhtin's Between Life and Death (1895)

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (1818)

Álvares de Azevedo's Noite na Taverna (1855)

B

Yevgeny Baratynsky's The Ring (1832)

Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov's Apparition (1810)

Charles Beaumont's The Vanishing American (1955)

William Thomas Beckford's Vathek (1786)

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer's El Monte de las Ánimas (1861)

Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit (1842)

Alexander Bestuzhev's Eisen Castle (1827), An Evening at a Caucasian Spa in 1824 (1830), The Cuirassier (1831) and The Terrible Fortune-Telling (1831)

Ambrose Bierce's The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891) and The Spook House

Anastasia Blackwell's The House on Black Lake (2010)

Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (1907)

Robert Bloch's Black Bargain (1942) and Psycho (1959)

Petrus Borel's Champavert, contes immoraux (1833)

Ray Bradbury's The Fog Horn (1951)

Ivo Brešan's Cathedral (2007)

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) and Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 (1799)

Valery Bryusov's In the Mirror (1902) and The Fiery Angel (1908)

Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov's The Red Crown (1922) and A Séance (1922)

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin's Dry Valley (1912)

Gottfried August Bürger's Lenore (1773)

William Butler's The House of Balestrom (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)

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1974)

Mrs Carver's The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey (1797)

Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love (1772)

Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow/Yellow Sign (1895)

Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov's The Tale of the Hairdresser's Mannequin (1918), Venediktov (1921) and The Venetian Mirror (1923)

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's Ward No. 6 (1892) and The Black Monk (1894)

Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov's Golos iz mogily (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)

D

Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya (1806)

Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000)

Grigory Danilevsky's Mertvec-ubiytsa (1879)

Marquis de Grosse's Horrid Mysteries (1796)

Walter de la Mare's The Return (1910)

Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror (1869)

Guy de Maupassant's The Horla (1887)

Isabelle de Montolieu's Melissa and Marcia: or, the Sisters (1788), Louisa: or, the Reward of an Affectionate Daughter (1790), The History of Ned Evans (1796), The Church of Saint Siffrid (1797) and The Mourtray Family (1800)

Gérard de Nerval's Les Filles du feu (1854) and Aurélia ou le Rêve et la Vie (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), Bleak House (1854), Great Expectations (1861) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870)

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky's The Double (1846), The Landlady (1847), Bobok (1873) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880)

Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (1936), Rebecca (1938) and Don't Look Now (1970)

George du Maurier's Trilby (1894)

François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil's Coelina, or The Child Of Mystery (1799)

Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova's The Pavilion (1839)

E

Hanns Heinz Ewers's The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1910), Alraune (1911), Vampyr (1921) and Der Geisterseher (Ewers novel) (1922)

F

Henry Farrell's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1960)

J.G. Farrell's Troubles (1970)

Richard Flanagan's Gould's Book of Fish (2001)

Antonio Fogazzaro's Malombra (1881)

Alberto Fortis's Travels into Dalmatia (1774)

G

Elena Gan's Society's Judgement (1840)

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin's The Red Flower (1883)

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Doom of the Griffiths (1858), The Grey Woman and Lois the Witch

Theophile Gautier's The Mummy's Foot (1863)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius's Vymysel (Vecherniy rassskaz) (1906)

Milovan Glišić's After Ninety Years (1880)

Nikolay Gnedich¨s Don Corrado de Gerrera (1803)

William Godwin's The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) and St. Leon: A Tale of the 16th Century (1799)

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol's St. John's Eve and A Terrible Vengeance from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831), Viy from Mirgorod (1835), The Portrait from Arabesques (1835) and The Nose (1835-6)

Nikolay Ivanovich Gretsch's Black Woman (1834)

Alexander Grin's Krysolov (1924) and The Grey Motor Car (1925)

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi's Beatrice Cenci (1854)

H

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835), The Minister's Black Veil (1836), Edward Randolph's Portrait (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), The Entail (1817) and Gambler's Luck (1819)

James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)

William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland (1907)

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)

Alexander Pavlovich Ivanov's Stereoskop (1909)

Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov's Agasfer (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)

Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten (1995)

Rikard Jorgovanić's Love upon the Catafalque (1876), Dada (1878) and A Wife and a Lover (1878)

K

Carl Friedrich Kahlert's The Necromancer (1794)

Nikolay Karamzin's Poor Liza (1792) and Island of Bornholm (1793)

Uladzimir Karatkievich's Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1964)

John Keats's La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) and Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1820)

Raymond Kennedy's Lulu Incognito (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 Opal (1834)

T.E.D. Klein's The Events at Poroth Farm (1972)

Alexander Alexeyevich Kondratyev's Satiressa (1907) and Na nevedomom ostrove (1910)

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko's Judgement Day (Yom Kippur) (1889)

Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky's The Phantom (released in 1991)

Aleksandr Kuprin's Silver Volf (1901)

L

Lady Caroline Lamb's Glenarvon (1816)

Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell (1798)

Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas (1864) and In a Glass Darkly (1872)

Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island (2003)

Fritz Leiber's The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949)

Julia Leigh's The Hunter (1999)

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov's Vadim (1832), "Bela" and "Tamanj" in A Hero of Our Time (1840) and Stuss (1845)

Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera (1910)

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov's The White Eagle (A Ghost Story) (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 Vastarien (1987)

George Lippard's The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845)

H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider (1921), The Rats in the Walls (1923), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky's The Bear Wedding (1923)

M

Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet's Zaklyatiy kazak (1876)

Frederick Marryat's The Phantom Ship (1839)

Richard Marsh's The Beetle: A Mistery (1897)

Richard Matheson's Long Distance Call (1953), I am Legend (1954) and A Stir of Echoes (1958)

Antun Gustav Matoš's U čudnim gostima (1898), Miš (1899) and Camao (1900)

Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)

Michael McDowell's The Elementals (1981)

Patrick McGrath's The Grotesque (1989)

Prosper Mérimée's La Vénus d'Ille (1837) and Lokis (1869)

John Moore's Zeluco (1789)

Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987)

N

Vasily Narezhny's Mertviy Zamok (1801)

Momčilo Nastasijević's Rodoslov loze vampira

Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko's Zasypanniy kolodec (1911)

Vítězslav Nezval's Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1945)

O

Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur (1980), Night-Side (1980), A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982), Mysteries of Winterthurn (1983) and My Heart Laid Bare (1998)

Fitz-James O'Brien's What Was It? (1859)

Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood (1952), The Violent Bear It Away (1960)

Vladimir Odoevsky's The Sylph (1837), The Ghost (1838), The City Without a Name (1839), 4338 A.D. (1840), The Cosmorama (1840), Russian Nights (1844) and The Living Corpse (1844)

Margaret Oliphant's A Beleaguered City (1880)

Valeryan Nikolayevich Olin's Rasskazy na stanciy (1838-9)

Lauren Owen's The Quick (2014)

P

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)

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 The Lafertovo Poppy-Cake Seller (1825) and Monastyrka (1830-31)

Nikolai Polevoy's The Voices from the Other World (1829) and The Bliss of Madness (1833)

John William Polidori's The Vampyre (1819)

Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1805)

W.H. Pugmire's Tales of Sesqua Valles (1997)

Alexander Pushkin's The Undertaker (1831) and The Queen of Spades (1834)

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 Sisters of the Cross (1910)

Władysław Stanisław Reymont's The Vampire (1911)

G.W.M. Reynolds's Faust (1846), Wagner the Wehr-wolf (1847) and The Necromancer (1857)

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire (1976)

Regina Maria Roche's Clermont (1798) and The Children of the Abbey (1800)

Yevdokia Petrovna Rostopchina's Poedinok (1838)

James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampire (1847)

Ryukishi07's Umineko: When They Cry (2007 - 2010)

S

Yevgeni Andréyevich Salias de Tournemir's On zhe

Friedrich Schiller's The Ghost-Seer (1787-9)

Osip Senkovsky's Antar (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 The Vaults of Yoh-Vombis (1932)

Orest Somov's Tales of Buried Treasure (1829), The Werewolf (1829) and Kiev Witches (1833)

Christian Heinrich Spiess's Das Petermännchen (1793)

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Robert Lawrence Stine's Goosebumps (1992)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Oleksa Storozhenko's The Devil in Love (1861)

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)

Vladimir Pavlovich Titov and Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's The Remote House on Vasilyevsky Street (1828)

Yana Toboso's Kuroshitsuji (2006)

Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's The Family of the Vourdalak (1839) and The Vampire (Upyr') (1841)

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's Graf Kaliostro (1921)

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev's Faust (1856), Phantoms (1864), The Song of Triumphant Love (1881) and Clara Milich (1883)

U

Miloš Urban's The Seven Churches (1999) and Lord Mord (2008)

V

Alexander Fomich Veltman's Yolanda (1837) and Heart and Thought (1838)

Giovanni Verga's Le storie del castello di Trezza (1877)

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff¨s The Marble Statue (1819)

Heinrich von Kleist¨s The Beggarwoman of Locrano (1810) and The Foundling (1811)

W

Karl Edward Wagner's Endless Night (1987)

Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764)

Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger (2009)

Edith Wharton's Afterward (1910)

Walt Whitman's Franklin Evans (1842)

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 The Witch of Grič (1912-1914) and The Flaming Inquisitors (1928-9)

Mikhail Zagoskin's Unexpected Guests (1834)

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin's The Fisher of Men (1921)

Andrei Yefimovich Zarin's Black Lady (1895) and Satan's Gift (1904)

Maria Semyonovna Zhukova's A Summer Place on the Peterhof Road (1845)

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky's Ludmila (1808) and Svetlana (1813)

Michelle Zink's The Prophecy of the Sisters (2009)

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The Nightwatches of Bonaventura (1804)