Gothic novels

Gothic novels.

In this section of we will give an account of the best Gothic novels in our library; from classical gothic to southern gothic, passing through dark romanticism and other associated subgenres.

Some of these novels have become true classics of Gothic literature; others, perhaps, were forgotten, but all, without a doubt, collaborated to forge the parameters of the gothic horror novel as we currently know it.

Absalom! Absalom! (Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner) Adelmorn, the outlaw (Adelmorn, the Outlaw, Matthew Lewis) Love in Excess; or The Fatal Inquiry, Eliza Haywood) Auriol or the elixir of life (Auriol or The Elixir of Life, William Harrison Ainsworth) Avatar (Avatar, Théophile Gautier) The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton, Daniel Defoe) A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) Carmen (Carmen, Prosper Mérimée) Persian letters (Lettres persanes, Montesquieu) Crotchet Castle (Crotchet Castle, Thomas Love Peacock) Rackrent Castle (Castle Rackrent, María Edgeworth) Celestina (Celestina, Charlotte Smith) Confessions of an opium eater (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincey) Tales of the Alhambra (Washington Irving) Wuthering Heights (Wuthering Heights; Emily Brontë) On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, Thomas de Quincey) Dracula (Dracula; Bram Stoker) Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker, Charles Brockden Brown) The Midnight Embrace (Sarah Wilkinson) The Water of the Wondrous Isles, William Morris) The Arab (The Sheik, Edith Maude Hull) The Phantom Ship (Frederick Marryat) The Night Forest (Nightwood, Djuna Barnes) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , HP Lovecraft) The Castle of Eppstein (Le château d’Eppstein, Alexandre Dumas) The Castle of Otranto (The Castle of Otranto; Horace Walpole) The Castle of Wolfenbach (The Castle of Wolfenbach; Eliza Parsons) The Pearl Necklace: Sweeney Todd (The String of Pearls, anonymous) The Beetle (Richard Marsh) The Water Specter (Sarah Wilkinson) The Castle Specter (Matthew Lewis) The Castle Specter , Sarah Wilkinson) The Specter, or the ruins of Belfont Priory (The Specter; or, the Ruins of Belfont Priory, Sarah Wilkinson) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr, Hyde, Robert Stevenson) The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra; Gastón Leroux ) The Child of Mystery (Sarah Wilkinson) The Sandman (Der sandmann; ETA Hoffmann) The Werewolf of Paris (Guy Endore) The Haunted Hotel (Wilkie Collins) The Orphan of the Rhine (The Orphan of the Rhine, Eleanor Sleath) The Italian (The Italian; Ann Radcliffe) The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune, Gastón Leroux) The Monk (The Monk, Matthew Lewis) The Monk and the hangman’s daughter (The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter, Ambrose Bierce) The Necromancer (Karl Friedrich Kahlert) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Romance of the Mummy the Mummy, Theophile Gautier) Romance of the Woods (Ann Radcliffe) Elsie Venner: a Romance of Destiny, Oliver Wendell Holmes) The Talisman (Walter Scott) Uncle Silas (Uncle Silas, Sheridan Le Fanu) The Triumph of the Night (Edith Wharton) The Avenger (Thomas de Quincey) The Vicar of Wakefield (Oliver Goldsmith) The Old Baron English (The Old English Baron, Clara Reeve) Fantomina (Fantomina, Eliza Haywood) Frankenstein (Frankenstein, Mary Shelley) Glenarvon (Glenarvon, Caroline Lamb) Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen) Nightmare Abbey ( Thomas Love Peacock) The Dark Chamber (Leonard Cline) The Secret Chamber (Margaret Oliphant) The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Age of Innocence (The Age Of The Innocence, Edith Wharton) The Room in the Dragon Volant (Sheridan Le Fanu) The Jewel of Seven Stars (Bram Stoker) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel) Hawthorne The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving The Werewolf Clemence Housman The Mysterious Mother Horace Walpole The Lair of the White Worm Bram Stoker) The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson) The Mysterious Warning (Eliza Parsons) Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather) The Woman in White (The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins) The bleeding doll (La poupée sanglante, Gaston Leroux) The Adventures of Caleb Williams (William Godwin) The Ingoldsby Legends (Richard Harris Barham) The Venus of Ille (La Vénus d’Ille, Prosper Merimée) Lesbia Brandon (Lesbia Brandon, Algernon Swinburne) Lilith (Lilith, a Romance, George MacDonald) Lord Ruthven, Or The Vampires, Charles Nodier) The castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne, Ann Radcliffe) The Children of the New Forest (Frederick Marryat) The Mysteries of Udolpho (Ann Radcliffe) The Children of the Abbey Abbey, Regina Maria Roche) Lucretia or the children of the night (Lucretia; or The Children of the Night, Edward Bulwer-Lytton) Madame de Treymes (Madame de Treymes, Edith Wharton) Malpertuis (Malpertuis, Jean Ray) Manfred (Manfred, Lord Byron) Manuscript found in Zaragoza (Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse, Jan Potocki) Melmoth, The Wanderer, Charles Maturin Memoirs of a Cavalier, Daniel Defoe Michael Kohlhaas, Heinrich Von Kleist Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter North and south (North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell) Our Lady of Paris (Notre Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo) Undine (Undine, Barón Fouqué) The Turn of the Screw (The Turn of the Screw, Henry James) Roxana (Roxana, Daniel Defoe ) Sanctuary (Sanctuary, William Faulkner) We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) St Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian (Percy Shelley) Valperga (Valperga, Mary Shelley) Varney, the Vampire, Thomas Preskett Prest) Vathek (The History of Caliph Vathek, William Beckford) Werther (Werther, Goethe) Wieland, or The Transformation, Charles Brockden Brown) Zanoni (Zanoni, Edward Bulwer Lytton) Zastrozzi: a Romance (Percy Shelley) Zeluco (Zeluco, John Moore) Zofloya or The Moor (Zofloya or The Moor, Charlotte Dacre)