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Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.
Gothic horror
[edit]- The Castle of Otranto, 1764 by Horace Walpole
- The History of the Caliph Vathek, 1786 by William Thomas Beckford
- Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams, 1794 by William Godwin[1]
- The Castle Spectre, 1797 by Matthew Gregory Lewis[2]
- Zastrozzi, 1810 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Tales of the Dead, 1813 translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1821 by Thomas de Quincey
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, 1824 by James Hogg
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831 by Victor Hugo
- Berenice, 1835 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Young Goodman Brown, 1835 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Minister's Black Veil, 1836 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Fall of the House of Usher, 1839 by Edgar Allen Poe
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 1839 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Phantom Ship, 1839 by Frederick Marryat
- The Masque of the Red Death, 1842 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Pit and the Pendulum, 1842 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Black Cat, 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Tell-Tale Heart, 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Quaker City; or, the Monks of Monk Hall, 1844 by George Lippard[3]
- Villette, 1850 by Charlotte Brontë
- The House of the Seven Gables, 1851 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Uncle Silas, 1864 by Sheridan Le Fanu
- Carmilla, 1872 by Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Horla, 1887 by Guy de Maupassant
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890 by Oscar Wilde
- The Death of Halpin Frayser, 1891 by Ambrose Bierce
- Death and the Woman, 1892 by Gertrude Atherton
- The Yellow Wall Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The King in Yellow, 1895 by Robert W. Chambers
- The Striding Place, 1896 by Gertrude Atherton
- Dracula, 1897 by Bram Stoker
- The Monkey's Paw, 1902 by W. W. Jacobs
- In the Dwellings of the Wilderness, 1904 by Charlotte Bryson Taylor
- The Bell in the Fog by Gertrude Atherton
- The Willows, 1907 by Algernon Blackwood
- The House on the Borderland, 1907 by William Hope Hodgson
- The Phantom of the Opera, 1910 by Gaston Leroux
- The Lair of the White Worm, 1911 by Bram Stoker
- The Call of Cthulhu, 1926 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Satire
[edit]- Nightmare Abbey, 1818 by Thomas Love Peacock
- The Ingoldsby Legends, 1840 by Thomas Ingoldsby
- Northanger Abbey, 1817 by Jane Austen
French Wikisource
[edit]- The Mummy's Foot (Le Pied de momie), 1863 by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier