Gothic fiction books

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This work is a blend of science‑fiction, horror, and Gothic fiction, introduced through a series of…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

T. Smollett

The work is a sprawling gothic‑tinged adventure that presents its narrative as a catalogue of episodes, each…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…

The Monk: A Romance

M. G. Lewis

The Monk is a Gothic romance that blends horror, religious intrigue, and a richly detailed Spanish setting.

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins’s opening places the reader in a bleak, windswept churchyard where a hidden narrator watches a…

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a work of science‑fiction and Gothic horror that frames its narrative as a…

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is a satirical novel that also dabbles in gothic romance, set against the backdrop of…

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus* is a work that straddles science‑fiction, horror,…

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto is the first full‑blown gothic novel, a horror tale that intertwines the anxieties of…

The Vampyre; a Tale

John William Polidori

Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale

Mitchell, I. (Isaac); Jackson, Daniel

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe

Dracula's Guest

Bram Stoker

Varney the vampyre; Or, the Feast of Blood

Prest, Thomas Peckett; Rymer, James Malcolm

Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale

Charles Brockden Brown

Vathek; An Arabian Tale

William Beckford

A Sicilian Romance

Ann Ward Radcliffe

Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie

The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story

Clara Reeve

The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker

Gaston de Blondeville, vol. 1 of 4: or the court of Henry III. keeping festival in Ardenne, a romance. St. Alban's abbey, a metrical tale; With Some Poetical Pieces

Ann Ward Radcliffe