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📚 100 Gothic Novels (Chronological)

18th Century Origins

1. Horace Walpole – *The Castle of Otranto* (1764)
2. Clara Reeve – *The Old English Baron* (1777)
3. Ann Radcliffe – *A Sicilian Romance* (1790)
4. Ann Radcliffe – *The Romance of the Forest* (1791)
5. Ann Radcliffe – *The Mysteries of Udolpho* (1794)
6. Ann Radcliffe – *The Italian* (1797)
7. Matthew Lewis – *The Monk* (1796)
8. William Beckford – *Vathek* (1786)
9. Charles Maturin – *Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio* (1807)
10. Regina Maria Roche – *The Children of the Abbey* (1796)

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Early 19th Century (Romantic Gothic)

11. Mary Shelley – *Frankenstein* (1818)
12. John Polidori – *The Vampyre* (1819)
13. Percy Shelley – *Zastrozzi* (1810)
14. Percy Shelley – *St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian* (1811)
15. Charles Maturin – *Melmoth the Wanderer* (1820)
16. James Hogg – *The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner* (1824)
17. Thomas Love Peacock – *Nightmare Abbey* (1818)
18. Catherine Cuthbertson – *The Forest of Montalbano* (1810)
19. Jane Austen – *Northanger Abbey* (1818, published posthumously; satire of Gothic)
20. Sarah Wilkinson – *The Castle Spectre* (1801, novelized from play)

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Mid-19th Century (High Victorian Gothic)

21. Charlotte Brontë – *Jane Eyre* (1847)
22. Emily Brontë – *Wuthering Heights* (1847)
23. Sheridan Le Fanu – *Uncle Silas* (1864)
24. Sheridan Le Fanu – *Carmilla* (1872)
25. Elizabeth Gaskell – *Lois the Witch* (1859)
26. Edward Bulwer-Lytton – *Zanoni* (1842)
27. Edward Bulwer-Lytton – *A Strange Story* (1862)
28. Wilkie Collins – *The Woman in White* (1859)
29. Wilkie Collins – *The Haunted Hotel* (1878)
30. Charles Dickens – *Bleak House* (1853; Gothic elements)
31. Charles Dickens – *Great Expectations* (1861; Miss Havisham = Gothic icon)
32. George W. M. Reynolds – *Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf* (1846)
33. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – *The House by the Churchyard* (1863)
34. Amelia B. Edwards – *Barbara’s History* (1864)
35. Amelia B. Edwards – *The Phantom Coach* (1864, novella)

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Late 19th Century (Fin-de-Siècle Gothic)

36. Robert Louis Stevenson – *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde* (1886)
37. Oscar Wilde – *The Picture of Dorian Gray* (1890/91)
38. H. Rider Haggard – *She* (1887)
39. H. Rider Haggard – *King Solomon’s Mines* (1885; adventure Gothic)
40. Vernon Lee – *Hauntings* (1890)
41. Vernon Lee – *A Phantom Lover* (1886)
42. Bram Stoker – *Dracula* (1897)
43. Bram Stoker – *The Jewel of Seven Stars* (1903)
44. Bram Stoker – *The Lair of the White Worm* (1911)
45. Richard Marsh – *The Beetle* (1897)
46. Arthur Machen – *The Great God Pan* (1894)
47. Arthur Machen – *The Three Impostors* (1895)
48. George du Maurier – *Trilby* (1894)
49. Florence Marryat – *The Blood of the Vampire* (1897)
50. M. R. James – *Ghost Stories of an Antiquary* (1904)

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Early 20th Century Gothic

51. Algernon Blackwood – *The Willows* (1907, novella)
52. Algernon Blackwood – *The Centaur* (1911)
53. William Hope Hodgson – *The House on the Borderland* (1908)
54. William Hope Hodgson – *The Ghost Pirates* (1909)
55. William Hope Hodgson – *Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder* (1913)
56. Gaston Leroux – *The Phantom of the Opera* (1910)
57. Oliver Onions – *The Beckoning Fair One* (1911)
58. H. P. Lovecraft – *The Outsider and Others* (1939; Gothic-infused horror)
59. H. P. Lovecraft – *The Case of Charles Dexter Ward* (written 1927)
60. Marjorie Bowen – *Black Magic* (1909)

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Mid-20th Century Gothic

61. Daphne du Maurier – *Rebecca* (1938)
62. Daphne du Maurier – *Jamaica Inn* (1936)
63. Shirley Jackson – *The Haunting of Hill House* (1959)
64. Shirley Jackson – *We Have Always Lived in the Castle* (1962)
65. Truman Capote – *Other Voices, Other Rooms* (1948)
66. Patrick Hamilton – *Hangover Square* (1941; noir-Gothic)
67. William Faulkner – *Absalom, Absalom!* (1936; Southern Gothic)
68. William Faulkner – *Sanctuary* (1931)
69. Carson McCullers – *The Ballad of the Sad Café* (1951)
70. Flannery O’Connor – *Wise Blood* (1952)
71. Flannery O’Connor – *The Violent Bear It Away* (1960)
72. Tennessee Williams – *Suddenly Last Summer* (1958, Gothic drama)
73. Truman Capote – *In Cold Blood* (1966; Gothic nonfiction/hybrid)

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Late 20th Century to Contemporary Gothic

74. Anne Rice – *Interview with the Vampire* (1976)
75. Anne Rice – *The Vampire Lestat* (1985)
76. Anne Rice – *The Queen of the Damned* (1988)
77. Stephen King – *’Salem’s Lot* (1975)
78. Stephen King – *The Shining* (1977)
79. Stephen King – *It* (1986)
80. Peter Straub – *Ghost Story* (1979)
81. Joyce Carol Oates – *Bellefleur* (1980)
82. Joyce Carol Oates – *Mysteries of Winterthurn* (1984)
83. Toni Morrison – *Beloved* (1987)
84. Angela Carter – *The Bloody Chamber* (1979)
85. Angela Carter – *Nights at the Circus* (1984)
86. Susan Hill – *The Woman in Black* (1983)
87. Patrick McGrath – *Spider* (1990)
88. Patrick McGrath – *Asylum* (1996)
89. Poppy Z. Brite – *Lost Souls* (1992)
90. Caitlín R. Kiernan – *Silk* (1998)
91. Neil Gaiman – *Coraline* (2002; children’s Gothic)
92. Mark Z. Danielewski – *House of Leaves* (2000)
93. Sarah Waters – *Affinity* (1999)
94. Sarah Waters – *The Little Stranger* (2009)
95. Michelle Paver – *Dark Matter* (2010)
96. Michelle Paver – *Thin Air* (2016)
97. Paul Tremblay – *A Head Full of Ghosts* (2015)
98. Silvia Moreno-Garcia – *Mexican Gothic* (2020)
99. Andrew Michael Hurley – *The Loney* (2014)
100. Alex Michaelides – *The Silent Patient* (2019; psychological-Gothic hybrid)