Reading list · 12 titles
Gothic & Horror
Castles, creatures and things that knock at midnight.
From the first Gothic novel to the vampire that defined the genre, these books built the vocabulary of horror. Read them in order and you can watch the tradition evolve from Walpole's haunted castle through Radcliffe, Shelley and Poe to Stoker, Le Fanu and Henry James, whose ghosts are never quite proven to exist.
Public DomainEbookThe Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole
Public DomainFeaturedEbookFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
Public DomainFeaturedEbookDracula
Bram Stoker
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Public DomainEbookCarmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Turn of the Screw
Henry James
Public DomainEbookThe Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe
Public DomainEbookThe Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Ward Radcliffe
Public DomainEbookSimon Dale
Anthony Hope
Public DomainEbookThe King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
Public DomainEbookThe Monk: A Romance
M. G. Lewis
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