A Long List of Gothic Novels

We're nearing the end of Witch Week and I wrote a post that went up today, Mexican Gothic and the Classic Gothic Novel. In it, I mentioned making a list of the more than 75 gothic novels and short stories I have read over the years. They may not all be pure gothic but at least contain significant gothic elements. Here, for your curiosity and edification, is that list.

Peter Ackroyd    The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Joan Aiken    The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Jane Austen    Northanger Abbey

John Boyne    This House is Haunted

Octavia Butler    Fledgling

Mary Elizabeth Braddon    Lady Audley's Secret

Charlotte Brontë    Jane Eyre, Villette

Emily Brontë    Wuthering Heights

Edgar Cantero    The Supernatural Enhancements

Laura Carlin    The Wicked Cometh

Angela Carter    The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Agatha Christie    And Then There Were None

Wilkie Collins    Armadale, The Haunted Hotel, The Moonstone, The Woman in White

Michael Cox    The Meaning of Night, The Glass of Time

Charles Dickens    A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Dickens' Ghost Stories, Great Expectations, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oliver Twist

Arthur Conan Doyle    The Hound of the Baskervilles

Daphne du Maurier    Don't Look Now, Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, Rebecca

Umberto Eco    The Name of the Rose

Alan Finn    Things Half in Shadow

Neil Gaiman    The Graveyard Book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Charlotte Perkins Gilman    The Yellow Wall-Paper

Elizabeth Hand    Wylding Hall

John Harwood    The Asylum, The Ghost Writer, The Seance

Nathaniel Hawthorne    Rappaccini's Daughter

Jane Healey    The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Susan Hill    The Woman in Black

Shirley Jackson    The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Henry James    The Turn of the Screw

MR James    Short Stories

Franz Kafka    Metamorphosis

Elizabeth Kostova    The Historian

WW Jacobs    The Monkey's Paw

Sheridan Le Fanu    In A Glass Darkly, Carmilla

Harper Lee    To Kill a Mockingbird

Gaston Leroux    The Phantom of the Opera

Gregory Maguire    Lost

Erin Morgenstern    The Night Circus

Kate Morton    The Clockmaker's Daughter, The Distant Hours, The House at Riverton

Arturo Perez-Reverte    The Club Dumas

Edgar Allan Poe    The Fall of the House of Usher and more

Ann Radcliffe    The Mysteries of Udolpho

Diane Setterfield    The Thirteenth Tale

Mary Shelley    Frankenstein

Robert Louis Stephenson    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Bram Stoker    Dracula

Horace Walpole    The Castle of Otranto

Sarah Waters    Affinity, Fingersmith, The Little Stranger

Oscar Wilde    The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cat Winters    The Uninvited

Carlos Ruiz Zafón    Labyrinth of the Spirits, Marina, The Angel's Game, The Midnight Palace, The Prince of Mist, The Prisoner of Heaven, The Shadow of the Wind, The Watcher in the Shadows

and now

Silvia Moreno-Garcia    Mexican Gothic