50 Classic Gothic Works You Should Read

by Unknown (Editor)

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
Caleb Williams - William Godwin
Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock and Key Version) - Charles Robert Maturin
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
St. John's Eve - Nikolai Gogol
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin
Berenice - Edgar Allan Poe
Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Nose - Nikolai Gogol
The Minister's Black Veil - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Ligeia - E. A. Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher - E. A. Poe
The Masque of the Red Death - E. A. Poe
The Oval Portrait - E. A. Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum - E. A. Poe
The Black Cat - E. A. Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart - E. A. Poe
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Double - Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Damned (Là-bas) - Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Trilby - George du Maurier
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Real Thing - Henry James
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker
The Outsider - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Genres: Horror, Gothic, Classics, Fiction, Ebooks, Short Stories, Anthologies

11768 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 20, 2017

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Reviews

[Rebel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic

I have always loved Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray. This is the first time I'v read The Black Cat and I wasn't disappointed.

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fabulous collection of old horror stories!

You can't go wrong with these collection stories! I have wanted to read so many of these stories but didn't want to purchase them separately since many of them are short stories! I can't get enough of the old victorian horror stories!

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read all 50. But I've read many and most of them are good reads. A few duds but this collection is well worth the small price.

[Dan Brand · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's cheap, and all the major classics are here. Of course, some are overrated. Others haven't aged well. Still, great value for fans of old-timey horror.

[Tristan]

Of the many works collected here, I have previously read:
* Frankenstein
* The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (in French)