Key Gothic books with dates and authors
Castle of Otranto
Walpole 1764
Vathek
Beckford 1786
The Italian
Radcliffe 1797
The Monk
Lewis 1796
Zofloya
Dacre 1806
The Sandman
Hoffmann 1816
Frankenstein
Shelley 1818
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Hogg 1824
The Fall of the House of Usher
Poe 1839
The Tell Tale Heart
Poe 1843
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte 1847
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë 1847
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austin 1817
Great Expectations
Dickens 1860
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stevenson 1886
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde 1890
Dracula
Stoker 1897
Metamorphosis
Kafka 1915
The Tomb/The Outsider
Lovecraft 1917
A Rose for Emily
Falkner 1930
Rebecca
du Maurier 1938
Titus Groan
Peake 1950
High Rise
Ballard 1975
The Shining
King 1977
The Werewolf
Carter 1979
Blood Meridian
McCarthy 1985
American Psycho
Easton Ellis 1991