Many of these classic books and short stories have inspired the best gothic horror movies and TV shows, too, although the original literature will forever be stand-outs. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein ...

If the words “classic literature” make you run a mile ... From the Shirley Jackson’s 175-page gothic mystery We Have Always ...

The novel introduces the Byronic hero to Gothic. He is the attractive, dangerous outsider, whose struggles with melancholy will feature in numerous classics of the genre. On publication The ...

There’s nothing quite like curling up with a gothic novel to welcome in the colder ... to read this while welcoming in the start of a classic British winter. A book that many readers cite ...

These are the classic books that probe the psyche with chilling insight—long before psychological thrillers had a name, they ...

Cherry Mosteshar, author and founder of The Oxford Editors, adds Dune to 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Shelley’s classic Gothic novel charts the story of Victor Frankenstein ...

Gothic novels often involve horror, haunted houses, and vampires. But the word ‘Gothic’ was first associated with an architectural style that began with churches in France in the 12 th Century CE.