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Gothic literature can be traced back to 1764 with Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto. Throughout the years some of the most popular works in all of fiction have been part of the Gothic genre and that figures to remain the case in the foreseeable future. This collection includes the following:

NOVELS:

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

The Monk by M.G. Lewis

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, trans. by Isabel F. Hapgood

Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford

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

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons

Wagner the Werewolf by G.W.M. Reynolds

The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve

SHORT STORIES:

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

The Vampyre by John William Polidori