Horror & Gothic
Ghosts, monsters, haunted houses and dread, from the first Gothic novels onwards.
New books in this genre
Landmark works
- 1818 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
- 1847 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- 1895 The Island of Dr Moreau by H. G. Wells
- 1938 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- 2002 Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- 1764 The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole · read free
- 1887 She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard · read free
- 1902 The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs
- 1870 The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
- 2008 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- 1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe · read free
- The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren O'Shaughnessy
- 1796 The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis · read free
- 1995 The Prestige by Christopher Priest
- 1786 Vathek by William Beckford · read free
- 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
- 1987 Hellblazer by Alan Moore
- 2009 The City & the City by China Miéville
- 1798 Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft · read free
- 1936 Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
- 2000 Cirque du Freak by Darren O'Shaughnessy
- 2002 The Scar by China Miéville
- 2000 Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
- 2000 Tunnels of Blood by Darren O'Shaughnessy
- 1797 The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
- 1908 The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson · read free
- 1979 The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
- 1777 The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve · read free
- 1790 A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe · read free
- 1791 The Romance of the Forest by Ann Radcliffe
Writers
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Charles Dickens1812–1870 · English novelist and social critic (1812–1870) -
H. G. Wells1866–1946 · English writer (1866–1946) -
Mary Shelley1797–1851 · English writer (1797–1851) -
Emily Brontë1818–1848 · English novelist and poet (1818–1848) -
George Eliot1819–1880 · English novelist, essayist, poet and journalist (1819–1880) -
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797 · English writer and intellectual (1759–1797) -
Neil Gaiman1960 · English writer (born 1960) - Daphne du Maurier1907–1989 · British writer (1907–1989)
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Alan Moore1953 · British comic book author (born 1953) -
Wilkie Collins1824–1889 · British writer (1824-1889) -
Elizabeth Gaskell1810–1865 · British author (1810-1865) -
Horace Walpole1717–1797 · English writer and politician (1717–1797) -
H. Rider Haggard1856–1925 · English adventure novelist (1856–1925) -
Clive Barker1952 · English author, film director, and visual artist (born 1952) (74 years) -
Ann Radcliffe1764–1823 · English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel (1764–1823) -
Angela Carter1940–1992 · English novelist (1940–1992) -
David Mitchell1969 · English novelist (b. 1969) -
Edith Nesbit1858–1924 · English author and poet (1858–1924) -
China Miéville1972 · English writer, critic, and activist (born 1972) -
Algernon Blackwood1869–1951 · English short story writer and novelist (1869–1951) -
Matthew Gregory Lewis1775–1818 · English novelist and dramatist (1775–1818) -
William Beckford1760–1844 · English slaver, art collector, and novelist (1760–1844) -
Colin Wilson1931–2013 · British writer and philosopher (1931–2013) -
Walter de la Mare1873–1956 · English poet and fiction writer (1873–1956)
And 52 more
- William Hope Hodgson (1877)
- Frederick Marryat (1792)
- Marie Corelli (1855)
- Christopher Priest (1943)
- James Herbert (1943)
- Tanith Lee (1947)
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785)
- Edward Frederic Benson (1867)
- Arnold Ridley (1896)
- Darren O'Shaughnessy (1972)
- W. W. Jacobs (1863)
- Charles Williams (1886)
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835)
- L. P. Hartley (1895)
- Charlie Higson (1958)
- Sax Rohmer (1883)
- Kim Newman (1959)
- Amelia Edwards (1831)
- M. John Harrison (1945)
- Ramsey Campbell (1946)
- Mary Darby Robinson (1758)
- Helen Dunmore (1952)
- Robert Aickman (1914)
- Charlotte Turner Smith (1749)
- Terry Hayes (1951)
- Brian Lumley (1937)
- Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868)
- Clara Reeve (1729)
- Brian Stableford (1948)
- Patrick McGrath (1950)
- Peter Berresford Ellis (1943)
- Marjorie Bowen (1885)
- J. Meade Falkner (1858)
- Paul Cornell (1967)
- Cynthia Asquith (1887)
- Shaun Hutson (1958)
- William Henry Ireland (1775)
- Kevin Crossley-Holland (1941)
- Gerald Heard (1889)
- Graham Joyce (1954)
- Florence Marryat (1833)
- James Planché (1796)
- Lucy Clifford (1846)
- A. E. Coppard (1878)
- Simon Clark (1958)
- Justin Somper (1953)
- Kingsley Amis (1922)
- Anthony Horowitz (1955)
- Jonathan Stroud (1970)
- Sophie Hannah (1971)
- Storm Constantine (1956)