4,404 ratings — avg rating 3.45 —

published 2017 4,884 ratings — 915,186 ratings — 2,046 ratings — The Monk; A Romance by MG Lewis is one of the earliest continental gothic novels. published 1962 published 1938 4,877,155 ratings —

12,795 ratings — The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) This is widely considered to be the first Gothic … avg rating 3.82 — 151,030 ratings — 22,518 ratings — avg rating 3.84 — avg rating 4.00 — avg rating 3.35 — 194,771 ratings —

448,642 ratings — published 1845 5,287 ratings — avg rating 3.73 — published 1980 avg rating 3.72 — published 2010

467,674 ratings — published 1819 published 1951 avg rating 4.00 — avg rating 3.72 — 12,816 ratings — 475,768 ratings — 247,098 ratings — published 1806 avg rating 3.29 — 21,980 ratings — published 2005 published 1892 avg rating 3.43 — avg rating 3.84 — 172,850 ratings —

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback) Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. avg rating 3.56 —

published 1985 published 2009 published 1820

published 1849

avg rating 4.07 — avg rating 3.97 — 17,576 ratings — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. (shelved 1876 times as gothic) avg rating 3.86 — … published 1983 110,413 ratings — 214,904 ratings — Welcome back. avg rating 4.14 — 293,603 ratings —

published 1851 published 1909 1,316,829 ratings — avg rating 3.96 — avg rating 4.00 — 942,886 ratings — published 1946 Hoffmann: The Devil’s Elixirs (1815) Originally published in Germany, this novel was inspired …

avg rating 3.82 — avg rating 4.08 — 448,642 ratings — published 2006 published 1786 published 1901 published 1864

avg rating 4.17 — Although The Mysteries of Udolpho is a more famous Ann Radcliff novel, we’d recommend this shorter 1790 novel as the perfect ‘gateway drug’ to Radcliffe’s brand of Gothic horror. “She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.” avg rating 4.12 — published 1938 avg rating 3.18 — published 1790 156,367 ratings — 269,051 ratings — 238,720 ratings — published 1872 avg rating 3.18 — 475,768 ratings — published 1886 published 1886 296,998 ratings — published 1936 published 1853 4,404 ratings — Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. 15,548 ratings — avg rating 3.54 — avg rating 3.73 — avg rating 3.74 — avg rating 3.51 — The Monk; A Romance – Matthew Gregory Lewis, 1796. avg rating 3.80 —

published 1872 avg rating 3.76 — avg rating 3.43 —