the gothic literature required reading list

1.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 4.17 avg rating — 56,861 ratings
2.
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
A Good Man Is Hard To Find 3.85 avg rating — 12,468 ratings
3.
The Great God Pan: Arthur Machen's Best Classic Horror Thrillers - Arthur Machen's Mysterious Narrative: Unveiling The Great God Pan (Best Classic Horror Novels of All Time)
The Great God Pan: Arthur Machen's Best Classic Horror Thrillers - Arthur Machen's Mysterious Narrative: Unveiling The Great God Pan (Best Classic Horror Novels of All Time) 3.68 avg rating — 15,744 ratings
4.
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories 3.91 avg rating — 63,252 ratings
5.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,329 ratings
6.
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher 3.85 avg rating — 83,647 ratings
7.
Carmilla
Carmilla 3.87 avg rating — 167,018 ratings
8.
The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto 3.19 avg rating — 39,785 ratings
9.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Mysteries of Udolpho 3.42 avg rating — 16,590 ratings
10.
The Monk A Romance "Annotated" Why Follow the Mathew Lewis
The Monk A Romance "Annotated" Why Follow the Mathew Lewis 3.85 avg rating — 31,715 ratings
11.
The Italian
The Italian 3.53 avg rating — 6,010 ratings
12.
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist 3.38 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
13.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame 4.02 avg rating — 213,392 ratings
14.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights 3.90 avg rating — 1,959,545 ratings
15.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating — 2,260,163 ratings
16.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,445 ratings
17.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray 4.13 avg rating — 1,783,325 ratings
18.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau 3.73 avg rating — 131,620 ratings
19.
Dracula
Dracula 4.02 avg rating — 1,415,349 ratings
20.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,021 ratings
21.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,928 ratings
22.
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House 3.81 avg rating — 365,430 ratings
23.
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by: Anne Rice
4.02 avg rating — 633,910 ratings
24.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 477,044 ratings
25.
The Autobiography of My Mother
The Autobiography of My Mother 3.78 avg rating — 6,046 ratings
26.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,518 ratings
27.
Fledgling
Fledgling 3.80 avg rating — 37,697 ratings
28.
Love and Death in the American Novel
Love and Death in the American Novel 4.05 avg rating — 277 ratings
29.
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection 4.07 avg rating — 3,884 ratings
30.
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions
The Coherence of Gothic Conventions 3.75 avg rating — 60 ratings
31.
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 4.32 avg rating — 7,357 ratings
32.
The Gothic Sublime (Sublime
The Gothic Sublime (Sublime 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
33.
Our Vampires, Ourselves
Our Vampires, Ourselves 3.81 avg rating — 382 ratings
34.
The Literature Of Terror: The Gothic Tradition, Volume 1
The Literature Of Terror: The Gothic Tradition, Volume 1 3.94 avg rating — 94 ratings
35.
The Literature of Terror: Vol. 2
The Literature of Terror: Vol. 2 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
36.
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle 4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
37.
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny 4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
38.
Gothic America
Gothic America 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings
39.
The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence
The Shape of Fear: Horror and the Fin de Siecle Culture of Decadence 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
40.
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction 4.06 avg rating — 272 ratings
41.
Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865
Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
42.
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic 4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings