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Written by Horace Walpole, this was the first Gothic novel to be published ever. It contains all the stereotypical Gothic things, such as the hero, the villain, the death and an eerie castle.
"After his son dies, Lord Manfred seeks to marry his son's betrothed, Isabella, in an attempt to produce another male heir and avert an ancient prophecy."
The Mysteries of Udolpho– Ann Radcliffe, 1794
"Emily St. Aubert, is an orphan who becomes entrapped by her uncle after the death of her father. Strange and supernatural things begin to happen, and she is left to investigate these mysterious happenings from within the castle."
The story surrounds Viktor Frankenstein and his scientific experimentation that resulted in a creature made from inanimate flesh. The novel requires the reader to abandon all existing knowedge of morality, social construct and it was written during a time of real life scientific exploration and fear of religion.
Themes of terror, power, romance, isolation, murder, death, and good versus evil.
Heathcliff is an outcast with questionable social origins and bloodlines who meets Catherine, with whom he seems to have a sort of supernatural connection.
The novel highlighted the issues faced by women in that time, and helped pave the way for female Gothic subculture.
Themes of death, mystery, power, and male versus female.
Dorian Gray, an extremely vain man, makes a deal and stays forever young while a portrait of him painted by his friend ages instead. "Eventually Gray’s ego and madness escalate and he spirals into a hedonistic life of wanton decadence, sin, and violent ends." The novel provides an insight into the lives of the upper classes in society in the late 1800s.
Considered the father of all vampire novels. "The most famous vampire in history acts as a metaphor for the pollution of English blood; and the hunt for Dracula is symbolic of the determination to stamp out and eradicate the source of the corruption."
Themes of graphic violence, sexual tension, and the vampire as an enigma.
Feminist Gothic. Angela Carter retells traditional children's stories in a darker light, revealing major Gothic themes of incest, violence and the objectification of women.
A book about a book about a film about a house that is a labyrinth. The novel itself is "a labyrinth written on a typographical landscape–footnotes, appendices, poems, bars of music, letters, journal entries, in different fonts, backwards, sideways, or all alone on the pages."