British Gothic novels

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1890–1891 novel by Oscar Wilde

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons; and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

1861 novel by Charles Dickens

crime novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

novel by Charles Dickens (1853)

1817 novel by Jane Austen

Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

novel by Daphne du Maurier

novel by Horace Walpole

novel by H. Rider Haggard

1898 novella by Henry James

monthly serial; final and unfinished novel by Charles Dickens; published 1870

novel by Wilkie Collins

2008 novel by Neil Gaiman

1853 Victorian bildungsroman by Charlotte Brontë

1794 novel by Ann Radcliffe

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis

1894 novel by Arthur Machen

novel by Bram Stoker

serial novel by James Malcolm Rymer

2002 novel by Sarah Waters

1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

novel by Daphne du Maurier

book by Susan Hill

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novel by the Victorian author H. Rider Haggard

novel by Clara Reeve

1911 novel by Bram Stoker

novel by James Hogg

1986 novella by Clive Barker

2006 novel by Diane Setterfield

1894 novel by George du Maurier

Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novella by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with only the initials of the author's name, as "by P.B.S.". The first of Shelley's two early Gothic novellas, the other being St. Irvyne, outlines his atheistic worldview through the villain Zastrozzi and touches upon his earliest thoughts on irresponsible self-indulgence and violent revenge. An 1810 reviewer wrote that the main character "Zastrozzi is one of the most savage and improbable demons that ever issued from a diseased brain".

Glenarvon was Lady Caroline Lamb's first novel. It created a sensation when published on 9 May 1816. Set in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the book satirized the Whig Holland House circle, while casting a sceptical eye on left-wing politics. Its rakish title character, Lord Glenarvon, is an unflattering depiction of her ex-lover, Lord Byron. In 1866, it was reprinted under the title, The Fatal Passion.