British horror 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

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1897 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells

2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

novel by Horace Walpole

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl

novel by H. Rider Haggard

1951 novel by John Wyndham

1898 novella by Henry James

novel by John Fowles

novel by Wilkie Collins

2008 novel by Neil Gaiman

1794 novel by Ann Radcliffe

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis

1995 novel by Christopher Priest

Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition, titled simply as Vathek, was published in December 1786 (postdated 1787). During the twentieth century some editions include The Episodes of Vathek (Vathek et ses é

1894 novel by Arthur Machen

novel by Bram Stoker

serial novel by James Malcolm Rymer

1984 novel by Iain Banks

novel by Joseph Delaney

book by Susan Hill

Short story by Algernon Blackwood

1911 novel by Bram Stoker

novel by William Hope Hodgson

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1986 novella by Clive Barker

1895 novel by Marie Corelli

1791 novel by Ann Radcliffe

novel by James Hogg

2005 novel by Anthony Horowitz

1797 novel by Ann Radcliffe

2009 novel by Charlie Higson

novel by William Hope Hodgson

1992 novel by Kim Newman

novel by Ann Radcliffe

2006 novel by Diane Setterfield

1988 novel by Clive Barker

unfinished novel written by Lord Byron

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".

novel by Arthur Machen

novel by Mike Carey