English Gothic novels

1817 novel by Jane Austen

novel by Horace Walpole

novel by H. Rider Haggard

2008 novel by Neil Gaiman

1796 novel by Matthew Lewis

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Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic.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

novel by Daphne du Maurier

novella by Mary Shelley

novel by the Victorian author H. Rider Haggard

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1791 novel by Ann Radcliffe

1797 novel by Ann Radcliffe

2006 novel by Diane Setterfield

novel by Ann Radcliffe

Zofloya; or, The Moor: A Romance of the Fifteenth Century, often shortened to Zofloya, is an 1806 English Gothic novel by Charlotte Dacre under the nom de plume Rosa Matilda. It was her second novel. Zofloya was published in three parts, and later collected into a single volume. At the time of publication, the novel was heavily criticised for its provocative subject matter, especially its religious and racial themes. Its focus on female sexuality was also criticised as inappropriate, with one contemporary reviewer noting the novel possessed "an exhibition of wantonness of harlotry".