 | Tales of Madness: Seven Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $12.59 / Used from: $12.18 The undisputed king of gothic horror is featured in this collection of seven of his best stories.
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 | The Castle of Otranto (Dover Thrift Editions) by Horace Walpole
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.61 Considered by some to be one of the first of the gothic romance genre.
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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho (Dover Giant Thrift Editions) by Ann Radcliffe
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.11 Radcliffe is the first author to write gothic novels on the "bestseller list".
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 | The Monk (Penguin Classics) by Matthew Lewis
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $1.92 A European contemporary of the emrging gothic romance genre.
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 | Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $1.99 Shelley crosses several genres with this book--some may say it not only qualifies as one of the first gothic horror stories, it also straddles the border as the first real work of science fiction.
Read it and determine it for yourself.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $4.00 Some say this is not only a revisiting to the gothic romance genre, but also a satirical ribbing of the works of Jane Austen, whose Northanger Abby follows the gothic romance criteria.
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 | The Vampyre: And Other Tales of the Macabre (Oxford World's Classics) by John Polidori
Buy used from: $3.97 predecessor to Stoker's Dracula's
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 | Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Buy new: $2.00 / Used from: $0.01 Gothic Horror mixed with American Puritanism
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 | Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $6.58 King of the Monsters. King of the gothics?
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 | The Picture of Dorian Gray (Norton Critical Edition) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $13.65 / Used from: $11.24 Dorian Gray is as dark as it is beautiful--perfect gothic romance/horror.
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