Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism.
In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and adventure authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction.
Contents:
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Bram Stoker: Dracula, The Judge's House
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher
Washington Irving: The legend of sleepy hollow
Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan
Nikolai Gogol: The Viy
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Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres