 | The Monk (Dover Thrift Editions) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Buy new: £2.27 / Used from: £0.89 At the time, a shocking foray into excess, and the mainstay of 18th Century Gothic fiction.
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 | The Italian (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
Buy used from: £0.68 Ann Radcliffe's response to the beastly proclivities of Monk Lewis. Thrills and spills are tempered with rationalism, reflecting a political atmosphere of anxiety and upheaval in an Enlightened age...
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 | Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (Penguin Popular Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Mary Shelley condenses the political themes of Gothic into the new 'body Gothic', which was to pervade through the 19th Century.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics) by Emily Brontë
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Emily Bronte manages to combine ghosts, sexual desire, class anxieties and intricate psychological details of trauma and grief in this superb mid-century novel.
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 | The Collected Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe : by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: £11.74 / Used from: £3.22 Poe perfects American Gothic with stylised, claustrophobic short stories often written by characteristically effeminate, aimless male characters. Poe refracted concerns over male role through horror.
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 | The Woman in White (Penguin Popular Classics) by Wilkie Collins
Buy new: £2.25 / Used from: £0.01 The best sensation novel ever written. The theme of the doppelganger, feminine agency and fears of the foreigner are crushed together in this exhilarating novel.
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 | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Popular Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.01 Fin-de-siecle Gothic. Darwinism, degeneration theory and concerns over the stresses of the decadent modern world create the strangely indefinable Mr Hyde...
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