 | The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) by Matthew Lewis
Buy used from: £1.46 The first real novel of horror
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 | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (Oxford World's Classics) by Horace Walpole
Buy used from: £1.20 The first novel to call itself gothic - the basis for most outlines of the genre
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 | The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Radcliffe
Buy used from: £3.99 An early novel of terror
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 | Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text (Oxford World's Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Buy used from: £0.17 The end of the first great block of gothic novels - challenging conventions of victims and villains, using narrative structure to challenge reader viewpoint
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 | Dracula (Oxford World's Classics) by Bram Stoker
Buy used from: £0.01 A good villain - mysterious, terrifying - and a novel which continues to manipulate form. especially useful in its representation of women in gothic as madonnas or whores
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 | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £2.97 Read the short story 'The Bloody Chamber' - an interesting response to conventional female figures in gothic
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 | Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £0.01 A killer obsessed with romantic literature, a super-demonic Hannibal Lector, a hero who thinks like a villain, women in distress, horror, terror? Of course it's gothic!
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