One of the most commonly asked questions
is what are the best books about Gothic Literature. Below are listed just a
few, but the best and most fundamental are unfortunately out of print and
include Devendra Varma's The Gothic Flame,
Montague Summers' The Gothic Quest and
Edith Birkhead's Tales of Terror.
Recommended
Reading: Critical Titles
The Literature of Terror, Volume One - The Gothic Tradition
Gothic
Horror : A Reader's Guide from Poe to King and Beyond
Gothic
America
 Gothic
Readings : The First Wave, 1764-1840
The
Return of the Repressed : Gothic Horror from the Castle of Otranto to Alien
Gothic
: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
Gothic
(The New Critical Idiom)
Modern
Gothic : A Reader
Gothic
Documents : A Sourcebook 1700-1820
Art
of Darkness : A Poetics of Gothic
Recommended
Reading: Gothic Novels
 The
Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
 The
Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre
 The
Monk : A Romance (Penguin Classics)- Mathew Lewis
 The
Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classic)- Ann Radcliffe
 The
Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents - Ann Radcliffe
 Northanger
Abbey (Penguin Classics)- Jane Austen
 Dracula
(Penguin Classics)- Bram Stoker
 Melmoth
the Wanderer (Penguin Classics) - Charles Maturin
Frankenstein:
the original 1818 text - Mary Shelley
Uncle
Silas - Le Fanu
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