Top Ten Early Gothic Novels
In chronological order, this is my list of the top ten Gothic novels, published before 1850. Many are ghost stories. Let's get started.
1. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
2. The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
3. The Monk (1796)
4. Frankenstein (1818)
5. The Vampyre (1819)
6. Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
7. The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh (1838)
8. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
9. Strange Event in the Life of Schalke the Painter (1839)
10. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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