# All 28 works > Every work on the timeline in order of first appearance, 1764 to 1910, grouped into five eras, with author, form and date. Canonical page: https://lineageofshadows.com/works/ ## Castles and abbeys, 1764–1819 - 1764 · [The Castle of Otranto](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/castle-of-otranto/) by Horace Walpole. Novel. First appeared 24 Dec 1764 (volume, London). - 1794 · [The Mysteries of Udolpho](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/mysteries-of-udolpho/) by Ann Radcliffe. Novel. First appeared 1794 (volume, G. G. and J. Robinson, London). - 1796 · [The Monk](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-monk/) by Matthew Lewis. Novel. First appeared Mar 1796 (volume, John Bell, London (148 Oxford Street)). - 1818 · [Frankenstein](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/frankenstein/) by Mary Shelley. Novel. First appeared Jan 1818 (volume, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, London (Finsbury Square)). - 1819 · [The Vampyre](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-vampyre/) by John Polidori. Short story. First appeared 1 Apr 1819 (story, The New Monthly Magazine, London). ## Wanderers and moors, 1820–1858 - 1820 · [Melmoth the Wanderer](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/melmoth-the-wanderer/) by Charles Maturin. Novel. First appeared 1820 (volume, Archibald Constable and Company (Edinburgh) and Hurst, Robinson and Co. (London), Edinburgh and London). - 1839 · [The Fall of the House of Usher](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/fall-of-the-house-of-usher/) by Edgar Allan Poe. Short story. First appeared Sep 1839 (story, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine). - 1841 · [Murders in the Rue Morgue](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/murders-in-the-rue-morgue/) by Edgar Allan Poe. Short story. First appeared Apr 1841 (story, Graham's Magazine). - 1845 · [Varney the Vampire](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/varney-the-vampire/) by James Malcolm Rymer or Thomas Peckett Prest. Novel. First appeared 1845–1847 (serial, Weekly penny parts (no periodical title), London). - 1847 · [Jane Eyre](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/jane-eyre/) by Charlotte Brontë. Novel. First appeared Oct 1847 (volume, Smith, Elder & Co., London). - 1847 · [Wuthering Heights](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/wuthering-heights/) by Emily Brontë. Novel. First appeared Dec 1847 (volume, Thomas Cautley Newby, London). ## Sensation, 1859–1885 - 1859 · [The Woman in White](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-woman-in-white/) by Wilkie Collins. Novel. First appeared 26 Nov 1859 – 25 Aug 1860 (serial, All the Year Round, London). - 1868 · [The Moonstone](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-moonstone/) by Wilkie Collins. Novel. First appeared 4 Jan 1868 – 8 Aug 1868 (serial, All the Year Round, London). - 1871 · [Carmilla](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/carmilla/) by Sheridan Le Fanu. Novella. First appeared Dec 1871 – Mar 1872 (serial, The Dark Blue). ## Fog and the fin de siècle, 1886–1900 - 1886 · [Jekyll and Hyde](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/jekyll-and-hyde/) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Novella. First appeared 5 Jan 1886 (volume, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York). - 1887 · [Sherlock Holmes](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/sherlock-holmes/) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Story canon. First appeared Nov 1887 (in one issue of Beeton's Christmas Annual, London); serial Sep 1914 – May 1915 in The Strand Magazine. - 1890 · [Dorian Gray](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/) by Oscar Wilde. Novel. First appeared Jul 1890 (in one issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (July 1890 issue), Philadelphia and London). - 1890 · [The Great God Pan](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-great-god-pan/) by Arthur Machen. Novella. First appeared 13 Dec 1890 (in one issue of The Whirlwind). - 1895 · [The Time Machine](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-time-machine/) by H. G. Wells. Novella. First appeared Jan–May 1895 (serial, The New Review, London). - 1896 · [Island of Doctor Moreau](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/island-of-doctor-moreau/) by H. G. Wells. Novel. First appeared 1896 (volume, William Heinemann, London). - 1897 · [The Beetle](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-beetle/) by Richard Marsh. Novel. First appeared 13 Mar 1897 – 19 Jun 1897 (serial, Answers, London). - 1897 · [The War of the Worlds](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/war-of-the-worlds/) by H. G. Wells. Novel. First appeared Apr–Dec 1897 (serial, Pearson's Magazine, London). - 1897 · [Dracula](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/dracula/) by Bram Stoker. Novel. First appeared 26 May 1897 (volume, Archibald Constable & Co., Westminster). - 1897 · [The Invisible Man](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/the-invisible-man/) by H. G. Wells. Novel. First appeared 12 Jun 1897 – 7 Aug 1897 (serial, Pearson's Weekly, London). - 1898 · [The Turn of the Screw](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/turn-of-the-screw/) by Henry James. Novella. First appeared 27 Jan 1898 (serial, Collier's Weekly, New York). - 1899 · [Heart of Darkness](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/heart-of-darkness/) by Joseph Conrad. Novella. First appeared Feb–Apr 1899 (serial, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Edinburgh and London). ## After Victoria, 1901–1910 - 1901 · [The Hound of the Baskervilles](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/hound-of-the-baskervilles/) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Novel. First appeared Aug 1901 – Apr 1902 (serial, The Strand Magazine, London). - 1909 · [The Phantom of the Opera](https://lineageofshadows.com/works/phantom-of-the-opera/) by Gaston Leroux. Novel. First appeared 23 Sep 1909 – 8 Jan 1910 (serial, Le Gaulois, Paris).