The Gothic Lineage

The works

28 works, 1764 to 1910

In order of first appearance. A serial counts from its first instalment; the date shows only the precision its source proves.

Illustration (AI-generated): A moonlit Italianate Gothic castle on a crag above a dark forest, an immense black-plumed helmet lying in the courtyard, cloisters and torchlit arches, an abbey ruin on a far hill; the left third of the image is dark open sky.

1764–1819

Castles and abbeys

  1. 1764 The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole Novel · volume, 24 Dec 1764
  2. 1794 The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe Novel · volume, 1794
  3. 1796 The Monk Matthew Lewis Novel · volume, Mar 1796
  4. 1818 Frankenstein Mary Shelley Novel · volume, Jan 1818
  5. 1819 The Vampyre John Polidori Short story · story, 1 Apr 1819, The New Monthly Magazine

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Illustration (AI-generated): A lonely moorland at night: a stone farmhouse with one lit window bent against the wind, gnarled thorn trees, a storm moving over the hills, a distant mansion with a single burning upper window; the right third of the image is dark open sky.

1820–1858

Wanderers and moors

  1. 1820 Melmoth the Wanderer Charles Maturin Novel · volume, 1820
  2. 1839 The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Short story · story, Sep 1839, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
  3. 1841 Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe Short story · story, Apr 1841, Graham's Magazine
  4. 1845 Varney the Vampire James Malcolm Rymer or Thomas Peckett Prest Novel · serial, 1845–1847, Weekly penny parts (no periodical title)
  5. 1847 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Novel · volume, Oct 1847
  6. 1847 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë Novel · volume, Dec 1847

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Illustration (AI-generated): A Victorian country house at night seen across a lake and a lawn, gaslight in a library window, a railway viaduct with a steaming train crossing in the far distance, a woman in white standing small by the water's edge seen from behind; the upper third is misty dark sky.

1859–1885

Sensation

  1. 1859 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins Novel · serial, 26 Nov 1859 – 25 Aug 1860, All the Year Round
  2. 1868 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Novel · serial, 4 Jan 1868 – 8 Aug 1868, All the Year Round
  3. 1871 Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu Novella · serial, Dec 1871 – Mar 1872, The Dark Blue

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Illustration (AI-generated): Gaslit late-Victorian London street at night in thick yellow fog: hansom cab, wet cobbles, a doorway with a fanlight, a tall figure in a top hat walking away, chimney stacks and a church spire dissolving into fog; the left third is dark fog.

1886–1900

Fog and the fin de siècle

  1. 1886 Jekyll and Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Novella · volume, 5 Jan 1886
  2. 1887 Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Story canon · magazine, complete in one issue, Nov 1887, Beeton's Christmas Annual
  3. 1890 Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Novel · magazine, complete in one issue, Jul 1890, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (July 1890 issue)
  4. 1890 The Great God Pan Arthur Machen Novella · magazine, complete in one issue, 13 Dec 1890, The Whirlwind
  5. 1895 The Time Machine H. G. Wells Novella · serial, Jan–May 1895, The New Review
  6. 1896 Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells Novel · volume, 1896
  7. 1897 The Beetle Richard Marsh Novel · serial, 13 Mar 1897 – 19 Jun 1897, Answers
  8. 1897 The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Novel · serial, Apr–Dec 1897, Pearson's Magazine
  9. 1897 Dracula Bram Stoker Novel · volume, 26 May 1897
  10. 1897 The Invisible Man H. G. Wells Novel · serial, 12 Jun 1897 – 7 Aug 1897, Pearson's Weekly
  11. 1898 The Turn of the Screw Henry James Novella · serial, 27 Jan 1898, Collier's Weekly
  12. 1899 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Novella · serial, Feb–Apr 1899, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

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Illustration (AI-generated): The vast underside of a grand Parisian opera house at night: a black underground lake beneath stone vaults, a small boat with a lantern drifting on it, gilded ornament glinting in the dark far above; the upper third is dark vaulting.

1901–1910

After Victoria

  1. 1901 The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Novel · serial, Aug 1901 – Apr 1902, The Strand Magazine
  2. 1909 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux Novel · serial, 23 Sep 1909 – 8 Jan 1910, Le Gaulois

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