Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism.In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and adventure authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction.Mary ShelleyFrankensteinBram StokerDraculaThe Judge's HouseOscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian GrayRobert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeEdgar Allan Poe:The Tell-Tale Heart,The Pit and the Pendulum,The Cask of Amontillado,The Masque of the Red Death,The Black Cat,The Fall of the House of UsherWashington IrvingThe legend of sleepy hollowSheridan Le FanuCarmillaHenry JamesThe Turn of the ScrewArthur MachenThe Great God PanNikolai GogolThe Viy
He knelt beside her, and looked in her eyes. The dawn was red in the sky, and in the distance glimmered the gilt domes of the churches of Kieff. Before him lay a beautiful maiden with thick, dishevelled hair and long eyelashes. Unconsciously she had stretched out her white, bare arms, and her tear-filled eyes gazed at the sky
Then suddenly he wrenched himself away from under the witch, and sprang on her back in his turn. She began to run, with short, trembling steps indeed, but so rapidly that he could hardly breathe. So swiftly did she run that she hardly seemed to touch the ground. They were still on the plain, but owing to the rapidity of their flight everything seemed indistinct and confused before his eyes
The perspiration flowed from him in streams; he experienced simultaneously a strange feeling of oppression and delight in all his being. Often he felt as though he had no longer a heart, and pressed his hand on his breast with alarm