2007-01-29 19:23:13 · 5 answers · asked by Cookie Kid 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'd start with the classics, including:
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" and "Faust" by J. W. Von Goethe
"Don Juan" by Lord Byron
"Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Shelly
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelly
"The Portrait of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
"Endymion" by John Keats
2007-01-30 06:27:03 · answer #1 · answered by Ophelia193 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earliest gothic fiction was published in the mid-1700's. An early example would be Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" subtitled "A Gothic Story." It has all the classic elements, like torches going out in dark chambers, paintings appearing to move, and a bizarre scene with a giant hand and arm of a knight falling from the sky (as well as a giant helmet). Also, see Ann Radcliffe's "The Monk;" MG Lewis' "Horrid Mysteries" all published before 1800.
2007-01-29 19:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edgar Allen Poe
Bram Stoker's Dracula.
2007-01-30 06:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by H_A_V_0_C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
H.P.Lovecraft or Edger Allen Poe, perhaps.Lovecraft came a little later,but you will be delighted and disturbed by it.Try the fall of the house of the usher.It is creepy and better than these so called horror movies that have been coming out lately .
2007-01-29 19:36:23 · answer #4 · answered by irene i 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you should totally read frankenstein and mysteries of udolpho, they provide an idea on what entails in the gothic
2007-01-29 21:29:05 · answer #5 · answered by the joker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋