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1. Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Title: Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
Author: Mary Shelley
Year: 1818
Horror Figure: The Creature (Or is it Man?)

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2. Dracula - Bram Stoker

Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Year: 1897
Horror Figure: Count Dracula

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3. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Year: 1886
Horror Figure: Mr. Hyde

4. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen ... - Edgar Allen Poe

Title: "The Raven"
Author: Edgar Allen Poe
Year: 1945
Horror Figure: That mono-word Raven!

5. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (Ox... - Washington Irving

Title: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Author: Washington Irving
Year: 1820
Horror Figure: The Headless Horseman

6. The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Classics) (2012)

Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Author: Gaston Leroux
Year: 1909-1910
Horror Figure: Erik, The "Phantom"

7. The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells

Title: The Invisible Man
Author: H.G. Wells
Year: 1897
Horror Figure: Griffin, the Invisible Man

8. Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray: A Reader'...

Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
Year: 1890
Horror Figure: Dorian Gray

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9. Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Title: Carmilla
Author: Author Sheridan Le Fanu
Year: 1872
Horror Figure: Carmilla

10. Doctor Faustus (Signet Classics) - Christopher Marlowe

Title: The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Year: 1604
Horror Figure: Doctor Faustus

11. Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, ... - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Titles: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy & Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Years: 1808 & 1832
Horror Figure: Faust

12. The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre (... - John Polidori

Title: "The Vampyre"
Author: John William Polidori
Year: 1819
Horror Figure: Lord Ruthven

13. Faust: a romance of the Secret Tribunals.

Title: Faust: A Romance of the Secret Tribunals
Author: George W. M. Reynolds
Year: 1847
Horror Figure:

14. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf

Title: Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
Author: George W. M. Reynolds
Year: 1846-1847
Horror Figure: Fernand Wagner

15. The Necromancer (Valancourt Classics)

Title: The Necromancer
Author: George W. M. Reynolds
Year: 1851-1852
Horror Figure:

16. The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) - Matthew Lewis_III

Title The Monk: A Romance
Author: Matthew Gregory Lewis
Year: 1796
Horror Figure:

17. Melmoth the Wanderer

Title: Melmoth the Wanderer
Author: Charles Robert Maturin
Year: 1820
Horror Figure: John Melmoth

18. Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood

Title: Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood
Author: James Malcolm Rymer
Year: 1845-1847
Horror Figure: Sir Francis Varney

19. The Witch of Ravensworth (Gothic Classics)

Title: The Witch of Ravensworth
Author: James Norris Brewer
Year: 1808
Horror Figure: Hag of Ravensworth

20. Fantasmagoriana (Tales Of The Dead) (4)

Contains the following short stories: "The Family Portraits", "The Fated Hour", "The Death's Hand", "The Death-Bride", "The Storm", "The Spectre-Barber", and three others.

21. Terrific Tales (Gothic Classics)

22. Six Gothic Dramas (De Monfort, Orra, The Dre...

Contains the following dramas: De Monfort, Orra, The Dream, The Family Legend, The Phantom, Witchcraft

23. The Book of Hallowe'en

Title: The Book of Hallowe'en
Author: Ruth Edna Kelley
Year: 1919

The world's first Halloween history book!

Feel free to make suggestions! Just keep in mind, I'm only adding works from the early 1900s and back, but I am including stuff of note that doesn't fall under the category of "fiction" (ex: The Book of Hallowe'en, the first Halloween history book).

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jaytoast

Posted: 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 3 21:04

I made the mistake of adding " The Monk, A Romance" to my list it is in fact an anthology of various works... and not a very favorable anthology at that. The reviews are particularly terrible.

Add:
http://www.listal.com/book/monk-romance-matthew-lewis

Instead of the anthology version.

Pumpkinate

Posted: 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 3 21:15

Gotcha. I'll be rearranging this thing little by little.

jaytoast

Posted: 9 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 5 22:51

Your list is now linked to mine. Yay! Some how we will get all the bases covered :)

jaytoast

Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Aug 11 0:45

Yes, for the recorded. PK was kind enough to let me copy his list. It is a long story, involving a lot of crying and claw marks. Who knew my cat hated having her photo taken?

Pumpkinate

Posted: 9 months, 1 week ago at Aug 11 20:53

Before the animal rights activists come pouring in - the whole thing was the cat's idea.

Ravynne McCoy

Posted: 9 months ago at Aug 21 8:20

Nice list - there's a couple on here I'll definitely have to check out! Thanks!

Victorian Fantasy

Posted: 9 months ago at Aug 22 1:19

Great list! How about The String of Pearls (better known as, Sweeney Todd), Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (an anthology), The Willows and The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories both by Algernon Blackwood and perhaps something of H.P. Lovecraft? :)

zebraflesh

Posted: 5 months, 4 weeks ago at Nov 23 3:26

:)!!!
Thank you for making this!