novels - classic gothic
- ✔ "The Castle of Otranto", Horace Walpole (1768)
- "The Recess", Sophia Lee (1785)
- "Vathek", William Beckford (1786)
- ✔ "The Romance of the Forest", Ann Radcliffe (1791)
- "The Mysteries of Udolpho", Ann Radcliffe (1794)
- "The Adventures of Caleb Williams", William Godwin (1794)
- "Northanger Abbey", Jane Austen (1798) parody
- All the horrid novels: "Castle of Wolfenbach", "Clermont", "Mysterious Warnings", "Necromancer of the Black Forest", "Midnight Bell", "Orphan of the Rhine" and "Horrid Mysteries"
- ✔ "Maria", Mary Wollstonecraft (1798)
- "Zofloya", Charlotte Dacre (1806)
novels - late and victorian gothic
- ✔ "Frankenstein", Mary Shelley (1818)
- "Melmoth the Wanderer", Charles Robert Maturin (1820)
- "Uncle Silas", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1864)
- ✔ "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
- "The Island of Doctor Moreau", H. G. Wells (1896)
- ✔ "The Turn of the Screw", Henry James (1897)
- "Dracula", Bram Stoker (1897)
novels - gothic influence in brazilian literature
- "D. Narcisa de Villar", Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro (1859)
- ✔ "Úrsula", Maria Firmina dos Reis (1859)
- "A Rainha do Ignoto", Emília Freitas (1899)
- "Esphinge", Coelho Neto (1908)
- "Fronteira", Cornélio Penna (1835)
essays & theory
- ✔ "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", Edmund Burke (1754)
- "The Grotesque in Art and Literature", Wolfgang Kayser (1933)
- "Gothic", Fred Botting (1996)
- "A New Companion to the Gothic", David Punter org. (2012)
- "Poéticas do Mal", Júlio França (2017)