• Longsword, Earl of Salisbury Thomas Leland (1762) This historical fiction develops some of the elements of setting and style found in future gothic novels.
• The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole (1764) The first full-fledged English gothic novel.
• The Champion of Virtue/The Old English Baron Clara Reeves (1777) This gothic novel attempts to bring the excesses of The Castle of Otranto within the realm of reason.
• The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe (1794)
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley (1818)
• Northanger Abbey Jane Austen (1818) Austen's parody of Gothic fiction.
• The Vampyre John Polidori (1819) One of the earliest vampire stories written in England.
• Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (1847) and Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (1847) These classics draw upon many of the gothic elements found in earlier works.
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• Dracula Bram Stoker (1897)

Misc.

• The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
• The Woman in Black Susan Hill
• The Picture of Dorian Grey Oscar Wilde
• Carmilla J Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving