PRIMARY TEXT LIST
1. Gothic: The First Wave (Romanticism through Pre-Raphaelitism)
1745: Piranesi, Imaginary Prisons P
1760: Sarah Fielding, The History of Ophelia T
1765: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otronto T
1768: Susan Minifie Gunning, Bradford Abbey T
1770: Goethe, Faust, part 1 T
1782: Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare P
1783-5: Sophia Lee, The Recess: A Tale of Other Times T
1786: William Beckford, Vathek T
1788: Mrs. Harley, Castel of Mowbray T
1789: Charlotte Smith, Ethelinde: or, the Recluse of the Lake T
1791: Joseph Fox, Tancred: A Tale of Ancient Times T
1794: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho T
1794: Charlotte Smith, The Banished Man T
1795: Mary Meeke, The Abbey of Clugney T
1795: Anonymous, Phantoms of the Cloister: or, the Mysterious Manuscript T
1796: Matthew Lewis, The Monk T
1796-98: Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters P
1797: Ludwig Tieck, Effusions of an Art-Loving Monk T
1797: Anonymous, Santa Maria: or, The Mysterious Pregnancy T
1797: Ann Radcliffe, The Italian: or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents T
1798: Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland T
1800: Ludwig Tieck, "Wake Not the Dead" T
1804: Francis Clifford, The Ruins of Tivoli: A Romance T
1805: Charlotte Dacre, Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer T
1806: Charlotte Dacre, Zofloya: or, The Moor T
1807: Matthew Lewis, The Wood Daemon: or, The Clock Has Struck T
1807: Edward Montague, The Demon of Sicily: A Romance T
1809: Mary-Ann Radcliffe, Manfroné, or The one-handed Monk T
1811: Percy Shelley, St. Irvine: or, The Rosicrucian T
1814: Sir Walter Scott, Waverly; "Essays on Chivalry and Romance" T
1817: Lord Byron, Manfred T
1817: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Night Pieces T
1818: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein T
1818: Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey T
1818: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey T
1819: Friedrich, Abbey Graveyard Under Snow P
1819: Dr. Polidori, The Vampyre T
1820: Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique M
1820: Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer T
1822: Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Sons P
1821: Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater T
1823: Mary Shelley, Valperga T
1826: Ann Radcliffe, St Albans Abbey: A Metrical Tale T
1826: Ann Radcliffe, Gaston de Blondville T
1826: Mary Shelley, The Last Man T
1826: William Child Green , The Abbot of Montserrat, or, The Pool of Blood T
1830: Sir Walter Scottt, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft T
1831: Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame T
1831: Goethe, Faust, part 2 T
1833: Edgar Allen Poe, "MS. found in a Bottle" T
1839: Edgar Allen Poe, "Fall of the House of Usher." T
1842: Nikolai Gogol, "The Overcoat" T
1843: Edgar Allen Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart." T
1846: Hector Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust M
1847: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights T
1851: John Ruskin, "Pre-Raphaelitism" T
1851: John Everett Millais, Ophelia P
1854: Edgar Allen Poe, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" T
1867: Mussorgsky, Night on Bald Mountain M
2. The Second Wave: Horror/Industrial Gothic
1908: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Selig Pictures) F
1910: Frankenstein (Edison film) F
1919: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari F
1920: The Golem F
1922: Nosferatu F
1926: Metropolis F
1929: Dashiell Hammet, Red Harvest T
1931: James Whale, Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff) F
1935: Bride of Frankenstein F
1935: Mad Love F
1936: Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times F
1939: Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep T
1939: First appearance of Batman in Detective Comics T
1940: Son of Frankenstein F
1944: House of Frankenstein F
1945: H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror" T
1946: John Franklin Bardin, The Deadly Percheron T
1947: Entertaining Comics launches Tales from the Crypt T
1953: Donovans Brain F
1954: The Creature from the Black Lagoon F
1955: Revenge of the Creature F
1956: The Creature Walks Among Us F
1956: Forbidden Planet F
1958: The Colossus of New York F
1959: William Burroughs, Naked Lunch T
1962: Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange T
1964: The Evil of Frankenstein F
1965: Andy Warhol, Flesh For Frankenstein F
1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein F
3. The Third Wave: Postmodern Gothic and Cyberfiction
1959: The Twilight Zone TV
1963: The Outer Limits TV
1964: The Addams Family TV
1965:Daniel Halacy, Cyborg:Evolution of the Superman T
1966: Dark Shadows TV
1967: Scooby Doo, Where Are You? TV
1967: Cyborg 2087 F
1967: Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle T
1967: Velvet Underground and Nico M
1968: Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? T
1969: THX 1138 F
1971: David Rorvik, As Man Becomes Machine; the Evolution of the Cyborg T
1972: Martin Caidin, Cyborg T
1973: Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus T
1973: Klaus Schulze, Cyborg M
1973: Westworld F
1973: Theatre of Blood F
1974: Stephen King, Carrie T
1975: Stephen King, The Shining T
1976: Throbbing Gristle, Second Annual Report M
1976: Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire T
1979: Kraftwek, Trans-Europe Express M
1980: Einstürzende Neubaten, "Stahlversion" M
1980: Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose T
1980: The Elephant Man F
1980: The Shining F
1980: Friday the 13th F
1981: Front 242: "Principles" M
1982: Laurie Anderson, Big Science M
1982: Cocteau Twins, Garlands M
1982: Bladerunner F
1983: Jean Baudrillard, Simulations T
1983: Videodrome F
1984: Terminator F
1984: William Gibson, Neuromancer T
1984: Frankenweenie, dir. Tim Burton F
1985: Max Headroom (short-lived TV series) TV
1985: Jaxitron, Cybernetic Music M
1985: Stephen Millhauser, "August Eschenberg" T
1985: Porush, David, The soft machine : Cybernetic Fiction T
1986: Frankenstein Punk F
1986: Brazil F
1986: The Name of the Rose F
1986: Ministry, Twitch M
1986: Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology T
1987: Robocop F
1989: Batman F
1990: Edward Scissorhands F
1990: Total Recall F
1991: The Addams Family F
1992: Front Line Assembly, Tactical Neural Implant M
1993: Enigma, MCMXC A.D. M
1993: KMFDM, Angst M
1991: Terminator 2: Judgement Day F
1991: Naked Lunch F
1991: Star Trek: The NextGeneration -- "Borg" episodes TV
1992: Batman Returns F
1992: Lawnmower Man F
1993: Addams Family Values F
1994: The Nightmare Before Christmas F
1995: Axiom Funk, Funkcronomicon M
1996: Twelve Monkeys F