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 Alban’s 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: Donovan’s 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