- History of the Caliph Vathek (1786), by William Beckford
- The Monk (1796), by Matthew Gregory Lewis
- Frankenstein (1818), by Mary Shelley
- Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), by Charles Maturin
- Varney, the Vampire (1847), by Thomas Prest
- Carmilla (1872), by Sheridan Le Fanu
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), by Oscar Wilde
- Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker
- The Turn of the Screw (1898), by Henry James