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Gothic Fiction Books of the 1890s

The 19 most-read gothic fiction books first published between 1890 and 1899, led by The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Dracula (1897) and The Yellow Wallpaper (1892).

This list collects 19 books from the 1890s by 11 authors, published between 1890 and 1899. 5 are free to read and 10 have a free audiobook. Books are ranked by how many readers have shelved, rated or downloaded them.

19 books

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
1890★ 4.2
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
1897★ 4.0
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aric Cushing
1892★ 4.2
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
1898★ 3.7
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
1894★ 3.5
Bram Stoker's Dracula omnibus
Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley
1897★ 3.8
The Beetle. A Mystery
Richard Marsh
1897★ 4.1
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Tower of Dago
Mór Jókai
1899
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Statement of Stella Maberly
F. Anstey
1896
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House of Mystery
Richard Marsh
1898
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Tales and Stories
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1891
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Owen Wingrave
Henry James
1893
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Flight of the Shadow
George MacDonald
1891
Poe (Assignation / Black Cat / Cask of Amontillado / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Ms Found in a Bottle)
Edgar Allan Poe
1897
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Ten Volumes - Volume I - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque I
Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Clarence Stedman
1894
The gold bug, The purloined letter, and other tales (Eleonora / Gold-Bug / Purloined Letter / Tell-Tale Heart)
Edgar Allan Poe
1898
The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe together with a selection from his stories [4 stories, 45 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe
1895
Poems and Tales from the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe [8 stories, 8 poems]
Edgar Allan Poe, William Peterfield Trent
1898
Weird Tales (Assignation / Berenice / Black Cat / Eleonora / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold-Bug / Ligeia / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Shadow / Silence / Tell-Tale Heart / Thou Art the Man)
Edgar Allan Poe
1895

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