Paul Murray's "top 10 gothic novels"

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"Paul Murray is an Irish diplomat and writer. His biography of Lafcadio Hearn won the Koizumi Yakumo literary prize in Japan in 1995. His latest work, From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker has just been published by Jonathan Cape. Here he chooses his top 10 novels in the older gothic tradition."

  1. 1.
    The Castle of Otranto (Classic, Modern, Penguin)
    by Horace Walpole
  2. 2.
    Vathek (Nonsuch Classics)
    by William Beckford
  3. 3.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe
  4. 4.
    The Monk (Penguin Classics)
    by Matthew Lewis
  5. 5.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  6. 6.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Maturin
  8. 8.
    Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood
    by James Malcolm Rymer
  9. 9.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  10. 10.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker
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Created by frbrown on Jun 04, 2011.
 

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