I got a bit carried away with the earlier sections of my ‘101 Gothic reads’ list so didn’t have much room for the 20th or 21st centuries. Please bear in mind this list is based on my own reading and areas of knowledge and so it really leans towards the Gothic, the UK and areas of fiction I specialise in! There are literally 1000s or books missing from this list, I know! It’s not meant to be definitive. No list is.
How many have you read!?

- The Wind in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural – Mary Wilkins Freeman – 1903
- The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux – 1911
- ‘The House’ – Katherine Mansfield (short story) – 1912
- The Metamorphorsis – Franz Kafka – 1915
- Tales of Love, Madness and Death – Horacio Quiroga – 1917
- Visible and Invisible – E. F. Benson – 1923
- Uncanny Stories – May Sinclair – 1923
- ‘The Human Chair’ – Edogawa Rampo – 1925
- Heart of a Dog – Mikhail Bulgakov – 1925
- Witch Wood – John Buchan – 1927
- ‘A Rose for Emily’ – William Faulkner (short story) – 1930
- The Hound of Death – Agatha Christie – 1933
- ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ – H. P. Lovecraft – 1936
- ‘The Roaring Tower’ – Stella Gibbons – 1937
- Penhallow – Georgette Heyer – 1943
- The Ghost and Mrs Muir – R. A. Dick – 1945
- Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake – 1946
- ‘Cwm Garon’ – L T C Rolt (short story) – 1948
- ‘The Lottery’ – Shirley Jackson (short story) – 1948
- ‘Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch’ – Dorothy K. Haynes – 1949
- The Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer – 1951
- I am Legend – Richard Matheson – 1954
- Psycho – Robert Bloch – 1959
- Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys – 1966
- Rosemary’s Baby – Ira Levin – 1967
- Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov – 1967
- Court of Foxes – Christianna Brand – 1969
- The Exorcist – Peter Blatty – 1971
- Krabat – Otfried Preußler – 1971
- A Bride for Bedivere – Hilary Ford – 1976
- The Devil’s Laughter – Frank Yerby – 1977
- Hôtel Transylvania – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro – 1978
- The Wicker Man – Robin Hardy – 1978
- The Vampyre Tapestry – Suzie Charnas – 1980
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker – 1982
- The Woman in Black – Susan Hill – 1983
- House of Hell – Steve Jackson – 1984
- ‘The Forbidden’ – Clive Barker (short story) – 1985
- Linden Hills – Gloria Naylor – 1985
- The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker – 1986
- Misery – Stephen King – 1987
- The Moth – Catherine Cookson – 1987
- The Silence of the Lambs – Thomas Harris – 1988
- From Hell – Alan Moore (writer) and Eddie Campbell (artist) – 1989 – 1996
- Symposium – Muriel Spark – 1990
- Gilda Stories – Jewelle Gomez – 1991
- Let the Dead Bury Their Dead – Randall Kenan – 1992
- Lost Souls – Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin) – 1992
- The Hitchhiker – R. L. Stine – 1993
- My Soul to Keep – Tananarive Due – 1997
- House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski – 2000
- Fingersmith – Sarah Waters – 2002
- Tokyo Cancelled – Rana Dasgupta – 2005
- The Testament of Gideon Mack – James Robertson – 2006
- The Terror – Dan Simmons – 2007
- Deathless – Catherynne M. Valente – 2011
- Widdershins – Jordan Hawk – 2012
- The Black Country – Alex Grecian – 2013
- Spirits Abroad – Zen Cho – 2014
- Slade House – David Mitchell – 2015
- What is Not Yours is Not Yours – Helen Oyeyemi – 2016
- The Ballad of Black Tom – Victor LaValle – 2016
- ‘The Famine King’ – Darcie Little Badger (short story) – 2017
- Spectred Isle – K J Charles – 2017
- Under the Pendulum Sun – Jeanette Ng – 2017
- ‘Small Changes Over Long Periods of Time’ – K M Szpara – 2017
- ‘The Price of Meat’ – K J Charles (short story) – 2017
- Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward – 2017
- Tender is the Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica – 2017
- Intruders – Mohale Mashigo – 2018
- Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi – 2018
- The Crows – C M Rosens – 2019
- ‘The Brightest Lights in Heaven’ – Maria Haskins (short story) – 2019
- ‘Parasitism’ – Alberto Chimal (short story) – 2019
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins – 2019
- Haunted Voices – Various (from Haunt Publishing) – 2019
- ‘On the Lonely Shore’ – Silvia Moreno Garcia (short story) – 2019
- Things We Say in the Dark – Kirsty Logan – 2019
- The Deep – Rivers Solomon (novella) – 2019
- Pet – Akwaeke Emezi – 2019
- The Twisted Ones – T. Kingfisher – 2019
- Benny Rose, The Cannibal King – Hailey Piper – 2020
- ‘Mandragora’ – Nibedita Sen (short story) -2020
- ‘Baby Brother’ – Kaylynn Bayron (short story) – 2020
- Cemetery Boys – Aiden Thomas – 2020
- Unhallowed – Jordan Hawk – 2020
- The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones – 2020
- Surrender Your Sons – Adam Sass – 2020
- Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger – 2020
- The Wife in the Attic – Rose Lerner – 2021
- The Bayou – Arden Powell – 2021
- Dire Days at Willowweep Manor – Shaenon K. Garrity (writer) and Christopher Baldwin (illustrator) – 2021
- The Death of Jane Lawrence – Caitlin Starling – 2021
- Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke – Eric LaRocca – 2021
- ‘Queen of the Cloven Heart’ – Hailey Piper (short story) – 2021
- Weep, Woman, Weep – Maria De Blassie (novella) – 2021
- Black Water Sister – Zen Cho – 2021
- The Hacienda – Isabel Cañas – 2022
- Tripping Arcadia – Kit Mayquist – 2022
- All The White Spaces – Ally Wilkes – 2022