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kestrell1. Clara Reeve The Old English Baron (1777) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5182
2. Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3268
3. Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818) http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/
4. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (1817) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/121
5. Jane C. Webb Loudon The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) (the first mummy story)
6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1847) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1260
7. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/768
8. Christina Rossetti Goblin Market (1862) http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/gobmarket.html
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/203
10. Louisa May Alcott
A Whisper in the Dark (1863), dramatization at Scribbling Women
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/stories.html
11. Josephine Daskam Bacon,
"The Children" and "The Unburied" in the collection _The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon_ http://www.archive.org/stream/strangecasesdrs00bacogoog/strangecasesdrs00bacogoog_djvu.txt
12. Madeline Yale Wynne "The Little Room" (1895) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/littlerm.htm
13. Harriet Prescott Spofford "The Amber Gods" (1863)
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/beads.html
14. Georgia Wood Pangborne "The Substitute" (1914)
15. Amelia B. Edwards "The Phantom Coach" (1864) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/aedwards.htm
16. Elia Wilkinson Peattie The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales [1898] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1876
17. Mary Wilkins Freeman "Luella Miller" (psychic vampire)
From the collection The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1617
18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1952
19. Vernon Lee pseud. of Vilet Paget "The Doll" (1927)
http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/women_of_horror.htm
20. Gertrude Atherton "The Bell In the Fog" (1905) http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/bellfog.html
21. Sarah Orne Jewett "The Grey Man" (1886)
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/awh/grayman.htm
22. Willa Cather "Consequences" (1915)
http://cather.unl.edu/ss009.html
23. Margery Lawrence "Robin's Rath" (1923),
24. Edith Wharton "Kerfol" (1916) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/kerfol.htm
25. E. Nesbit "The Power of Darkness" http://www.archive.org/stream/manandmaid00nesbuoft/manandmaid00nesbuoft_djvu.txt
26. Zora Neale Hurston
"Spunk" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5131/
27. Isak Dineson Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
28. Thea von Harbou author of 1926 novel upon which her husband Fritz Lang based Metropolis (1927), for which she also wrote the script
http://www.michaelorgan.org.au/metroa.htm
29. Marie Belloc Lowndes The film "The Lodger" (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) was based upon Lowndes's novel, although the author was not credited.
The Lodger A story of the London Fog (1912)
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/lodger.htm
30. C. L. Moore "Shambleau" (1933) (one of many stories written by women which appeared in Weird Tales)
31. Leonora Carrington "The Debutante" (1939)
Text at http://www.redtidebluefire.com/debutante.html
YouTube video (with nod to Angela Carter) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIbxNbcjOw8
32. Daphne Du Maurier Best known for the novel Rebecca (1938, a retelling of Jane Eyre) but also wrote many horror stories which would become films, including "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now," this last a story about a serial killer.
33. Anya Seton Dragonwyck (1945)
34. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952), A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955(
35. Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Others (1951) (incl. "The Daemon Lover"), The Haunting of Hill House (1959), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1963)
36. Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover (1945), The Cat Jumps (1934)
37. Joan Aiken many spooky stories such as those in The Green Flash and Other Stories (1971) and the novel The Haunting of Lamb House (1999)
38. Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (prequel to Jane Eyre)
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/colonial3c.html
39. Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber (1979)
40. Ann Rivers Siddons The House Next Door (1976)
41. Anne Rice Interview with the vampire (1976)
42. V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic (1979)
43. Mary Higgins Clark Where Are The Children? (1975), A Stranger is Watching (1977)
44. Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry (1980), "Boobs" (1989)
45. Joyce Carol Oates Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, The Bloodsmoor Romance (1982), "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1985), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), Zombie (1995, Bram Stoker Award)
46. Margaret Atwood Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1985),
"Half-Hanged Mary" (1995) http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/277707.shtml
Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, "Your husband is trying to kill you"? Atwood to Karla Hammond, July 1978
47. Susan Hill, The Woman in Black (1983), The Mist in the Mirror (1992), Mrs De Winter (1993)
48. Gloria Naylor Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988)
49. Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
50. A. S. Byatt Possession (1990)
51. Val Martin Mary Reilly (1991)
2. Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3268
3. Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818) http://home-1.worldonline.nl/~hamberg/
4. Jane Austen Northanger Abbey (1817) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/121
5. Jane C. Webb Loudon The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827) (the first mummy story)
6. Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre (1847) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1260
7. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/768
8. Christina Rossetti Goblin Market (1862) http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/gobmarket.html
9. Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/203
10. Louisa May Alcott
A Whisper in the Dark (1863), dramatization at Scribbling Women
http://www.scribblingwomen.org/stories.html
11. Josephine Daskam Bacon,
"The Children" and "The Unburied" in the collection _The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon_ http://www.archive.org/stream/strangecasesdrs00bacogoog/strangecasesdrs00bacogoog_djvu.txt
12. Madeline Yale Wynne "The Little Room" (1895) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/littlerm.htm
13. Harriet Prescott Spofford "The Amber Gods" (1863)
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/beads.html
14. Georgia Wood Pangborne "The Substitute" (1914)
15. Amelia B. Edwards "The Phantom Coach" (1864) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/aedwards.htm
16. Elia Wilkinson Peattie The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales [1898] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1876
17. Mary Wilkins Freeman "Luella Miller" (psychic vampire)
From the collection The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903) http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1617
18. Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1952
19. Vernon Lee pseud. of Vilet Paget "The Doll" (1927)
http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/women_of_horror.htm
20. Gertrude Atherton "The Bell In the Fog" (1905) http://www.litgothic.com/Texts/bellfog.html
21. Sarah Orne Jewett "The Grey Man" (1886)
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/awh/grayman.htm
22. Willa Cather "Consequences" (1915)
http://cather.unl.edu/ss009.html
23. Margery Lawrence "Robin's Rath" (1923),
24. Edith Wharton "Kerfol" (1916) http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/kerfol.htm
25. E. Nesbit "The Power of Darkness" http://www.archive.org/stream/manandmaid00nesbuoft/manandmaid00nesbuoft_djvu.txt
26. Zora Neale Hurston
"Spunk" http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5131/
27. Isak Dineson Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
28. Thea von Harbou author of 1926 novel upon which her husband Fritz Lang based Metropolis (1927), for which she also wrote the script
http://www.michaelorgan.org.au/metroa.htm
29. Marie Belloc Lowndes The film "The Lodger" (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) was based upon Lowndes's novel, although the author was not credited.
The Lodger A story of the London Fog (1912)
http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/lodger.htm
30. C. L. Moore "Shambleau" (1933) (one of many stories written by women which appeared in Weird Tales)
31. Leonora Carrington "The Debutante" (1939)
Text at http://www.redtidebluefire.com/debutante.html
YouTube video (with nod to Angela Carter) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIbxNbcjOw8
32. Daphne Du Maurier Best known for the novel Rebecca (1938, a retelling of Jane Eyre) but also wrote many horror stories which would become films, including "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now," this last a story about a serial killer.
33. Anya Seton Dragonwyck (1945)
34. Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952), A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955(
35. Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Others (1951) (incl. "The Daemon Lover"), The Haunting of Hill House (1959), We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1963)
36. Elizabeth Bowen The Demon Lover (1945), The Cat Jumps (1934)
37. Joan Aiken many spooky stories such as those in The Green Flash and Other Stories (1971) and the novel The Haunting of Lamb House (1999)
38. Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (prequel to Jane Eyre)
http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/colonial3c.html
39. Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber (1979)
40. Ann Rivers Siddons The House Next Door (1976)
41. Anne Rice Interview with the vampire (1976)
42. V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic (1979)
43. Mary Higgins Clark Where Are The Children? (1975), A Stranger is Watching (1977)
44. Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry (1980), "Boobs" (1989)
45. Joyce Carol Oates Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, The Bloodsmoor Romance (1982), "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (1985), Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994), Zombie (1995, Bram Stoker Award)
46. Margaret Atwood Lady Oracle (1976), The Handmaid's Tale (1985),
"Half-Hanged Mary" (1995) http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/277707.shtml
Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, "Your husband is trying to kill you"? Atwood to Karla Hammond, July 1978
47. Susan Hill, The Woman in Black (1983), The Mist in the Mirror (1992), Mrs De Winter (1993)
48. Gloria Naylor Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988)
49. Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
50. A. S. Byatt Possession (1990)
51. Val Martin Mary Reilly (1991)
