S.T. Coleridge, “Christabel”, in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, ninth edition, ed. S. Greenblatt, Norton 2012
G.G. Byron, “Darkness”, The Norton Anthology
J. Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, The Norton Anthology
E.A. Poe, “Ligeia”, “The Black Cat”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings, Penguin 2003
G. Eliot, The Lifted Veil, Oxford 2009
W. Collins, “The Frozen Deep”, CreateSpace 2016
S. Le Fanu, “Carmilla”, Vintage 2013
C. Rossetti, “Goblin Market”, The Norton Anthology
B. Stoker, “The Squaw”, CreateSpace 2012
H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Penguin 2005
A. Carter, “The Bloody Chamber”, in Burning Your Boats, Vintage 2006
N. Gordimer, “Six Feet of the Country”, “Look-Alikes”, in Life Times, Bloomsbury 2011

Un romanzo a scelta tra:

M.G. Lewis, The Monk, Penguin
Ann Radcliffe, The Italian, Penguin
William Beckford, Vathek, Penguin
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Penguin
James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Penguin
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, Oxford
Bram Stoker, Dracula, Penguin
Salman Rushdie, Shame, Vintage 1995
Patrick Mc Grath, Asylum, Random House 1996
Hanif Kureishi, The Body, Faber & Faber 2002
James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack, Penguin 2006
Dan Simmons, The Terror, Little, Brown and Company 2007

Bibliografia critica

D. Punter, The Literary of Terror. A History of Gothic Fictions, Longman 1980 (e edizioni successive)
J.E. Hogle (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, CUP 2002
D. Punter (ed.), A New Companion to the Gothic, Blackwell 2015
S. Freud, The Uncanny, Penguin 2003
S. Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Penguin 2003