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| Title | Author | Year | |-------|--------|------| | The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1764 | | Vathek | William Beckford | 1786 | | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1794 | | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1818 | | Carmilla | Sheridan Le Fanu | 1872 | | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 |