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LIT 2000: Gothic Literature - Professor Surendar: Other Resources

This LibGuide was created to aid Professor Brinda Surendar's LIT2000 course.

Black Box with Red Text stating Gothic Literature

Books @ MDC Libraries

Book cover of Literature of Terror with Dracula's face
Book cover of Suburban Gothic with a basement door
Book cover of Demons of the Body with two human eyes staring
Book cover of Haunted Presence with graveyard
Book cover of Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Book cover of Gothic Fiction Gothic Form
Cover of Horror Fiction featuring a walking monster
Book cover of Classic Horror Stories with flowers
DVD Cover Monsters Among Us
Book Cover of Tale of Terror
Book cover of Gothic Tales of Terror
Book cover of Gothika with forest
Book cover of Gothic Tales with staircase
Book cover of Hollywood Horror with Frankenstein
Book cover of Femicidal Fears black with red letters
Book cover of Evil Image black with red letters

Primary Source Resources

The Gothic Archive is an online digital collection of late eighteenth and nineteenth-century British Gothic chapbooks and related materials, hosted at Marquette University. 

HathiTrust is a repository of 17 million digitized items. Works published before January 1, 1927, are considered to be in the public domain and are fully available on this site. 

Price One Penny (POP): Cheap Literature, 1837-1860  is a database created by Marie Léger-St-Jean at the University of Cambridge. It contains a database of early Victorian penny fiction. 

Project Gutenberg is an online collection of free electronic books. Their Gothic collection includes many of the most popular Gothic works of literature.

The Westminster Detective Library is housed at McDaniel College. Their mission is to catalog and make available online all the short fiction dealing with detectives and detection published in the United States before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1891). 

Secondary Source Resources

The British Library has numerous articles, videos, biographies, and books related to Gothic Literature, mostly focusing on Victorian England.

Romanticism on the Net is an international, open access journal devoted to British Romantic literature. The journal was founded by Michael E. Sinatra in February 1996. It expanded its scope in August 2007 to include Victorian literature. Issue #44 is specifically about Gothic Literature.

The Sickly Taper is the world's largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Gothic bibliography, the brain-child of Dr. Frederick S. Frank.

Online Books @ MDC

Databases about Literature

E-Book Databases