Middlemarch (1871-72) is considered to be George Eliot's masterpiece of provincial life in Victorian England.
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley is considered to be the first Gothic novel of note. Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster which he then seeks to destroy.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), by Robert Louis Stevenson, recounts how Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion which causes his person to split into one Mr. Hyde, a despicable creature who embodies all of the doctor's basest impulses.
Twice-Told Tales (1837), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, contains some stories with Gothic elements in an American setting.
The Dead Zone (1979),.....
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