| Author |
Work(s) |
Genre[11] |
Description |
|---|
| Eliza Parsons | Castle of Wolfenbach (1793)
The Mysterious Warning, a German Tale (1796) | Gothic | Wolfenbach and Mysterious Warning are two of the "Northanger 'horrid' novels", seven Gothic novels lampooned by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey and once thought to be fictional titles of Austen's creation.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| Lawrence Flammenberg | The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest (1794) | Gothic | Another of Austen's Northanger 'horrid' novels.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| Francis Lathom | The Castle of Ollada (1795)
The Midnight Bell (1798) | Gothic | Latham's first novel, The Castle of Ollada, is the story of a young man trying to solve the mystery of the ancient castle.
Midnight Bell is another of Austen's Northanger 'horrid' novels.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| Matthew Lewis | The Monk (1796) | Gothic
Horror | The Monk, the sinister and violent tale of an increasingly destructive Spanish monk, was praised for its genius and simultaneously condemned for its lewdness, vulgarity and blasphemy by the most important critics of its day.[12][13][14][15] The novel was widely popular because the reading public had been told that the book was horrible, blasphemous, and lewd, and they rushed to put their morality to the test.[12] |
| Regina Maria Roche | Clermont (1798) | Gothic | Another of Austen's Northanger 'horrid' novels.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| Eleanor Sleath | The Orphan of the Rhine (1798) | Gothic | Another of Austen's Northanger 'horrid' novels.[3][4][5][6][7] |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | Carmilla (1871) | Horror
LGBTQ | A lesbian vampire tale that influenced Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).[1] |
| Anonymous | The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881)
Letters from Laura and Eveline (1883) | LGBTQ | A Victorian erotic novel about a male prostitute, set in London around the time of the Cleveland Street Scandal and the Oscar Wilde trials.[1] Letters from Laura and Eveline is its "appendix" or sequel.[2] |
| Anonymous | Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal (1893) | LGBTQ | One of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography to explicitly and near-exclusively concern homosexuality, of unknown authorship but often attributed to a collaborative effort by Oscar Wilde and some of his contemporaries.[16][17][18] |
| Charles R. Jackson | The Fall of Valor (1946) | LGBTQ | A man vacationing with his wife in Nantucket finds himself falling in love with a Marine. The novel is "arguably the first major American novel to deal openly with the theme of homosexuality."[19] |
| Francis King | Never Again (1947)
An Air That Kills (1948)
The Dividing Stream (1951)
The Dark Glasses (1954) | | Never Again is a "heartbreaking" novel based on the author's childhood; An Air That Kills is the story of a malaria-stricken writer who returns from a stint as a colonial administrator in India and forges a relationship with his orphaned nephew.[1] The Dividing Stream won the 1952 Somerset Maugham Award,[20] and in The Dark Glasses a married couple who have lost the spark in their marriage move to Corfu. |
| Walter Baxter | Look Down in Mercy (1951) | LGBTQ | Celebrated novel about the World War II romance between an officer and an enlisted man.[1][21][22][23] |
| Rodney Garland | The Heart in Exile (1953) | LGBTQ | The first gay detective novel, about a psychiatrist investigating his former lover's suicide.[1] |
| Kenneth Martin | Aubade (1957) | | The story of a teenager's first love, written when the author was 16.[1] |
| Gerald Kersh | Fowler's End (1958)
Nightshade and Damnations (1968) | | Fowler's End is a Depression-era Dickensian comedy.
Nightshade and Damnations is a collection of Kersh's short stories edited by Harlan Ellison. |
| Michael Nelson | A Room in Chelsea Square (1958) | LGBTQ | A "camp" novel about a wealthy gentleman who lures an attractive younger man to London with the promise of an upper crust lifestyle.[1][24] |
| Gillian Freeman | The Leather Boys (1961) | LGBTQ | The first novel to focus on love between young working-class men rather than aristocrats.[1] It was adapted into the 1964 film The Leather Boys.[25] |
| Robin Maugham | The Wrong People (1967) | LGBTQ | Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Tangier, gives in to his long-suppressed homosexual desires and subsequently becomes embroiled in a dangerous sex trafficking scheme devised by a wealthy and manipulative American expatriate, Ewing Baird.[26][27] |
| Michael Campbell | Lord Dismiss Us (1967) | LGBTQ | Story of two gay people at a boarding school: "a teenager unashamedly coming to terms with his identity and a tortured teacher who is unable to accept his own,"[1] published in the same year that homosexuality between consenting adults was legalized in the United Kingdom.[28] |
| Michael McDowell | - The Amulet (1979)
- Cold Moon Over Babylon (1980)
- Gilded Needles (1980)
- The Elementals (1981)
- Katie (1982)
- Blood Rubies (1982) as Axel Young
- Wicked Stepmother (1983) as Axel Young
- Toplin (1985)
| Horror | The Elementals is a horror novel that Poppy Z. Brite has called "surely one of the most terrifying novels ever written," and which led Stephen King to proclaim McDowell "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today."[1][29] |
| Michael Talbot | The Delicate Dependency (1982) | Horror | A celebrated vampire novel.[1] |
