Horror 3 October 21, 2026

Gothic Women Writers: Reason, Madness, Locked Rooms

Every book from this episode, with authors and years.

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The books

  1. The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe, 1794
  2. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847
  3. The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
  4. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier, 1938
  5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson, 1962
  6. Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys, 1966
  7. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, Angela Carter, 1979
  8. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, 2019

Also mentioned

  • The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole, 1764
  • Bluebeard, Charles Perrault, 1697
  • The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, 1959 Covered in Horror 1
  • Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, Stith Thompson, 1932–1936
  • Gas Light (play), Patrick Hamilton, 1938

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