Editing Horror fiction (section)

===19th century===
[[File:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Rothwell.tif|left|thumb|upright|[[Mary Shelley]] by [[Richard Rothwell (painter)|Richard Rothwell]] (1840–41)]]
The [[Gothic fiction|Gothic tradition]] blossomed into the genre that modern readers today call horror literature in the 19th century. Influential works and characters that continue resonating in fiction and film today saw their genesis in the [[Brothers Grimm]]'s "[[Hänsel und Gretel]]" (1812), [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Gothic aspects in Frankenstein|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]]'' (1818), [[John William Polidori|John Polidori]]'s "[[The Vampyre]]" (1819), [[Charles Maturin]]'s ''[[Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' (1820), [[Washington Irving]]'s "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]" (1820), [[Jane C. Loudon]]'s ''[[The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century]]'' (1827), [[Victor Hugo]]'s ''[[The Hunchback of Notre-Dame]]'' (1831), [[Thomas Peckett Prest]]'s ''[[Varney the Vampire]]'' (1847), the works of [[Edgar Allan Poe]], the works of [[Sheridan Le Fanu]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'' (1886), [[Oscar Wilde]]'s ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' (1890), [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s "[[Lot No. 249]]" (1892), [[H. G. Wells]]' ''[[The Invisible Man]]'' (1897), and [[Bram Stoker]]'s ''[[Dracula]]'' (1897). Each of these works created an enduring icon of horror seen in later re-imaginings on the page, stage, and screen.<ref>{{cite book |author=Christopher Frayling |year=1996|title=''Nightmare: The Birth of Horror''|place=London|publisher=BBC Books}}</ref>