This is a list complied by Woolrich13, a member of one of my other groups, Gothic Literature. He's o.k with me cutting and pasting it here:
"You are speaking my language, because I am a big fan of Victorian and Edwardian supernatural and gothic fiction. With Le Fanu, I'd recommend that you read a few of his novels, notably UNCLE SILAS, WYLDER'S HAND and THE ROSE AND THE KEY. Don't expect a large amount of supernatural content in these, more in passing, but they are great examples of the latter gothic. I'd also recommend some of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short stories. An American publisher, the Ash-Tree Press released a very good compilation of these a decade back, THE COLD EMBRACE, but many of the stories in it are available online: "The Cold Embrace," "Eveline's Visitant," "My Wife's Promise," "At Chrighton Abbey," "Her Last Appearance," "The Shadow in the Corner," "The Face in the Glass," "The Island of Old Faces," & "Good Lady Ducayne." These are heavy on mood and atmosphere. I'd also recommend Mrs. J.H. Riddell (aka Charlotte Riddell), and Wordsworth Press in Britain has a good, cheap single paperback edition of her best short work, NIGHT SHIVERS. The contents are all good and consist of "The Open Door," "Nut Bush Farm," "The Last of Squire Ennismore," "A Strange Christmas Game," "The Old House in Vauxhall Walk," "Sandy, the Tinker," "Forewarned, Forearmed," "Hertford O'Donnell's Warning," "Walnut Tree House," "Old Mrs. Jones," "Why Dr. Cray Left Southam," "Conn Kilrea," "Diarmid Chittock's Story," "A Terrible Vengeance" and "The Uninhabited House." Many of these tales are also available online. Mrs. Riddell also has a novel with a gothic tone, THE NUN'S CURSE, that is decent reading. E.F. Bleiler edited and Dover Publications printed an anthology called FIVE VICTORIAN GHOST NOVELS, that I believe still is in print. The contents vary in quality, but there's some good stuff in it: "The Uninhabited House" by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (again), "The Amber Witch" by J. W. Meinhold, "Monsieur Maurice" by Amelia B. Edwards, "A Phantom Lover" by Vernon Lee, and "The Ghost of Muir House" by Charles Beale. Speaking of Amelia B. Edwards, who's perhaps best known these days as the first famous female popular Egyptologist, I'd recommend many of her ghost and gothic tales wholeheartedly: "My Brother's Ghost Story," "Number Three," "The Phantom Coach," "The Recollections of Professor Henneberg," "An Engineer's Story," "The Four-fifteen Express," "The New Pass," "In the Confessional," "Sister Johanna's Story," "Monsieur Maurice," and "Was it an Illusion?". Another good novel of similar vintage is J. Meade Falkner's THE LOST STRADIVARIUS. I'd also recommend Barry Pain's STORIES IN THE DARK and STORIES IN GREY. If you'd care for straightforward ghost stories as by the Le Fanu tales you'd cited, anything by M.R. James is hard to beat. I'll also mention in passing many of the short tales of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Oliphant and Vernon Lee.
That is really just scratching the surface. I could spend several hours just compiling a list of basics."
"You are speaking my language, because I am a big fan of Victorian and Edwardian supernatural and gothic fiction. With Le Fanu, I'd recommend that you read a few of his novels, notably UNCLE SILAS, WYLDER'S HAND and THE ROSE AND THE KEY. Don't expect a large amount of supernatural content in these, more in passing, but they are great examples of the latter gothic. I'd also recommend some of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short stories. An American publisher, the Ash-Tree Press released a very good compilation of these a decade back, THE COLD EMBRACE, but many of the stories in it are available online: "The Cold Embrace," "Eveline's Visitant," "My Wife's Promise," "At Chrighton Abbey," "Her Last Appearance," "The Shadow in the Corner," "The Face in the Glass," "The Island of Old Faces," & "Good Lady Ducayne." These are heavy on mood and atmosphere. I'd also recommend Mrs. J.H. Riddell (aka Charlotte Riddell), and Wordsworth Press in Britain has a good, cheap single paperback edition of her best short work, NIGHT SHIVERS. The contents are all good and consist of "The Open Door," "Nut Bush Farm," "The Last of Squire Ennismore," "A Strange Christmas Game," "The Old House in Vauxhall Walk," "Sandy, the Tinker," "Forewarned, Forearmed," "Hertford O'Donnell's Warning," "Walnut Tree House," "Old Mrs. Jones," "Why Dr. Cray Left Southam," "Conn Kilrea," "Diarmid Chittock's Story," "A Terrible Vengeance" and "The Uninhabited House." Many of these tales are also available online. Mrs. Riddell also has a novel with a gothic tone, THE NUN'S CURSE, that is decent reading. E.F. Bleiler edited and Dover Publications printed an anthology called FIVE VICTORIAN GHOST NOVELS, that I believe still is in print. The contents vary in quality, but there's some good stuff in it: "The Uninhabited House" by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (again), "The Amber Witch" by J. W. Meinhold, "Monsieur Maurice" by Amelia B. Edwards, "A Phantom Lover" by Vernon Lee, and "The Ghost of Muir House" by Charles Beale. Speaking of Amelia B. Edwards, who's perhaps best known these days as the first famous female popular Egyptologist, I'd
recommend many of her ghost and gothic tales wholeheartedly: "My Brother's Ghost Story," "Number Three," "The Phantom Coach," "The Recollections of Professor Henneberg," "An Engineer's Story," "The Four-fifteen Express," "The New Pass," "In the Confessional," "Sister Johanna's Story," "Monsieur Maurice," and "Was it an Illusion?". Another good novel of similar vintage is J. Meade Falkner's THE LOST STRADIVARIUS. I'd also recommend Barry Pain's STORIES IN THE DARK and STORIES IN GREY. If you'd care for straightforward ghost stories as by the Le Fanu tales you'd cited, anything by M.R. James is hard to beat. I'll also mention in passing many of the short tales of Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Oliphant and Vernon Lee.
That is really just scratching the surface. I could spend several hours just compiling a list of basics."