Set texts studied at Stockton Sixth form College
· Angela Carter – The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
· Bram Stoker – Dracula

Other suggested Gothic set texts for Comparative and Contextual study:
· William Beckford: Vathek
· Ann Radcliffe: The Italian
· Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
· Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
· William Faulkner: Light in August
· Cormac McCarthy: Outer Dark
· Iain Banks: The Wasp Factory
· Toni Morrison: Beloved
These can be read and studied optionally (but knowledge of some is strongly recommended given the weighting of AO3 - Context in this component). These texts give students a superb depth and breadth of reference in both essays, showing wider reading to demonstrate a profound knowledge and understanding of the Gothic genre, its evolution, its tropes, themes, typical language features and structures. Many of my students have already read and enjoyed Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Beloved.
Other Gothic texts also enjoyed by my students so far:
· Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
· Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
· Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen
· William Shakespeare: Macbeth
· Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
· Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist
· John Polidori: The Vampyre
· Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla
· Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto
· Edgar Allen Poe: The Cask of Amontillado; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven and many other short stories
· William Wycherley: The Country Wife (for context for Carter’s Puss-in-Boots)
· Charles Perrault: The Tales of Mother Goose ( including Puss-in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty)
· Gregory Maguire: Wicked
· Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
· Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
· H.P Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulu; The Music of Erich Zann; The Picture in the House; Old Bugs and many other short stories
· Stephen King: The Shining and many other novels
· Susan Hill: The Woman in Black
· Gaston: The Phantom of the Opera