Timeline: Horror | Timetoast

Period: Jan 1, 1265 to Jan 1, 1321

Person - Dante Alighieri
Jan 1, 1310

Event - La Comedia

By Dante Alighieri
Period: Sep 24, 1717 to Mar 2, 1797

Person - Horace Walpole
Jan 1, 1741

Era - Science Fiction

Niels Klim's Underground Travels by Ludvig Holberg.
Jan 1, 1764

Event - The Castle of Otranto

By Horace Walpole
Jan 1, 1764

Era - Gothic Horror
Period: Jan 1, 1797 to Jan 1, 1851

Person - Mary Shelley
Period: Jan 19, 1809 to Oct 7, 1849

Person - Edgar Allen Poe
Jan 1, 1818

Event - Frankenstein

By Mary Shelley
Jan 1, 1839

Event - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

By Edgar Allen Poe
Jan 1, 1847

Event - The String of Pearls

By Thomas Prest
Period: Nov 8, 1847 to Apr 20, 1912

Person - Bram Stoker
Jan 1, 1886

Event - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By Robert Stevenson
Jan 1, 1896

Era - Horror Films

The Devil's Castle. By French filmmaker Georges Melies.
Jan 1, 1896

Event - The Devil's Castle

Film by Georges Melies.
Jan 1, 1897

Event - Dracula

By Bram Stoker
Jan 1, 1906

Event - The Devil's Dictionary

By Ambrose Bierce
Jan 1, 1916

Event - Night of Terror

First Vampire film by Arthur Robison.