Horror

Person - Dante Alighieri

Period: Jan 1, 1265 to Jan 1, 1321

Event - La Comedia

Jan 1, 1310

By Dante Alighieri

Person - Horace Walpole

Period: Sep 24, 1717 to Mar 2, 1797

Era - Science Fiction

Jan 1, 1741

Niels Klim's Underground Travels by Ludvig Holberg.

Event - The Castle of Otranto

Jan 1, 1764

By Horace Walpole

Era - Gothic Horror

Jan 1, 1764

Person - Mary Shelley

Period: Jan 1, 1797 to Jan 1, 1851

Person - Edgar Allen Poe

Period: Jan 19, 1809 to Oct 7, 1849

Event - Frankenstein

Jan 1, 1818

By Mary Shelley

Event - Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Jan 1, 1839

By Edgar Allen Poe

Event - The String of Pearls

Jan 1, 1847

By Thomas Prest

Person - Bram Stoker

Period: Nov 8, 1847 to Apr 20, 1912

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

Jan 1, 1886

By Robert Stevenson

Era - Horror Films

Jan 1, 1896

The Devil's Castle. By French filmmaker Georges Melies.

Event - The Devil's Castle

Jan 1, 1896

Film by Georges Melies.

Event - Dracula

Jan 1, 1897

By Bram Stoker

Event - The Devil's Dictionary

Jan 1, 1906

By Ambrose Bierce

Event - Night of Terror

Jan 1, 1916

First Vampire film by Arthur Robison.