Horror as a genre By facebooker_1485396450 Aug 20, 1100 The Gothic - Starts Aug 20, 1400 The Gothic - Ends Jul 23, 1660 Neocalssicism - Starts Jan 1, 1750 Witchcrafting and the supernatural Jan 1, 1760 The late 1700th - The Gothic Romance Aug 15, 1764 First horror novel - The castel of Otranto In 1764 Horace Walpole published the first horror novel, called The Castel of Otranto Mar 3, 1785 Neoclassicism - Ends Jan 1, 1800 Early 1800 America - Poe and Hawthorne Jan 1, 1886 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - The Victorian England. Aug 20, 1891 Oscar Wilde - Preface to the Picture of Dorian Gray May 14, 1897 Dracula - The book by Bram Stoker Aug 20, 1900 Freuds psychoanalysis Jan 1, 1910 Frankenstein the movie Nov 4, 1931 Dracula - The Movie Aug 20, 1950 The 20th Century - Horror is only a push button away. Horror movies were everywhere, and became more and more gruesome and extreme.