Create a moody, literary classroom display with 10 Gothic and dark-classic quote posters featuring public-domain quotes from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and more.

Bring classic literary atmosphere into your classroom with this coordinated set of 10 Gothic and dark-classic literary quote posters for secondary ELA.

This poster collection features public-domain quotes from some of the most memorable voices in Gothic and dark literature, all designed in a cohesive vintage editorial style that feels dramatic, literary, and classroom-ready.

AUTHORS INCLUDED
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Mary Shelley
• Bram Stoker
• Emily Brontë
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Dickinson
• Oscar Wilde
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

WHAT IS INCLUDED
• 1 printable PDF with all 10 posters in US Letter format
• 10 individual JPG poster files
• Start Here file with printing notes

POSTERS INCLUDED
• Edgar Allan Poe — “A Dream Within a Dream”
• Mary Shelley — Frankenstein
• Bram Stoker — Dracula
• Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights
• Charlotte Brontë — Jane Eyre
• Emily Dickinson — “Because I could not stop for Death”
• Oscar Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray
• Robert Louis Stevenson — The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Nathaniel Hawthorne — Passages from the American Note-Books
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge — The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

BEST FOR
• High school ELA
• AP Literature
• British literature
• Gothic literature units
• Classroom decor
• Library decor
• Reading corner displays
• Bulletin boards

PLEASE NOTE
These are quote posters designed for classroom decor and literary atmosphere. They are not instructional anchor charts.

Teaching Gothic literature rather than decorating for it? Pair these quote posters with the Literary Movements Posters, which include Gothic Literature, Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Modernism, and more.

OR

Pair the poster set with The Monkey's Paw: The Price of a Wish, a two-day suspense lesson focused on warning, irony, pacing, atmosphere, and ambiguity.


Teaching Edgar Allan Poe? The Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle includes Poe background, “The Raven,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”


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