"Great God! His yellowish skin was barely enough to cover the mesh of muscles and veins; his hair was shiny black and long; his teeth like pearls. But all this only made all the more striking a contrast to the watery eyes that barely stood out from the sockets, the wrinkled skin, and the blackish, narrow lips." The Gothic novel has had a major impact on literature and popular culture and is one of the best-known representatives of the horror genre. In 2015, 82 international literary critics and scholars chose it as one of the most important British novels Gröls Classics - English Edition