哥特小说（Gothic fiction或Gothic horror），十八世纪开始的英语文学流派。

一般认为哥德小说的滥觞是霍勒斯·渥波尔（Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford，1717年－1797年，也译作贺瑞斯·华尔波尔）所写的《奥托兰多城堡》。哥德小说可以说是恐怖电影的鼻祖，更重要的是，它使我们今天习惯地将哥特式（Gothic）与黑暗、恐怖联系在一起。

显着的哥特小说元素包括恐怖、神秘、超自然、厄运、死亡、颓废、住着幽灵的老房子、癫狂、家族诅咒、吸血鬼、狼人等。

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled (in its second edition) "A Gothic Story." The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th, as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Another well known novel in this genre, dating from the late Victorian era, is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The name Gothic refers to the (pseudo)-medieval buildings, emulating Gothic architecture, in which many of these stories take place. This extreme form of romanticism was very popular in England and Germany. The English Gothic novel also led to new novel types such as the German Schauerroman and the French Georgia.