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