| HUNCHBACK | The --- Of Notre-Dame, French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831 (9) |
| LESMISERABLES | Novel by Victor Hugo published in 1862 (3,10) |
| APAEAN | Poem by 36-Across published in 1831 which was revised, renamed and later published as 63-Across |
| NOTRE | ___ Dame (French cathedral) |
| QUASIMODO | The name of the title character in 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' by Victor Hugo (9) |
| NOTREDAME | '--- de Paris', novel by Victor Hugo (5,4) |
| RIGOLETTO | Opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo |
| NOTREDAMEDEPARIS | French name for the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo featuring the hunchback bell-ringer Quasimodo |
| NATTURNER | He led a slave rebellion in 1831 and his story was told in a 2016 film: 2 wds. |
| CLARKROSS | James _ _, naval officer and explorer; located the north magnetic pole in 1831 (5,4) |
| MISERABLES | Musical based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les ... |
| ERIK | Name of the phantom in a gothic novel by French author Gaston Leroux (4) |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| OTRANTO | The Castle of ____, gothic novel by Horace Walpole published in 1764 (7) |
| FLECHE | Meaning "arrow", a spirelet of a French Gothic cathedral; one of the 24 points on a backgammon board; or, a running attack in fencing (6) |
| DORIAN | The Picture of ___ Gray gothic novel by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of a man and his unusual portrait |
| DRACULA | Gothic novel by Bram Stoker which tells the story of a vampire on the loose |
| SOANE | Architect who designed the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the since re-built Bank of England; knighted in 1831, he was the son of a bricklayer (5) |
| REBECCA | Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier published in 1938 (7) |
| VATHEK | Gothic novel by William Beckford first published in 1786 (6) |