Gothic novels, a genre of English literature, are generally considered to have emerged with Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto." Gothic novels can be said to be the originators of horror movies. More importantly, they enable us to associate Gothic with darkness and horror today.
Obvious elements of Gothic novels include horror, mystery, supernatural, doom, death, decadence, old houses inhabited by ghosts, madness, family curses, etc.
I have not watched "Wuthering Heights", but I believe you can judge it based on the above definition.
Classic Gothic novels:
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin
Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford
The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley (Full text at Wikisource)
The Vampyre (1819) by John William Polidori
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin< /p>
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
The Mummy's Foot (1863) by Théophile Gautier (Full text at Wikisource)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Horla (1887) by Guy de Maupassant (Full text at Wikisource)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Monkey's Paw (1902 by W.W. Jacobs
The Lair of the White Worm (1911) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
Gormenghast (1946 - 1959) by Mervyn Peake