Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction is a genre of fiction which combines parts of both horror and romance. The genre is said to have started in England in 1764 with Horace Walpole's book The Castle of Otranto. The Castle of Otranto's second edition was subtitled A Gothic Story.^[1] The idea quickly spread to other European languages.

A famous early example of gothic fiction is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, in the early 19th Century.^[2] Edgar Allen Poe's work and Bram Stoker's Dracula were written later.^[3]

Gothic Fiction Media

The ruins of Wolf's Crag castle in Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the "Gothic Revival" style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
The Gothic Temple folly in the gardens at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, UK, built as a ruin in 1741, designed by James Gibbs
Catherine Morland, the naive protagonist of Northanger Abbey (1818), Jane Austen's Gothic parody
Jane Eyre's trial through the moors in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847)

References

↑ Kilgour, Maggie 1995. The rise of the gothic novel. London: Routledge.
↑ "Mary Shelley - Life, Frankenstein & Books". 6 May 2021.
↑ Bloom, Clive 2007. Gothic horror: a guide for students and readers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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[1] Kilgour, Maggie 1995. The rise of the gothic novel. London: Routledge.

[2] "Mary Shelley - Life, Frankenstein & Books". 6 May 2021.

[3] Bloom, Clive 2007. Gothic horror: a guide for students and readers. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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