Gothic Fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "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. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.
Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the Gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere.
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery,
the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, transgression, excess, secrets, and hereditary curses.
The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes (The Byronic hero is an idealised but flawed character exemplified in the life and writings of English Romantic poet Lord Byron), persecuted maidens, femmes fatales (a mysterious and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetype of literature and art), monks, nuns, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves(a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely, by being bitten by another werewolf, or after being placed under a curse), monsters, demons, dragons, angels, fallen angels, revenants (a visible ghost or animated corpse that was believed to return from the grave to terrorize the livinggenre), ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.

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