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The Castle of Otranto 

Who is Horace Walpole 

100

The typical setting for a gothic novel.

What is a castle or large foreboding mansion?

100

The villain of a gothic novel

What is a paranormal/murderous male?

100

Warnings and omens of the past, these characters serve to help, scare, and warn protagonists 

What are ghosts?

100

The first Gothic Novel

What is The Castle of Otranto?

200

Dracula 

Who is Bram Stoker

200

Besides a castle, another common setting is

What is a mansion?

200

Alone and isolated.

What are gothic protagonists?

200

The most famous Gothic novel character that gave a household name to the Vampire.

Who is Ct. Dracula?

200

The first novel that used gothic tropes to explore both the evil natures in science and the inability of the human race to be truly "without evil."

What is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

300

Frankenstein 

Who is Mary Shelly?

300

Often the setting of high points of the plot, this setting usually sits beside the castle or house.

What is a graveyard/cemetery?

300

High and continually intense.

What are emotions?

300

Suave and often temptations, these characters were initially used as a symbol for sexual temptations.

What are vampires?

300

A short story that uses gothic styles to explore a man's inner turmoil after he murder's his landlord.

What is The Tell-Tale Heart?

400

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Robert Louis Stevenson

400

Later and modern writers use this to make a normal non-castle like area fit the gothic style.

What is bad weather?

400

The supernatural provide these as warnings for the protagonists about what will happen in the future.

What is an omen?

400

Developed by Poe as a way to cause more eerie and unknown variables in a story.

What is an unreliable narrator?

400

It was originally titled "The Modern Prometheus"

What is Frankenstein

500

Murders at the Rue Morgue 

Poe

500

A true gothic novel will often have a castle or house with these unknown locations

What are secret passages?

500

Continually on the decline whether it be life to death or prosperous to poor.

What is decay?

500

Often faint at the site or thought of impurity 

What are female heroines?

500

Doyle's detective novel that is most famously cited as a gothic novel.

What is The Hounds of Bakersfield?

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