Famous Authors
The Castle of Otranto
Who is Horace Walpole
The typical setting for a gothic novel.
What is a castle or large foreboding mansion?
The villain of a gothic novel
What is a paranormal/murderous male?
Warnings and omens of the past, these characters serve to help, scare, and warn protagonists
What are ghosts?
The first Gothic Novel
What is The Castle of Otranto?
Dracula
Who is Bram Stoker
Besides a castle, another common setting is
What is a mansion?
Alone and isolated.
What are gothic protagonists?
The most famous Gothic novel character that gave a household name to the Vampire.
Who is Ct. Dracula?
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?
Frankenstein
Who is Mary Shelly?
Often the setting of high points of the plot, this setting usually sits beside the castle or house.
What is a graveyard/cemetery?
High and continually intense.
What are emotions?
Suave and often temptations, these characters were initially used as a symbol for sexual temptations.
What are vampires?
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?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Later and modern writers use this to make a normal non-castle like area fit the gothic style.
What is bad weather?
The supernatural provide these as warnings for the protagonists about what will happen in the future.
What is an omen?
Developed by Poe as a way to cause more eerie and unknown variables in a story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
It was originally titled "The Modern Prometheus"
What is Frankenstein?
Murders at the Rue Morgue
Poe
A true gothic novel will often have a castle or house with these unknown locations
What are secret passages?
Continually on the decline whether it be life to death or prosperous to poor.
What is decay?
Often faint at the site or thought of impurity
What are female heroines?
Doyle's detective novel that is most famously cited as a gothic novel.
What is The Hounds of Bakersfield?