Gothic Fiction is a type of literature that strives off of darkness, fear and even terror. One of the first Gothic books ever written was by Horace Walpole in 1764. A common feature in gothic novels back than was the reoccuring use of ruins of destoryed buildings in gothic novels often signified the decay of human creations. The decay of human creations was used by a lot of writers because of their Anti-Catholicism. However Gothic and Romanticism have been often combinded at times in novels but represent the Yin and Yang of two distinct characteristics. Many features of a Gothic book would include :
Death, Decay, Darkness, haunted houses, ghosts and etc...
Many famous Arthors such as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Pole used a lot of gothic based themes in their stories that have carried on today too modern society.
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