Gothic

A literary mode that creates fear and unease through features such as darkness, mysterious settings, death and supernatural appearances.

A literary tradition that creates fear and uncertainty through features such as isolated buildings, hidden secrets, confinement and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode using fear, mystery, threatening settings and the possibility of supernatural events, often to explore psychological or social conflict.

A literary mode associated with fear, darkness, decay, confinement and apparently supernatural experiences.

A literary mode associated with terror, threatening secrets, decay and disturbing or apparently supernatural experiences.

A literary mode that creates fear, mystery and unease through features such as darkness, decay, confinement and apparently supernatural experiences.

A mode of writing that creates fear and unease through features such as darkness, decay, isolation and apparently supernatural experiences.

A literary genre that creates fear through mystery, threatening settings, disturbing events and the supernatural or apparently supernatural.

A literary tradition that creates fear and unease through features such as disturbing violence, secrecy, threatening settings and apparently unnatural events.

A literary mode that creates fear and unease through features such as confinement, disturbing mysteries and threats to ordinary life.

A literary mode involving terror, disturbing secrets and challenges to ordinary explanations of reality.

A literary mode that creates fear and uncertainty through elements such as secrecy, disturbing transformations, confinement and threats to identity.

A literary mode that creates fear and uncertainty through disturbing settings, threatening figures, secrecy and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode that creates unease through mystery, terror, disturbing settings and apparently supernatural events.

A literary genre associated with terror, secrecy, threatening settings and disturbances of ordinary experience, often involving the supernatural.

A literary mode that creates fear and uncertainty through features such as darkness, mystery, supernatural figures and threatening settings.

A literary mode that creates unease through features such as darkness, mystery, supernatural beings and threatening settings.

A literary mode using features such as darkness, mystery, supernatural events and threats of death to create fear and suspense.

A literary mode associated with fear, mystery, disturbing settings and challenges to boundaries such as those between life and death.

A literary mode that creates fear and unease through features such as isolation, threatening settings, secrecy and disturbing events.

A literary mode associated with terror, disturbing events, threatening settings and uncertainty about the boundaries of ordinary human experience.

A literary mode associated with fear, disturbing secrets, isolation, death and threats to familiar boundaries.

A literary mode using fear, mystery, threatening settings and disturbing or uncanny experiences.

A literary genre using mystery, threatening settings, horror and disturbances of ordinary life to explore fears and conflicts.

A literary genre associated with mystery, terror, disturbing settings and threats to ordinary explanations of the world.

Writing that creates fear, mystery and unease, often through threatening settings, disturbing events and suggestions of the supernatural.

A literary genre that creates fear and unease through mystery, threatening settings, concealment and disturbing events. Stevenson brings these conventions into the streets and houses of London.

A literary mode associated with fear, mystery, confinement and disturbing threats to ordinary life or understanding.

Literary conventions that create terror and uncertainty, often through disturbing transformations, secrecy and threats to familiar boundaries.

A literary mode associated with fear, secrecy, disturbing settings and threats to familiar boundaries, including those between human and monstrous.

A literary form associated with fear, secrecy, disturbing events and threats to familiar boundaries, including the boundary between the natural and supernatural.

A literary mode associated with terror, disturbing secrets, the uncanny and challenges to ordinary understanding.

A literary tradition that uses fear, secrecy, disturbing settings and threats to ordinary identity or security; the divided self is a recurring Gothic device.

A literary mode associated with terror, disturbing mysteries and threats to ordinary life. Stevenson brings Gothic horror into the modern setting of medical consulting rooms and laboratories.

A literary genre using mystery, threatening settings, disturbing events and sometimes supernatural elements to explore fear and uncertainty.

A literary genre using fear, mystery, confinement, threatening settings and apparently supernatural events to explore danger and disturbing emotions.

A literary mode involving fear, confinement, mystery and apparent supernatural events. The red-room combines these features with Jane’s experience of family cruelty.

A literary tradition using threatening settings, secrecy, confinement and apparently supernatural events to create fear and suspense.

A literary mode using mystery, fear, extreme experiences and apparently supernatural events. Rochester’s distant call introduces Gothic uncertainty into the Moor House chapters.

A literary mode using features such as threatening buildings, isolation, secrets and apparently supernatural events to create mystery and fear.

A literary mode that creates mystery, fear and unease through features such as concealed secrets, threatening buildings and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode that creates fear and suspense through features such as hidden secrets, confinement, threatening settings and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode that creates mystery and terror through features such as gloomy buildings, confinement, concealed secrets and apparently supernatural events.

A literary tradition using fear, mystery, threatening settings, confinement and apparently supernatural events.

Writing that uses features such as darkness, supernatural beings, threatening settings and fear. In A Christmas Carol, these features help communicate moral warnings.

A literary tradition that uses darkness, threatening settings, mystery and the supernatural to create fear and uncertainty.

A literary mode using fear, mystery, disturbing settings and sometimes supernatural events.

A literary mode using mystery, darkness, fear and the supernatural to unsettle readers.

A literary tradition using features such as disturbing settings, secrecy, the uncanny and threats to ordinary life to explore fear.

A literary mode using secrecy, threatening settings, disturbing events and uncertainty about the supernatural to create fear and suspense.

Writing that creates mystery, fear or unease through features such as isolated buildings, darkness, threatening events and apparently supernatural experiences.

A literary mode that creates fear and uncertainty through features such as hidden secrets, confinement, threatening settings and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode using mystery, threatening settings, intense emotions and apparently supernatural events to create fear and uncertainty.

Literary writing associated with fear, confinement, threatening settings and apparent supernatural events.

A literary tradition that creates fear and suspense through features such as threatening buildings, hidden secrets, imprisonment and apparently supernatural events.

A literary genre using fear, secrecy, confinement, disturbing settings and possible supernatural events.

A literary genre that creates fear through mystery, threatening settings, the supernatural and disturbances to familiar life or identity.

A literary tradition that creates terror or horror through mystery, threatening settings, disturbing events and often apparently supernatural forces.

A literary mode that creates fear and unease through mystery, threatening settings, disturbing events and suggestions of the supernatural.

A literary genre that creates fear and unease through mystery, threatening settings, the uncanny and sometimes supernatural events.

A literary mode that creates fear and uncertainty through features such as threatening settings, confinement, secrecy and apparently supernatural events.

A literary genre that uses fear, mystery, confinement and disturbing or supernatural events to explore human anxieties.

A literary genre that explores fear, mystery, threatening forces and the breakdown of familiar boundaries, often using monstrous or supernatural events.

A literary tradition involving terror, disturbing secrets and threats to ordinary explanations of the world.

Writing that creates fear and unease through features such as secrecy, confinement, disturbing events and apparently supernatural threats.

A literary mode that creates fear through disturbing mysteries, threatened identities and apparently supernatural events.

A literary mode that creates fear through disturbing events, threatened victims, secrecy and challenges to familiar boundaries, such as those between human and animal.

A literary genre that creates fear through mystery, threatening settings, extreme experiences and apparently supernatural events.

A literary genre associated with fear, mystery, disturbing secrets and threats to ordinary life or identity.