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Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the horror genres. Darker, edgier and on the Romanticism end of Romanticism Versus Enlightenment (in fact, it quite literally emerged alongside the Romantic movement in the late 18th century as a reaction against the values of the Enlightenment), it tends to play on both the thrill and the fear of the unknown and places a great importance on atmosphere. It's usually heavily symbolic, sometimes even dreamlike. In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first Science Fiction, Mystery Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller, and Adventure authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction. Gothic fiction is usually used as a synonym or is the name given to Gothic horror stories that are saturated with the above mentioned scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, or adventure elements. The name "Gothic" comes from a style of architecture from The Middle Ages (christened as such by those who considered it barbaric in comparison to classical architecture, the name coming from the barbarian tribe of the Goths). There were a lot of Gothic ruins lying around Britain, and people in the 18th and 19th centuries developed an interest in them because (a) ruins are always kind of mysterious and melancholy and creepy and (b) they evoked the time period they were built in, which was thought of as a barbaric time where people believed in (and did) all kinds of weird stuff. For this reason, most early Gothic horror novels were set in that era. They were usually also set in Catholic countries, because the Brits who wrote them considered Catholicism sinister (yet also kinda cool). The renewed interest in Gothic stuff also led to the Gothic Revival movement in architecture, but for the purposes of this article we're not so interested in that. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, written in 1764, is considered the first Gothic horror novel. Walpole was a big fan of William Shakespeare and proudly declared that he borrowed most of the tropes from his idol's plays, particularly Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Ann Radcliffe helped popularize the genre, and authors such as Matthew Lewis, Clara Reeve, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, and Francis Lathom finished out the eighteenth century Gothic horror writers in Britain. (Other parts of Europe, most notably Germany, saw parallel movements arising around this time as well, with authors such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe putting out works which are often considered at least Gothic-adjacent.) The beginning of the nineteenth century saw Gothic horror being parodied by authors like Jane Austen, but there were still straight examples provided by authors such as Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. By the time the Victorian era rolled around Gothic horror was beginning to run out of steam, but there were still quite a few people writing it — in fact, most of the Gothic horror authors and works you've heard of probably come from this era, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and the Brontë sisters. A distinct American offshoot of the genre also came into its own in this period, exemplified by writers like Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. There were a few more notable Gothic authors in the early 20th century (Daphne du Maurier, for example), but by the 1950s or so, the genre had given way to modern Horror and Psychological Thrillers, or — in the U.S. — the Southern Gothic subgenre. Spearheaded by writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty and later picked up by the likes of Flannery O’Connor and Harper Lee, Southern Gothic literature transposes Gothic gloom and terror to the post-Civil War Deep South. In Canada, some authors transposed Southern Gothic themes to Toronto and its surrounding region, creating Southern Ontario Gothic. The Cosmic Horror Story is something of a Spiritual Successor to Gothic Horror, with the genre's codifier H. P. Lovecraft explicitly listing several masters of Gothic Horror as major influences. Where Gothic Horror drew upon classical mythology and legend to provide its nightmares, however, Cosmic Horror looked to the modern world itself, and pondered what would happen as man shone a light upon the last refuges of the creatures who once haunted the empty countryside now becoming suburbs, and reached beyond the limits of what he was meant to know. Perhaps Here There Be Dragons, after all? The influence of the Gothic can also be found in the Film Noir tradition, which carries on the Gothic's themes of secrets coming to light, simmering sexual tension, middle-class distrust for the rich, and a general tone of unease and paranoia, though in a much more cynical and modern environment, and typically eschewing the fantastical elements of the Gothic in favour of the more psychological aspects (although it's not impossible to put those fantastic elements back in). Universal and Hammer Films are responsible for successfully adapting this genre onto the big screen. For modern takes on the genre see Gaslamp Fantasy, New Weird, and Supernatural Fiction. Compare/contrast also Gothic Punk. For an in-depth look go to Violet Books (unfortunately deceased, but resurrected — appropriately enough) and the still-active Gaslight Reading & Discussion Site. See also Lovecraft's essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. For a list of tropes used in the Gothic horror genre see Index of Gothic Horror Tropes. For advice on writing in this genre, see our Write a Gothic Story guide. |
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The Invitation (2022) is a 2020s take on the genre. The film revolves around a young woman (American) travelling to a foreign land (England) where the people around her behave in strange and sinister ways. It takes place primarily in an old, spooky castle-like mansion with dark secrets and past tragedy. The heroine develops romantic feelings for a Tall, Dark, and Handsome stranger who may not be all he seems. There are supernatural occurrences, such as the heroine having ghostly visions and the revelation her love interest and several members of her extended family are vampires. The climax even features the heroine running for her life in an old-fashioned white gown, invoking some classic Gothic imagery. | |
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Penny Dreadful is set in 1891 Victorian Britain and weaves together various Public Domain Characters from classic horror literature in a story about the supernatural. | |
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The Big Eyes, Small Mouth supplement Cold Hands, Dark Hearts adds the Gothic setting to the game... except it's all Animesque, resulting in a mix of Japanese bakemono and oni with Western vampires and sorcerers. | |
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Blood Stain is a comedy masquerading as Gothic horror. The tropes common to the genre are playfully subverted. In a review of the work, L.J. Phillips remarks how Elliot, while being Damsel in Distress and Unreliable Narrator common to works of the genre, confronts not fantastic monsters but instead from the burdens of maintaining a job. | |
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Death Parade has a gloomy and dark aesthetic, haunting sound design, and plenty of visual and thematic symbolism with elements of psychological and cosmic horror as well. It features a Celestial Bureaucracy who judge unsuspecting humans, and maintains an overall air of mystery and suspense throughout its short runtime, and it plays on the fear of the unknown with plenty of intentionally vague dialogue and constant secrecy. Given the setting, the show has plenty of Death and Afterlife Tropes that are fairly customary for the genre as well, and the overall themes slowly slide down the scale from enlightenment to romanticism. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest has all the trappings of this. | |
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Bloodborne starts off as a Reconstruction of Gothic horror, with the player character being thrown into the blood-obsessed Victorian city of Yharnam to fight Beasts, which are Yharnamites claimed by a plague outbreak of lycanthropy that turns them into what werewolves would look like if they got a healthy dose of Chernobyl radiation. All of this is pretty effective at making those moldy old Victorian horror tropes suddenly scary again. Midway through the game, though, you dive head-first into outright Lovecraft Lite territory. And while it is often said that the Gothic is merely a Red Herring to distract from the game's Lovecraftian nature, it is ultimately more of creative blend of these two — and many others — flavors of horror (cf. this video examining the essential Gothic themes in Bloodborne). | |
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Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824). Author of Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), a notable use of the Nested Story style to tell a complex tale. | |
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Bloody Hell Hotel has players take control of a vampire turning their dilapidated estate in to a hotel catering to 19th-century humans while battling the monsters in the crypt below. | |
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The Others is about a haunted castle and has many gothic themes. | |
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In Fabric is an homage to 1970s Gothic Horror. The witch-like staff of the mysterious department store enhance this aesthetic. | |
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The Hammer Horror canon is a series of Gothic horror movies made by the British company Hammer Film Productions between the 1950s and the early '70s. They were influential enough for "Hammer horror" to become a distinct subgenre label that was also applied to entirely unrelated, but similar productions. | |
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Hannibal is a strange cross between this and a Police Procedural. | |
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Clara Reeve (1729–1807), who wrote The Old English Baron (1778) in direct response to Walpole's Otranto. | |
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The Innocents — an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw — is set entirely in an elegant country mansion (aside from a brief interview scene at the start). Although it is a ghost story, there is enough ambiguity to suggest that Miss Giddens could be driven mad by the vastness of the house. She often only sees the ghost at a distance, reaffirming that anything could be hidden in such a large house. | |
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Beauty and the Beast is heavily inspired by the genre in both aesthetic and theme, and can be seen as a Lighter and Softer, "family-friendly" take on it. Not only does much of the story take place in a dark, gloomy castle, but its story features heavy elements of transgression (in the Beast's refusal to give Sacred Hospitality for petty reasons), doubling (in his similarities to and differences from Gaston) and liminality (him being a mixture of animal and man). | |
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Blades in the Dark has classic Gothic horror as one of its inspirations, being set in a haunted Victorian-era city where it's Always Night, ghosts, vampires, and demons roam free, and technological progress causes more harm than good. | |
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The song "Go Away" by Strawberry Switchblade is a short story in the form of a song with a couple of gothic twists and brooding sound. | |
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Horace Walpole (1717–1797). His novel The Castle of Otranto (1764) makes him the Trope Maker. Also gave us Haunted Castle. | |
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Blackford Manor is an animated short about Josette Gray, a maid who comes to work for the mysterious Lord Montague, who may be a werewolf. | |
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PandoraHearts has a good many tropes representative of the genre, including old castles and mansions, crazy ladies in towers (Lacie and later Alice/the Intention of the Abyss initially appear to play this straight before subverting it, as none of them are actually crazy and are only locked up because of their connection with the Abyss), confinement and imprisonment, Evil Twins and doubles (Alice and the Will and Jack and Oz, respectively, play with these concepts), mutilation and torture of multiple varieties, otherworldly places (the Abyss) and creatures (chains), and insanity, among others. | |
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Gaston Leroux (1868–1927): author of The Phantom of the Opera (1909). | |
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Isidore Ducasse (1847–1870), aka Le Comte de Lautréamont, although it was only a pseudonym. Author of the self-consciously outrageous Les Chants de Maldoror (1868), later a canonical text for the Surrealist movement in France and Belgium. | |
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? uses a Hollywood mansion to this effect. It houses two White Dwarf Starlets — one is confined to a wheelchair and the other is a recluse, and the horror comes from how the latter can torture her sister emotionally. The film was going to be shot in colour, but the lead actress Bette Davis pushed for it to be done in black and white to help with the Gothic image. | |
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American Horror Story: Asylum: Deeply flawed characters in an insane asylum run by people abusing both religion and science to their most inhumane extremes with occasional visits by enigmatic beings beyond human comprehension pretty much fits the bill. | |
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Shiki is a pretty blatant contemporary homage to the genre, taking place in a secluded location with vampires and having some serious moral dilemmas and in general questioning the morality of man. In addition, it is also a clear homage to Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot. | |
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While Gothic themes had been baked into Dungeons & Dragons from the very beginningnote with both Dark Shadows and The Black Room being among Dave Arneson's key inspirations for his Blackmoor campaign, Ravenloft (1983) was the first outright Gothic horror adventure module. It saw the Player Party trapped in a haunted castle smack in the middle of Ãœberwald, which is lorded over by an ancient Tragic Villain vampire named Count Strahd von Zarovitch. The module was so popular, it was eventually expanded into an entire setting, consisting of mostly independent dark realms surrounding equally larger-than-life romanticized villains. The original module has since been rebooted as Curse of Strahd. | |
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Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine: Much of the atmosphere of Horizon is based on this, what with vampires, ghosts and undead horrors being very common, as well as Gothic ruins, cemeteries and the like. Due to this the region is the preferred location of Gothic-genre games. And then there's the Halloween World in the Halloween Special. | |
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Max Payne is not itself a Gothic horror, but the eponymous protagonist's Private Eye Monologue is saturated with Gothic imagery. | |
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Berserk certainly has the archetypal atmosphere in the Black Swordsman Arc, the Retribution Arc, and in The Prototype. Traces of the genre are found throughout the series, though, since it tends to overlap with Dark Fantasy. | |
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Batman: The comic series and its multiple adaptations are heavily associated with the genre (when they're not indulging in camp, at least), but this is actually a more recent development, only really starting in the 1970s at the earliest. Before that, the primary influences were the pulp and noir from the era it originated. Nevertheless, the Batman franchise is now indelibly influenced by Gothic horror, not least in its themes of corruption and madness. | |
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Dark Shadows, the Trope Maker for the Supernatural Soap Opera, is famous for using every Gothic trope in the book. It had everything from witches, vampires, a werewolf, a Frankenstein's Monster, ghosts, Captain Ersatzes of Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde, and even an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Starcrossed (Ravenloft) takes place in the eponymous D&D setting, carrying over most of its key tropes. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) has gothic horror themes, with heavy emphasis on symbolism, despair and Tragic Villains. In contrast, the original manga (and its Truer to the Text adaptation Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is more of a Gaslamp Fantasy Thriller. | |
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Sarah Waters (1966–). Her novels Affinity and The Little Stranger are homages to the genre; the latter, in particular, is heavily reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. | |
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Shadows House has many hallmarks of the genre, having a dark, mysterious atmosphere and taking place in a shadowy European mansion where mysterious beings made of soot are served by children they refer to as "Living Dolls". Main character Emilico and her assigned mistress Kate soon realize that things are not what they seem, and they gradually uncover several dark secrets hidden by the inhabitants of the mansion. | |
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Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775–1818). His novel The Monk (1796) gave us the Sinister Minister, who, among other sins, enters into a Deal with the Devil, as well as introducing the Wandering Jew archetype to the genre. | |
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The Black Room (1935) is not typically labeled as Gothic (probably due to its dearth of supernatural elements), but actually contains a lot of Gothic elements, starting with a dark prophecy-slash-family curse of fratricide and a classical Gothic villain in Baron Gregor (Boris Karloff), who is driven by his sexual desires to transgress against human and divine laws. Vis-a-vis the Tyrant, we also have the pure and innocent Maiden Thea, whom he abducts and manipulates into marriage; the "doubling" motif with Gregor's Good Twin Anton, whom he murders to steal his identity; and even a revenge-from-beyond-the-grave plot, when Gregor falls onto a knife still clutched in Anton's dead hands, fulfilling the prophecy of the younger brother killing the older. | |
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Nosferatu (1922) is often listed as the Ur-Example of the Gothic horror film genre, being a (loose) adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In some ways, Nosferatu is more gothic than Dracula, since it drops the book's themes of Victorian modernity (steam-powered travel, blood transfusion) in favour of an earlier 19th Century, almost fairytale atmosphere. | |
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Black Sunday's style, cinematography and story all hearken back to older Gothic horror films of the 1930s. | |
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The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is a retelling of The Turn of the Screw, as well as being an adaptation of another Henry James story, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes. An American au pair with a Dark and Troubled Past takes a job at an old English country manor, caring for two young children who have experienced their fair share of trauma and exhibit disturbing behaviors. The house is definitely haunted in this adaptation (in The Turn of the Screw things are kept more ambiguous), although the story also places a lot of emphasis on romantic drama and family tragedy; one character actually states in-universe that the series is more a love story than a ghost story, and Gothic fiction frequently blends the two. | |
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The Brood is David Cronenberg's take on Gothic Horror, updated to a late 1970s institutional setting, with a dangerous psychiatric method unearthing deadly secrets and emotional trauma being physically expressed as Body Horror, and a remote patients' retreat location standing in for the requisite haunted castle. A good example of the Southern Ontario Gothic subcategory described above. | |
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El Paso, Elsewhere stars an Occult Detective who is preventing a ritual by his ex-girlfriend, Draculae, the lord of the vampires. He also battles various other gothic horror staples such as werewolves, Animated Armor, and Wight in a Wedding Dress. Some of the levels take place in a graveyard or haunted mansion. | |
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Clive Barker's Undying is set in a creepy house on the moors, inhabited by a cursed family. | |
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Vampyr (2018) is set in 1918 London during the Spanish flu pandemic, and the protagonist is a genius doctor who is involuntarily transformed into a vampire. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has the plane of Innistrad which is heavily influenced by many Gothic horror tropes with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and a host of other monsters preying on the humans unfortunate enough to live there. The only thing keeping them at bay is the magic of the Church of Avacyn... which has been slowly getting weaker thanks to Avacyn's disappearance. | |
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Mary E Braddon (1835–1915). Writer of sensation novels, which took on Gothic tropes like secret marriages and madwomen but generally left out supernatural elements. Author of Lady Audley's Secret (1862), one of the first mystery novels, and a possible forerunner to the Film Noir genre. | |
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Darkest Dungeon takes place entirely on old estate grounds, ruins, and woodlands that evoke the classic Gothic horror environment, coupling it with aspects of Cosmic Horror: the player's heroes do battle with zombie and undead, as well as corrupted wildlife, twisted plant life and fungi, demonic pig-men, and monstrous humanoid fish-people, as well as facing the deformed and twisted cultists of the titular Darkest Dungeon. The Crimson Court expansion takes it even further into the realms of Gothic horror, with vampires being the main enemy, although these vampires are akin to blood-sucking insects who wear the trappings and thin demeanor of nobility to cover up their depraved cruelty and ravenous hunger. | |
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A Touch of Evil is an Adventure Board Game set in a secluded village of Shadowbrook in the early 19th century, where player-controlled heroes battle classic Gothic villains like vampires, ghosts, and reanimated monsters. | |
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The Man with Two Brains is a modern-day take on and an Affectionate Parody of Gothic Horror. | |
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Haunting Ground is essentially a Gothic horror game — a young, delicate heroine ventures/flees through an incredibly elaborate castle inhabited only by Frankensteinian servants and sexually abusive vampires whose motivations are vague but clearly malicious. Keeping her fear to manageable levels is actually a game mechanic. | |
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The Reflecting Skin puts a midwestern spin on gothic fiction by setting a tale of serial killers, lust, and madness amongst amber waves of grain and rotting barns. | |
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) is a modernized amalgamation of several Edgar Allan Poe stories and tells of a corrupt and wealthy family which is targeted by a supernatural killer. | |
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In Warhammer, the entire faction of Vampire Counts is very much based on this trope. | |
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One of the more popular and influential eras of Doctor Who — specifically, Seasons 12, 13 and 14, featuring Philip Hinchcliffe as producer, Robert Holmes as script editor and Tom Baker as the lead. | |
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Diablo has a very Gothic atmosphere, set in a remote town whose Creepy Cathedral has become a literal Hellgate, through which a lone hero must enter the underground dungeons to defeat the outpouring demons and undead. Diablo II and Diablo III continue the trend, although also expanding it to other environments as well. | |
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Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness took the Quest for Glory series to the Gothic setting, albeit mixing it with Lovecraftian elements. While the ultimate evil in this installment is an unknowable Eldritch Abomination from beyond, its narrative focus is much more on the families of Mordavia living in isolation and fear of dark magic unleashed by their ancestors' transgressions in pursuit of immortality. The greatest heroes of Mordavia (at least until the Player Character arrives) are trapped between life and death, unable to help their people or to move on. The main "villain" is a tragic and sympathetic figure who combines traits of both the Tyrantnote charisma, sex appeal, manipulative nature, dark powers, a mad passion to transgress natural boundaries in pursuit of personal liberty, and blindness to the costs of said transgression and the Maidennote raised in the men's world, she turned to dark magic to prove herself to the patriarchy, but was cast out by it and later turned into a vampire by the previous Tyrant against her will; her motivation to summon the Dark One is to restore the freedom of day-walking that she was robbed of, while her kidnapping of Tanya was out of a desire for a family that she could no longer have; finally, she falls in love with the Hero and gives her life to save his in the end... and that's just scratching the surface of the treasure trove of Gothic themes and motifs found in this game. | |
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018), a reimagining of Shirley Jackson's novel, about a family who moved to a haunted Gothic-style mansion and subsequently had their lives torn apart by the horrifying events that transpired there. The series places as much emphasis on family drama as it does ghosts. | |
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George Du Maurier (1834–1896). Author of the novel Trilby (1894), which was the Trope Namer and possibly the Trope Maker for The Svengali. Also the grandfather of Daphne du Maurier, author of Rebecca. | |
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William Beckford (1760–1844). Author of Vathek (1786) and started the subgenre of Orientalist Gothic, set in a mythical Orient inspired by The Arabian Nights. | |
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Mythos is a love letter to the Gothic horror films of the early 20th century, revolving around the mysteries of London's dreaded Harborough Asylum — a place rumored to be full of ghosts, zombies and other nasties. | |
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2020's Let Him Go plays on this, by having a plot set in the mid-1960's where a couple journeys into the hills and valleys of North Dakota to confront a family living in an off-grid, dilapidated residence, with a mother and her child (the couple's grandson) being held against their will after her new husband moved them there. The climax of the film takes place during the middle of the night in the mansion, as one of the characters to rescue the mother and her child. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent features a dark, decaying, and (kinda) haunted castle, a Haunted Hero, a mysterious, morally ambiguous, (kinda) vampiric Baron, as well as lots of madness and curses. | |
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Kill, Baby, Kill! revolves around a vengeful ghost of a little girl, who torments the small, desolate village of Karmingam. Additionally, we have a haunted manor, an evil aristocrat, a village witch, and a whole bunch of corpses. | |
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Quake is the Trope Codifier of this for the FPS genre. Featuring Lovecraftian dungeons and castles set within haunted dimensions, and has unique weapons such as fully automatic guns that fire nails instead of bullets. | |
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A Vampyre Story is a parody/deconstruction of the feminine Gothic fiction (exemplified by The Mysteries of Udolpho and Jane Eyre): the protagonist Mona is a 19 years-old opera starlet who is seduced by an ancient vampire, locked up in his castle, and turned undead herself. However, the vampire is nowhere close to a brooding Byronic Hero but is actually rather pathetic and gets killed off early in the story, returning as a ghost, while Mona is largely uninterested in romance and just wants to resume her opera career, refusing to accept that she has been turned into an immortal bloodsucker and to generally be terrified of anything. | |
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The music video for "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" by Sheena Easton features a Frankenstein's Monster pretty clearly based off Boris Karloff, a Dracula recalling Bela Lugosi, a floating hand and a Igor. | |
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My Life with Master puts the players in the shoes of the eponymous Master's minions as they struggle to preserve the slivers of rationality and humanity — or jump head-first off the slippery slope. The nature and character of the "Master" are entirely up to the players, but s/he naturally gravitates towards an unholy fusion of Dracula and Dr. Frankenstein. | |
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Gloom is an Affectionate Parody of Victorian literature, but especially of Gothic horror. | |
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A Cure for Wellness is a modern take on the genre, particularly drawing influence on Dracula with a young urban professional traveling to an imposing, Germanic castle where he encounters a monstrous immortal aristocrat who engages in a form of vampirism. | |
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, a Spiritual Successor to Castlevania below, inherits most of its Gothic trappings, but is rooted in medieval demonology instead of vampire lore. | |
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Of all the possible films, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom goes in this route in the climax. The third act is set in an opulent Edwardian English estate on a dark and stormy night, with the characters being stalked by a bloodthirsty creature which is a product of freakish genetic mad science and slinks around on all fours in the shadows like a nightmarish werewolf or vampire. | |
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Harvest is a mod for Amnesia above, likewise set in a dark, decaying, and haunted castle, albeit without any vampires. | |
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The Fearless Vampire Killers is an Affectionate Parody of Gothic Horror and vampire movies, particularly those in the Hammer Horror tradition. | |
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The Universal Horror movies of the early 20th century did not all belong to the Gothic subgenre, but their most prominent early specimen, namely the 1931 Dracula and Frankenstein laid the foundations of the then- and now-contemporary Gothic film expression. The ur-trifecta of 1931 Gothic horror films is rounded off by Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which was produced by Paramount and therefore isn't part of the Universal Monsters franchise. | |
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Shade: Wrath of Angels have you playing as a soldier investigating the netherworlds in order to locate your missing brother, starting in a small town in the European outskirts. Much of the setting is based off this genre, with zombie-infested castles and monster-filled moors abound. | |
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Resident Evil Village, in a stark contrast to the Resident Evil series' usual Zombie Survival genre, takes place in a desolate Romanian village surrounded by four ancient castles, and the enemies fought are mostly Lycans and ancient husks walking around wielding medieval weapons. While the five main bosses are all empowered by the same pseudo-scientific mold that was the source of the zombies in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, it was spread to them by someone with more advanced knowledge of it than the creators of Evelyn, resulting in them sharing traits with classical Gothic monsters. Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters are, most obviously, vampires. While the daughters are out for just your flesh, Dimitrescu specifically drinks blood because she was hemophiliac before the mold turned her into what she is, and has a special taste for the blood of virgins. Her castle is also the most gothic environment in the game (as in the architectural style, not the genre), and her boss fight even contains a stealth shout-out to Dracula. Dracula, in case you didn't know, means Son of the Dragon. Angie and Beneviento parallels both the creepy, possessed dolls, and ghosts in general. The main gimmick of her area are evil dolls, while she herself is a noblewoman clad in a black shawl that covers her face and is a Master of Illusion. Moreau is the hardest to place, since he seems to draw inspiration from multiple different sources. Aesthetically, he's based on the malformed hunchback, but the fairy tale in the beginning associates him with the Fish King, and the watery area he's found in seems to draw parallels with Merfolk. He also has more ghouls under his command than the rest. The Slavic utopiec (plural form: utopce) would be the closest classification for Salvatore - utopce are Slavic water demons of human origin that were once humans unlucky enough to drown. Utopce, according to the folk tales, were either Chaotic Evil or Chaotic Neutral, depending on the region. Seeing one or a small group of these demons leaving their habitat was considered to be a lucky omen. Heisenberg, while not being one himself, is in command of the Lycans. He combines this with Frankenstein-influences, considering his experiments with reanimating the dead through mechanics, and visually he seems inspired by the popular image of Dr. Van Helsing, though he shares little else in common with the good doctor. The final boss, Lady Miranda, mainly draws her design from ravens and Creepy Crows, but her six wings also makes her resemble the biblical Seraphim, which would make her a Fallen Angel, a.k.a. a demon. Fitting, considering that she originated the four others. |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022) is a Gothic romance which centers around the twisted love story between two vampires. | |
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Gaslight is more of a thriller than a horror movie, but it involves a woman being driven mad while in a spacious London manor. | |
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