Gothic fiction sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. This genre is used to play on the audience's emotions. In most cases Gothic horror films or books always have a damsel in distress and there is always someone portrayed as being powerful and someone portrayed as being weak. Gothic horrors tend to have the supernatural, death, demons and etc.Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is also part of Gothic horror. This film indicates what Gothic horror is about. It includes things like guilt, sadness, going against religion, revenge, death and romance. Most of these things are common in Gothic horrors for example in movies like Dracula, there's always romance and death.In Dracula they also use props for example castles, crosses, holy water and religion is also a very important part in these movies because we believe that if we have God and a cross by our side we are safe and protected.
Gothic tales depend primarily on atmosphere for their effect on the reader: such as creaky staircases, damp
dungeons, and gloomy mansions are used, sometimes with elements of the Occult, to produce a sense of inescapable Gloom and Doom which threatens the Heroine with unmentioned terrors. The plot of such stories almost always involves the heroine meeting a Dark and Forbidding Lord, who winds up rescuing her from the menace - or whom she rescues. Monsters, Vampires and the Undead, combined with buckets of blood and gore, are the usual tools employed. Sometimes, this genre brings out the "Monsters Under The Bed" of small towns, Sometimes it can be socially valuable, as with Frankenstein, in which the monster is actually the victim of intolerance. In some Gothic horrors the monsters are just plain folks. Think of misery.
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