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Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled (in its second edition) "A Gothic Story." The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th, as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Another well known novel in this genre, dating from the late Victorian era, is Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The name Gothic refers to the (pseudo)-medieval buildings, emulating Gothic architecture, in which many of these stories take place. This extreme form of romanticism was very popular in England and Germany. The English Gothic novel also led to new novel types such as the German Schauerroman and the French Georgia.

NameYearsCountryTagsWorksRank
Edmund Spenser1552-1599ENGElizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet171100
Thomas Gray1716-1771ENGBipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet11257
Charlotte Smith1749-1806ENGGothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet129138
Friedrich Schiller1759-1805DEUDeism, Freemasons, Gothic, National, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang165222
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772-1834ENGBipolar disorder, Blank verse, Dark romanticism, Gothic, Lake Poets, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Transcendentalism17622
Jane Austen1775-1817ENGGothic, Realism13336
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792-1822ENGAestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet32518
John Keats1795-1821ENGAestheticism, Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Epic, Gothic, Romanticism, Sonnet1607
Edgar Allan Poe1809-1849USABipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Symbolism, Victorian639
Charles Dickens1812-1870ENGChildren, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian10112
Charlotte Bronte1816-1855ENGVictorian, Gothic, Romanticism25219
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy1817-1875RUSGothic, Romanticism10235
Emily Jane Bronte1818-1848ENGGothic, Romanticism, Victorian6830
Ambrose Bierce1842-1914USAAgnosticism, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Speculative44124
Robert Louis Stevenson1850-1894SCOAtheism, Children, Gothic, Slavery, Victorian22444
Oscar Wilde1854-1900IRLAestheticism, Anarchism, Children, Decadents, Didactism, Fantasy, Freemasons, Gothic, Homoerotism, Symbolism, Victorian10537
Walter de la Mare1873-1956ENGChildren, Georgian poets, Gothic8982
Alfred Noyes1880-1958ENGChildren, Gothic, Playwright, Romanticism107116
Derek Walcott1930-LCAConfessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism21106

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