History Main / GothicHorror

* ''Film/PhantasmIVOblivion''

* Giorgino (1994)

* ''Film/Giorgino''

* ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'' takes place entirely on old estate grounds, ruins, and woodlands that evoke the classic Gothic horror environment, coupling it with aspects of CosmicHorror: 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 [[OurVampiresAreDifferent blood-sucking insects who wear the trappings and thin demeanor of nobility to cover up their depraved cruelty and ravenous hunger]].

* Creator/AnneRice (1941–)

* The original ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'' is not itself a Gothic horror, but the eponymous protagonist's PrivateEyeMonologue is satiated with Gothic imagery.

* The original ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is not itself a Gothic horror, but the eponymous protagonist's PrivateEyeMonologue is satiated with Gothic imagery.

For an in-depth look go to [[http://web.archive.org/web/20131203014156/http://www.violetbooks.com/ Violet Books]] (unfortunately deceased, but resurrected -- appropriately enough) and the still-active [[http://gaslight-lit.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/gaslight/index.htm Gaslight Reading & Discussion Site]]. See also Lovecraft's essay ''[[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx Supernatural Horror in Literature.]]''

For an in-depth look go to [[http://web.archive.org/web/20131203014156/http://www.violetbooks.com/ Violet Books]] (unfortunately deceased, but resurrected -- appropriately enough) and the still-active [[http://gaslight-lit.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/gaslight/index.htm Gaslight Reading & Discussion Site]]. See also Lovecraft's essay ''[[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx Supernatural Horror in Literature]]''.

* ''Manga/{{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 Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/SalemsLot''.

Horace Walpole's ''Literature/TheCastleOfOtranto'', written in 1764, is considered the first Gothic horror novel. Walpole was a big fan of Creator/WilliamShakespeare and proudly declared that [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples he borrowed most of the tropes from]] his idol's plays, particularly ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'', and ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Creator/AnnRadcliffe helped popularize the genre, and authors such as Matthew Lewis, 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 Creator/ETAHoffmann and Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe 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 Creator/JaneAusten, but there were still straight examples provided by authors such as Creator/LordByron and Creator/MaryShelley. By the time the [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain 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 Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/BramStoker, 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 Creator/NathanielHawthorne.

* The first ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' anime has GothicHorror themes, with heavy emphasis on symbolism, despair and {{Tragic Villain}}s. In contrast [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the original manga]] (and its TruerToTheText adaptation ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'') is more of a GaslampFantasy {{Thriller}}.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'' is a Gothic romance which centers around the love story between two vampires.

* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'': 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.
* ''Series/PennyDreadful'' is set in 1891 UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain and weaves together various {{Public Domain Character}}s from classic horror literature in a story about the supernatural.

* ''Series/TheHauntingOfBlyManor'', 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 Clothe''s. An American ''au pair'' with a DarkAndTroubledPast 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 [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane 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.

* Creator/HideoKojima's [[AuthorAppeal love]] of Film/HammerHorror movies caused him to incorporate prominent gothic elements in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', despite it being largely RealRobotGenre. Both Psycho Mantis and Gray Fox's storylines in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' are gothic horror (Mantis is mutilated, masked, was traumatised by the destruction of his Russian village, and possesses women; Gray Fox is a technologically-revived corpse likened to a "ghost"), and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' and ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' feature a vampire and a ghost respectively.

* ''Film/BlackSunday''[='=]s style, cinematography and story hearkens back to older Gothic horror films of the 1930s.

The name "Gothic" comes from a kind of architecture from TheMiddleAges (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 [[TheDungAges 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 [[ValuesDissonance considered Catholicism]] [[CreepyCatholicism sinister]] ([[EvilIsCool yet also kinda cool]]).

Gothic Horror is one of the oldest of the {{horror}} genres. [[DarkerAndEdgier Darker, edgier]] and on the {{Romanticism}} end of RomanticismVersusEnlightenment (in fact, it quite literally emerged alongside the Romantic movement in the late 18th century as a reaction against the values of [[UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment 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 [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolic]], sometimes even dreamlike. In addition to being important to the horror genre, the first {{scifi}}, {{fantasy}}, {{romance}}, [[MysteryFiction mystery]], [[{{Thriller}} thriller]], and {{adventure}} authors drew inspiration from Gothic horror, so it's sometimes considered the parent of all modern genre fiction.

The name "Gothic" comes from a kind of architecture from TheMiddleAges (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 [[TheDungAges 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 [[ValuesDissonance considered Catholicism]] [[ReligionOfEvil sinister]] ([[EvilIsCool yet also kinda cool]]).

* Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930): Author of regional Gothic tales like "A Symphony in Lavender" (1883), "The Twelfth Guest" (1893), "Literature/LuellaMiller" (1902), and "The Shadows on the Wall" (1903, adapted as an episode of Series/NightGallery).

* Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930): Author of regional Gothic tales like "A Symphony in Lavender" (1883), "The Twelfth Guest" (1893), "Luella Miller" (1902), and "The Shadows on the Wall" (1903, adapted as an episode of Series/NightGallery).