History Literature / TheCastleInTransylvania

* AristocratsAreEvil:
** The Baron is this trope personified.
** Averted with the Count who serves as the book's protagonist.
* HauntedCastle: [[spoiler:Subverted]]

* {{Homage}}: To the works of Creator/ETAHoffmann.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Every single major character is dead by the end of the novel]].
* TheLostLenore: La Stilla, as stated above.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The Baron is this trope personified.
** Averted with the Count who serves as the books protagonist.

* {{Hologram}}: Most of the [[spoiler:"haunting"]] was done by projecting moving, 3-D images with a machine [[spoiler: to make it appear like something supernatural was going on.]]
* HostileWeather: Sort of, during the Counts first visit to the castle, the clouds above the area take the shape of various demons and monsters to frighten away the protagonists.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Every single major character [[spoiler: is dead by the end of the novel]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]] / [[spoiler: KillEmAll]]: Every single major character [[spoiler: is dead by the end of the novel]]

[[caption-width-right:183: [[CoversAlwaysLie The book actually has nothing to do with zombies]], but then again, most holograms look like walking corpses anyway]]
When most people think of Creator/JulesVerne they usually aren't thinking of his single GothicHorror novel published in 1893. The Castle in
Transylvania starts off as the archetypical HauntedCastle story, the villagers of Werst (a town west of the Carpathian Mountains) notice that various strange things are occurring in the long abandoned castle of Baron Rodolphe de Gortz and believe that it is now inhabited by the devil. Count Franz de Telek, a visitor to the area, is intrigued by these superstitions and decides to go investigate the castle himself. Things start to get strange when the Count runs into [[TheLostLenore La Stilla]], an Italian Singer, who he believes is being kept prisoner inside the castle. But La Stilla has been dead for years.
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A Description of Tropes Appearing in The Castle in Transylvania:

When most people think of Creator/JulesVerne they usually thinking of his single GothicHorror novel published in 1893. The Castle in

When most people think of Creator/JulesVerne they usually thinking of his single GothicHorror novel published in 1893. The Castle in Transylvania starts off as the archetypical HauntedCastle story, the villagers of Werst (a town west of the Carpathian Mountains) notice that various strange things are occurring in the long abandoned castle of Baron Rodolphe de Gortz and believe that it is now inhabited by the devil. Count Franz de Telek, a visitor to the area, is intrigued by these superstitions and decides to go investigate the castle himself. Things start to get strange when the Count runs into [[TheLostLenore La Stilla]], an Italian Singer, who he believes is being kept prisoner inside the castle. But La Stilla has been dead for years.

* Main/Hologram: Most of the [[spoiler:"haunting"]] was done by projecting moving, 3-D images with a machine [[spoiler: to make it appear like something supernatural was going on.]]

When most people think of Creator/JulesVerne they usually thinking of his single GothicHorror novel published in 1893. The Castle in Transylvania starts off as the archetypical HauntedCastle story, the villagers of Werst (a town west of the Carpathian Mountains) notice that various strange things are occurring in the long abandoned castle of Baron Rodolphe de Gortz and believe that it is now inhabited by the devil. Count Franz de Telek, a visitor to the area, is intrigued by these superstitions and decides to go investigate the castle himself. Things start to get even stranger when the Count runs into [[TheLostLenore La Stilla]], an Italian Singer, who he believes is being kept prisoner inside the castle. But La Stilla has been dead for years.

* [[spoiler:ScoobyDooHoax]] The castle [[spoiler:wasn't actually haunted, the Baron used holographic projections and voice recordings to scare away the locals, so he'd have a place to escape the law.]]

When most people think of Creator/JulesVerne they usually thinking of his single GothicHorror novel published in 1893. The Castle in Transylvania starts off as the archetypical HauntedCastle story, the villagers of Werst (a town west of the Carpathian Mountains) notice that various strange things are occurring in the long abandoned castle of Baron Rodolphe de Gortz and believe that it is now inhabited by the devil. Count Franz de Telek, a visitor to the area, is intrigued by these superstitions and decides to go investigate the castle himself. Things start to get even stranger when the Count runs into [[TheLostLenore La Stilla]] an Italian Singer, who he believes is being kept prisoner inside the castle, but La Stilla has been dead for years.