Haunted House Gothic

The setting of a story is by far the most important aspect because it is what sets the mood and tone. A haunted house at night creates a different sense of danger and mystery compared to a setting with a small little house and bright skies. Gothic means darkness and to be truly gothic, I believe a story must contain at least one if not all elements such as nighttime, supernatural, and fear of an unknown setting. It is because of these stories that these elements are considered scary today and I think the authors at the time chose them because they get away from the typical romantic setting. The haunted houses in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and Anna Aikin’s Sir Bertrand: A Fragment are perfect representations of the gothic genre because
These places are usually different, mysterious, threatening or violent, often haunted houses. Gothic literature is fascinated by violent differences in power, and its stories are full of constraint, entrapment and forced actions. Scenes of extreme threat and isolation are always happening or about to happen. All things have a balance in life, or should have one. There’s always an opposite to something. Like Heaven and Hell, Romanticism and Gothic are opposites of each other in the sense that Gothic literature is devoted primarily to stories of horror. While Gothic is an offshoot of Romanticism, it breaks away from the typical setting, the combined elements of terror and medievalism within these stories set a model for an entirely new and thrilling genre which is something that is needed because not everyone enjoys the cliche romantic settings that will probably make you cry, we need to feel
I am a huge fan of all the elements that make up this genre. It’s said that Gothic literature was inspired by the architecture that was being built at the time, the grand castles and mansions brought on a creepy vibe that is why haunted houses play such an important role when it comes to the Gothic world. A haunted house is not haunted unless it contains these three aspects. Darkness, supernatural, and the many different rooms will always be important in the making of haunted houses for these