Gothic Literature

For the literature section of our Gothic issue we have selected the works of Jim Roberts as well as three of the works of the so well regarded Edgar Allen Poe.

In literature the Gothic genre makes its presence sensed through a pleasing sort of terror, sometimes through an extension of the romantic genre or the horror genre. As a sole standing genre, it has been created by Horace Walpole, an English writer, through his “The Castle of Otranto” written in 1764.

It is easy to notice a certain tendency of the writers of the gothic genre in the creation of their characters towards these archetypes:  tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, angels, fallen angels, the beauty and the beast, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, and the Wandering Jew.

Below, you will see the download links for the six writings chosen for this issue in our Literature section. Enjoy your read.

[Note that all these writings have been downloaded from www.HorrorMasters.com]