Gothic literature

Gothic literature is a kind of western popular literature, which has symbolic elements such as horror, supernatural, death, decadence, witchcraft, castle, abyss, night, curse, vampire, etc. It prefers dark and desolate scenes and gradually became a novel genre in the middle and late18th century. Horace Walpole's Autran Tubao is generally regarded as the originator of Gothic literature, and the vampire is the most typical symbol in Gothic novels. Bram stoker's classic Dracula even added the image of a vampire in the book, which is the origin of Gothic literature in the19th century.

Gothic novels flourished in the era of romanticism, but it did not depict the ideal social, political and moral concepts from the front like general romanticism, but made in-depth exploration by revealing the evil of society and the dark side of human nature. In the past 200 years, not only popular writers are keen on the creation of Gothic literature, but also many first-class British and American poets and writers have created many well-known Gothic stories and made great artistic achievements. Gothic novels thus moved from the "marginal position" of popular novels to the mainstream, forming a prominent and unique Gothic tradition.