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What is Gothic?
Characteristics for your
Gothic Horror Story
Grade 8 Literature/ Writing Skills (Stader)
1) Decide Your Setting.weave the Gothic details
into the story:
Cathedral style mansions, with towers and arched windows
Run down graveyards, fog, mist(Hint: Do NOT call them cemeteries)
Wrought iron gates
Crosses
Darkness
Lots of stone
Crypts, family
mausoleums
Interiors with high windows,
imposing staircases, chambers for the servants,
huge libraries, wine cellars, small chapels inside the
manor (home) itself
2) Decide Your Characters.Dress them appropriate to the Period
in which you are writing.
• Top hats, bonnets• Capes and Cloaks• Heavy skirts, bustles• Buttoned shoes• Smoking a pipe• Parasols• Dressed in fine clothes
• Wealthy people• Well-educated
Include a Protagonist
And an Antagonist
19th Century Names for 19th Century Stories
Catherine Georgina Charles Henry Dora
Charlotte Asa Nathaniel William Lucy
Lillia Olive Parker Calvin Ama
Philinda Abigail Edmond Clifford Sadie
Flora Alice Alvin Samuel Sophie
Clara Anna Williard Almond Edgar
Melinda Althea Robert Rebecca George
Phoebe Eliza Julian Benjamin Edna
Mabel Sedgewick Lizzie Josephine Heathcliff
Decide the main Conflict.
• Jeolousy, love triangles• Jeolousy of property, settling of an estate• Someone dead who doesn’t stay dead• Unresolved conflict• Revenge
• Mysterious illness• Science experiments gone wrong• Business partners who wrong their partner
Work to include:
• SuspenseUpon looking over her shoulder, she perceived the slightest shadow
creep over the wall and instantly disappear.
• Dialogue - required
“Darling, I wasn’t expecting you.”
• Literary Language/Poetic Devices
The frightening flicker of the flame . . .
Cracks lining the musty ivy-covered walls sought to warn me that this was a place not for the living, but for the dead.
Writing in the Style of Gothic HorrorThe mysterious . . .
The ghostly . . .
The horrible.
Themes. . .
~ Dead and undead
~ Scientific experiments
~ Revenge
Now it’s Your Turn!