Gothic Elements Of Gothic Literature

In today’s literature there are many types of genres that people find fascinating, all the way from fantasy to non-fiction. A very interesting genre is Gothic Fiction, where many elements are used to such as violence, ghosts, monsters and many other dark and mystical elements that make up Gothic Fiction. There are many great authors who are well known for their dark gothic style such as Edgar Poe, who has written the short story “Fall of the House of Usher” and the “Black Cat,” or Horacio Quiroga who has written “Feather Pillow” and a more recent author, Ransom Riggs who has written Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children. These three author’s stories all have gothic elements, such as psychological issues, death and fear that parallel one other which shows a common trend between gothic literatures.

In the story Jacob and his father struggle to figure out what to do with Grandpa Portman until one day Grandpa Portman called Jacob telling him he has seen monsters and that he will be fine if he “cut out their tongues and stab them in the eyes”(Riggs 27) which was the last straw for Jacob’s father. Similarly, in the “Fall of the House of Usher” one of the characters Roderick was a “hypochondriac” (Poe 420) who suffered a “particular gloom [due] to the severe and long-continued illness of [his] tenderly beloved sisters,” (Poe 418) which he thought was dead. He was a neurotic person who was always scared of everything that a normal person would not be scared of. Both literary works have a common gothic element and it is psychological issues which is portrayed in the