Deals Quote by David Punter

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

— Gillian Flynn

“In Gothic fiction, characters must contend with the dead, with active hauntings or with hallucinations of hauntings, as well as whatever other trying circumstances…

— Brenda Walker

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from…

— Leslie Fiedler

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be, in the course of your life, you are bound to come into direct…

— Joseph Brodsky

“I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness;…

— John Ruskin

“Certain kinds of people, and a fortiori certain kinds of writers, have always experienced the world around them in the Gothic manner, I’m almost…

— Thomas Ligotti

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches…

— H. L. Mencken

“Our fascination with the gothic peaks in times of anxiety, panic, and upheaval. The Victorian gothic revival of the 1890s was stoked by scientific,…

— Carina Chocano

Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists - 'goff'…

— Siouxsie Sioux

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for…

— Henry Adams

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we…

— Victor Hugo