Quote by John Ruskin

“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

The gothic reminds us that we are mainly driven by our passions; the Gothic deals in illicit desires, in what is prohibited by society.

— David Punter

“To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

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

“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

“It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits…

— Thomas Hardy

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

“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