Ability Quote by Stephen King

“At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order…

— Barrymore Tebbs

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

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially…

— Margaret Atwood

“Gothic is the genre of fear. Our fascination with it is almost always revived during times of instability and panic. In the wake of…

— Carina Chocano

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

— Stewart Stafford

I love the gothic literature. It always has such great stories with characters bigger than life and the stakes are always high. And because…

— Frank Wildhorn

I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

— Karen Russell

“The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure…

— Michael Richardson

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

— Greg Iles

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

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