I need then name of a few Gothic writers.?

Gothic writing is dreary and depressing fictional stories. I need to know some author's names. I have Stephen King and Emily Brontee. Any others?

I need then name of a few Gothic writers.?
My dear that is such a bad generalization to describe Gothic fiction! It is so much more than dreary and depressing. The genre began with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764. Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Brontes, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Henry James, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Ambrose Bierce all produced work in the genre. Today, the most prevelant example is probably Toni Morrison's Beloved - although Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Joe Hill (Stephen's son) and many others experiment with the genre. One of my novels happens to be Gothic - true to the traditional Gothic elements.





There are a very specific list of guidelines that makes a book Gothic.





http://cai.ucdavis.edu/waters-sites/goth...





Gothic literature is anything BUT depressing! Pax-C
Reply:Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens,Gustavo Adolfo Becquer,Catherine Crowe,Guy de Maupassant.Some of these are old but I hope they help!
Reply:The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis


Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is sort of a parody of the Gothic. You might enjoy it.


William Faulkner's work often uses Gothic elements. Absalom, Absalom is a good example.


The Scoobey Doo TV series was also a parody of the Gothic.
Reply:Emily Bronte is a good choice.





As you've been told, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley are, too.





I believe both Charlotte Bronte's (like Jane Eyre) and Ann Bronte's (like The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) works also have that Gothic feel to them.





The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne also has Gothic elements.





There is also:


-The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux


-A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott


-The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (probably the 1st Gothic but somewhat different than others)


-Edgar Allan Poe's tales would fall into the Gothic definition (The Fall of the House of Usher, for instance)


-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson


-Dracula by Bram Stoker


-The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde


-The Turn of the Screw by Henry James


-Daphne du Maurier's books like Rebecca have some Gothic elements, too.


-Another more modern writer whose works could fall into the Gothic category would be Victoria Holt. Though her works are romantic suspense, there is often the Gothic element included.





Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a really good satire of the Gothic fiction so popular in her day. The book even mentions The Mysteries of Udolpho.





I hope that helps.
Reply:I don't know if I'd consider Stephen King gothic, but there's Ann Radcliff and Mary Shelley.