Gothic Short Stories

She just lay there, appearing to be sleeping but I looked down at her neck and moved a curly lock out

I stared down the ladder with fear in my soul. The poor girl was crying , I couldn’t tell who was more afraid me or her.

just wanted to hold her, tell her it was ok, but I couldn't see her. I

She introduced me to myself and my new home, not a place but a feeling that was incomplete without her by my side.

It was three mugs of beer and in the far corner of my eye I saw a familiar face, my wife.

did she lose it? drop it? both of which were impossible, she was always neat and organized with her belongings. even carnival fish. she bit her cheek to stop herself from jumping the gun. not that she had the energy to do that often.

I watched as jasmine started pouring out blood from her eyes nose and ears,but she still continued.

on or read my Bible she said it was infect her counter top. I had to show her what I was

It was a dark and dreary night, my parents were out-of-town for a convention that lasted a week. Of course my parents don’t trust us staying home alone so they hired an old, wrinkly and white-haired women across the street to babysit us. Her name was Maggie, she was a mysterious lady, but she seem fine to my parents I guess. Usually she would come over in the morning and check on us leave while constantly calling us. Surprisingly she knew how to use the phone in which made me and my brother Aaron laugh. Anyways, about half past five, she comes back and just watch television while we are us stairs playing video games or something. She didn’t really care about what we would eat but as long as we did. Sometimes she would come over at night and fall asleep

For the Gothic works I have done for this course, almost all the elements of Gothic Novel are present these stories. For one, most of the stories show how the atmosphere of suspense and mystery is prevalent in the story’s plot. These can be shown in many ways, but commonly, it can be shown within the antagonist’s character. For instance, most of the gothic stories I talked about in this course dealt with the antagonist who is either vampires or werewolves whose history is either a secret or in doom. Additionally, suspense and mystery are shown through the story’s plot or other characters which make the readers curious.

backing off so I ran towards the door locking it on my way out. I headed north going full

"You didn't have to do that, y'know..." I mumbled, stratching the back of my head.

Intricate or secret passages in buildings further the plot by adding descriptive features that allow the stories to be more engaging and unique. Gothic writers focus heavily on details when describing the environment where the stories are occurring. This is especially emphasized when depicting intricate passages so that readers can paint a picture in their minds. Buildings with such features are a key element in Gothic stories because they keep the reader alert to every detail described as the characters in the stories discover and travel through them. “…she felt about the tapestry, and perceiving the wall behind shake under her hand, she lifted the arras, and discovered a small door, whose loosened hinges admitted the wind…” (Radcliffe 599).

She looked in and saw a young woman curled up in a ball. She was as far away from the cage door as she could and she was visibly shaken.

What comes to mind when one is asked to define the term “Gothic?” Usually it is described as being dark, mysterious, and scary. The term Gothic is actually a style of literature marked by gloomy settings and mysterious events. There are major works of literature that have displayed strong elements of the Gothic tradition such as, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.”