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* TheEdwardianEra - the genre was on its death bed by then but there were still authors willing to write in it

* GenteelInterbellumSetting - primarily for later, more [[ScoobyDooHoax rationalist]] takes on the genre, but also because this was the last era when BigFancyHouse settings were still commonly lived in in popular media. At least in developed countries it's also the last era when electric lighting was still generally unreliable, not too widespread, and prone enough to flickering out.
* TheMiddleAges - used to be a popular setting for gothic fiction authors but nowadays is associated with [[StandardFantasySetting "Tolkienesque"]] [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy elements]].

A list of tropes found within the GothicHorror genre. While you don't need all of them to write a gothic horror novel, the more you have the better. {{Horror}} has some things that are universal to all genres of horror but not everything on that page is used in gothic horror.

* EvilIsSexy

* [[HornyDevils Succubi]]

* PoisonousFriend

Note: [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]] didn't start appearing until the 1920s, but many older creatures were absorbed into the zombie mythos. So use caution when adding zombie examples. (Technically speaking, vampires are a kind of zombie, so they can easily be swapped.)

* [[WitchSpecies Witches]]