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Gothic Genre, or Gothic fiction is an important genre of literature that combines both horror and romance. The effect of Gothic fiction depends on a pleasing sort of terror.ne of the many things the teacher wants us to do is to describe what gothic genre is. In a way i know it... but i just don't know how to word it.
Back to Top. Definition of Gothic novel noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. any of a class of English novels dealing with frightening or magic subjects. Most Gothic novels are set in ruined castles or large old houses with ghosts, and were written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.he style was made popular by Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), and influenced writers such as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as 20th-century horror stories and horror films.