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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.
Gothic Novels: Background and Origin. 'It was a dark and stormy nightâ¦' We all love a good ghost story or horror film, and these forms of entertainment share some characteristics with the Gothic literature genre, like ghosts, ghouls, and headless spirits that may haunt the main characters. The Gothic novel is a genre associated with the mystery and intrigue surrounding the supernatural and the unknown. 2  Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires.