gothic

Theoderic, however, was a Gothic king and he had taken power from Odoacer.

These aspects of Roman life continued after the Gothic ruler Theoderic overthrew Odoacer in 493.

Sharp, stormy and rife with new-age Gothic romance, The Wife Upstairs is not quite a retelling, though it shows off customary parallels with Charlotte Brontë’s story.

They also picnicked by the little Gothic ruin built by Queen Victoria.

It has a lot of those Gothic elements you see in Turn of the Screw, but it also did something different, something that I had never seen.

Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.

Visitors are greeted by a looming gothic gate, the kind used to signify that important residents lie behind its spires.

Tonally, however, it is very peculiar: It is undeniably Southern Gothic, but it has its own brand of off-beat humor.

I encountered The Mysteries of Udolpho when I took a Gothic novel course as a student at St. Andrews in Scotland.

One of the coolest things about the class was that we were discussing the Gothic novel in real Gothic buildings.

Below the great gothic windows spreads the awning of a café, which takes up all the ground floor.

It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.

It is built in the Gothic style, with a fine large tower rising above half-a-dozen smaller ones.

This and the following monument are partly let into the wall, and are surmounted by beautiful Gothic canopies.

The town possesses some handsome schools and private buildings, and a Christian church, in pure Gothic style.