![]() In some of the novels virtue triumphs in others the evil is so monumental that everything good in its path is destroyed, and then it destroys itself. Opposed to these is a virtuous maiden who is at once repelled and attracted by the evil around her. In Gothic fiction forces of evil predominate, usually in the person of a great villain. ![]() Afterward, though such fiction continued to appear for decades, the Gothic type diverged into different styles, including the detective, or mystery, story and the horror story. The great age of the Gothic novel began in 1765 with the publication of Horace Walpole’s successful Castle of Otranto, and it lasted until about 1820. ![]() It commonly featured castles and monasteries equipped with subterranean passages, hidden panels, chambers of torture, and dark towers. This type of fiction was called Gothic because much of its inspiration was drawn from medieval buildings and ruins, many of which are Gothic in architectural style. This movement represented a reaction against the “age of reason,” or the Enlightenment, that had dominated the thought of the time ( see Enlightenment). Also called Gothic romance and Gothic novel, Gothic fiction emerged late in the 18th century as part of the Romantic movement in the arts. In Gothic fiction the reader passes from the reasoned order of the everyday world into a dark region governed by supernatural beings, a region that inspires dread and horror, where decay abounds and death is always at hand.
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