1. “Gothic is about night, and the embrace of the mysterious and the dark.”
— John McLaughlin
2. “The world of Gothic is a world of stark contrasts: darkness and light, order and chaos.”
— Chris Baldick
3. “Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature and reminds us of the blurred line between reality and unreality.”
— Robert Mighall
4. “Gothic architecture has the lightness and grace of the skeleton structure of a leaf.”
— John Ruskin
5. “Gothic stories are about the nature of evil and our deep fascination with what lies beyond reason and order.”
— David Punter
6. “I am the Gothic wanderer who questions the certainties of society.”
— Horace Walpole
7. “True Gothic art was the result of a love for both beauty and sorrow.”
— William Morris
8. “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.”
— Thomas Carlyle
9. “Gothic was a way of addressing the repressed elements of society.”
— Fred Botting
10. “The Gothic is often a dance between fascination and fear.”
— E. J. Clery
11. “Every Gothic novel is a journey toward and away from the sublime.”
— Andrew Smith
12. “In Gothic fiction, the human mind is the ultimate terror.”
— Ann Radcliffe
13. “The Gothic world teems with specters and shadows, the things that people would rather forget.”
— Victor Sage
14. “Gothic is a style of haunted architectures and turbulent emotions.”
— Terry Eagleton
15. “Gothic literature often questions the societal norms, placing the marginal at the center.”
— Jerrold E. Hogle
16. “The Gothic is an expression of the divided self.”
— Sigmund Freud
17. “Gothic art is a reflection of the divine in the natural world.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18. “Gothic novels expose the conflict between civilization and the wilderness.”
— Leslie Fiedler
19. “The Gothic is a vision of the past haunting the present.”
— Angela Wright
20. “Gothic castles and abbeys are symbols of human psyche’s hidden fears.”
— David Stevens
21. “Gothic novels are ghost stories of the soul.”
— Mario Praz
22. “Gothic exposes a yearning for the unknown in a familiar world.”
— Maggie Kilgour
23. “Gothic buildings rise up as if haunted by their past lives.”
— Peter Ackroyd
24. “In the Gothic, the grotesque and the beautiful merge in strange ways.”
— Michel Delville
25. “Gothic architecture is all about creating an aura of awe and reverence.”
— Kenneth Clark
26. “The Gothic novel thrives on breaking taboos.”
— Julia Kristeva
27. “The Gothic finds life in darkness and shadow.”
— Bram Stoker
28. “Gothic fiction is a journey into the depths of the unknown mind.”
— Mary Shelley
29. “The Gothic is a world where the monsters are as human as they are terrifying.”
— Clive Barker
30. “In every Gothic novel, we confront a shadowed version of our own desires.”
— Patricia Ingham
Thank you.
