1. TYPES OF GOTHIC LITERATURE EQ: HOW CAN I IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT “FLAVORS”?

2. ORIGINAL: BRITISH/EUROPEAN GOTHIC TIME/PLACE... CASTLES, DUNGEONS ROMANCE (UNRETURNED LOVE, RIVALS, POSSIBLE LOVE) THREATENING MYSTERY ANCESTRAL CURSE HIDDEN PASSAGES OFT-FAINTING HEROINES TYRANNICAL MALE OF POWER (INCLUDING SEXUAL POWER) SUPERNATURAL/REAL SUBLIME CRISIS UNCANNY

3. NEXT: AMERICAN GOTHIC RATIONAL VS IRRATIONAL (INSANITY)IRRATIONAL PURITANISM (HELL, DEVIL) PURITANISM GUILT (ANTIHERO) GUILT DAS UNHEIMLICHE (STRANGENESS WITHIN THE FAMILIAR) DAS UNHEIMLICHE ABHUMANS, GHOSTS, MONSTERS ABHUMANSGHOSTSMONSTERS DOMESTIC ABJECTION (ONE DOMINATES ANOTHER) DOMESTIC ABJECTION PAST RIDDLED WITH SLAVERY FEAR OF RACIAL MIXING (MISCEGENATION)MISCEGENATION HOSTILE NATIVE AMERICAN RELATIONS & THEIR SUBSEQUENT GENOCIDE THE DAUNTING WILDERNESS OR CAVES; HAUNTED HOUSES/SECRET PASSAGES AMERICAN GOTHIC IS OFTEN DEVOID OF CASTLES AND OBJECTS, WHICH ALLUDE TO A CIVILIZED HISTORY.

4. CLOSEST TO HOME & MODERN: SOUTHERN GOTHIC SOUTHERN GOTHIC DISTURBING OR ECCENTRIC CHARACTERS: OFTEN FROM SOUTHERN ARISTOCRACY/PLANTATION VOODOO AMBIVALENT GENDER ROLES (NON-TRADITIONAL)GENDER ROLES TIME/PLACE: DECAYED OR DERELICT SETTINGS GROTESQUE SITUATIONS (WARPED/PERVERTED) GROTESQUE SINISTER EVENTS RELATING TO OR COMING FROM POVERTY, ALIENATION, CRIME, AND VIOLENCE SOUTH PORTRAYED AS DYING, OFTEN BY ITS OWN GUILT