A Gothic 2019

Fiction, horror, death, and sometimes romance, written to cause “a pleasing sort of terror,” is what defines Gothic Literature. Given the recent death of my mother, this new orphan is unsurprised that 2019 looks to be a very Gothic one.

Jane Austen satirized the love of the Gothic novel in her own novel Northanger Abbey.  The Gothic was a fad started in 1764 with Walpole’s publication of The Castle of Otranto, a book quite famous by the time Austen was born in 1775. Otranto was our January k...