When I hear or read the word 'Gothic' I think back to when my mum and I where in
Europe and we snuck into a church through a side door. Its Gothic architecture seemed like
something out of a scary novel that I might read, with witches and vampires.
When I was
researching I came across this image of a, what I assumed, haunted mansion and
it made me think of a classic Scooby-Doo episode where there hunting vampires
and it turns out to be the old caretaker.
The Gothic invokes
fear and a sense of dread. It stems into art, literature, architecture ad
fashion. 'Gothic' is a genre not an era, however, the first use of the word
'Gothic' was the release of the novel 'The Castle of Otranto: a Gothic story'
by Horace Walpole, 1765.
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