What makes a novel gothic?

again dracula himself feels impossible he's supernatural and he feels like someone who shouldn't be tampered with and at the beginning of the novel he is

in frankenstein you go to five or six different places and you get to know them all which is why frankenstein is my favorite novel and mary shelley was a genius

both are different in terms of what we expect from a sense of isolated place in the gothic genre but they both make for a very gothic atmosphere

i think rebecca is a fantastic example of this there is nothing supernatural in rebecca if you haven't read it please do

now if you look at her book it definitely has a sense of place it is a haunted house gothic novel

i recently finished reading the doll factory by elizabeth mcneil i love this book i think it's a fantastic piece of british historical fiction

rebecca we have always lived in a castle these are all the great works of gothic fiction and they mostly focus on one small town one big house somewhere isolated away from a city

wuthering heights everyone's awful everyone is terrible in wuthering heights for one reason or another and i absolutely love that