Gothic literature

The hunted castle or house

A dwelling that is inhabited by or visited by a ghost or other supposedly supernatural being.

Madness and/or paranoia

Madness is the state of being mentally ill

Paranoia is mistrust of people or their actions without evidence

The macabre

An adjective we use when we are discussing something pertaining to death

Melodramatic tone

Extravagantly, dramatic language, and behavior

The pursued protagonist

Pursuing for that relentlessly acts in a severely negative manner on a character

Revenant

The return of the dead upon the living

Revenge

The act of repaying someone for a harm that the person has caused

Transformation, metamorphosis, and the grotesque

A striking change in appearance; a change in the form of function of a living organism

Unreliable narrator

The unreliable narrator does not understand the importance of a particular situation or makes an incorrect conclusion or assumption about an event that they witnessed

Ancestral curse

Evil, misfortune, or harm that comes as a response to deeds or misdeeds committed against or by ones ancestor(s)

Body snatching

Act of stealing corpses from graves, tombs, or morgues

Claustrophobia

An abnormal dread of being confined in a close or narrow space

Doppelgänger

The ghostly counterpart of a living person

Dreaming, nightmares, and somnambulism

Basically sleepwalk walking (somnambulism)

Entrapment and imprisonment

The sense of their being no way out contributes to the claustrophobic psychology of the Gothic space

That explained the supernatural

Genre of the Gothic in which the laws of every day reality remain intact