Poe, however, made his Gothic stories more sophisticated, dramatizing terror by using more realistic images.

Because of this, critics and scholars debate if Poe intended the story to be taken seriously or as a satire of Gothic stories.

McEwan began his career writing sparse, Gothic short stories.

The Gothic short story is a representation of the century in which it was written with a twist.

I always saw this as a good, creepy Gothic story and a family tragedy.

Many songs act as a Gothic short story akin to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

There is a clue in all this to what killed the serious Gothic short story.

"Sonja" is written more discriminatingly, but its contemporary smarts fit awkwardly with a well-worn, nearly Gothic story.

Aleksandr Bestuzhev with his Gothic stories with German couleur locale also was a bestselling author.

These five haunting Gothic stories bear all the hallmarks of Byatt's style: they're carefully constructed, allusive meditations on art and its place in the world.