Also, in my mind, horror does not necessarily equal gothic.
Not just in your mind.
Rebecca
isn't really a horror novel, but it is a gothic.
Gormenghast is very gothic, though.
I've seen one feminist reading of the gothic genre which suggests that it addresses a young woman's anxiety about being married into a new house, and a new family that has secrets, mysteries, etc. In gothic, these elements are writ large.
Also, in gothic (since Poe anyway) there's a fusion between the psychological and the physical decay of the building. So it becomes a vast metaphor for a psyche that's split or corrupted. Roderick Usher and the House of Usher being the prime example.
Well, that's certainly the case in Hill House. The Shining, also.
And, although not Gothic, Tara in GWTW.
Hmm. Now I'm trying to think of others.
There's always Miss Havisham in her house.
quiche:
If we can use movies also, Psycho/hotel and the Others/manor.
House of Spirits?
The first version of The Haunting - seriously scary.
I just finished The Somnambulist. Anyone else read it? The ending started to sag a little under the weight of all the influences and improbabilities, but the world-building was great. Also (decently big spoiler)
any book that involves Zombie Samuel Taylor Coleridge is all right with me.
People are reporting on Facebook that Harvey Pekar has passed.
Shit. Shit shit shit.
Edit: The Plain Dealer confirms.
