Gothic Fiction Subgenres

Subgenres of the Gothic literary tradition, the mode combining horror, romance and the supernatural typically staged among ruined or decaying architecture and transgressive family or social history, grouped here by the regional and period variant of that same tradition: the founding eighteenth-century Gothic novel and gothic bluebooks, and the regional adaptations that carried its conventions to new settings such as American Gothic, Southern Gothic, Southern Ontario Gothic, Suburban Gothic, Urban Gothic, Latin American Gothic and Tasmanian Gothic, together with Female Gothic, defined by its focus on women's own experience of Gothic fear and constraint. Excludes horror subgenres defined by intent rather than Gothic lineage, grouped under Horror Fiction Subgenres, and Cthulhu Mythos and other weird-fiction descendants of the Gothic mode, grouped under Weird Fiction Subgenres.