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The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first mentioned by Greco-Roman authors in the 3rd centu
A stone circle in the area of northern Poland occupied by the Wielbark culture, which is associated with the Goths
Europe in AD 300, showing the distribution of the Goths near the Black Sea
Ring of Pietroassa, dated AD 250 to AD 400 and found in Pietroasele, Romania, features a Gothic language inscription in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet.
Gizur challenges the Huns by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1886
Gothic fiction
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Gothic fiction, often referred to as Gothic horror, is a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name of the genre is derived from the Renaissance-era use of the word "gothic", as a pejorative te
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…a culture that survived for more than a thousand years, although Goths would eventually cease to exist as a distinct people. Gothic architecture, Gothic literature and the modern-day Goth subculture ultimately derive their names from the ancient Goths, though the Goths themselves did not directly create or influence…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown, featuring Victor Frankenstein fleeing in disgust from his monster.
The ruins of Wolf's Crag castle in Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Strawberry Hill, southwest London, an English villa in the "Gothic Revival" style, built by Gothic writer Horace Walpole
The Gothic Temple folly in Stowe Gardens, Buckinghamshire, built as a ruin in 1741, designed by James Gibbs