Gothic literature was set during the late-medieval or Gothic period it started in England, Germany, and the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Southern gothic often referred to as Gothic horror is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's started as a English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story". The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction)
Clara Reeve, best known for her work The Old English Baron, Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847).. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
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