My forthcoming novel All Of Us Murderers is a Gothic novel. What sort of Gothic? You may well ask, because the Gothic novel has come in several distinct waves over the years. Here follows a quick and dirty overview of some aspects of the evolution of the Gothic, the examples all being novels from which I drew my inspiration. Read this lot and either you will have a 101 grounding in the history and development of the primarily British Gothic up to 1980, or you’ll find yourself in a low-cut n...
