The castle is gothic style with castellations, and inside there are extravagant stone and wood carvings, heavy panelling and stained glass.
There is an impressive gym with gothic decor; and that swimming pool, underground yet ingeniously daylit; as well as other rooms due to be turned into club rooms and restaurants.
The stories I am about to tell read like a gothic novel.
So perhaps the north European gothic nation of Britain, with its Romantic painters and poets, does have a natural closeness to this black monk of modern art.
Yes, there is violence and revenge—it wouldn’t be a gothic novel without them.
Models careeredbetween fake gothic arches wearing corsets, PVC leggings, blacktailoring with pinched, exaggerated shoulders and raccoon fur sleeves.
It all seems a bit affected, stuffy, put on - the obsession with Wagner and gothic architecture.
It's constructed of Solid Pine with a removable top and bottom and adorned with a handmade metal cross and gothic pall bearer handles.
They were incorporated into gothic stonework as early as the 13th-century to keep rain water off cathedral roofs, their mouths serving as the ejector spout.
Instead of rising to Sir Christopher' s wide-ranging themes, which link Fuseli and Blake with other great European painters, including Goya and Caspar David Friedrich, the Tate has taken a★ parochial[27] view, showing virtually every mediocre British artist who ever★ dabbled[28] in gothic fantasy.
British author Diane Setterfield's debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, is a gothic suspense novel published in 2006.
Anyone who reads gothic fiction will tell you that vampires are bad news.