The origins of Gothic Horror

Gothic was first seen/introduced in 18th and early 19th centuries and was mastery seen in mainstream Victorian fiction. The word Gothic was first used by Herecca Walpole in a naval subtitled 'A GOTHIC STORY OF THE CASTILE OF OTRANTO' published in 1764.
The Victorian era was a time were Gothic and Horror was seen in literature. This was the time when one of the greatest Gothic books were published, books such as 

• Mary Shelly's frankenstein 1818. (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) gave a scientific form to the supernatural formula. - //www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-origins-of-the-gothic#sthash.DKqJUpxP.dpuf)

• Dracula 1897 by Bram Stokers. (Dracula is written in the form of journal entries and letters by various characters, caught up in the horror of events. The fear and uncertainty on which Gothic had always relied is enacted in the narration. www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-origins-of-the-gothic#sthash.DKqJUpxP.dpuf) 

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. (Like all of Dickens’s writings, and perhaps all writing, it belongs to more than one genre. At times it resembles a fairytale, at other times a realistic or a comic novel, at others a melodrama: most commonly, it blends together the qualities of several genres. But gothic is a persistent thread in the book and at times, particularly moments of psychological transformation and crisis, the whole book seems charged with the force of the Gothic. -  http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-gothic-in-great-expectations#sthash.udCmm1w5.dpuf)

many more books with Gothic themes were written in this era. books such as Oliver twist by Charles Dickens  and the woman in white by Wilkie Collins’s. 

Most of those books have been turned into films and still hold the same effect as intended. 

Gothic and Holler as a whole has made its home in our culture today. the concept of mystery and fear is something as human we seem to be fascinated with. today in most countries in the western word cerebrate the Halloween which is known for its dark background.

In the Victorian times the mystery of spirits and the fascination of the dead was very popular. people went to great length to try and get inturch with their dead loved ones or even to create a memory of them. one of the way they did that was by photographing there dead love ones wells dead. 

a picture of a dead child looking very mach alive