This is an alphabetical list of Gothic fiction elements that reflect the genre’s dark, mysterious, and eerie themes!
A
Abyss
Agony
Alienation
Altered state
Amnesia
Ancestral curse
Apparition
Asylum
Atmospheric
B
Banshee
Barred windows
Bats
Betrayal
Bewitchment
Black cat
Blood
Bloodline
Body snatching
Bones
Burial
C
Cadaver
Catacombs
Caught in the rain
Celestial
Cemetery
Chamber
Chilling winds
Claustrophobia
Cobwebs
Coffin
Cold
Creaking floorboards
Crypt
Curse
D
Dark and stormy night
Dark corridors
Darkness
Death
Decay
Decrepit
Deformity
Demonic
Descent into madness
Destruction
Devil
Disembodied voices
Disguise
Distorted mirror
Doppelgänger
Dream
Dungeon
E
Echoes
Eldritch
Empty halls
Enchantment
Entombment
Entrapment
Epitaph
Exile
Eyes watching
F
Fallen hero
Fate
Fear
Fevered imagination
Fleeing
Forbidden love
Foreboding
Fractured mind
Funeral
G
Gargoyle
Ghost
Gloom
Gothic architecture
Governess
Grave
Graveyard
Grief
H
Haunted house
Haunting
Heartbeat
Heavy fog
Hidden identity
Hidden passage
House on the hill
Housekeeper
Howling
Hypnosis
I
Illusion
Imprisonment
Incantation
Inheritance
Insanity
Isolation
L
Lament
Lightning
Locket
Lost
Love triangle
M
Madness
Magic
Manor
Maze
Melancholy
Midnight
Mists
Moan
Moonlit night
Morbid
Murder
Mystery
N
Nameless fear
Nightmare
O
Obsession
Occult
Old manuscript
Omen
Orphan
Overgrown garden
P
Paranoia
Passageways
Phantom
Plague
Possession
Premonition
Priest
Prison
Prophecy
Psychic
Pyre
R
Rainstorm
Ravings
Red herring
Relic
Revenge
Ritual
Rotting
Ruins
S
Sacrifice
Secret
Secret society
Shadow
Shattered glass
Skeleton
Slamming doors
Solitude
Specter
Spiders
Spirits
Stained glass
Stalking
Storm
Stranger
Sublime
Supernatural
Suspense
T
Talisman
Terror
Thunder
Tomb
Torture
Tragic love
Trapped
Twisted fate
U
Unearthly
Unreliable narrator
V
Vampire
Vanished
Villain
Voodoo
W
Wailing
Witchcraft
Wraith