Gothic fiction :
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.
The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.
To find out more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Frankenstein : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
Full text: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
http://books.google.com.bn/books?hl=en&id=BDuijLLwQEQC&dq=Mary+Shelley+Frankenstein&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=I-9aQNPA6x&sig=L9mZ1W2e0PW09hbNTKa7Yv1U17Y&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPP1,M1
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