General Guides to Gothic Literature Gothic-inspired literature continues to be popular today and Gothic elements abound in suspenseful thrillers such as those of Anne Rice as well as in more traditional romantic suspense and romantic thrillers. The Gothic: Materials For Study Gothic Literature: What the Romantic Writers Read The International Gothic Association What Ogden Nash calls the "Had I But Known" (HIBK) school of writing (in which the heroine foolhardedly but bravely ventures into (choose one) the attic, the dungeon, the deserted house, the dark forest, and must be rescued by the romantically brooding, perpetually angry, but ultimately loving hero, is often found in movies and books that feature heroines with professional careers. Apparently successful female attorneys, doctors, architects and university professors (not to mention romance writers) still need good men. Christine A. Corcos, Sisters in Law: A Selected Bibliographyof Recent Novels Featuring Women Lawyers: Selected Resources for Research Children of a Darker God. Long and helpful critique of current trends in gothic fiction.
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