We are pleased to announce a new free Case Based Urology Learning Program from the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, Rainbow Babies and Childrenâs Hospital, and University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
While Gothic horror stories became popular in German literature, the Gothic novel originated in England with the publication of Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto (1765), which Walpole called a Gothic story.othic literature is devoted primarily to stories of horror, the fantastic, and the darker supernatural forces. These forces often represent the dark side of human nature irrational or destructive desires. The painting opposite illustrates a scene from one of the most famous Gothic novels, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1898).
The term Gothic was coined by classicizing Italian writers of the Renaissance, who attributed the invention (and what to them was the non-classical ugliness) of medieval architecture to the barbarian Gothic tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire and its classical culture in the 5th century Ad.