The inventor of the gothic novel was Horance Walpole. The first gothic novel was
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horance Walpole.
Elements of ghotics novels:
Visions, inanimate objects
coming to life,
breathlessness, women in
distress,
sorrow,
haste, anger, footsteps
approaching (petjades acostant-se), clanking chains (soroll de les cadenes), crazed laughter (riure de boig-malvat)