Gothic terms

Question 1

Ancestral Curse

Answer 1

Evil done as a response to or retribution for misdeeds from ancestors

Question 2

Anti-Catholicism

Answer 2

Catholicism associated with greedy, horrid repression, early Protestant Gothic

Question 3

Body-Snatching

Answer 3

Stealing corpses from graves, grave robbing early 18th c to mid 19th c for stuff like scientific study

Question 4

Cemetery

Answer 4

Graveyard

Question 5

Claustrophobia

Answer 5

Abnormal fear of being confined

Question 6

Gothic Counterfeit

Answer 6

An author disguising their works as an adaptation of an old text

Question 7

The Devil

Answer 7

Spirit of incarnate devil

Question 8

Doppleganger (two dots over a)

Answer 8

Double, alter ego

Question 9

Dreaming/Nightmare

Answer 9

Strong emotion enabler through unconscious activity of sleep

Question 10

Entrapment and Imprisonment

Answer 10

Ingenue often faces this, claustrophobic

Question 11

The Explained Supernatural

Answer 11

Radcliffean, laws of everyday reality remain intact

Question 12

Exorcism

Answer 12

Performed by a religious figure to banish the Devil

Question 13

The Female Gothic

Answer 13

To socialise and educate female readers and criticise the patriarchy

Question 14

German Horror

Answer 14

Blood, guts, rape, murder, graphic

Question 15

Radcliffean Terror

Answer 15

Anxiety, paranoia about what’s going on around

Question 16

Grotesque

Answer 16

Mutation of characters, plants, animals

Question 17

The Sublime

Answer 17

Beauty and danger of nature

Question 18

Mystery

Answer 18

A sense of unknowingness

Question 19

Ingenue

Answer 19

Distressed often heroine

Question 20

The Haunted House/Castle

Answer 20

Possessed place

Question 21

Incubus

Answer 21

Male sex demon

Question 22

Inquisition

Answer 22

Catholic Church investigation