All the same, I was absorbed from the start by this dark little gothic tale.

A little eerie gothic tale about love, fear and death.

Another approach would start from the medieval subject matter: is this a Gothic tale?

In a peculiar way, Gothic tales are related to comedy.

He was also an author of many Gothic tales.

Gothic tales permitted, but did not require, an element of the supernatural.

Our thoroughly modern suspense story ends as just another Gothic tale.

This gothic tale is set in a 19th-century London swarming with demons.

He turns an artful gothic tale into a homework assignment.