Welcome to Gothic Poets and Writers Literary Club!!!

Gothic literature website – ‘Gothic Poets and Writers Literary Club’ is a place where Gothic and dark poets and writers can post their works and discuss them. We are eager to collect as much as possible gothic poems and gothic stories, dark poetry and dark prose. The website is totally free and aimed to consolidation of European, Asian and American Gothic and dark poets and writers.

Gothic style is a sort of fusion of horror and romance (it is well-seen in both gothic poems and stories). The first gothic novel is ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (1764) by Horace Walpole who was an English Gothic writer. Later gothic literary tradition spread all over the Europe and arrived in the USA. The most famous American gothic literature author is Edgar Allan Poe who is a cult person for every goth today.
Asian Gothic literature is separate phenomenon that has it’s origin in Eastern folk dark poetry and prose and philosophy traditions and formed as unique wonder of our civilization thanks to taking into account Gothic literary genre development in Europe and American gothic literature special features experience.

Point characteristics of Gothic fiction, gothic poems, dark poetry and prose are terrible psychological and physical terror, mystery, paranormal activity, spirits, ghosts, haunted and abandoned houses and samples of the best traditions of Gothic architecture, medieval castles, dark, death, decay, madness, macabre secrets and hereditary curses.

The main gothic literature characters are typically tyrants, peasants, rogues, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted lasses, femmes fatales, madmen, sorcerers, blood suckers, werewolves, monsters, devils, revenants, spirits, ghosts, living skeletons, the Wandering Jew and Satan himself.

If you are a Gothic poet or writer don’t miss the chance! Join us and make yourself at home!