The setting in a gothic fiction work of art is usually in a pseudo-medieval "spooky" castles. Main characters usually thread between madness and sanity, only to find out that they were never insane and the paranormal activities were always true. Darkness and the night are also a main aspect of gothic fiction as things rarely happen during the day in gothic fiction. Death or cruel torture is another element that is ever present as someone always has to die or be cruelly or unusually tortured. Gothic fiction pieces of art almost always have an innately evil person, whether it be a regular person who is evil, or a supernatural being such as Dracula in the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker.
