In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...

The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret ... to the music of Victorian melodrama , but what I wanted to know was when melodrama acquired its distinctive gothic sounds.

In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret from ... is ...