as the original text does. For centuries, common themes of gender roles and homosexuality permeated the gothic horror genre. Though the themes have remained constant, the cultural context which surrounds them, have not, as exemplified in Dracula, a novel by Bram Stoker, and Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation. Gothic horror is a well-known genre, believed to have been invented by Horace Walpole in 1764 when he wrote The Castle of Otranto. This novel, and all gothic novels written afterwards
Gothic literature draws heavily on the influences of the Romantic Movement in its appreciation of nature, and the use of sublime imagery is prevalent in the literature du jour, and is presented as the diametric opposite to what Julia Kristeva calls the abject in her 1980 work, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Abjection is the human reaction (such as terror or horror) to a threatened loss of meaning when confronted by the loss of distinction between the subject and the object: the moment at