Gothic swoons

[vivdunstan]

I'm belatedly playing a few of this year's Spring Thing interactive fiction games. Just played one, "The Perilous Plot", which sees you play the villain of a gothic novel trying to outsmart the heroes. Inspired by a Guardian article, I think this one, which I remember reading all those years ago.

Making the heroes faint a lot is a major in game goal ...

Comments

[greenwoodside]

Heh, I missed that Guardian infographic. It's wonderful! I mostly know early Gothic fiction through Jane Austen being all satirical about it. Sounds as if The Perilous Plot takes up her torch with aplomb.

(Seriously, a character swoons *ten times* in one novel?! It sounds so fanfic, and I say this in a fond, baffled way as an occasional fanfic writer).