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Introduce your story. Maintain an air of gloom and terror throughout your story. Maintain suspense and mystery throughout your story. Incorporate descriptions of heightened emotions throughout your story. Incorporate themes of madness. Kill off some of your characters. Conclude with a twist.

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At the beginning of your story, take care to describe your setting and characters who are present at the beginning of your story. Just make sure that you don't give away too much information in the beginning. Leave some things to describe later, like the villain and other mysterious elements of your story. You can hint at these things early in your story, but don't give in to the urge to share too much too soon. You can make sure that your story has a high level of creepiness by incorporating plenty of unnerving details. Describe the moon, the howling wind, or a dark corridor to maintain an air of gloom and terror throughout your story. You can also describe the way that your characters are feeling or acting, as well as their facial expressions. Tantalize your readers by only offering them quick glimpses of your villain or a ghost. Hint at the family curse but hold off on explaining it until later in the story. Describe over-the-top emotions like shrieking, cackling, fainting, and sobbing. These moments of hysteria will pull your readers into the story and help keep them entertained. Describe spooky things from the perspective of a character who has gone mad. This approach will intrigue your readers and lead them to question what is happening. For example, Roderick descends into madness in Edgar Allen Poe's "Fall of The House of Usher." His decline intensifies the story and makes it scarier. As much as you might love your characters, good gothic fiction tales usually feature the death of one or more of the main characters. The deaths of your characters do not need to be ultra-gory (although, they can be), but they should be frightening. Use plenty of details to describe the scenery and action of your death scenes. For example, a giant helmet crushes Conrad in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto. Conrad was on his way to get married. Good gothic fiction stories often end with a twist that causes readers to wonder about the events and characters of your story. The reappearance of a someone who has died is one way to include a twist, but you can experiment with other types of twists as well. Edgar Allen Poe includes twists at the end of his stories that lead readers to question the finality of death. Poe includes one of these twists in "Fall of the House of Usher" when Madeline appears in the doorway and falls on top of Roderick. Roderick had believed that Madeline was dead.