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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9608934">Again, I think you are downplaying this section of the book. I don't disagree the first part is about Victor but the monster gets like or seven chapters to tell Victor about everything that happened to him (I would have to double check the book to see and there might be variations by the three edition). I wouldn't call the monster a shadow at all in the story. You get almost excruciating levels of detail about his past from his own mouth. And he still has scenes with Victor in other chapters I am just saying these books are regularly described as being horror and even gothic horror. I do agree about the journalism. That is one thing I remember about the Phantom of the Opera, is it is presented as something that happened. Again though, something can be in two genres at once. Wikipedia isn't a great resource but looking at the entry there they classify it as gothic horror (which obviously could be wrong, but I think it shows there is an argument to be made for it being horror)A lot of them do for sure. I don't think you can deny the influence that Universal and Hammer ended up having. This is why I usually describe 90s Ravenloft as Gothic and Classic Horror. To be fair though, those Universal Films and the early Hammer films were going largely for a gothic horror vibe</blockquote>