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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8229740"><p>i am not expert on gothic horror, and I feel like we had this discussion before, so probably covering similar ground, but just based on the gothic horror stories I have read (and playing Ravenloft in the early 90s led me down that road of reading all the stories I could), I feel the influence is there, and even though I can't say dreaminess is a quality I associate with gothic horror (again just in my opinion, like I said I am no expert, maybe it is essential and that just flew over my head), I always found Ravenloft, particularly the black box era, very dream-like in a lot of ways----right down to the mists and how those can shape and change reality, as well as down to things like the nightmare lands. But ALLL that said, classic horror is probably a better label because I think  it feels  a lot like a blend of classic horror stories and classic horror movies. Either way though, I think the key thing is, at least as it is laid out in black box (this definitely changes as the line advances), it wasn't really about fantasy horror. In a lot of ways I'd say the black box was really making an effort to strip a lot of that out in order to emphasize the horror more.</p></blockquote><p></p>