02-21-2016, 10:46 PM
(02-20-2016, 03:05 AM)RareMale Wrote: Sure, all the time. Can't have a good romance without the "happily ever after" ending. The standard Gothic plot is a young, innocent girl with two suitors, one good and one bad. She has to determine which is which, and then gets to keep the good one. If she can just make it to the end of the book. Throw in a big, spooky house and some creepy relatives, and you've got 90% of what was printed in the 1970s. It's the newer Paranormal Romance novels masquerading as Gothic Romance that have the cliffhanger endings. Most of the Paranormal Romances are written as a series, and a happy ending would end the series.
Could you give me an example, please?. The only 70's gothic fiction I've been exposed to are: Interview with the Vampire, The Shinning and Rosemary's Baby and those end really bad.
Please don't think I'm lazy, I'm doing my homework. I just end the Castle of Otranto. Sure the girl recovers her family, gets richer and ends with the good handsom guy she was infatuated with, but he just takes her because his true love is dead, and since the girls were like sisters, the couple could share the pain. After typing it, I realized I might be underestimating mutal comfort. Or were you refering to something more cheering and less ambiguous?
