Gothic fiction is usually used as a synonym or is the name given to Gothic horror stories that are saturated with the above mentioned scifi, fantasy, romance, mystery, or adventure elements. The name "Gothic" comes from a kind of architecture from The Middle Ages, There were a lot of Gothic ruins lying around Britain, and people in the 18th and 19th centuries developed an interest in them because ruins are always kind of mysterious and melancholy and creepy and they evoked the time period.