Abstract

Gothic novels have a long history. This article starts with Neil Gaiman's short story "The Daughter of Owls " and interprets the terrifying charm of Gothic novels "The Daughter of Owls" from the perspectives of symbolic expression, foreshadowing, the author's time choice, environmental description, and the terrifying characteristics of the characters' hearts. The aim is to explore how the work creates a terrifying atmosphere and enable readers to experience the lingering horror, thereby generating a sense of sublime beauty, conducting moral exploration and self purification and thus generating a positive and upward personality power to resist evil.

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