顯著的哥特小說元素包括恐怖，神秘，超自然，厄運，死亡，頹廢，住著幽靈的老房子，癲狂，家族詛咒等。
《呼嘯山莊》，我沒看過，但通過上述定義，相信妳能夠判斷。
經典哥特小說：
The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole
The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe
Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin
Vathek, an Arabian Tale (1786) by William Thomas Beckford
The Monk (1796) by Matthew Gregory Lewis
Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley (Full text at Wikisource)
The Vampyre (1819) by John William Polidori
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe (Full text at Wikisource)
The Mummy's Foot (1863) by Théophile Gautier (Full text at Wikisource)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Horla (1887) by Guy de Maupassant (Full text at Wikisource)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James
The Monkey's Paw (1902 by W.W. Jacobs
The Lair of the White Worm (1911) by Bram Stoker (Full text at Wikisource)
Gormenghast (1946 - 1959) by Mervyn Peake