Is Gothic literature dead?

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Monique Devereaux, I think you might be right in your comments about the quality of work being submitted to publishers. If some of the stuff that reaches print is anything to go by I hate to imagine what isn't making it.
Though, having said that, I think publishing is a bit of a lottery. You can have a good, strong, well written gothic ms (or any ms for that point) but unless it lands on the desk of the right person at the right time you're not going to see it picked up.
We'll all just have to keep flooding the industry with gothics in the hope that somebody somewhere will see their marketability.