Among the conventions of the Gothic are several tropes that serve to move the plot forward in a new direction. Among these are:
The Ineffable
Providence
Revealed Genealogies
The Uncanny
Books
Horatio and Camilla; OR, THE NUNS OF ST. MARY. A TALE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY [Transcript], Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
The Mystery of the Black Convent. An Interesting Spanish Tale of the Eleventh Century., Unknown