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

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Fatal Jealousy; or, Blood Will Have Blood! Containing the History of Count Almagro and Duke Alphonso; Their Combat in the Dreadful Tournament and the Death of the Beautiful Bellarmine, Through the Artifice of Sophronia, Her Rival, Unknown

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Horatio and Camilla; OR, THE NUNS OF ST. MARY. A TALE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY [Transcript], Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson

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The Mystery of the Black Convent. An Interesting Spanish Tale of the Eleventh Century., Unknown