Historically, gothic stories center on dank and aged settings. The setting of this game also conveys darkness typical of the genre. Similarly, Isaac discovers the horrifying truth about his own family by confronting his deformed brethren in an attempt to escape from their mother. In a later example, the nameless narrator in The Shadow over Innsmouth learns things about his family better left forgotten. The events in the first gothic novel ever published, The Castle of Otranto, are driven by patriarch Manfred’s paranoia that his family line is at an end with the death of his son. Family is an important and recurring theme in the gothic. Who are all of these hideous mutants living out their sunless lives beneath Isaac’s home? Probably siblings he never knew he had. The basement brings about another point: family. 'There came forth only a jingling of the bells.' – The Cask of Amontillado
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