The Gothic genre of literature has a long history in Western culture, and its original form had its real glory in the late 18th and early 19th century. Women writers have always occupied a special place within this literary mode of writing, as a crucial characteristic of the Gothic genre is the discussion of women’s problems and fears, so we can talk about the Female Gothic as a distinctive category within the genre, which introduces the repressed pains and desires of women and shows their struggles and fights leading to a happy or tragic end. Whereas in the early Gothic novel the passive heroine is usually seen through the male authoritative gaze, in contemporary female Gothic, female subjectivity is put in the centre, the heroine transforms from the powerless, victimized, innocent girl to an active, independent character who gains her own voice and is capable of rescuing herself.