High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, horror and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain and the United States and developed in British novels like Robert Louis Stevenson`s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Oscar Wilde`s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and Bram Stoker`s Dracula (1897). In the twentieth century, urban Gothic helped influence the creation of the sub-genres of Southern Gothic and suburban Gothic. From the 1980s, interest in the urban Gothic revived with books like Anne Rice`s Vampire Chronicles and a number of graphic novels that drew on dark city landscapes, leading to adaptations in film including Batman (1989), The Crow (1994) and From Hell (2001), as well as influencing films like Seven (1995).