The Gothic elements in Thomas Hardy's fiction

In the deep of the night, Bathsheba Everdene opened Fanny Robin' ~1 coffin and discovered two bodies where she had hoped to find only one. Opening the door of the closet where her children and step-son slept, Sue Bridehead found their bodies hanging from hooks, the victims of a double murder and suicide. Although these incidents sound as if they came from the pen of a horror or Gothic novelist, the author of the two events is none other than the famous English writer Thomas Hardy. Upon closer examination other novels from both Hardy's early career arid his l ater career also reveal similar elements of horror. ~Chir.