GCSE English Language: Gothic Fiction Reading & Writing is a five-mission activity book that puts real, public-domain Gothic openings on the page for close reading and uses them as models for creative writing, mapped to the DfE subject content and the reading and writing Assessment Objectives shared by AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC/Eduqas. Students read the openings of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861) to identify first-person narrative viewpoint and make inferences; meet Mary Shelley’s creature in Frankenstein (1818) and explore gothic conventions such as the monstrous, darkness, tension and the uncanny; and examine duality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Reading questions on viewpoint, inference and language devices — metaphor, simile and pathetic fallacy — are auto-marked on screen, while open tasks guide students to plan, write and annotate a first-person gothic descriptive opening of their own. The whole book can be printed with a full answer key. Includes teacher, parent and student notes and is fully SEND-friendly with high-contrast and large-text modes.