In this essay, I will argue how domestic violence throughout the Gothic highlights women’s issues through the texts of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat and Stephen King’s The Shining TW: discussion of domestic violence/animal abuse A study carried out by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) showed that in 2018 an estimated 1.6 million women and 786,00 men aged between seventeen and seventy-four had experienced domestic abuse in the UK. That’s roughly seven in every one hundred women and four in every one hundred men. The statistics show that women are more likely to fall victim to domestic abuse than men, often a crime that occurs ‘behind closed doors’ and is rarely reported to the police. Occurring in the home, domestic violence and abuse often involve controlling behaviour, assaults, threats, and ‘punishment’ towards a partner or family member. Due to reported instances of domestic violence and rape remaining disclosed in UK and American law, the Second Wave femini...